nathanfig

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by nathanfig 3y ago
Upvoting this because I love innovation in this space, and I use both ROS and LLMs daily. Kudos on the work here, I can see value for developers trying to break into ROS in particular. That being said, and I might just need to try it out to
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Not really. The ocean serves as a natural carbon sink to a degree- but this is acidifying the ocean. And some feedback loops accelerate rather than decelerate warming- such as ice loss decreasing albedo. Life on Earth can adapt to a new nor
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by nathanfig 3y ago
So with no power to predict the outcomes of my actions, or even predict how I will pick an action, I bear witness to myself acting anyway- and this we call free will? What troubles me is that the more we take away any determining factors fo
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Not sure this allows a meaningful definition of free will, since if nothing can predict me neither can I.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Can you explain how this creates free will?
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Interesting point. Automated bans with no recourse will mostly deter legitimate businesses. And there is a finite supply of legitimate businesses, but infinite fake ones.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Often wonder how much life we've encountered without recognizing it.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Right, this just seems like adding an alternate definition of life without moving the morphology problem.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Survivorship bias, you can't count how many fossils you did not recognize.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
2.5A 5V is not much power, and it would use considerably less when idling.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
You're probably still using the default, there's a dropdown when you hover over the GPT-4 button at the top.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
That's just the introductory rate limit. Be My Eyes has a closer relationship with OpenAI than most of us https://openai.com/customer-stories/be-my-eyes
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by nathanfig 3y ago
"... lossless compression can be a scorecard of prediction which is the same as AGI." Having not read the papers, this sentence strikes me as a bit of a leap. Maybe for very constrained definitions of AGI?
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by nathanfig 3y ago
I think HN will eat this up because few of us enjoy being sold to but like most absolute statements it's probably only applicable in specific circumstances. Enterprises sell tons of developer tools and move millions because of demos do
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by nathanfig 3y ago
I like having type hints, I really do- but I've definitely been on projects where TS began to feel a lot like a nerd snipe https://xkcd.com/356/
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Thanks!
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Had to scroll past a ton of doomsayers and jokes to find this obvious question. I'd like to understand the decision before speculating the meaning.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Spanish and French are both romance languages and will have massive token overlap. Not likely to be so lucky with whale songs.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
If you can find a way to tokenize whalesong then you could probably build a next-token predictor but we're still missing the Rosetta stone necessary to help us map their language to ours in vector space.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
I think about this a lot with regard to software accessibility. We easily fall into this trap of thinking that it's only needed for a small minority of people- but all of us will age and lose the dexterity and senses we rely on to use
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by nathanfig 3y ago
(speculating) Multiplayer games with friends still provide a lot of the same healthy cooperation/conflict that play creates. But yeah I doubt it can be considered a whole substitute.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
One major cause would not subtract another
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Not unlike software engineers objecting to their code being used to train their AI replacements.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
If you follow the Gartner model, there is usually a surge of high expectations right before a "trough of disillusionment" - but eventually the real applications do emerge. Humans are just impatient.
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Two big issues worth discussing here IMO: 1) Privacy rights in the age of aerial photography 2) Consumer rights in the age of subscription-dependence Property insurance historically has some of the best consumer protections, its one of the
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by nathanfig 3y ago
Consider that everyone who ages will someday require accessibility features. I suspect most developers will eventually find themselves wishing they had created a more accessible world.
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Is Zoom Down?(twitter.com)
2 points by nathanfig 4y ago|1 comments
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by nathanfig 4y ago
Unable to get on any new Zoom calls (ongoing ones unaffected). Seeing "502 Bad gateway" but was an nginx error before. Have seen multiple reports of this. Might just be local?
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by nathanfig 4y ago
Thank you both for the suggestions, I had considered adding some more expressive querying at a later stage, will have to consider these.
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by nathanfig 4y ago
https://rapidstash.io JSON document store that allowed you to access any part of the the JSON document by URL (object.nested.value becomes object/nested/value). Had fun making it and the website above, but was not real

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