vagab0nd

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by vagab0nd 2y ago
There are a few "wait what?" moments in the first half of the book that no other books have matched.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
I always thought the real problem with plastic is that the problem itself is a feature. If it were easy to breakdown it would be used much less. A "solution" might actually cause nasty problems we haven't encountered before.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
This actually makes sense because the versioning is so confusing they could be releasing a lesser/lightweight model for all we know.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
It's cool. But it's missing the 411/305Hz sawtooth. Last year I tried to setup my vim to play these beeps in normal/edit modes and on some key presses. It was quite fun but I wasn't able to play a long lasting sound
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
It wouldn't work. The WASM blob would just run Electron with a webpage inside.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
We are about to find out that if you let a human read every book, then only let her play games and code programs, what is going to happen. Would she have general intelligence just like everyone else?
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
My use for Windows has been shrinking rapidly over the years. The last holdout seems to be HDR gaming, which, unfortunately, Looking Glass doesn't seem to support yet.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Arbitraging is so 2024. The future is prediction market manipulation/crowd funding. Imagine shorting "asteroid hitting earth" and using the proceeds to divert the asteroid.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
It's cool but is there any doubt that this will be very obsolete very soon? This is like how image recognition worked pre-CNN. (It looks like the project started in 2022. So maybe it wasn't obvious at the time)
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
So how much more money will be spent on fiber optics and microwave towers?
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
It's easy to compile and run a program. It's hard to accurately simulate driving.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
This is either delusional, or trying to sell a course. That aside, it's interesting that software engineering will probably be among the first to be destroyed by ASI. This is simply because it's easy to do reinforcement learning o
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Let's look 100 years ahead. With natural selection/evolution replaced by technology, it's not hard to imagine that the human species can survive with a much smaller population. So mass population decline plus space colonizati
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
> but it can't be interrupted I'm glad this is mentioned! This is why instead of a Bash script, I use a Makefile. Each step is a rule with a *.done name, that generates a .done file once it's done. I can interrupt it any t
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
I honestly can't tell if you are being serious. Is there any doubt that the "OCR pipeline" will just be an LLM and it's just a matter of time? What you are describing is similar to how computer used to detect cats. You f
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Cool trick. But is this better than reinforcement learning, where the LLM decides for itself the optimal thinking time for each prompt?
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
I thought the same until I tried to migrate. The hardest part is figuring out how to achieve the same thing in Wayland (idle control, window automation, clipboard, etc.). The one thing I haven't figured out, which prevents me from swit
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
If Thing B is better and cheaper than Thing A, people are going to use Thing B until it runs out. Consequently, people are going to make more Thing B. In the short term some jobs are safe only because we don't have enough Thing B, temp
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
I mostly use it to tag media files (music, video, photos), pdfs, docs/spreadsheets. So far I haven't encountered any issues. But obviously if you tag a plain text file you are gonna see the tags at the end.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
If you are interested in one of the absolute worst ideas that worked flawlessly over the years: I wrote a 100-line python script that just appends a magic number and one or more tags as ascii at the end of an arbitrary file.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Sim is how we get to ASI. But physics is hard. In the meantime is anyone hiring a bunch of people to wear motion cap suit, cameras and mics 24x7?
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
It's a search problem. By definition, an infinite game is as boring as real life. To make it interesting, the engine must be able to search for a good story based on player actions. You can see this today already. Many games will guide
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Let's not pretend that we understand consciousness. It's like talking about the movement of stars without understanding gravity.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Why can't you convert the wave into frequency domain and compare that?
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List of Wrong Anthem Incidents(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by vagab0nd 2y ago|0 comments
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
The perfect recommendation system is one that predicts when you'll explicitly ask for a recommendation, so you don't have to.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Any sufficiently advanced ads technology is indistinguishable from the perfect recommendation system.
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Almost Integer(en.wikipedia.org)
18 points by vagab0nd 2y ago|0 comments
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
Why do you think the polls would correctly predict the result? Use Polymarket instead, where money is on the line.
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by vagab0nd 2y ago
How is it possible that the text has just been sitting there, unparsed, for however long since it was digitized?

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