mwigdahl

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According to Jimmy Maher (who would likely know best) the term was coined in 1979. https://www.filfre.net/2011/09/robert-lafores-interactive-fi...
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Seconded -- this game was really excellent and stuck with me longer than the games that placed better than it in 2017.
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My response when I'm told that in an interview is to ask specifically how that trait has caused problems for them. Quickly separates someone who's actually put thought into it from someone who is just trying to skate by.
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The problem (and for the record I favor LVT myself) is that many of the other things you mention -- the 8 hour workday, environmental regs, etc. -- have clear positive effects that an average person doesn't have to take action to benef
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Starship Troopers also had "special talents" -- "sensers" capable of detecting and mapping Bug tunnels underground, "memory men", "lucky men", and telepaths. Heinlein at least nods to the possibility
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It's the best of both worlds! A new product to improve productivity, and then a whole new layer of process and analytics (powered by yet another product) to mitigate the risk and soak up the surplus. Everybody wins -- particularly th
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
De Beers has entered the chat...
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What are the current ideas in Nigeria and other African nations in similar situations about how to improve national quality of life and reduce corruption? Are there any plausible paths for improvement?
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
For sure there is a significant difference between what is referred to as "high functioning autism" and traditional ("low functioning" autism). But I feel that if those folks want to differentiate then it would be much
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Just tell them they can give the office to someone else!
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Yep, with a dash of "All my work goes better in face-to-face meetings, so everyone else's must too."
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My experience with GPT-4o with the same prompt was pretty solid. With no special system prompt and your same user prompt, I got: This scenario is intriguing and does seem to carry the potential for a tricky question. In the simplest terms
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Chief Justice Diana Moon Glampers presiding, no doubt...
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Demand for healthcare is super high and supply of doctors is low. And you're arguing _against_ increasing the supply? The status quo isn't a valid answer -- if doctors are already at the point of burnout, something has to be don
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LOL, I just meant that as an exemplar of the the ridiculousness of it all, given that the price for the warranty would have come to more than the cost of the cable itself. Aside from that, the staff being pretty low on product knowledge, ge
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They can't go under soon enough. The low point of my shopping there was when they tried to hard-sell me an extended warranty on a 9-pin serial cable. I've avoided them ever since.
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And so OpenAI can't legally... use any adult white female's voice in their product? I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't there have to actually be a reasonable voice resemblance to conclude that there's impersonation? In
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> definitely should not have referenced her character in that tweet. Did he, though? The character's name was Samantha. The name of the _movie_ was Her.
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> They marketed it as her voice when Altman tweeted Her. Even that is not open and shut. He tweeted one word. He certainly wanted an association between the product and the movie, but it is a much more specific assertion that that one
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Another data point: I didn't.
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This assumes that the voice actress was an impersonator. By her own statements, no one who knows her has said that her voice sounds like Scarlett Johansson (personally, I agree). And she was auditioned and hired before SJ was even approac
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
And he could have meant a whole lot of different things by that, including the perfectly reasonable observation that the voice assistant tech is at parity with what we saw in _Her_. The assertion that this one tweet, in the absence of any o
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If they did clone her voice, they did a poor job of it. Other than that the voice is female there's not a whole lot of resemblance in tone and timbre.
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Did you check your performance reviews to see if they were missing periods also?
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Thanks for the information!
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The best approach to circumventing the nondisclosure agreement is for the affected employees to get together, write out everything they want to say about OpenAI, train an LLM on that text, and then release it. Based on these companies'
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by mwigdahl 2y ago
Thanks for that article! One line jumped out at me: "When I learned about async programming, I realized that for my CLI-based project, I didn’t really need async. So, I removed all async code and the Tokio runtime, which significantly
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There's some value in observing that there is a regularity to the terms used for a particular discipline, as opposed to a jumble of organically-grown jargon. For one, it tells you that learning a seemingly-unconnected vocabulary (Gree
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I can just visualize the post iPad high school jazz band -- twenty kids sitting in chairs with their tablets, rhythmically tapping virtual buttons on their touchscreen. One stands for her solo, tapping her screen at a different cadence. O
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The whole point was the destruction -- they spent basically all the time in the ad on slow, loving shots of all these artifacts being mangled and crushed. They weren't being combined, subsumed, or absorbed -- they were being flat out

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