walrus01

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by walrus01 2mo ago
Anything that suggests curl into bash just plain sketches me out. (edit: I know, this isn't totally rational, it just seems weird to me. We download and trust a lot of software and run code from a bunch of package repositories as a reg
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Much of it in the ultimate service of selling very targeted advertising.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
On a slightly related topic, static on disk files of LLMs are not incompressible, I have a number of "archived, maybe I'll use it later" Q8 quantized GGUF files that are about 90% of their original file size when run through
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Certain malls in North American cities with dense urban populations and good transit links are also very busy. For instance Metrotown in the centre of Burnaby, BC. I'd guess it has a <2% store vacancy rate. It's very busy. It&#
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I keep an extra one next to my panini press, the image quality from the whiteboard notes area on my fridge has never been sharper!
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by walrus01 2mo ago
They're nowhere near smart enough, but in an ideal case , the same utility you would get out of hiring a $600 a month personal assistant with a basic desktop PC who lives in a developing country somewhere on the other side of the plan
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by walrus01 2mo ago
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Could be the same thing soon. https://theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pentagon-for-800-bill...
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Or it's not a signal of an incredible offer to go laterally or upwards at another company, but that the environment became so impossible and toxic to work in that the person was like "f this, I'm out".
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by walrus01 2mo ago
People are slapping "AI" on anything these days to try to sell more units of whatever it is.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
UAV sensor people made a thing that uses 300+ phone size sensors in a single pod, and software workflow to fuse the output together. It's been around quite a few years now. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> But honestly if I started a new AI lab named it Skynet Corp you're too late https://skynetai.dev/
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Don't forget to put the special LLM trained to eliminate PII leaks in the Gavin Belson signature box. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=gavin+bel...
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Head of Ethics at Palantir, obviously.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
It's a $100,000 PR stunt, I'm sure they're looking at the press/media coverage and consider it worth it. Any actual institutional knowledge gained of how to make an LLM run a retail store is incidental. Compared to the m
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I'm curious if it's how it was prompted, to start a store selling small but not too cheap household items, or if the LLM intentionally chose an aesthetic and store to sell things that are very "twee" [1]. https:/&#
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I know, I just don't think it's a huge jump from "take multiple photos over a 2s period from one camera and stack them" to "take several photos from discrete physical cameras and stack them". As a subscription
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I think that something which already has sensors/automation/inventory control built into it, and pre-defined categories for products like certain types of large Japanese vending machines might be much better suited for an AI. htt
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Indeed, and rent in big cities for food service establishments is getting out of hand as well. The local Shawarma place now is something like $18 for one basic chicken shawarma but they're also paying a truly absurd rent for a retail p
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Sure, I mean from the day to day operations of selling a product to the customer, maybe it does fine? People in the article say it's friendly and cooperative (perhaps a bit too much). I was thinking more in terms of building a consist
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by walrus01 2mo ago
From the article: > Luna has failed miserably in that mission and is down $62,000. Mr. Petersson and Mr. Backlund said they thought Luna would eventually get smarter and more business-savvy and were pleased its friendliness has held stea
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Phones have been doing this for a LONG time, if you had a oneplus 7 pro (released may 2019) and took it into an extremely dark area, like where your eyes can't see anything at all, and take a 'night mode' photo, it asks you t
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I think this is actually how oneplus phones have taken 'night' mode photos for a very long time in their default camera app, it takes multiple exposures and uses the movement sensor in the phone to pick several which were taken wi
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Pakistan requires fingerprint scan transfer to govt. db for SIM card activation(pta.gov.pk)
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by walrus01 2mo ago
You actually don't think that the world's largest REITs hire lobbyists at the municipal, state and federal levels? That's an extremely naive and uninformed position.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
I don't think this is a viable or realistic option in 2026/2027. Try to imagine what your own personal reaction would have been when you were 14 years old if 90%+ of your peers had an iphone 17 or equivalent and your parents gave
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by walrus01 2mo ago
Or guarantee that even if you provide such data to a nice, friendly, democratically run and ethically managed administration, that some future regime change to a completely different group of people won't result in catastrophic misuse.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
One personal observation, the early commercial internet as it was transitioning from universities/research labs/certain high-tech firms into a mass market thing with millions of users, it had its share of nutjobs and crazy as well
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by walrus01 2mo ago
(yet). Contractors for the government that will be happy to help implement the violence are coming soon. If they're not already here by some metrics.
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by walrus01 2mo ago
> I see you're putting "no internet access without scanning your ID" Other countries have already implemented this or are making strenuous efforts towards it. In Pakistan right now you need to submit a copy of your nationa

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