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by randcraw 1y ago
Imagine that the illness in question was unremitting and excruciating (unlike a broken leg), not only for you and the your loved ones, but everyone you come into contact with. And there's no hope it will ever get any better. That&#x2
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by randcraw 1y ago
The obvious solution: doctors need to start upcoding their cases by default.
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by randcraw 1y ago
But the reengineering of assembly lines has targeted speed and cost of assembly, not so much automation. Robots do have a role in manufacturing, but I think it's a relatively small fraction of the whole. AFAIK, most part makers don&#
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by randcraw 1y ago
That plan sounds viable until you consider how much noncompliant legacy hardware is out there that can't all be replaced but must be repaired, like cars, roofs, appliances, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, etc. If robots can't accommo
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by randcraw 1y ago
Which part explains why Thiel spent millions to get the antichrist elected President?
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by randcraw 1y ago
CAN you get into a state of flow when directing an LLM? I don't have a lot of experience using LLMs to code, but it always feels like I'm coaching a junior staff member. No way to flow that, IMHO.
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by randcraw 1y ago
Or maybe, "I strongly feel that Artificial Intelligence is an insult to Human Intelligence."
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by randcraw 1y ago
Picasso's Guernica was born of hate, his hate of war, of dehumanization for petty political ends. No computer will ever empathize with the senseless inhumanity of war to produce such a work. It must forever parrot.
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by randcraw 1y ago
Apparently the inks used in antiquity were not waterproof either. Even though vellum or high quality parchment could last several centuries (if not eaten by moths or other bugs), a single slip of a beverage could erase an entire scroll. P
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by randcraw 1y ago
I'm reading "The Swerve", Stephen Greenblatt's marvelous book on the discovery of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (The Nature of Things"), a Roman-era scroll on Epicurus' philosophy, by Poggio Bracciolini in 14
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by randcraw 1y ago
LinkedIn seems like the natural home (origin?) of those oh-so-inane "Motivator" management posters that were so popular in the 1990s. Now if only there were also an outlet there for the "Demotivator" posters that follow
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by randcraw 1y ago
And I'm sure it will improve as the electrode placement and NN is optimized. Accuracy also may improve if the speaker can learn to slow their 'speech' and perhaps add brief gaps between words. I wonder if trying to enunciate
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by randcraw 1y ago
Never. It requires several electrodes to be implanted into the patient first. Then there's an adaptation phase in which the patient trains the system. No spy network is going to be able to surreptitiously tap into your thoughts with
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by randcraw 1y ago
Or, each time the software is updated or replaced, the human in the loop will be unable to... be in the loop. Patients will be entirely dependent on software vendor corporations who will claim that their app is always correct and trustwort
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by randcraw 1y ago
The second-most common cognitive mistake we make has to be the failure to validate what we think we know -- is it actually true? The crux of being right isn't reasoning. It's avoiding dumb blunders based on falsehoods, both hone
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by randcraw 1y ago
I was curious what make and model achieved this, knowing that it couldn't be a Honda Ridgeline since their transmissions tend to explode without warning. Mine (a 2019) just disintegrated at 35,000 miles despite my changing out its flu
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by randcraw 1y ago
With the inevitable cutbacks coming to NPR, I wonder how big a hit classical music will take. NPR delivers 95% of the classical music that airs in America, much of which comes from small market stations which will be the first to die with
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by randcraw 1y ago
Or it will require college students to complete one or more internships which use AI to show they have already learned to be productive using AI before they graduate.
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by randcraw 1y ago
Not a well written article in other ways too. What's the booster interval? What's the expected market coverage? How expensive is it, especially in poor countries where it's needed most? Are there challenges in transportat
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by randcraw 1y ago
“ spiffy analytical tools were also understating the climate costs of using grain to fuel our cars instead of ourselves.” Ourselves? Soylent Green for cars?
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by randcraw 1y ago
Nicolas Carr addresses this issue directly in his book "The Shallows" in which he brilliantly recounted how media has reshaped how humans think and communicate, especially how the word streams of other people increasingly reshaped
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by randcraw 1y ago
Yeah, after daily working with AI for a decade in a domain where it _does_ work predictably and reliably (image analysis), I continue to be amazed how many of us continue to trust LLM-based text output as being useful. If any human source
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by randcraw 1y ago
Before the wreckage this administration has created consumes us, that is. Like when our next round of influenza is especially bad but we've destroyed so much public health infrastructure that the US is the last to respond to the cri
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by randcraw 1y ago
I haven't read the directive/law, but the EU should also invite EVERYONE to submit well documented and reproducible examples of AI/LLM failures. It's only through public exposure that improvement will be assured. The AI
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by randcraw 1y ago
"[…] people who undergo CPR outside of a hospital setting survive only 10 percent of the time. Within a hospital setting, CPR survival rates are only a bit higher — about 17 percent." https://www.discovermagazine.com&#x
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by randcraw 1y ago
Spatial models must be 3D, not 1D (linear), much less 2D, which is sufficient for images and object recognition (where models are not needed). And adding time makes it 4D, at least for robot motion. To reason spatially (and dynamically) th
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by randcraw 1y ago
Or "Trump's Big Dump".
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by randcraw 1y ago
Next I hope they'll exclude private equity from making a comparable mess of dentistry, veterinary, legal, and every other professional service they've parasitized. Better yet, let's encourage all service-oriented businesses
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by randcraw 1y ago
IMO, a large part of the appeal of classics is that you know others have also read the book so there will be opportunities to quote from it and share the experience, perhaps for decades to come. In contrast, most recent best sellers disapp
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by randcraw 1y ago
No. Youtube is a monopoly. For a huge amount pf historical video, they are the only game in town. Regulating the hell out of them -- especially gigantic fines for the insane amount of copyright piracy their business model depends upon --

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