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by shon 3y ago
Yep, thanks for posting. I have it on my Batocera rig right now. Also let’s not forget about the long tradition of Pepsi video games including the interesting Japanese Pepsiman and the PlayStation release! https://youtu.be/l
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by shon 3y ago
@nat would you be interested in presenting about this at The AI Conference in SF? Your take on hardware-enabled investment would be interesting. We also have folks like Hugging Face’s GPT Research Lead, Langchain and LlamaIndex founders, Ce
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by shon 3y ago
Nice to see Georgi has started a company: https://twitter.com/ggerganov/status/1666120568993730561?s=4... Godspeed
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by shon 3y ago
The motivation behind this is always interesting to me. When managing, I try to find simple measurable work-output metrics, establish them clearly, and give people as much freedom as possible outside of getting work done. I hated being micr
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by shon 3y ago
The judge may not be amused, but we are.
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by shon 3y ago
This style of communication is well defined and works quite well. It’s sometimes called Imago Dialogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ccf42ef3560c3... As you said, If you can get the other person
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by shon 3y ago
Great list. I love Colossus:The Forbin Project so much (it used to play on repeat at the Alexis Park during DEF CON) I named a company after it: https://web.archive.org/web/20070118045822/http://www.thefo
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by shon 3y ago
My argument isn't that regulation in general is bad. I'm an advocate of greater regulation in medicine, drugs in particular. But the cost of public exposure to potentially dangerous unregulated drugs is a bit different than trying
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by shon 3y ago
Interesting, from the site: “applications, such as a CV-scanning tool that ranks job applicants, are subject to specific legal requirement” This is a continuation of EU logic first seen in GDPR around what that law calls “automated decision
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by shon 3y ago
> For example, if next month you developed a model that could produce extremely high quality video clips from text and reference images, you did a small, gated beta release with no PR, and one of your beta testers immediately uses it to
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by shon 3y ago
Wow.. that’s cool
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by shon 3y ago
Well said and interesting. It’s all troubling. Part of what’s troubling is that it works as well as it does and yet it all seems very frail. We launched an iOS app last month called AI Bartender. We built 4 bartenders, Charleston, a prohibi
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by shon 3y ago
To clarify: are you saying that it is not possible to do [any] vaccine research in general without this specific type of gain-of-function research? Citations? Looking to educate myself.
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by shon 3y ago
100% —this is also my original question.
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by shon 3y ago
Ok good. That’s good to know there was something positive. Still seems that we sort of created a pretty terrible problem to use our new knowledge on though.
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by shon 3y ago
First, nice name OP. ;) Second, are there any bio people here who can weigh-in on why this is a good idea and how the potential benefits outweigh the risks? Bioweapons seem like a terrible idea in general. The worst case scenario of any wea
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by shon 3y ago
A filing date of 12/27/23 makes me think they’re either a little surprised at the popularity or not super-strong at biz-ops.
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by shon 3y ago
That background music tho…
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by shon 3y ago
Chain of command is a weird argument. If you don’t believe in war, then don’t work for a defense contractor. Engineers are a super-powerful enabling force. In my most recent startup we had many hard days, but I would often say “hey, at leas
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Show HN: AI Bartender – The multi-personality GPT bartender(testflight.apple.com)
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by shon 4y ago
Sorry bud… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
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by shon 4y ago
From my dusty memory of reading the book: HAL stands for Heuristic ALgorithm. Also in the movie it’s mentioned that HAL 9000 is built by HAL labs in Urbana-Champaign
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by shon 4y ago
It’s an interesting article. In my view, Non-conformists start companies. Possibly aggressive non-conformists most of all. In my personal case, I made many questionable choices, including turning down a job at Microsoft in the nineties (wou
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by shon 4y ago
I’m with you. Being an old neckbeard myself, I always want to reach for regex to fix stuff like this lol… But based on what we just saw on the GPT4 live demo, I’d say they fixed it by making a much much more capable and versatile model.
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by shon 4y ago
Then life, not business is the lottery. The lottery idea works in the sense that I was born in the U.S. rather than a developing country AND my parents, who were far from rich or even stable at times still were able to afford a family compu
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by shon 4y ago
I disagree. I’ve also failed multiple times but achieved what for me is a satisfying level of success in the process. As a ratio I’ve failed a lot more than I’ve won but it is not a lottery. It’s more like a golf game, it’s hard to do well
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by shon 4y ago
>Most people cannot afford to recover from failing once. That’s not true in my experience. I’m a similar case, have started 8 businesses in 30 years. Most have had some level of success: enough pay my employees and provide good healthcar
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by shon 4y ago
This is how everything used to be taught. I was one of the first CCNPs and we learned networking from wire signaling up. 7 layers, starting with the physical. First principles is good.
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by shon 4y ago
Yes Asimov. Also more recently it’s reminiscent of Westworld “Analysis…”
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by shon 4y ago
AI-centric products are to Google what MP3-centric products were to Sony in 1996. They have had the tech for years but they aren’t making real strides to productize it for fear it will diminish their currently-dominant revenue streams. With

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