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by nwlotz 1y ago
The ML research team at Voxel51 just released a paper showing that foundation models rival the accuracy of human annotators in labeling large visual datasets, at several orders of magnitude less time and cost. We also found that models trai
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Auto-Labeling Data for Object Detection(arxiv.org)
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by nwlotz 1y ago
There's a fantastic Ray Bradbury short story from 1948 called "Jonah and the Jove-Run" that I hardly see referenced anywhere. It's about Jupiter being the next frontier after colonizing Mars and the complexity of navigat
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by nwlotz 1y ago
"Made with love" is a concept that's subjective but real. You can tell Andor was made with love, while the sequel trilogy looks like it was made with a set of release criteria designed by consultants. Not to mention I don&#x2
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by nwlotz 1y ago
One of the best things I was forced to do in high school was read "How to Lie with Statistics" by Darrell Huff. The book's a bit dated and oversimplified in parts, but it gave me a healthy skepticism that served me well in co
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by nwlotz 1y ago
If even the hyperscalers like OpenAI aren't making a profit, when exactly to companies adopting AI start making money? I wonder if we'll start seeing the hyperscalers start raising prices and squeezing customers when investors fin
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by nwlotz 1y ago
I'm curious, why hasn't Valkey picked up corporate sponsors to the degree OpenTofu did when HashiCorp changed Terraform's licensing? I just haven't seen a meaningful level of reaction compared to the community outcry whe
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by nwlotz 1y ago
I've found LLMs to often be a time-suck rather than supercharge my own learning. A huge part of thinking is reconsidering your initial assumptions when you start to struggle in research, mathematical problem solving, programming, whate
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by nwlotz 1y ago
Engineering often supplies the potential energy fueling vision and vice versa. ARPANET was very specifically engineered with the vision of a network that could survive nuclear attack. Then it evolved into the internet, which fueled a new vi
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by nwlotz 1y ago
I mean code ages quickly, so the value of software must include the skillset needed to support and maintain it. Which is why enterprise software contracts exist, and are expensive. You're not paying for the binary. You're paying f
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by nwlotz 1y ago
I'd expect LLMs to continue making bloat significantly worse. When the cost of a thing craters, in this case generated lines of code, then you'll inevitably get way more of that thing. Also my observations so far of "vibe cod