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If only there was an app that can prevent me from doomscrolling hackernews and tech/programming subreddits, I would already be a 10xer.
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I want larger monitors, laptops, tablets and phones because I can't f**ing see well. Book reading is a real strain on small screens.
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In my countries a decade or so ago we had a copper coin for roughly 1c. People started hoarding and defacing the coins then selling it as copper scraps. It was so rampant that I think it would have been infeasible to punish eveyrone. So the
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I have been told by many interviewers of the companies that I have worked for, they would never hire someone without a degree. When I was assigned interview slots, I was instructed to filter out no CS degree people as their fundamentals can
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I think a system too perfect will not show any creativity. Maybe wild new ideas require taking risks which means a system that can invent new things will end up making bad choices.
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You can use this fact to see deleted messages on whatsapp. Just enable the notificaion history and Now whenver someones sends you somethign regrettable and deletes it you can still see it in notif history. The reason you need the notif hist
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Thanks. I really needed this when I was in college studying "Theory of computation". I promised my classmates I would make a tool that would produce step by step soltuoins with diagarms and eventually made a really hacky one. I di
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You simply do not own any peice of land at all. The state owns all the land. You simply lease it.
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There are UI kits that have lots and lots of elements and then each element has lots and lots of properties to tweak. I have to either guess the correct term or go through dozens of exmaples for the desired behavior. AI has saved me a lot o
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> The actual documentation needs to be by humans for humans. This is true for producing the documentation but if there is an LLM that can take said documentation and answer questions about it is a great tool. I think I get the answer far
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What library/tool did you use to render that visual state-machine.
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Animal's intelligence is often underrated. We used to keep goats which many wont consider problem sovlers. They had learned to open gate bolts with their mouths. The bolts I am talking about have a handle and a rod. the handle needs t
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If market needs it people will develop ways to pass AI generated through the camera circuitry.
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What are the risks of cell cultures develping cancer or even worse ejecting prions into the milk.
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> half of people cant even visually imagine an apple. What is the evidence for this? We are just taking people's word for it?
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Adding to your point. Why arent we saying that the "noraml" people are the ones bad at interacting with neurodivergents. Their supposed social skills are so limited that they can only work with people who act and behave like them.
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I bet every generation before us thought the same and every generation after us will think the same.
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> Then explain blind children I was only talking about vision tasks as an example. You can extend the idea to any sense. > While humans learn through example, they clearly need a lot fewer examples to generalize off of and reason agai
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I think there is a critical aspect of human visual learning which machine leanring cant replicate because it is prohibitively expensive. When we look at things as children we are not just looking at a single snapshot. When you stare at an o
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> First you should not be depleting modern batteries, its not good for the battery health, I think most modern devices already turn themselves off before reaching true ZERO. > Second, if you think about it, its a safety feature in to
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> Apple level of polish - I can't tell if my macbook is charging or not while the lid is closed. There is no light indicator - minimize/maximize buttons are very small given that I am using a the touchpad. I am not saying they
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I have my personal multimodal benchmark for physical robots. You put a keyring with bunch of different keys in front of a robot and then instruct it pick it up and open a lock while you are describing which key is the correct one. Something