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by sgt101 3y ago
I am astonished that I read so many people saying this. Why do you think this? When your mum or dad talks about their day or the show they are watching do you really think that they have no underlying theory of what is going on that they ar
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by sgt101 3y ago
Does reddit have a world model?
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by sgt101 3y ago
My take is when the model can't do the things that you would expect it to do if it were reasoning, and instead does the things that you would expect it to do if it were an approximate retrieval system with an enormous knowledge base. t
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by sgt101 3y ago
Yeah - if that's right then it's a bust.
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by sgt101 3y ago
So this makes me wonder if I were running society what questions should I ask... - what Automation initiatives never hit "take off"? I mean, like for Nuclear Fusion, human interplanetary exploration, and Quantum Computing there&#
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by sgt101 3y ago
I think you may be underselling :) I agree, they have remote drivers waiting to take over, but I think that the current SOA is delivering a very high % of autonomy. Is this viable? Dunno... Will it creep up? Dunno...
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by sgt101 3y ago
Also a vast amount of commercial real estate is money laundering.
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by sgt101 3y ago
Key fact: >The series was produced by ITN Productions and released by Netflix on 10 November 2022.[8][9] Hancock's son Sean Hancock is "senior manager of unscripted originals" at Netflix.[8] (from Wikipedia, but I have had
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by sgt101 3y ago
There's renewed excitement about synthetic data because of the Deepmind Geometry solving model that appeared yesterday - which was trained on synthetic data. I guess this is why this is being picked up again.
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by sgt101 3y ago
Because you can't get untrained 15 year olds to deal with your complex IT issues. The same with skilled manual work, if you get an untrained 15 year old to do your plumbing or electrics in a building prepare for the building to get wre
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by sgt101 3y ago
Your skills and ability to add value compared to your neighbours. Could the denizens of a North Korean prison colony do your job? If the answer is yes then shortly expect that to happen unless something like a functional democracy stands up
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by sgt101 3y ago
Plumbers aren't really a good example as they are skilled and powerful. Therefore a teleoperated plumber robot could actually enhance the life of plumbers as they would be able to do more work more conveniently. However, for cleaners o
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by sgt101 3y ago
The teleoperated thing was flagged by Rodney Brooks years ago as both a scary risk, but also a driver for autonomous robotics. The threat is that this is a mechanism to partition poor people from richer people comprehensively - they will no
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by sgt101 3y ago
Don't worry, it's quite common for people who are busy and important like you not to know this. In our experience that's because the people that work for them are simply not using modern working practices. It is a problem tho
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by sgt101 3y ago
From the article: >Taubes has published five books on sugar, fat and carbohydrate, including his latest, Rethinking Diabetes, in which he posits that low-carb diets have been under-used as a way to manage blood glucose in type 1 and type
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by sgt101 3y ago
Great to see him (and this article) conflating Type 1 with Type 2. The kind of conflation that could kill someone. Good job, theguardian.
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by sgt101 3y ago
Yeah - I think that their argument would be that their approach enables you to do that, and that there are significant gains on the table without that last step. My main critique is that it's one example, and it would be good to see th
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by sgt101 3y ago
The key think for Boeings customers is finance. If you can get 70 airframes for five years in a way that means that you just have to borrow a nubbin of cash and then make regular payments that's what you will do. All your actual money
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by sgt101 3y ago
>Of course, this link points to two decades of research showing that your assertion is wrong, so you probably don't want to include this specific link in your comment, but you get the idea I hope. I think that the state of the telec
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by sgt101 3y ago
Bold claims... Performance is evaluated against a single example implementation (section 6.1) and 9x improvement was achieved when co-locating into a single process. To be fair this seems a reasonable thing to do if you can get the applicat
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by sgt101 3y ago
eerrr... I can only speak from experience with software, but several times I've been in projects trapped with implementations that take months to incrementally update and then seen clean sheet implementations blow them out of the water
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by sgt101 3y ago
Well, it worked for the Telecom's industry. yup.
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I have "owned" the technical delivery of projects for clients, and I like to think I did a very good job - but it was very uncomfortable because when I insisted on things being done properly it ate into my bonus. Lucky for me I ha
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by sgt101 3y ago
There is an organizational axis too. The technical capabilities of the GPO went off with BT in 1984. The remaining organisation was anything but a competent customer for IT implementations. Outsourcing has definite limits and potentially ca
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by sgt101 3y ago
Ian Hislop (the editor) is apparently the most sued man in history! (I may be exagerating). Seriously though, they are roped around with super injunctions and actions of every type intended to bring them down. I agree that they seem to be i
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by sgt101 3y ago
Here is the private eye report. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justi... For those who don't know, Private Eye is a UK published satirical magazine which takes it as it's mission t
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by sgt101 3y ago
I read about the art market a while ago. Some artist's works have an interesting dynamic. One such is Andy Warhol. A great number of his works were bought by a few families in the USA. These were then used as collateral for loans that
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Report on the Horizon IT System Scandle in the UK [pdf](private-eye.co.uk)
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by sgt101 3y ago
Very interesting write up and analysis of a significant paper. The blog's author has herself made fascinating contributions in AI (especially on abstraction). I find it very helpful to read these kinds of in depth reviews.
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by sgt101 3y ago
I would love to see a comparison of the properties of the Apollo launch systems and the current generation. My guess is that Starship is technically a jump ahead, while SLS is comparable.

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