sottol

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by sottol 2y ago
"It looks unbelievable, almost like it’s invisible."
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by sottol 2y ago
This might be more defensive and about not letting someone else with better ai features sell more phones (if that's what consumers want).
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by sottol 2y ago
> 2) housing costs and genera cost of living making police salaries unattractive, A friend's neighbor in wine country is an early retired officer due to injury - their benefits pretty much match many tech workers. Looks like in San
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by sottol 2y ago
The German's have this saying - "Erstens kommt es anders, zweitens als man denkt.". So I think we may have gotten existential AI risk wrong. Existential AI risk may not be about killer robots turning us into paperclips but ra
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by sottol 2y ago
Wasn't the strategy to exploit the European dependence on gas a failure then though because especially Germany didn't really put up a fight against the sanctions to keep using the cheap Russian gas. One can argue about how "p
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by sottol 2y ago
"120 cm in inches" (with space) works. Annoying. AI feature, I assumed, but now you're just always second guessing.
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by sottol 2y ago
As much hate as California gets, the CPRA and CPPA give me a little hope. Otherwise, maybe Europe might be better off with the GDPR. But I'm almost more worried about what a company in such a position will do monetarily to its customer
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by sottol 2y ago
That makes sense. Is there a way to figure out which places have a full integration?
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by sottol 2y ago
Booking.com does sometimes seem not to do a proper integration and just rely on emails or phone calls to confirm the bookings. I've used them multiple times around 10 years ago and the hotel would show me a printout of an email from th
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by sottol 2y ago
I don't necessarily think it is the equivalent. Maybe it's more akin to a high-schooler reading a single book and then being asked to write several new books that hold equal weight in teaching the next generation of children. Thes
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by sottol 2y ago
I use Bluesnooze [1] on my Mac for that reason, it won't even disconnect when suspended otherwise and you have to log back in to turn off BT. It's pretty easy to disable on phones/tablets otherwise. [1] https://git
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by sottol 2y ago
Sodium batteries are on the verge of commercialization, they're better in almost every way but energy density, making them ideal for energy storage imo. My hope is that this and other steps like this will make battery storage sustainab
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by sottol 2y ago
Not that cats are particularly relevant to human infection, but cats seem to suffer blindness, neurological impairment and death. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of...
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by sottol 2y ago
Interesting that shipping is 1.7% of which supposedly 40% is fossil fuel transportation. So that's about 0.7% for shipping petrochemicals and another 0.3% from pipelines. So 1% of global emissions is just the overhead of moving fossil
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by sottol 2y ago
Can the same not be said of nuclear to a degree? My knowledge may be outdated but afaik proper, long-term nuclear waste storage is still an open question. Nuclear waste persists and remains dangerous for a long time and it's easy to fo
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by sottol 2y ago
Imo it just all stems from seeking maximum profits - externalizing environmental damage is just one facet of it. If China enacted strict penalties for environmental damage and it'd be cheaper to manufacture panels in Texas while pollut
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by sottol 2y ago
I have a feeling that if there was not a healthy amount of competition in the space, the prices would start to trend towards the cost of human work.
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by sottol 2y ago
> If you don't do that you'll run into the same problems as you would if you hire a contractor to build your codebase without understanding what they did for you. I really like this way of thinking about using LLMs, I think tha
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by sottol 2y ago
Maybe put another way, if I can get an LLM/AI to build exactly the product that I need, is a company that serves many customers simultaneously but probably worse still necessary? I think it'll be hard enough to reason about what
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by sottol 2y ago
The main thing that makes me skeptical is still what happens to a code base when you do this longer-term. And not just the code base but also the company when nobody understands the code any longer, but maybe neither are problems. A couple
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by sottol 2y ago
And unlike, say, Samsung Ultrabooks or even Microsoft Surfaces, Macs last a really long time. My kids are using my 2011 MacBook Air and 2009 iMac and they still work, even the battery still kinda hangs in. They've had a few rough years
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by sottol 2y ago
I am also worried about officers "gaming" the system to bolster whatever stat their superiors want them to optimize at the detriment of those being "policed". We've all seen how prompting can change GPT output and t
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by sottol 2y ago
You can just get the GGUF off hugging-face. Usually googling for "<modelname> gguf" gets you to the site, then choose a quantization that works for you. But as I said, not working on Pixel 4. Should get a new screen tomorrow
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by sottol 2y ago
I've been trying this app but haven't had any luck getting it to actually generate text yet: https://github.com/Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence/maid The UI looks nice and includes a native compilation of llama
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by sottol 3y ago
A big slide happened in Big Sur near Limekiln State Park and they're still fixing it, it's been over a year there. But this doesn't look as bad.
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by sottol 3y ago
Literally "killer" imo.
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by sottol 3y ago
It did look like there was some sort of object tracking indicator in the video feed afaict but could easily be added in post-production. You can imo see RF jamming of the fpv feed when the drone approaches the tank, quite interesting. Proba
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by sottol 3y ago
Sure, CUDA has a lot of highly optimized utilities baked-in (CUDNN and the likes) and maybe more importantly, implementors have a lot of experience with it but afaict everyone is working on their own HAL/compiler and not using CUDA dir
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by sottol 3y ago
That is sort of what I mean, to be able to continuously regenerate the output in the same manner and achieve consistent results, imo, you would probably converge on something that leaves little open to interpretation - so mathematical notat
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by sottol 3y ago
90% of the work of building real world applications is imo fixing and adding features, i.e. maintenance. I see it rarely considered when talking about "english as code". How does this work in a more complicated application with mu

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