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by wayeq 2y ago
I find it hard to believe anyone was even working on Siri over the past decade.
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by wayeq 2y ago
Claude still can't make real time web searches though for RAG, unless I'm missing something.
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by wayeq 2y ago
> She knows what you’ve bought, what you’ve listened to, the videos you’ve watched, the address you ship things to, and how you like to pay really advertising to the hackernews crowd with this line
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by wayeq 2y ago
Is Claude 'better' than o1-preview? I've had phenomenal results with o1-preview (switching to o1-mini for simpler asks to avoid running out of queries), and tried Claude once and wasn't super impressed. Wondering if I
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by wayeq 2y ago
Airlines should rent these, already set up for movies or whatever. I'd pay to give it a try. I wouldn't want these taking up my carry on space going to and from the airport or to deal with security, so that's another advant
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by wayeq 2y ago
is there a chance the tunnel could bend?
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by wayeq 2y ago
Statistically speaking it seems likely people really did die from this mistake, if only indirectly due to for example delays in medical care caused by the outage.
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by wayeq 2y ago
thank you kind soul, waiting for results. it's fun. not fun.
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by wayeq 2y ago
I have an MRI for two suspicious masses on my pancreas and liver tomorrow. Fear for my wife and toddler more than myself.
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by wayeq 2y ago
It's not cynical, it's just an awareness that public companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders.
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by wayeq 2y ago
unfortunately all our data are belong to them already.
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by wayeq 2y ago
> He got us out of Afghanistan too Yeah, it turns out all we needed to do was run away in the middle of the night and let the country slide back into a illiberal theocratic hell hole.
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by wayeq 2y ago
That's exactly how we got 4 years of Trump, people in the critical swing states weren't motivated to go vote for Hillary. He then attempted to disenfranchise millions of Americans in the 2020 election, coming surrealistically clo
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by wayeq 2y ago
The number of voters aligned with old school Reagan/Bush era Republicanism has all but disappeared. The majority of GOP voters consider Romney to be part of 'the swamp'. Politics in America is increasingly driven by hatred o
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by wayeq 2y ago
“Second, this proof-of-concept work focused on binary computing functions with a cube being either pushed up or pushed down – it’s either a 1 or a 0. But we think there is potential here for more complex computing, with data being conveyed
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by wayeq 2y ago
thanks, TIL
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by wayeq 2y ago
ah Google+, speaking of archeology..
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by wayeq 2y ago
> One complaint was the lack of bathrooms. burying the lead here!
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by wayeq 2y ago
You know I hear ChatGPT is pretty good at summarizing.
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by wayeq 2y ago
> "After decades of uncertainty, a motley team of programmers has proved precisely how complicated simple computer programs can get." my team has also proved this via our production codebase
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by wayeq 2y ago
Now hook it up to the DIY flip disc array from yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40789672 )!
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by wayeq 2y ago
... or, they may not have.
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by wayeq 2y ago
>does the period of a point mass moving in a potential well depend on its mass? "For a simple harmonic oscillator, the period does not depend on the mass of the object. However, for a general potential well, the answer is more nuanc
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by wayeq 2y ago
> How do I multiply positive numbers and get something smaller? fractions are gonna blow your mind
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by wayeq 2y ago
> allowed the Siri team to quickly atone for its sins. Are we sure there is a Siri team in Apple? What have they been doing since 2012?
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by wayeq 2y ago
Not to mention the voyager missions.. still zooming out into interstellar space..
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by wayeq 2y ago
i've been mostly using all lowercase for decades.. am i the asshole?
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by wayeq 2y ago
> It's clear that AI can be the catalyst for creating a lot of customer-facing value. It clearly will be a catalyst for creating a lot of shareholder value... I'm less sure about the customer facing value of a lot of these prod
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by wayeq 2y ago
Kind of rough for those of us that prefer sand and grit unsliced break though..
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by wayeq 2y ago
interesting choice considering the role chaos theory plays in forever rendering long term weather predictions impossible, by humans or LLMs.

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