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by spunker540 3y ago
I recently learned about the battle of Midway on one of the recent WWII Netflix docuseries. It was an early battle following Pearl Harbor, and it was Japan’s entire carrier fleet vs US’ entire carrier fleet, and the grand totals were someth
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by spunker540 3y ago
I'm not too convinced about the lobbying argument. I know they spend $2-3M per year on lobbying. but 1) our govt doesnt get anything done anyways, regardless of how much Intuit spends. I believe the null hypothesis is pretty likely her
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by spunker540 3y ago
I think we've all learned to conflate these things from lived experience, not some mis-placed prejudice against ugly UIs.
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by spunker540 3y ago
If “spouting off” includes incriminating yourself then there’s nothing stopping law enforcement from using what you say in the public square as evidence in court. Thus, if IG is a public square, then scraping IG is also fair game for produc
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by spunker540 3y ago
They’re probably irked by how AI pessimists keep moving the goalposts
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by spunker540 3y ago
The average American watches close to 3 hours of tv per day— I just don’t see what the fuss is about. It seems like you simply don’t approve of how other people choose to spend their time.
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by spunker540 3y ago
Why do you think complex algos, complex feeds, across large search space (all content instead of friends and family) turns out to be more profitable? Are ads suddenly more valuable in that context? I don’t think so. And it’s certainly much
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by spunker540 3y ago
If the generative part moves entirely client side, then video calls could become extremely low bandwidth. You could basically stream just the audio of the conversation, and each person could still feel like they were still talking face to f
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by spunker540 3y ago
They may not sing but their popular tracks still have vocals don’t they?
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by spunker540 3y ago
Are researchers actually frustrated to never see it launch, or are they mostly focused on publishing papers? I thought OpenAI’s unique advantage over many big tech companies is that they’ve somehow figured out how to fast track research int
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by spunker540 4y ago
I guess I’m just curious what the killer use-cases are for fine tuning. For example it seems like overkill to fine tune a Shakespeare model, because you can just say “write like Shakespeare” and it already knows what you want.
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by spunker540 4y ago
Is there a consensus yet on when you should fine-tune vs when you should use prompt engineering? It seems not that hard to include in your prompt “here is some examples, please write like this and follow the style set here”. While that may
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by spunker540 4y ago
It’s a lot easier to proofread something than to write it from scratch. Also from a computational complexity angle there’s actually a mathematical definition — “NP Complete” which describes problems that are cheap to verify but hard to solv
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by spunker540 4y ago
Won’t it find traction in bullshit jobs pretty easily?
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by spunker540 4y ago
Most big co’s make it pretty clear to employees that it’s a pretty big no-no to discuss proprietary work through an unaudited 3rd party (especially a competitor).
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by spunker540 4y ago
Another similar concept I’m aware of is magicians without borders
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by spunker540 4y ago
I don’t think it’s a big deal if your AI spits out copyrighted images. My scanner, camera phone, photoshop etc can also easily spit out copyrighted images. It’s ok if I just print them out for my wall at home, but if I try to sell them it b
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by spunker540 4y ago
It is small I agree. It I think it’s like if a chess engine wins against a grandmaster a handful of times, it’s enough data to know that it works.
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by spunker540 4y ago
These newspapers all have Facebook pages (and Twitter accounts) where they voluntarily post and promote their news articles. I’d venture they get a ton of free traffic from social media companies and are far more dependent on social media t
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by spunker540 4y ago
Lol— I had a friend whose parents took this approach. The parents eventually gave in because they got tired of never being able to reach their son through failed attempts to call friends (like me) in an effort to reach him. Also big differe
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by spunker540 4y ago
Nobody is denying advertising works. But most of the time ads are trying to win you over vs competitors in the market. Most of it is predicated on the fact that you are in the market for something, and they want you to choose them over some
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by spunker540 4y ago
Can you elaborate on why it's a "dirty word"? I see a ton of potential with generative/procedural game elements, esp given all the recent AI breakthroughs. But I am more of a former gamer than current gamer and am surpri
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by spunker540 5y ago
There are certain areas more likely to be vaporized than others though. I know in NYC at least there were some who felt moving to a less populated area (ie rural Midwest) might lower their risk of nuclear death.
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by spunker540 5y ago
Pretty rare for me to see a case with Apple where I feel it’s the other party being overly litigious about trivial naming!
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by spunker540 5y ago
OP’s point was probably that liberals upset about free markets is expected, while conservatives upset about free markets is rather more ironic
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by spunker540 5y ago
I’d be in favor of banning facial recognition as evidence used in trials, but still allowing it to aid in investigations. I.e let it help narrow down suspects when faced with grainy footage, but can’t be used to actually make a conviction.
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by spunker540 5y ago
If social media is to blame for the rise in suicide, why has it only affected American teens when it is a global trend?
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Was Olympic Skateboarding as Unimpressive as It Seemed?(slate.com)
2 points by spunker540 5y ago|2 comments
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by spunker540 5y ago
I understand at Bloomberg they’ll do an internal “fantasy financial league”, but they rank by sharpe ratio, which adjusts based on the volatility/risk (something like that). But that’s such a good point about stock competitions general
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by spunker540 5y ago
This is largely irrelevant, but Leonard Cohen’s song “Chelsea Hotel #2” is the primary reason I find the hotel special. Every time I walk past the song pops in my head. I’d be excited to see the hotel returned to some glory, bohemian or not

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