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by umeshunni 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_denial_movement_in_th...
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by umeshunni 1y ago
FYI https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/10lpczg/oc...
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> airplane tail had the number 386, or 486 Ha, you're right: https://www.planespotters.net/photo/1640095/n486hf-intel-air... https://www.planespotters.net/photo/355961/n386ch-inte
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Ha, yes. I found dozens of articles about castle renovations gone awry https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/no-way-back-1-15m-120000548.... https://www.csmonitor.com/1991/1212/12121.html
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by umeshunni 1y ago
The comparison is apt because nuclear would have been inevitable if it wasn't for doomerism and public opinion turning against it after 3 mile Island / Chernobyl
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by umeshunni 1y ago
That's how most oppressive regimes end. Sometimes faster.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
More importantly - how do you monetize a plugin?
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by umeshunni 1y ago
By it wasn't that long ago, you mean 10 years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deera_Square
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by umeshunni 1y ago
~90% of payments in China use a phone: https://daxueconsulting.com/payment-methods-in-china/ ~50% in India: https://www.pymnts.com/mobile-wallets/2023/cash-not-king-in-... ~60% in Brazil: h
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by umeshunni 1y ago
What does that mean?
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by umeshunni 1y ago
The fuselage is made by Spirit AeroSystems in Wichita, KS: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/04/nx-s1-4983722/inside-spirit-a... The 737 assembly happens in Renton, WA
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Yeah, I'm convinced that the biggest difference between the current generation of AIs we have and humans is that AIs don't have the range of tool use and interaction with the physical environment that humans do. And that's wh
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Some other articles explicitly call out that the image is AI generated: e.g. it's labeled with An AI generated impression of activities at the “Fat Factory” site. The image was generated with the assistance of OpenAI's ChatGPT (ve
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by umeshunni 1y ago
What do you mean?
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by umeshunni 1y ago
The 2nd most annoying thing about section 174 was all the time you had to spend classifying each engineer's time spent as R&D or 'internal software'. At my last company, every year, me and my engineering lead counterparts
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by umeshunni 1y ago
From the article: It had the following tools and abilities: * Tools for keeping notes and preserving important information to be checked later—for example, the current balances and projected cash flow of the shop (this was necessary because
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by umeshunni 1y ago
Not sure if you're joking, but in case you're not - the star at the center is usually so bright that its light drowns out the light of anything nearby. In such cases, the star is covered so that the dimmer objects nearby are visib
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by umeshunni 1y ago
an arcsecond at 550AU is "only" 400,125 km. So, in theory, it's correctable in days.
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Can this be ported to MacOS?
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Ah yes, the Jihadi fantasy that you learned at the madrassa
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I think paper itself expresses that Page 9: There is no deterministic path from model memorization to outputs of infringing works. While we’ve used probabilistic extraction as proof of memorization, to actually extract a given piece of 50
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by umeshunni 1y ago
That's a good analogy. Makes a lot of sense. The only caveat I see is that there is a lot of context locked up in proprietary data sets (e.g. YT, books, podcasts) and I'm not sure how OSS models get access to that.
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by umeshunni 1y ago
> I do think that open source models will eventually catch up to closed source ones It felt like that was the direction for a while, but in the last year or so, the gap seems to have widened. I'm curious whether this is my perceptio
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It's important to note that this isn't the same as Dark Matter.
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> In a hundred years we might look back on the now with horror (more generalized anyway). You don't have to go a hundred years - most non-western societies look at western fascination with dogs and pets with horror, especially when
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by umeshunni 1y ago
How do you know if the guy you hired to drive your taxi is working or whether he just claims that there are no rides available?
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If you're a taxi driver in Sao Paolo, it absolutely matters whether you stopped working at 12am or 4am and whether you are in New Jersey.
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But the Taliban is welcome to use it
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Found this on an ex-Motorola employee's blog: The IDE process at Motorola asked every employee to answer “yes” or “no” to six questions; 1. Do you have a substantive, meaningful, job that contributes to the success of Motorola? 2. Do y
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I've often wondered if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It feels like reading through Wikipedia, I'm missing some specifics, details or even points of view on a particular (international) topics when I'm reading it in

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