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by ssivark 1y ago
Here's a somewhat random exampe: "consuming the firehose for less than $2.50/mo" https://bsky.bad-example.com/consuming-the-firehose-cheaply/
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But doesn't the decentralized firehose make it easy to build curation? You decide what/whom you want to subscribe to---rest of social media be damned. Why do you care what unmoderated crap is flooding the world outside your cosy
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by ssivark 1y ago
What UI features do you consider important? I feel that email UI is largely standardized, and the main differentiating factor is speed (and Gmail is definitely not fast). OTOH, what Gmail does with filtering promotional crap (spam, tbh) is
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Think for a second about what that means... this is a very easy thing to do IFF we already had a general purpose intelligence. How do you make an LLM understand that it must only give factual sources? Just some naive RL with positive rewa
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Unitree wants to charge buyers $80-100k per-unit (at scale) in order to actually make money on their humanoids. So we're not in the era of $20k humanoids , despite appearances.
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by ssivark 1y ago
> Here's the Unitree G1, starting out at US$22,000, less than a Toyota Corolla. The sticker price might look cheap, but what I've heard from people actually looking to buy (even in large quantities) is that by the time you asse
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There's no such thing as plain text [video](youtube.com)
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by ssivark 1y ago
Unfortunately, it's not so simple, especially once you go beyond the ASCII. Dylan Beattie has this brilliant talk [1] where he points out how even the "systems" in human language involve a pile of quirks rather than any sim
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by ssivark 1y ago
On the contrary, such strictness makes it easy to lint / auto-format HUML.
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by ssivark 1y ago
> why would the overtones go in integer multiples (I.e. be harmonic) for a fan? The fan noise is from its own vibrations -- presumably driven by the motor. These vibrations will correspond to natural vibrating modes on the body of the vi
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by ssivark 1y ago
> I can pretty much see projects in my head, and know exactly what to build. I think you’re the best case support for AI coding. You know clearly what you want, so you know clearly what you don’t want. So if you had decent verbal dexte
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by ssivark 1y ago
Doesn't that presume that human psychology (cognitive functioning) is uniform at a level that would obviate the need even for personalities and styles? Our physiological system does have that uniformity across the population but our ps
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by ssivark 1y ago
Yes, absolutely. Once you've expressed data as appropriate tensors (not all languages make this super convenient, unfortunately), it makes the implementation very readable, and easy to ensure that it's bug-free. It lets you see
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by ssivark 1y ago
> an autonomous drone that beat the best human FPV pilots Doesn’t any such claim come with huge caveats — pre specified track/course, no random objects flying between, etc…? ie. train & test distributions are ensured same by ens
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by ssivark 1y ago
> So the fuel supply was cut off intentionally. The switches in question are also built so they cannot be triggered accidentally FAA issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin SAIB NM-18-33 in 2018 warning that on several Boei
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by ssivark 1y ago
Why do you think 70-80 year old "middle aged" politicians would get a chance when 150 year old "boomers" with wealth and powerful networks might be able to call the the shots?
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by ssivark 1y ago
Curious to see examples of interesting non-boilerplate work that is now possible with AI. Most examples of what I've seen are a repeat of what has been done many times (i.e. probably occurs many times in the training data), but with a
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by ssivark 1y ago
If I have decent autocomplete where I type half the characters and the AI predicts the other half that technically satisfies this metric. Notice the loophole: there’s no qualification of how much problem context the AI started from. Most of
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by ssivark 1y ago
This is interesting. For anyone intending to improve the accessibility situation of software, would there be value in "open sourcing" a suite of tests -- or at least a recipe for constructing them? (based on hard-earned experience
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by ssivark 1y ago
> The world should have learned what a great presentation is and what presentation software should be like Bullshit. His style of presentation was suited for a very specific kind of communication that Apple marketing is now known for.
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by ssivark 1y ago
I've struck a tentative balance with the main one line messages being the slide titles, with other slide content buttressing the main point. I can tell the audience to ignore the content and focus on the title for certain slides; or ju
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by ssivark 1y ago
Common-use toilets in India can often be badly maintained, but it's also worth pointing out that there is also a cultural relativism in approaches to cleanliness in the bathroom. - For Indians, water & sunlight are the best cleansi
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by ssivark 1y ago
> "Someday, an ultimate class of warriors will evolve, too strong to be contested. They will win battles without having to fight, so that at last, the day may be won without shedding a single drop of blood." With such power asy
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by ssivark 1y ago
> I doubt many people at all would have expected even the success of LLMs before Google's attention paper. NLP experienced a huge jump AI doing fantastically better on AI benchmarks is different from AI greasing the wheels of the e
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by ssivark 1y ago
Currently I use Obsidian to make note of a few key things, but what I'm more excited about is that the way tech is evolving is going to allow us much more expansive solutions for personal knowledge-bases. Eg: See what Perkeep tried to
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by ssivark 1y ago
> Side musing follows: I dont know what the solution to identity is on the Internet. I was fond of how Keybase brought to life [1] identity proofs (linking and validating your different online identities) in a very easy to use platform.
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by ssivark 1y ago
Thanks for the helpful summary. Unfortunately, I can’t imagine what the courts could do differently in this case. Regardless of whether Proton mail is a useful service with a principled stance, their refusal to engage under a sovereign lega
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by ssivark 2y ago
And what about when `bar` takes several inputs? Postfix seems like an ugly hack that hyper-fixates on functions of a single argument to the detriment of everything else.
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by ssivark 2y ago
I think moldable development needs a few tutorials demonstrating concrete use cases. Without those it feels promising in the abstract, but I doubt many developers are able to connect with it and figure out how to actually use it. It feels s
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by ssivark 2y ago
Check out The hardware lottery [1], which drove a lot of discussion a few years ago. [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489

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