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by voiceblue 2y ago
Apple does not like to compete. They would rather call it spatial computing and price their product in an astronomical band than risk being seen as yet another VR headset competitor. They will never make a search engine. On the other hand,
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by voiceblue 2y ago
> Isn't this just a little bit irrational? Welcome to planet Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Leave us a review and don’t forget to fill out the survey!
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by voiceblue 2y ago
I think you've got your use of 'masquerading' here backwards. These *are* piracy apps, and presumably people share them since they want their friends to have free content too.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
> I don’t understand why more people don’t do this. Once you understand the difference between knowledge and wisdom (and acquire enough of the latter), you will understand why more people don't do this. I understand this is newslett
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by voiceblue 2y ago
The comments here seem ignorant of how regulations in the EU have become and what the dynamic is. Regulation is being lionized [0] as a political badge of honor, and as TFA shows, things are getting ridiculous: it is not enough that you can
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by voiceblue 2y ago
As an experienced dev I can tell whether a (direct) manager will work for me or not within about three weeks, with some variance depending on organizational pressure (in lean times you can tell sooner, in lush times it takes longer — a resu
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by voiceblue 2y ago
In the context of prediction, there is no such thing as a “mistake”, any more than a d20 die can make a mistake. You might get a 1 when you wanted a 20, but you can hardly blame the machine, only the manufacturer who forgot to weight it wit
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Your attitude is as common as water in the ocean, but here you have come to the desert to complain. Do you not know what Ycombinator is?
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by voiceblue 2y ago
As a Xoogler, I have to say Google isn’t what it once was. You pay for your high salary with the fact that the one thing you can be sure most people you work with care about is how much money they extract out of Google and how they could ge
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by voiceblue 2y ago
It’s because they are writing for the masses. What happened to professional writing? This: “When The Wealth of Nations was first published in March 1776 David Hume wrote to his old friend in terms of the greatest praise, while qualify
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Well, plenty of people were born after that whitepaper came out.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
This book [0] contains several such letters. Beware it makes for fairly dry reading sometimes, since they're usually addressed to one person about a topic that may or may not be of general interest, and often missing greater context. [
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by voiceblue 2y ago
I wish that had been my motto earlier. I bought a resin 3d printer off craigslist in perfect working condition, tried to update the firmware (for no good reason), and ended up promptly bricking the thing. I got it fixed in the end, but it w
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by voiceblue 2y ago
One unfortunate thing is that it pays well. If it didn't pay so well, perhaps there would be more intrinsically motivated folks who would attempt to accomplish something worthwhile regardless of the organization's myriad dysfuncti
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Beyond showing just how much influence Mr. Thiel has on Mr. Zuckerberg (referring to efforts behind the commencement speech as 'we'), I didn't glean anything from these e-mails. They seemed rather devoid of meaningful content
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by voiceblue 2y ago
GP is rebutting the “upside downing” of the economy by superintelligent AGI. If you meant to argue that case, your points seem insufficient.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
That’s what this particular website has been calling Google, because it’s “quirky”.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Reminds me of Buildspace [0]. [0] https://sage.buildspace.so/chat/i-need-help-with-my-idea
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Helps explain why Jobs turned out the way he did, when perfectly capable people behaved this way around him.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Writing to process and reflect on loss naturally brings more vulnerability and introspection to one’s writing. I’m not sure that would carry over to all your subsequent work, though.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
> without all the contortions and schnookery involved in "telling a story" in our marketing-besotted culture. This is probably the only story I've read on here that didn't reek of self promotion or self aggrandization
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by voiceblue 2y ago
More rolling balls means more wins and more promotions all around!
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by voiceblue 2y ago
AI is a top priority company-wide at Google right now, so it’s relatively easy to get a ball rolling.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
> within living memory. People who are in their 90s: “Guess I’ll just die then.”
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by voiceblue 2y ago
This is a case where The Bitter Lesson [0] should make you feel better about the future. We are already butting up against the limitations of the current model and veering into fine-tuning and incremental improvement of what we've got
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Seems to me like you’d be more likely to sign a deal “up to AGI” if you knew that was a pipe dream that would never happen. It’s easy to sign away your firstborn child if you’ll never have any children to begin with. Edit: Nevermind, looks
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by voiceblue 2y ago
It’s probably because they wanted to use some Python library to run inference or something. Although perhaps IPC would be cheaper than a rewrite.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Thanks, I expected that deleting the conversation on my end would have no effect on a permalink but I was wrong. Nothing I can do about the blank, however, it works for me.
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by voiceblue 2y ago
For NLP tasks it's unlikely that "epistemic uncertainty" is a useful metric, though it's interesting to ask an LLM "what is the third word in this sentence?" and then suggest alternative answers. It's a go
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by voiceblue 2y ago
Try using Google like an average person. I Googled "best places to visit in Peru", and Google gave me a little drop down right there on the page that listed a few, without me having to go elsewhere. DDG did not. Google wins. Even

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