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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> an innocent machine about wanking and divorce Let's say you discovered a pendrive of a long lost civilization and train a model on that text data. How would you or the model know that the pendrive contained data on wanking and div
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> a running clock set to the wrong time is always wrong. Could be right within 15 min accuracy in the appropriate timezone. And such a mechanism can be corrected for in the postprocessing step.
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Meta can turn this App into a sort of my assistant. I can dump any link into it. And since those links form the basis of my worldview helping the assistant understand me better. Currently only Google has a monopoly on such a possible futuri
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> He argues this type of value judgement is something AI fundamentally cannot do, as it can only pattern match against existing decisions, not create new frameworks for assigning worth. Counterpoint : That decision has to be made only on
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Douglas Hofstader has a funny anecdote about superscript and subscript 21:30 @ Analogy as the Core of Cognition https://youtu.be/n8m7lFQ3njk
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Pushing symbols around is what mathematics is all about. I think you will like this short clip between Brian Green and Barry Mazur. https://youtu.be/8wQepGg8tHA
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
do you think Grafana made the right choice by using Golang ?
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Critics could be experts of past era who have seen it all and are now seeing the same mistakes being repeated. Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. -- André G
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
One more line of thinking is : Should each product have an mini AIs which tries to capture my essence useful only for that tool or product? Or should there be an mega AI which will be my clone and can handle all these disparate scenarios in
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Bundle the feature in the Google One or Google Premium. I already have Google One. Google should really try to steer its userbase to premium features
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
You are asking for a feature like this. Future advances will help in this. https://youtu.be/ZUZT4x-detM
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Feature Request: Can we have dark mode for videos? An AI OS should be able to understand and satisfy such a usecases. E.g. Scott Aaronson | How Much Math Is Knowable? https://youtu.be/VplMHWSZf5c The video slides could be
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> On the plus side I live in today and dont dwell on the past. It is like a superpower for happiness. This is true on many levels. 4:10 @ The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price https://youtu.be/SoxsMMV538U Perfect M
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> Back to coding: if you have a deep understanding of your codebases and dependencies, you may end up finding that you could actually extract some part of one codebase into a library and reuse it in another codebase. I understand the poi
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
It is difficult to be simple in a complex society. You can be simpleton though.
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> And incentives align really easily. Today incentives align more easily. All these CEOs are in the same whatsapp group. That's how we got the RTO mandates from all CEOs at the same time. There was story here a year or two ago.
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
You don't even need a watch. Smartphones can tell you time (you can configure to show times for many timezones) yet there is a market for watches (luxury or normal)
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> if I have it on in the background, which then in turn feeds the algorithm that it made the "correct choice" I have a very horrible case of this. One day at night, I slept listening to lofi playlist. The next week all my recom
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Are you ignoring the benefits of network effects? Network effects should ideally improve recommendations for all subgenres of people.
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Why don't companies have multiple recommendation strategies. One for power-users. One for casual users etc. Have the router infront of these models to intelligent switch between the different styles. In fact, there are times when I wan
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Earlier people used to spend 2-3 hrs watching and absorbing a single movie. Now people spend 5 hrs scrolling tiktok. So in a sense time spent on content has actually increased. People don't need filler and lengthy buildups. People have
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
> Humans need purpose. Let me paint a purpose for you which could take millions of years. How about building a Atomic Force microscope equivalent which can probe Calabi Yau manifolds to send messages to other multiverses.
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
There will be relative scarcity. Consider a scenario where iPhone 50 is manufactured in a dark factory. But still there is waiting period to have access to it. This is because of resource bottlenecks.
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by nthingtohide 1y ago
Narratives build on top of each other so that complex narratives can be built. This is also the reason why Family Guy can speedrun through all the narrative arcs developed by culture in 30 seconds clip. Family Guy Nasty Wolf Pack https:&#x
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by nthingtohide 2y ago
My take : AI is the REPL interface for learning activities. All the points which Salman Khan talked about apply here.
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by nthingtohide 2y ago
Has anyone done deconstruction of his thesis / arguments and found his predictions to be lackluster?
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by nthingtohide 2y ago
https://x.com/ben_el_baz/status/1908063819966067048 Corollary : This is also the reason why people (i.e. Wall Street) who are close to / handle the money earn more money. Drinking straight from the firehose.
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by nthingtohide 2y ago
Meaning is a matter of context. Most of the context resides in the past and future. Ludwig's claim that word's meaning is dependent on how it is used. This applies generally. Daniel Dennett - Information & Artificial Intellige
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by nthingtohide 2y ago
here's an example. https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1901133641746706581 I finally watched Ne Zha 2 last night with my daughters. It absolutely lives up to the hype: undoubtedly the best animated movie I&#x2
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by nthingtohide 2y ago
I really don't understand this : us vs them viewpoint. Here's a fictional scenario. Imagine Yellowstone erupts tomorrow and whole of America becomes inhabitable but Africa is unscathed. Now think about this, if America had "r

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