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rldjbpin
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2y ago
before you go back, which AI stocks will help us ride the wave in the near future? /s
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2y ago
depending on the public funding present, it can be seen as a safer alternative. to replace having people responsible to risk their lives to save those who fall by accident or those risking their lives without taking precautions. this to me
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2y ago
everybody has their own battles to pick. it might be easy to blame the US and expect better when they are still struggling with lobbying against tax filing nonsense that impact every working-class person. at the same time, the EU has been s
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2y ago
interesting take from an academic practitioner who also runs a blog. i find it fascinating though in terms of how tech literate folks from outside this space is changing the way they consume written (web) content. from the llm-chat paradigm
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2y ago
> there would only ever be a single organizational structure for human society, like bees, ants, chimps or whatever. this implies that we have zero agency over what we do. i did not mean that with my remark. > societies have organized
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2y ago
with the power of hindsight, that aged like milk. i wonder how much of our current views be seen this way another 50 years from now. however i think some things will most likely be for certain, like how there are key parties who economicall
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2y ago
is there a version of not being able to visualize faces of people you know? asking for a friend. from all i read about things like this, the more it become apparent that we all experience things in a unique way.
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2y ago
m$ has successfully stretched the "you don't own the software, you lease it" model to its extremes. unpopular opinion - almost all annoyances are most affecting those who can then find a solution and apply it (provided they d
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2y ago
the first tool does work for removing web results, but not so much for the "recommended" section. it can stay empty though. also, while the tool is nice, it needs admin permissions to work.
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2y ago
as sad as this ruling is, simultaneously i see a wave of authors who have made their works freely available online, while selling hardcopies. this too from major technical publishers. see for instance ISLR ( https://www.statlearni
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2y ago
um, excuse you, it is all about ANI/AGI/ASI now! /s on a serious note, to me this field was already in quagmire of bs marketing the moment they named it "AI" almost a decade ago. in retrospect, seems like naming it
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2y ago
one party is a company trying to sell stuff. the other is a guy being proud of his work and lowkey bragging. either ways this is a one-off instance. not meme worthy just yet.
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2y ago
i am not a security expert but i got a counterpoint for the "workforce" argument for why chrome might have better security - firefox is better the same way macs or linux desktops are "more secure" than windows. imo havin
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2y ago
yet another tale of internet illiteracy. even if you believe that llm can think/recall/etc. you should be vary of the information on the web, as part of internet literacy 101. especially with things that affect your health.
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2y ago
had it been any other country (as long as not opposing the western bloc), i wonder if he would be able to be so open and vocal about it. two wrongs don't make a right, usually.
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2y ago
as open source as open weights models, but will companies adopt it solely on pricing?
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2y ago
it does take a non-profit effort to be able to monitor the seas. iirc most image satellites make trips on land masses and the seas and oceans are just approximated in commercial settings.
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2y ago
as much hate as the ceo is getting, the posturing here implies that openai branding and their marketing has been a team effort. while i wish ssi great success, it sounds like another ai startup selling decades away dream.
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2y ago
i wonder what he said about Malaysia then.
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2y ago
people aka shareholders got what current trends want. but i personally don't think they needed to restructure research division for this.
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2y ago
throttlestop ( https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-throttlesto... ) is my one of top 2 reasons for using windows. been aware of the code this is based on but i hope this also provides a set-and-forget experi
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2y ago
ventoy is pretty useful even if it is potentially risky. they found a way around the secure boot problems ( https://ventoy.net/en/doc_secure.html ) and i will be the first to admit that i enrolled their keys on the devic
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2y ago
US tech has many such stories throughout the ages. but there is still a "cultural significance" to the novel ones like FSD imho. the vision marketing helped fuel the eventual development to make it a reality, whether we are there
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2y ago
monetizing the web is something i don't bother thinking about getting solved. but how the parties go about the situation is always entertaining. we are a technically skilled bunch and find ways around it. but is there a scope to inject
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2y ago
while i am too far removed to make wise comments, it is fascinating that applied maths is being put to use for finding new patterns. after going through the google docs for resources, i get a sense of some high level topics. however, i am c
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2y ago
> There’s also plenty of opportunity to involve AI in this kind of virtual world. interesting type of game, even though i would not personally play it. however, the author shared a resource to simulate the game for reinforcement learning
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2y ago
to me it goes beyond that. many leetcode grinders swear by specific data structures such as hashmaps, which python makes available as dictionaries. behind the sytax, there is plenty of heavy lifting for writing sophisticated code, when need
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2y ago
there has been a rise of "open"-access and freeware software/services in this space. see hugging face and certain models tied to accounts that accept some eula before downloading model weights, or weird wrapper code by ai lib
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2y ago
not sure if the average excel business user would benefit much from this. as a tech guy working with excel power users, sure i would enjoy not needing a special language.
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2y ago
side question: is there a taiwanese version to check if someone you're dating is related to you? see for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5561505
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