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by peterlk 5y ago
This is, in my opinion, one of the biggest challenges with generative models right now. I'm not sure if this is the industry-adopted term, but I call them hallucinations. This is why I don't just pipe it straight into my blog, but
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by peterlk 5y ago
There's a lot of negativity in the comments here, and many of them have merit. However, the thing that is interesting to me about OpenAI, AI21, Cohere, and all the other LLM providers is that they are broadly useful, and often helpful.
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by peterlk 5y ago
I've been having "AI" debates like this for about 10 years now, and I think they usually go in 1 of 2 directions: 1. We don't know what intelligence is 2. AI can never be intelligent because humans are special (in variou
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by peterlk 5y ago
I've just spent a bit over a year in the live entertainment industry, and feel like I might be able to provide some insight here. On the one hand, this feels like an own-goal because no one in live entertainment has been paid since the
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by peterlk 5y ago
Anecdotally, many emigrants (a dozen or so) that I know are now choosing to go to Canada. The US has lost a significant amount of its shine over the last few years for them, and their skilled labor is going elsewhere.
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by peterlk 5y ago
I think there's a pretty critical piece of analysis missing here: inflation. An alternative explanation might be that housing prices are being driven up by inflation, and wages haven't caught up yet. There are two ways to lower th
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by peterlk 5y ago
Sounds like you should read Hyperion! Such a good series...
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by peterlk 5y ago
How can I implement my website such that it is optimally useful for browsers like this? Just avoid flashy stuff? Is there any way to list my blog somewhere as a friendly place to read? I'm spinning it up again after a year off for reas
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by peterlk 5y ago
For anyone else who looks at the comments first, there is nothing to see here. I was hoping for a link to the original report, but this article just states that some VP didn't want an internally generated report to go out because the t
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by peterlk 5y ago
According to this article, I think I rank as an optimist - I tend to trust people, feel that we can solve the problems before us, etc. But I'm listening to a book right now called The Ascent of Humanity, and it makes some interesting p
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by peterlk 5y ago
Since no one else has mentioned it, I feel compelled to mention thermonuclear catsplosions. My understanding of the legend is that a player began experiencing a catsplosion, and wanted to find a way to get rid of the cats. So he started tin
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by peterlk 5y ago
We are currently in the "information superhighway" era of the metaverse. Everyone wants to have a proprietary metaverse that looks pretty much like IoT visualization or an open world mmo. What we need is a "browser" and
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by peterlk 5y ago
A taxi driver in Singapore told me that the highway in Singapore is also designed for planes to land on. My own observations indicated that this was plausible.
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by peterlk 5y ago
Epic Games has a $1B investment for the metaverse Nvidia has Omniverse Roblox hit a $58B market cap in June Unity has VR chat And there are a zillion startups/indie games that claim to be "The Metaverse". Of course, for the m
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by peterlk 5y ago
I similarly think that you are applying a techno-utopian lens to your analysis. My family and I have spent time with many people who did not have internet or other modern amenities (Mongolia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, and several othe
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by peterlk 5y ago
This brings to mind a conversation that I've had several times over the years. It goes something like this: > Wouldn't it be cool if we could have code that would test itself? > Yeah, if only there were some kind of automate
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by peterlk 5y ago
Meta: I'm really happy that there is a non-english article on the front page of HN. Can we make this happen wore often?
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by peterlk 5y ago
"Hire slow and fire fast". I've never seen a company that had not made several bad hires. The difference was the speed at which they were willing and able to identify them and remove them. You shouldn't trust someone the
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by peterlk 5y ago
I see this argument a lot, and I think it is more hollow than it appears. I am certainly not the same person now that I was 10 years ago. Indeed, I am different than the person I was 1 year ago. Life happens, people change. Directing this c
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by peterlk 6y ago
> Nuance has largely failed to fully embrace deep learning approaches. This may be a feature, not a bug. Explainability is very difficult with deep learning systems, and that often makes deep learning less suitable for some compliance ap
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by peterlk 6y ago
> you don’t need fairy tails to be a good person and to come to terms with death I don't think this is true in general. I have a pet theory that much of the conspiracy theory following we are seeing is actually a weakening of church
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by peterlk 6y ago
When I was in college, this video really stuck with me: https://youtu.be/FxF-mxuv4uI The relevant quote (and my favorite quote from it) is: > Stop trying to be Mark Zuckerberg, because the best you can possibly do is sec
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by peterlk 6y ago
Huh... This actually seems like not a bad way to ensure that Google is aware of the problem. A sufficiently large reddit community could probably knock a lot of big fish off of youtube with this approach
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by peterlk 6y ago
Absolutely. I cleaned (removed cursing) more hip hop tracks than I care to remember with the highlight/reverse in Audacity. There is no other program that allowed me to do this so simply and efficiently.
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by peterlk 6y ago
One of my favorite quotes because it is so hard for me to swallow > People will choose convenience over quality any day - CEO of iHeart Media I am neither a fan of iHeart Media nor that idea, but I think it may be correct. If true, an ex
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by peterlk 6y ago
Kind of. I mean, sure, I think it would be really neat to be able to replace the L1 cache myself, but this would probably necessitate a less efficient CPU. Is it fair to fault Apple for using an Intel CPU which itself has no mechanism for i
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by peterlk 6y ago
I think this pretty well sums up the loophole. You have the right to repair... what? If I buy a macbook, do I get to replace the case? keyboard? These seem pretty reasonable. But what about the right to replace/repair the L1 cache? Thi
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by peterlk 6y ago
If there is anyone on earth who could reinvent the internet, it is Tim Sweeney. The metaverse is coming, and it will exist because of him. Think I'm being hyperbolic? Go listen to his SigGraph 2019 talk
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by peterlk 6y ago
Plot twist: this is actually how Google decides to kill products.
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by peterlk 6y ago
Ok, well maybe this thread can be a tiny part of the solution to that stigma. First off herpes comes in two primary variants: HSV-1 and HSV-2. Most humans on Earth (between 60% and 95%) have HSV-1, and it's estimated that around 16% of

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