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by resters 3y ago
There used to be a lot of content about Hans Reiser on Slashdot back in the days before HN. His statements, code and conduct were controversial long before the murder. I'm curious if anyone has insight into his technical contributions.
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by resters 3y ago
It's nice to see Blindsight by Peter Watts on the list. Superb "hard sci-fi" book that includes a bibliography of real world publications that justify/motivate the flights of imagination. The story is told backwards in
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by resters 3y ago
Most of the ROI is due to networking and the brand reputation of Harvard. You will find a small percentage of truly brilliant people there, but in general most will be around as bright as those at any of the top private or public universiti
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by resters 3y ago
The proof was(n't) in the pudding. Movielens has given me superb recommendations and led me to watch content that became some of my all-time favorite content. Netflix has never offered a useful recommendation at all.
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by resters 3y ago
True, that is anti-personalization
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by resters 3y ago
Not surprising. I'd been using movielens for recommendations prior to the prize, and even today Netflix still does not provide high quality content recommendations. Worse yet it seems to think I want to watch the three things that are
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Google Family Link does not work with Advanced Protection(support.google.com)
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by resters 3y ago
how is this different than the skin effect in wire?
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by resters 3y ago
I've ranted about this before. Everyone would like to have infinite time to write the best possible code and do everything right. In a business, particularly a time constrained or financially constrained one, the art of running the b
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by resters 3y ago
All elected officials (mayors, governors, members of the various legislatures) should be required to drink one glass of water from the most polluted body of water in their jurisdiction once each month. A simple carbon filter might be allow
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by resters 3y ago
> ... means LLMs do encode concepts of human cognition AND > ... do encode structural elements of our language and hence thought Quite true. I think the trivial "proof" that what you are saying is correct is that a significa
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by resters 3y ago
I don't disagree, however I meant antisocial in the sense of being disruptive to the status quo
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by resters 3y ago
To reframe the discussion a bit: LLMs are time series predictors. You give it a sequence and it predicts the next part of the sequence. As a society we've been dedicating a lot of resources to time series prediction for many years. Wh
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by resters 3y ago
I love Youtube and consider it a major contribution to the modern world -- however it would have been "invented" within a few months regardless of who built if first and would have grown regardless of who acquired it. It's im
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by resters 3y ago
Is there a way to report apps that violate this?
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by resters 3y ago
As noted in the comment, Google products are once again available on Amazon. They were removed for several years not long ago. Ads are subjective? Apple has many criteria for rejecting app store submissions, why not add "misleading pu
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by resters 3y ago
Ahh they seem to have become available again. That's a step in the right direction.
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by resters 3y ago
Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon do a lot of extremely petty things that should disgust us and give us a glimpse at how this pettiness and adversarial conduct might escalate in a GAI world: - Amazon does not carry Google branded
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by resters 3y ago
Does anyone know if vivado works on Wine / Macos?
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by resters 3y ago
Isn't it available via GCP?
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by resters 3y ago
My iPhone receives dozens of robocalls per week yet Apple blocks Beeper Mini in a few days! Each of those calls use my minutes, battery life, voicemail, time, etc.
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by resters 3y ago
Is there some reason why Google can't spin it off into an open source project of some kind?
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by resters 3y ago
interesting youtube comparison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNcNOgMwH_4
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by resters 3y ago
> LLMs don’t notice things - in the human manner you assumed they do. It isn't point out gaps, its repeating text patterns. Our habit of dealing with humans is filling in these gaps and supporting an assumption of ‘noticing’ or ‘imp
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by resters 3y ago
Interesting comment. I think it is clear that GPT-4 contains a LOT of information. You can ask it explicit factual questions and it often gets the right answer. When it gets the answer wrong, its wording is typically syntactically correct E
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by resters 3y ago
If it's not already obvious, LLMs are going to be doing most of the mental work currently performed by doctors, lawyers, accountants, etc. I have already nearly stopped using Google search for anything, in favor of GPT-4. GPT-4 has hel
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by resters 3y ago
True. However my theory is that filmmakers would not use the same shots in a 60fps world that they use in a 24fps world. The aesthetic of it is so different, seemingly much about the creative aspects of a production would be done different
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by resters 3y ago
> For me, the interpolation really seems to separate the "layers" in a shot, and it just completely destroys the illusion of them not being a set with some lights. Great description. It's the same for me.
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by resters 3y ago
Just as the people who design google maps navigation don't drive, the people who design parental control features for google and apple surely don't have kids, and the PMs who choose to turn on motion interpolation by default likel
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by resters 3y ago
it is surprising that manufacturers turn on motion smoothing by default, as it ruins the aesthetic of most content and makes it look like it was shot on a 1990s camcorder.

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