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2y ago
I clicked on a bad link a few months ago. I can't believe I fell for it. I've disabled javascript by default in my browser and only enable it for websites that I trust. It is painful for some websites that redirect a lot. What are
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Related maybe, I got a new phone number and I was able to use it to sign into the previous owner's account at a site that uses 2FA. I noticed it when I tried to setup a new account for myself. The website wouldn't allow it but it
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To build an LLM that can reason about the 3d world. I suspect they will add the ability to reason about the physics of the world next. It's just another attempt to get closer to AGI. They most likely will have to pivot a few times but
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We were told that nothing can escape a black hole. But when black holes merge, the combined mass is smaller. It is described that the lost mass is converted to gravitational waves. But gravity is the curvature of space caused by mass, it is
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2y ago
MS removed support for mixed reality in windows 11 24H2 which made all windows VR headsets unusable (except MS's headset). I wonder if that counts.
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I saw a recent video about the errors of alphafold 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E61wJXlENoE
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2y ago
I think more generally, the issue is that people want to believe lies.
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3y ago
The Veritasium youtube channel has a few interesting videos related to this topic: This one is on IQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkKPsLxgpuY Pay attention to the stats on how IQ correlates to success (near the end). Th
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3y ago
Is there data on how the parts move and deform due to human actions such as walking?
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It is suspected that "fiction spreads faster than facts" on social media. It is also suspected that "when you present the facts to someone who wants to be believe a lie, that person will hold on more strongly to their belief
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3y ago
It might be easier to use chatGPT to build something that is worth $10M. For example, there is the guy that made a crypto-currency.
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3y ago
(a crazy idea I wanted to get feedback on) Wouldn't it be much easier if everyone licensed tech from space-x? A space tech franchise haha? (To build a colony on mars we need a massive number of flights, why not spread the costs across
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This youtube channel intuitively explains algorithms on a whiteboard: https://youtu.be/IqXdjdOgXPM
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3y ago
(I don't have a background (or interest) in quantum computing) I've tried some of the "chat with pdf" websites for other topics. It seems like they could help you understand the paper. If you give it a try, could you r
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3y ago
I think voters deserve the government they elect. At times, it feels like we're cruising for a bruising but natural selection seems to be the only solution we can agree on.
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3y ago
I am curious. Why not give each app a private copy of common user resources? Every app has access to contacts but by default only the ones they create. Then android should allow sharing across apps based what the user wants to share. It wou
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(slightly off-topic) The elephant in the room is ... Don't we need to address the issue that openai uses the data for training their future models? For many inputs this is not a big problem at all. But shouldn't there be an option
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(my opinion) It is not predicting based on 'words/tokens'. It is transforming the general words/tokens embeddings into a context specific embedding which encodes "meaning". It is not an n-gram model of words. I
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It is related to subpixel labelling. When a line/curve in the foreground is smaller than a pixel you end up having to edit the mask one pixel at a time. The authors of DIS are working on a new dataset and model which should work for my
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The best solution I've seen is https://github.com/xuebinqin/DIS . You should try the DIS example images at the SAM site. The main issue I have with DIS is that creating the labels of my own dataset is super expensi
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I saw the news earlier and only just realized we worked together. He was an amazing person.
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History has shown that selfish behavior should be expected. The dangers seem unavoidable.
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I think this application of gpt is way more useful than the chat interface. (Add an option for users to pay sooner). Here are a few suggestions: 1) Allow it to take a search term, do a web search and allow the user to select from those re
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With AI tech getting dramatically better quickly, we need to wait wrt restructuring the dominant players. Basically, all the major players in the tech space are going to make major transformations to their internal services over the next 5
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4y ago
So many haha ... 1) Working for someone else instead of starting my own company. 2) Trusting people to do right thing instead of accepting that people are selfish. 3) Giving up on interesting tech projects because my friends didn't und
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I was wondering about a few options. 1) Publish your own cracked version that has a survey that allows you to determine who is using the cracked version. Use the survey to figure out if it make sense to create a special version (lower price
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I think you should look for a manager that gives you actionable advice that allows you to have large impact. Some people think that it is your job to figure out how to have large impact (which I agree) but I have found that there are manag
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ChatGPT is overloaded at the moment but it would be interesting ask it to explain the intuition of each trick. I suspect it won't be prefect but it will shed a little more light with relatively little effort.
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I have always felt that my managers are the primary inhibitors. They are super focused on their career to the exclusion of others. It has helped a lot of have interesting side projects. I'm currently toying around with stable diffusi
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A pundit pointed out that in several cases, the tech firms laying off have returned to their employee size of 1 year ago and that there are still many jobs available in the industry. Have you seen articles on how long people are taking to f
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