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by shagie 4y ago
The issue isn't having a monopoly (which Steam doesn't) but rather doing anti-competitive things to maintain the monopoly. Having a good product that people want and prefer to buy isn't anti-competitive. Establishing exclusi
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This is kind of how the moderation model works... though its a model that tries to detect certain socially problematic text. https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation/quickstar... It would also be re
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by shagie 4y ago
Those are interesting, but there's a difference in the manipulations that are done for image for journalism and image for art. That has crop, resize, and grayscale... but not things like "selectively dodge and burn", "a
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by shagie 4y ago
That brings us to the classic series of photos that started with a pair of hands. https://www.boredpanda.com/confusing-hands-picture
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by shagie 4y ago
For a long time, polaroids have been held as the "this image can't be faked." Somewhere in my collection of lesser used equipment, I've got a Daylab. https://www.instantphoto.eu/pola/pola_daylab_300
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by shagie 4y ago
When you're a tourist in the city, you're missing out on the rest of the country. I'll also note the "seeing children" part... anecdotally I recall one time I had the day off and went to a mall for something during
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by shagie 4y ago
Jan 9, 2023: Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care - The country wanted robots to help care for the elderly. What happened? https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065135/japan-au..
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by shagie 4y ago
> My conclusion was this: vi is better for touch typists. Your fingers are almost on the home row. Emacs wants you to hit the meta/alt key a lot, which is difficult for a touch typist. It's much harder than hitting shift. Vi ma
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by shagie 4y ago
https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php In particular https://trajbrowser.arc.nasa.gov/traj_browser.php?NEAs=on&NE... This EVEEJ route doesn’t appear to be in the trajectory list, but it’s int
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by shagie 4y ago
This reminds me of my ancient philosophy class and reading Plato... https://www.britannica.com/biography/Plato/Early-dialogues > The Meno takes up the familiar question of whether virtue can be taught, and, if
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And that is why the onus is upon the person asking the question to explain the problem scope fully enough that anyone looking to help will be on the same page from the start and those who have encountered problems with similar approaches ar
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You need to reach the point where you have the appropriately shared context with the other person so that you are both able to work in the same direction. That often involves explaining the situation sufficiently so that it is clear that th
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by shagie 4y ago
From their definition from a week ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twit... > State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial c
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by shagie 4y ago
> It seems common in the US to have TVs in several rooms and have them run in the background for long stretched of day. This is far less common in the cultures I've lived in where sitting down to watch TV alone or together is more o
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by shagie 4y ago
It's an active and current discussion. https://twitter.com/NPRinskeep/status/1646154796905136128 > Steve Inskeep (NPR): John Lansing, NPR CEO, at the ⁦ @MorningEdition meeting. > NPR says it will de-emp
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by shagie 4y ago
Lets take an example from Demo of =GPT3() as a spreadsheet feature - https://twitter.com/shubroski/status/1587136794797244417 /// https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33411748 Consi
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And if you need some money and have a few features, release version 3 - even if it doesn't feel like enough to really cut a new version for. Your cash flow for the software now becomes a big bang with then drawing on it until you run o
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by shagie 4y ago
You can make the car engine more efficient by making it be a small generator that is working at optimal RPMs rather than the variable RPMs driving the car itself. Consider some of the various hybrid approaches. Honda has the IMA. The insig
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by shagie 4y ago
While its more token costly, the tokenization of numbers gets weird. Taking "123" it becomes [123]. "1234" becomes [12][34]. "12345" becomes [123][45]. Consider using spaces between each digit to force them t
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by shagie 4y ago
https://www.supplychaindive.com/news/upu-postal-rate-change/... > The grievance that U.S. officials cited in their intention to leave the UPU was the mandated cheaper rates granted to countries designated as “d
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by shagie 4y ago
Remember that GPT is working on input tokens and output tokens. Its output is tokens that then get converted back into text. Taking [21063, 306, 11, 262, 479, 648, 38049, 45230, 1497, 11, 25071, 739, 262, 35560, 495, 6766, 13] to expect it
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There's a good YouTube video on it that includes an epic math battle. Veritasium - How Imaginary Numbers Were Invented - https://youtu.be/cUzklzVXJwo Solving the cubic was a physical thing back then. https:/&#
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by shagie 4y ago
Including those alphabets as letters or single glyphs would still leave it so that ドイツ would still take 3 tokens whereas "Germany" is one token ("germany" is two tokens: [ger][many]). And tossing ドイツ into the tokenizer
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Do other languages have as nice a mapping to tokens? For example, if you were to go from French, you'd have 33 characters to work with rather than 26 (accents such). And you'd have chemisier and chemisière being two different gen
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> A lot of people are making the assumption that gross incompetence reigned supreme with FTX, and that does seem like the likeliest explanation, but another potential explanation is deeply devious criminal activity. Former FTX US Preside
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It can run Catalina (10.15). That was getting support up until November 2022. While it is past its end of life, it isn't something that is half a decade out of support.
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That assumes that the 11% are on the job market at all. You're unlikely to see a resume of a distinguished engineer from Google cross your stack of resumes. For a bit of a blast from the past: https://www.joelonsoftware.com&
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WSJ take on it: PC Shipments Fall 29%, Led by Drop in Apple Devices https://www.wsj.com/articles/pc-shipments-fall-29-led-by-dro... /// https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35512716
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The evolution of that page is kind of interesting and recently rapid. Going from today back in time: April 9th - https://web.archive.org/web/20230409213539/https://help.twit... State-affiliated me
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/16/meta-to-p... > Meta’s board declared that the 40% increase was “appropriate and necessary under the circumstances” and was in place “to address safet

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