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by vhold 4y ago
The most likely reason would be to neutralize us before we can become a threat far far in the future. Subjugation could come in subtler forms, like in the book The Three Body problem where the aliens halt human scientific progress by stea
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by vhold 4y ago
One camera produces millions of bytes of data every single frame, an ultrasonic sensor is useful producing just 1 or 2 bytes of data in the same time span. (distance to something within the sensor's cone). So it seems like a totally r
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by vhold 4y ago
Comes from things like: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php More here: https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy
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by vhold 4y ago
Some very famous paintings it can almost reproduce, like the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. It can’t get it quite right but I think it’s close enough to be considered copying. So there might be a copyrighted instance of that, but I haven’
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by vhold 4y ago
All of this with 207 kB over the network. The two slowest requests were to google analytics.
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by vhold 4y ago
If true, it reminds me of the reputation that Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore computers, had in the 80s of screwing over his suppliers to the point they would no longer do business with him.
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by vhold 4y ago
I wouldn't downvote you, but I think you should be aware that meta-analysis is making the case that homeopathy is better than placebo and has an unknown mechanism of working, which is a much bolder claim than you originally made. I dis
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by vhold 4y ago
For those who have not seen the Walmart VR demo, it's really something else. Something is going very very wrong at Meta if they thought this looked enticing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLcaDStxljw
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by vhold 4y ago
To me the difference is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287 It's possible for generation models to perfectly memorize and reproduce training data, at which point I view it as a sort of indexed slightly-
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by vhold 4y ago
The lawsuit also says that Teledyne knew that the DRS had a much higher failure rate than advertised and didn't tell the Air Force.
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by vhold 4y ago
I think that's exactly how it would have gone done except for the fact Teledyne is accused of replacing the counterfeit parts when the board was sent to them for inspection, which would almost certainly prove they knew they were fake.
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by vhold 4y ago
I get the impression that John Carmack has achieved this, and I bet it required him to forcefully take control of his schedule. Which reminds me of this game: https://www.saynomo.re/
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by vhold 4y ago
I think VR needs pretty badly to pivot in general, it's an amazing technology that tries to replace phones/computer interfaces where it should be working with them. I don't want to strap a thing to my face and "be in VR&
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by vhold 4y ago
The ruling mentions "There is little caselaw interpreting this statutory definition." in regard to that question. It mentions one case where building 8 residential units was a "housing development project" It then goe
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by vhold 4y ago
Here is the resolution they adopted: https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5742708... https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=11095427&GUID=46... I think it is useful because it p
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by vhold 4y ago
It's really nuts, computer programming has this gigantic language translation component to it, so asking somebody to translate from English, to another human language, then to a computer language, is fraught full of peril and basically
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by vhold 4y ago
Reminds me of how my Windows Mobile phone over 20 years ago would sometimes bring up the dialpad without the "9" available, which was the last straw for me and got me to switch.
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by vhold 4y ago
I think it's a genetic trait diversity bottleneck? Mammals almost all went in the direction of nocturnal adaption and a lot of adaptions useful during the day were lost over time.
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by vhold 4y ago
My hunch is that is the result of this: https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion#weights > 515k steps at resolution 512x512 on "laion-improved-aesthetics" (a subset of laion2B-en, filtered to images wi
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by vhold 4y ago
More arguments to always use HTTPS: https://https.cio.gov/everything/ https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2014/08/https-as-r...
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by vhold 4y ago
The practical answer is that you go and look at a project's release history at its primary repo. I don't know of a good way to browse all apache projects by livelihood though. The closest thing I know of to keep track of Apache
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by vhold 4y ago
AlertManager is one component of a more complicated infrastructure. https://prometheus.io/docs/introduction/overview/#architectu... https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/
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by vhold 5y ago
The image of the email he did post says he received previous emails with the reason.
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by vhold 5y ago
See also: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2237
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by vhold 5y ago
Another possibility is that people were using it for money laundering. One method is to create lower-than-shovelware games, buy them with shadily acquired cryptocurrency, stolen credit cards or scammed gift cards and take real money payment
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by vhold 5y ago
With synthetic data you can also generate the thing you are trying to solve with the AI in the first place, like generating a depth map, and an object classification map to go with a simulated image. With real world data a human will have t
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by vhold 5y ago
I don't think they even realize that is what happened. You can see the flawed thinking throughout the entire description of the experiment. They anthropomorphized websites, imagining them to have the abilities that the humans behind
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by vhold 5y ago
One of the most interesting technical details is buried in a giant quote. > All it took was a little bit of collaboration and communication, and all of a sudden, grip and electric are moving generators a hundred yards away instead of h
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by vhold 5y ago
It would be compelled speech if the law required the browsers to say that a connection is secure when its creators don't want it to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compelled_speech Whether or not it would violate t
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by vhold 5y ago
The DMCA is flawed, but even the EFF will defend the importance of the safe harbor it provides. https://www.eff.org/issues/dmca

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