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by roboy 6mo ago
I had several PCs with touch screen and this absolutely true. Even intermittent use is not something I did, it’s just too inconvenient to ever become a habit, so the few times it’d be great, I don’t think about it being there because it’s n
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Tire falls off Boeing 777 United flight departing SFO, crushing several vehicles(abc7news.com)
14 points by roboy 3y ago|3 comments
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by roboy 3y ago
I built 2 muskulokeletal humanoid robots with my team. They use tendons to imitate the human muscles. It's also probably the most hugged robot in the world, as we let people hug them at events, which significantly helps dispersing fear
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by roboy 3y ago
Bracelets don’t work, they’re foreign objects - they don’t remember why they’re there so they just take them off. Shoes can work, but they might not put them on. QR tattoos - how do you know if an elderly person you see in the street is lo
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by roboy 4y ago
Makes sense that this works. It has probably thousands of examples of it working in the training data. The system is trained on human use of language, therefore it is reasonable to assume that it if fallible to all sales techniques that are
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by roboy 4y ago
This ignores that the selection of the generated results being published is part of the creative process. AIs will not learn off an iid sampling of AI output, but of one that is extensively shaped by human preference. And because humans lik
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by roboy 4y ago
Yep, in Germany too, hence my surprise.
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by roboy 4y ago
Q from outside the US: why is capital needed for payroll mid month? Are there some automatic insolvency processes if it is missed by a day? Why do the companies fall apart if there is just a few days of payment delay? (I mean it is obviousl
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by roboy 4y ago
Time searching is cheaper then time watching is an interesting thought … I do hope this is not a metric where my searching time is seen as positive … because that would be a very short sighted metric
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by roboy 4y ago
But if there was too much, shouldn‘t I have too many good option rather than too few?
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by roboy 4y ago
I have seen it getting worse and worse over the last years and also I have watched so much on these platforms that I‘d think the signal should stand out no matter the underlying reason for it.
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by roboy 4y ago
I find this very interesting that the orgs allow this to go as far as making my experience so miserable that I consider leaving the platforms. I guess it’sa slippery slope and provably also metrics that are chosen to hide my increasing disi
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by roboy 4y ago
Yeah, but I consciously watch things my wife likes with her on her account exactly due to this ;)
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by roboy 4y ago
Yeah I’ve noticed this as well, and I have liked quite some of their original content … But if it gets to the point that they’re failing to keep me as a custoner at all, something must be amiss …
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by roboy 4y ago
I have considered this, and there’s some truth truth to this, that I have watched all from my favorite categories … but then I do discover whole seasons of things I haven’t watched but liked previous seasons of, and whole series when diggin
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by roboy 4y ago
Very cool, just discovered something to binge :) thanks!
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by roboy 4y ago
Maybe but it’s in their best interest to keep me watching… surfing and leaving without watching should be a very strong sign that something is amiss
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Ask HN: How can Netflix and Amazon Prime be this bad at recommending content?
49 points by roboy 4y ago|98 comments
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by roboy 4y ago
It’s reliable for many many use cases (e.g. anything that transforms text into a different representation), but not for a few others (e.g. anything that requires logical reasoning) - a F1 car is great on race tracks, we don’t see people tak
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by roboy 4y ago
If you lack the imagination of what an upload could be like, it’s definitely saner not to aim for it. Upload must contain your body as large parts of a „you“ are not in the brain but in the physiology of the body. A full body upload will al
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by roboy 4y ago
Yes please, Quest should just allow me to lie down and then define this as standing. This should not be an app feature but a headset feature. VR is currently only usable while standing or sitting… why?
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by roboy 4y ago
I really like the increase in transparency, I found it somewhat disturbing to pay for what feels like a random amount of stuff. How should I know if I need Pro or Pro+ if there is no estimate out there what either might get me. The update d
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by roboy 6y ago
Been leading https://www.roboy.org for the last 7 years, completed third generation robot in Q4/20, now looking to commercialise it. Looking for a BD co-founder. Location: Munich, Germany, Approach: Global, Space: Luxury, T
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by roboy 6y ago
nice! but why don't you just calculate soft shadows the way they occur physically by sampling an area light source instead of a point light source? You can basically run the same algorithm again and again with light source points in a
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by roboy 6y ago
GmbH gives you limited liability, that's its main purpose, to encapsulate risks and create a body on its own. You can just as well just register as a freelancer if there's no significant risk of going into debt suddenly or being s
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Happy Newton's Eve – enjoy evidence backed holidays – incl. 3 bonus days(newtondays.com)
2 points by roboy 7y ago|0 comments
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Forget Your CV: Apply Like an Entrepreneur(linkedin.com)
2 points by roboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by roboy 7y ago
Ranking Theorem requires two assumptions, which are both violated in this context: 1) The projects are independent 2) Not all project need completion to achieve success (i.e. you can select a subset of projects) Here, the failure of one par
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by roboy 7y ago
Very cool, we have developed a framework based on the same ideas for early product development of physical products: https://www.taf.expert and successfully use it in a course at Technical University of Munich ( https:/&#x2