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by repeekad 6mo ago
A perfect example of why a product like Medplum exists, as opposed to completely reinventing the wheel from scratch
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by repeekad 6mo ago
Very simply, if you provide a service for money you have a duty to ensure that service is safe. There’s a reason you have to sign a waiver when you jump on a trampoline, but companies are so rich the court cases have become parking tickets.
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by repeekad 6mo ago
If airplanes used this logic, likely at least hundreds more would have died over the last decades. Accident rates are even going up, because of logic like yours. Yeah planes are fine most of the time, when the long tail involves safety conc
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by repeekad 6mo ago
Because if you didn’t already know that, like an immature deprived and desperate kid, being able to easily find out is really really bad.. Plenty of lazy AI apps just throw messages into history despite the known risks of context rot and la
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by repeekad 7mo ago
More likely the team who put a lot of work into it were unaware of the decision to kill the product, regardless of the final sunset date, until today.
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by repeekad 7mo ago
Technology Connections referred to this as “algorithmic complacency”, young people don’t like Bluesky because they have to decide for themselves what content to follow instead of a default algorithm feed
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by repeekad 7mo ago
It’s both?
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by repeekad 7mo ago
America is a democratic republic, not a direct democracy. The only restriction is the president can’t declare war, only congress can do that. They are pretending these strikes are “preemptive” in response to a nuclear bomb being developed,
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by repeekad 8mo ago
I agree with you for a company like Tesla, not only examples of self driving crashes but even the door handles would stop working when the power was cut, people trapped inside burning vehicles... Tesla doesn’t care Meanwhile, Waymo has neve
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by repeekad 8mo ago
I once asked one of the original YouTube infra engineers “will you ever need to delete the long tail of videos no one watches” They said it didn’t matter, because the sheer volume of new data flowing in growing so fast made the old data jus
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by repeekad 8mo ago
Careful what you wish for, local cops have already abused cameras and license plate readers to arrest people just for driving by the location and looking similar to doorbell video, over package theft... https://youtu.be/37fp
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by repeekad 8mo ago
This is called context rot
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by repeekad 8mo ago
they are not an unbiased news source, they profit from being biased toward what elites with money for a subscription want to hear
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by repeekad 8mo ago
Now imagine how big the builds are for Instagram's server side doomscrollable feed algorithm, given their inverse incentives to this project.
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by repeekad 8mo ago
The primary differentiator for me is that bsky does not have a central algorithm, you only see content from people you follow or explicitly go looking for. Yes the "top today" overall feed is very left biased, but the default is a
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by repeekad 8mo ago
Something like Postgres embedding search works out of the box, but don’t forget any search engine today also needs reranking https://github.com/with-logic/intent
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by repeekad 8mo ago
My concern is if the employee is aware, at least let me quit before I’m silently opted into my boss realizing I can get the same work done with less time at the desk from home
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by repeekad 8mo ago
This feels like a much better feature than “they can track your realtime location from the mobile app” as implied in the article? Plus employees will have to opt in? The tracking is still gross, but limited to opt-in on office WiFi seems a
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by repeekad 8mo ago
I can’t remember being more enraged than when I learned my YouTube premium was more expensive per month than it needed to be because I had signed up on iPhone, so many people wasting money every month, and YouTube isn’t allowed to mention t
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by repeekad 9mo ago
I called the non-emergency line for the local police department when someone went home with my wallet after I left it on a plane, tracked with an AirTag. 2 hours later an officer said they didn't have probable cause but could knock on
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by repeekad 9mo ago
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (recently game of the year) got caught leaving a small amount of placeholder AI content in their game and everyone lost their mind I’m sure reasonable artists agree with you, but many today do not
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by repeekad 9mo ago
Meant the first and people should do the second, Chernobyl on HBO is great. It’s also technically not a documentary but historical drama.
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by repeekad 9mo ago
Queue Chernobyl documentary clip measuring the radiation as low because that’s as high the meter went
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by repeekad 9mo ago
Most paper straws use PFAS, meaning we’re actively composting PFAS in a fantasy effort to feel good about our waste without actually giving anything up https://fortune.com/well/2023/08/24/paper-straws-har
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by repeekad 9mo ago
GitHub plays GitHub?
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by repeekad 9mo ago
California also requires data brokers to register with the state, creating the (intended) possibility of removing your info fully from all brokers all at once
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by repeekad 10mo ago
What you’re saying applied as far back as Vietnam, mainstream television allowed us to watch the war on video in mostly realtime, and we saw widespread protest I don’t think access or visibility of the information is what’s changed, but how
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by repeekad 10mo ago
Query expansion happens before the retrieval query, reranking is applied after the ranked results are returned, both are important
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by repeekad 10mo ago
What about re-ranking? In my limited experience, adding fast+cheap re-ranking with something like Cohere to the query results took an okay vector based search and made top 1-5 results much stronger
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by repeekad 10mo ago
Too bad Mr. Lai was not

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