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by pkdpic 3y ago
Interesting correlation with behavioral modernity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity
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Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70k B.C(npr.org)
11 points by pkdpic 3y ago|1 comments
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I wonder how many cumulative calories were expended on the mini anxiety / disbelief attacks caused by n number of people momentarily misreading this as "Visual Studio Code" rather than "Visual Studio". Not that I&#x
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by pkdpic 3y ago
Thank you for that link, Ive been subconsciously holding off on assuming there was a compute / predictive power correlation even though it seems natural. But it would probably be dangerously naïve to have assumed that connection. Anywa
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by pkdpic 3y ago
> These images all appear to have been submitted by Adobe Stock users and were seemingly not generated by Adobe itself. Is this more an issue of trust and safety / screening user uploads?
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by pkdpic 3y ago
Agreed, working with generative AI tools at work and independently over the past year has only made me want to make weirder more personal paintings / drawings with less interest in mass appeal or artistic professional viability. It&#x2
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by pkdpic 3y ago
These are excellent! Can't wait to share them with some art folks Ive been trying to explain AI processes to and I can't wait to see more! Bravo :^)
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by pkdpic 3y ago
If anyone else was just wondering what the company even was... > Schmidt later described it as “an AI and analytics company of companies” that would invest in a fruit salad of verticals from virtual reality to space. Elaborating on that
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I'm in a holding patter at my current job that I was lucky to get right after the layoffs. Just wondering if people are having luck out there getting interviews / offers etc. Hope everyones hangin in there <3
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Ask HN: How's your job search going?
7 points by pkdpic 3y ago|5 comments
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by pkdpic 3y ago
He's clearly a complicated figure but he was a big inspiration when I was transitioning into a tech career. I'll be sending him good thoughts. <3
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by pkdpic 3y ago
Makes enough sense to me but curious why specifically? Are they quieter or less dangerous below that size / weight?
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by pkdpic 3y ago
George Lucas (half a century ago): “Faster, more intense!”
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I'm using firefly for the first time on a paid academic account and Im immediately struck at how good it is at making graphic / illustrative images, but it seems to be at the cost of photographic / photorealistic images. ie I
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I don't know what addiction really is. But I know a lot of people that use extremely strong weed to numb out for most of the hours of the day. And I know I miss the people they were before they started using weed that way. I also know
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You Can Be Addicted to Weed: I Was(thefp.com)
3 points by pkdpic 3y ago|4 comments
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I ate my last McRib while looking out at the great Salt Lake for the first time. It was otherworldly and much bigger feeling than I was expecting but it was super hard to find a place where we could just walk up to the edge of it. My McRib
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by pkdpic 3y ago
> How do you expect to communicate with the ocean [the maybe-conscious alien ocean] when you can’t even understand one another? - Stanisław Lem, Solaris I think about this quote a lot. Every time I look at a bug, go to the zoo or try to
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by pkdpic 3y ago
> With fully random matings the number of your ancestors doubles every generation. Ten generations ago (250-300 years) we might expect about 1,000 ancestors each contributing 0.1 percent of their total variants to your genome... when the
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by pkdpic 3y ago
> Hidden in plain sight across the way from the Harris Ranch Supercharger’s main stations, behind a Shell station, is a small diesel plant that has helped power Tesla’s footprint. Could have fit that in the title...
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I lived out there for a long time, in California City, taught all over Kern County. Saw a lot of wind and solar go up on long drives. The blinking red at night is surreal. And the oceans of black solar panels make huge deserts feel weirdly
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by pkdpic 3y ago
Somewhat related but does anyone have any suggestions for analog logic gate / transistor / electronics / computer education toys for small kids. Specific a 3 year old. Ive been keeping an eye open but haven't come across
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by pkdpic 3y ago
> when the [notched] Lebombo bone was determined to be some 42,000 years old, it instantly became one of the most intriguing archaeological artifacts ever found. Not only does it put a date on when Homo sapiens started counting, it also
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by pkdpic 3y ago
> There isn't enough fossil fuel around anyway if we wanted to keep growing with it I in all seriousness love this angle and find it super refreshing, the puny amount of oil on this tiny planet isn't enough to satisfy human amb
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by pkdpic 3y ago
> A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday that artwork generated by artificial intelligence is not eligible for copyright protection because it lacks “human involvement,”
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by pkdpic 3y ago
Score for the humans! And score one for generative models being weird aliens instead of robot butlers / illustrators!
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AI-Generated Art Not Protected by Copyright Law(artnews.com)
1 points by pkdpic 3y ago|2 comments
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I have honestly never met anyone who would defend hacker news or reddit as a good use of their time or pressure their peers to use the platforms more. Are we saying that all social media platforms are the same? Are there teams working on th
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by pkdpic 3y ago
Are we in agreement that social media is bad for us or not? I'm a little confused as to why anyone is still using it, why people are still defending it, why we're all still talking about it and why I'm getting more (not less)
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by pkdpic 3y ago
I wonder if this had anything to do with them being desensitized to cones because of the cones on the hoods...

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