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Ask HN: Why Connected Home Appliances?
5 points by ripe 2mo ago|12 comments
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The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact(wired.com)
12 points by ripe 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
BPO means the US company is outsourcing to an Indian company. A Global Capability Center (GCC) means it's a US company subsidiary in India.
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Tesla Driver Tries 'I Wasn't Driving' Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket(gizmodo.com)
14 points by ripe 2mo ago|7 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
From the article: The Tesla feature known as “Full Self-Driving (Supervised)” does not turn your car into the driver of your car. To some, that may sound like anti-Tesla propaganda, but take it from Tesla itself, which writes in a disclaime
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China's A.I. Is Surging Across Africa. That Should Worry Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
5 points by ripe 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
From the article: In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones. ... Chinese “open-source” models account for roughly half of total A.I. use on OpenR
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The FANUC industrial empire [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ripe 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
I am so glad I read the OP. To me, the big news here is "FlatCV", the author's computer vision library. Why it interests me: 1. A practical and elegant approach to scanning real-world documents like receipts, invoices, and le
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by ripe 2mo ago
> If it is making a positive impact, would it matter if it's AI or human We're drowning in this stuff, and no one has enough hours in their day to find out if obviously AI-generated slop can make a positive impact on their life
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Kobuk the Destroyer – Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering(wwnorton.com)
16 points by ripe 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
By Alex Davies (Author) An exploration of why the stuff we use (mostly) works—and a celebration of the unsung engineers who ensure it does. When a manufacturer offers a 10,000-mile warranty on a car or slaps a “bear-resistant” label on a ca
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US authorities see 'significant escalation' in attacks on water system devices(cybersecuritydive.com)
4 points by ripe 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
Summary: 1. The enormous debt loads that the big AI companies are incurring can be serviced only with very high profits, i.e., very high white-collar job replacement. 2. Local models are becoming good enough that the big frontier model vend
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The AI Bubble Is About to Explode? [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ripe 2mo ago|2 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
Hmm, you might be right about that paragraph. I am very sensitive to LLM smells, but I missed this one, probably because the rest of the essay seems handwritten. Of course, one can never be sure. Many writers are picking up on this style, t
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by ripe 2mo ago
This was such a nice read about a park I had never heard of. Thank you for writing it (and for actually writing it yourself instead of vibing it).
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Told to Train AI Models, Indian Workers Fought Back(thewire.in)
2 points by ripe 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ripe 2mo ago
From the article in The Wire: One increasingly popular approach is training models on millions of hours of recordings of humans performing dexterous tasks, in the hope of achieving a dexterity breakthrough akin to how language models like C
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by ripe 2mo ago
For those (like me) who don't know what "motion" refers to here, it's Motion Project, an open-source program to monitor multiple cameras and trigger real-time hooks based on motion detection, etc.: https://mot
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Hans Moravec Was Right About AI. What He Thinks Comes Next(nymag.com)
4 points by ripe 3mo ago|1 comments
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by ripe 3mo ago
A rare interview with Hans Moravec at his home in Pennsylvania.
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by ripe 3mo ago
> we don't only encounter art in a museum True, but the TFA's first line reads: Most of us walk through museums reading the little labels and nodding. The whole point of going to a museum is that it has been put together
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by ripe 3mo ago
> spitting out verbatim text The New York Times lawsuit is resting on the point that large chunks of undigested articles can be vomited out. OpenAI tried to have the lawsuit thrown out but the courts permitted it to continue. The Times..
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by ripe 3mo ago
Museum labels are supposed to be designed to deliver the take-away point that the curator wants to make. Asking museum goers to learn how to read paintings is a poor workaround. The classic guide to writing interpretive exhibit labels is Be
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The U.S. Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens(wired.com)
3 points by ripe 3mo ago|0 comments
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Tyler Cowen: The Future Belongs to AI Maniacs(thefp.com)
3 points by ripe 3mo ago|0 comments
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I automated my PC's chores with a tool that's been in Windows for 20 years(makeuseof.com)
5 points by ripe 3mo ago|0 comments
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by ripe 3mo ago
TLDR; a Chicago-area schoolteacher was able to find the rights to the old Backyard Baseball PC game from the 1990s, and she commissioned a software game development company and a still-live fan base, to recreate the source code (because the
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by ripe 3mo ago
Wow, that's a great article about color! It answers many questions. Thanks for the link.

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