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by qqtt 3y ago
Can you expand on this comment? What have you seen in the AR market that leads you to believe the comment you are responding to is not accurate? From many observers, we have seen many AR/VR devices fail over the years. Some spectacular
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by qqtt 3y ago
How do you think "LLM tech" discovers content to train it's massive models?
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by qqtt 3y ago
Toyota and Honda are both pushing more into electric cars these days. The main reason they are behind is that the Japanese government pushed hard to develop fuel cell cars and gave out big incentives for companies to put fuel cell vehicles
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by qqtt 3y ago
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" woul
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by qqtt 3y ago
I imagine it's some combination of building out a worldwide ad sales force, engineering to keep up with the resulting ad technology demands, and further engineering to keep up with the modern ML arms race. Plus as you grow you need inf
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by qqtt 3y ago
Knuth's response here reminds me a bit of Einstein's rather dogged commitment to the "god does not play dice with the universe" philosophy. Just like non-determinism of Quantum Mechanics was a bit of a thorn in Einstein&
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by qqtt 3y ago
First of all, if Altman continually makes misleading statements about AI he will quickly lose credibility, and that short term gain in whatever 'financial incentive' that birthed the lie would be eroded in short order by a lack of
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by qqtt 4y ago
ChatGPT is cool and novel, but FAANG's requirements for ML/AI go far beyond what ChatGPT provides as a product. ChatGPT is good at answering questions based on an older data set. FAANG typically requires up to date real time infer
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by qqtt 4y ago
For all of Amazon’s so called emphasis on “customer obsession” I feel they’ve never been known to get the UI right. Their web site has always been borderline horrible to navigate. It feels like a band aid over the archaic “search vs browse”
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by qqtt 4y ago
The thing about politics is that it is the art of compromise. I think it makes sense for policies to discuss the foreign influence angle separately from the domestic influence angle. Further, it makes sense to sub-divide the foreign influen
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by qqtt 4y ago
Always be skeptical of individuals who claim things are debunked without citing their sources. Also, it is true that neighborhoods near the airport not in the flight path also have higher lead levels than average, but I'm not sure how
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by qqtt 4y ago
It's not like it's a controversial topic. It's a well known, well studied, and well documented effect. https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/1/pgac285/69797... https:/&#x
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by qqtt 4y ago
Friendly reminder that leaded gas is still used all over the United States today in airports (avgas). And if you live near an airport you are probably affected by elevated lead levels. https://news.sccgov.org/news-release&#x
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by qqtt 4y ago
See also cod fishing in Newfoundland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_fishing_in_Newfoundland Cod stocks collapsed in the early 1990s, with a moratorium on fishing enacted in 1993. It took until 2011 for signs to sho
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by qqtt 4y ago
Xbox being basically a PC is interesting considering 20+ years later there is still no great emulator for it. xemu plays about 3% of games without minor issues.
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by qqtt 4y ago
Good. Both Google and Amazon are barreling down the path of democratizing scale and infrastructure with their cloud offerings. It's never been easier to reach millions of users in a short amount of time with your product. These are the
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by qqtt 4y ago
I put "really works" in quotes because the definition of how to get to the bottom of how something "really works" is up for debate itself. The original context for claiming something like path integrals can't be how
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by qqtt 4y ago
I agree, but generally if you were to ask to name 'some cities associated with film' it's reasonable to get multiple these days - if you had to choose only one you'd get Hollywood. I don't think that's very far
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by qqtt 4y ago
You'd probably get different answers for which city is associated with film, just like you'd get different answers for music. Lots of locations have risen up over the years, including Vancouver, and New York (which itself alone ha
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by qqtt 4y ago
Feynman's QED talks pretty extensively about this as well. An intuitive mental model that humans can picture in their heads is a nice to have, not a requirement. Understanding how a system "really works" is also not really a
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by qqtt 4y ago
Do you think Apple is drastically underestimating the scale and sophistication required to move their manufacturing? Do you think Tim Cook made a strategic error here, owing partially to his lack of understanding of the involvement of these
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by qqtt 4y ago
I don't think it's really a mystery as to why most tech companies are doing layoffs (also import to note that other industries still have tight labor markets, like oil and gas which happens to be rapidly growing during this downtu
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by qqtt 4y ago
The thing is, the companies didn't overhire given the expected growth rates they were forecasting. Companies doing layoffs now are doing so with the same reasoning they used when they did hiring during the pandemic - they are forecasti
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by qqtt 4y ago
I don't think they thought it was permanent as much as no one really knew when it would stop. They had to make a choice whether to hire enough to sustain the current growth rates or scale back growth in which case competitors might be
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by qqtt 4y ago
There are varying degrees of democratic systems possible within the context of a government. In the United States for example, Federal Senators used to be appointed by State legislators instead of being directly voted on by the people - in
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by qqtt 4y ago
Such as, term limits for those in power: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/11/592694991...
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by qqtt 4y ago
The world should also be very concerned about the current leader in China, who is currently re-writing the democratic traditions of China to remain in power indefinitely, which echoes the moves certain other leaders have made. This is, time
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by qqtt 4y ago
It's not clear it's even possible to effectively monetize pure messaging platforms like WhatsApp - there aren't many successful examples of highly monetized chat apps. Chat is pretty much the hardest thing in all of social ne
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by qqtt 4y ago
I don't think it originated with this broadcast, however, as the individual who did it was inspired by a comment from their own school teacher. It seems people have been making similar jokes about spaghetti for a very long time.
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by qqtt 4y ago
Spaghetti from a can, no less.

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