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by oytis 1y ago
America is becoming a silly place. Lumberjack appointed as a head of NASA for his loyalty.
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by oytis 1y ago
It's not the first piece of criticism of Germany by Ai Weiwei, but it always leaves me with a weird impression. On one hand, he's a great artist, and I want to see - and sometimes do see - some deep insights into Germany's mi
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by oytis 1y ago
Found a German.
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by oytis 1y ago
As I understand the mechanics, it's because some people flagged it, and moderators didn't find it important/relevant enough to unflag. Happens a lot with non-technical posts, especially political rants.
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by oytis 1y ago
Or 4 Emperor penguins
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by oytis 1y ago
The best definition so far is that it's something that will make a hundred billion dollar for Sam Altman.
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by oytis 1y ago
Fusion is 30 years away, AGI is much closer
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by oytis 1y ago
Being able to implement any decision by running a targeted campaign discouraging it's opponents from voting and swaying the undecided can't be a feature or we have very different understanding of democracy. By closing up we defend
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by oytis 1y ago
What about domestic entities running undercover propaganda campaigns - as we have seen e.g. with Cambridge Analytica? Should we maybe focus on the more fundamental problem of our democracies being vulnerable to propaganda campaigns rather t
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by oytis 1y ago
I'd argue transfer of services is not really an issue. People buying services from a foreign entity is a pretty fringe case, and most legitimate businesses will try to establish a local presence for that anyway. Sovereign firewalls are
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by oytis 1y ago
It's fourth decade of WWW and the governments still haven't figured anything better than applying their sovereignty globally.
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by oytis 1y ago
Also "sovereign US cloud" is a bad joke
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by oytis 1y ago
The original open source was a programmer to programmer relationship, not company to company. Open source as a business model was inveted later, and it turns out compatibility with original open source licenses only goes that far.
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by oytis 1y ago
It's much easier for Israel to detain Palestinians than for Hamas to kidnap Israelis, so asymmetry makes sense.
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by oytis 1y ago
Who says that? Major Israeli news outlets I've been checking say that all living hostages are back home.
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by oytis 1y ago
In Berlin someone made it a real product. Not sure whether there was any commercial success. https://www.red-dot.org/project/moodplay-64498
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by oytis 1y ago
Sounds good to me
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by oytis 1y ago
So a Scottish museum published some assets under CC, and Israeli military uses it in visualisations, because obviously they don't actually have x-ray images of every building. I believe soon these gaps will be filled with AI generated
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by oytis 1y ago
If people wanted to buy it, then "how" wouldn't be a difficulty
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by oytis 1y ago
Next they should start wondering why to sell AI apps with no measurable benefits
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by oytis 1y ago
> The dots are the work of the miriad nameless scientists/scholars/scribes/artisans That is not plausible IMO. Nobody has capacity to read the works of a miriad of nameless scientists, not even Isaac Newton. Even less like
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by oytis 1y ago
> it’s glaringly obvious that small contributions matter Not at all obvious to me. What were the small contributions to e.g. the theory of gravity?
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by oytis 1y ago
Also the evidence for Newton hypothesis seems so much stronger. Like, how do you even measure the invisible influence of mediocre scientists?
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by oytis 1y ago
Yes, same feeling about ML really. Whether you are working with classic ML or LLMs, it's all about trial and error without predictable results, which just feels like sloppy (pun unintended) engineering by programmers' standards.
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by oytis 1y ago
Sad for folks inside tech not interested in/working on AI either
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by oytis 1y ago
IDK, what kind of innovation we need from Arduino now? Arduino IDE exists and is open source. Arduino Uno exists and is open source. Arduino cores, both from Arduino itself and third-party exist and are open source. Not sure how they made m
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by oytis 1y ago
Ah, OK, so there are actually people with real industry experience there? What happens with the young bright people when they are not young any more though? Are they expected to leave the company to gather real world experience or are they
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by oytis 1y ago
Can someone explain to me how and why consulting works? If a man had no real skills except giving advice left and right, he would be considered a loser. Now make it a company, and corporations and governments queue up for their advice. Woul
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by oytis 1y ago
Jokes aside, "high-profile engineer doing ordinary things" is actually an interesting genre, I've just missed the context initially.
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by oytis 1y ago
Is it a joke submission? TL;DR - the author put his passport in a plastic bag, now water doesn't get in.

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