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Is There Anything Google's Fruit Fly Brain Can't Do?(nytimes.com)
5 points by xnx 10d ago|0 comments
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by xnx 11d ago
For a moment I thought agentic AI had really spread to every project, but this is not related to the open-source Windows Start menu replacement: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
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by xnx 11d ago
That can also be done with neoclouds.
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by xnx 11d ago
AI is a very competitive market where consumers are getting the product for much less than it costs. This does not seem like an area where the government needs to butt in. Attention would be better spent on long list of other poorly behaved
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by xnx 11d ago
Is this associated with dbtlabs?
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by xnx 12d ago
For you maybe. Code was hard/time-consuming for me, but all the other stuff was a breeze.
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by xnx 12d ago
Use cheap models if your code is low value.
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by xnx 12d ago
> In software, groups of people (teams) have value far more than individuals. Modern AI turns skilled individuals into teams.
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by xnx 12d ago
Turning indicator stalks that don't allow soft-signaling (i.e. ability to nudge the stalk without snapping it into place).
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Waymo now welcoming riders in Las Vegas(waymo.com)
1 points by xnx 12d ago|0 comments
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by xnx 12d ago
> That person is now probably long gone, as is the salesman and likely the roofing contractor who installed it. AKA "I'll be gone. You'll be gone." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/IBG_YBG
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by xnx 12d ago
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing
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by xnx 12d ago
I wonder how much of home construction efficiency improvements are held back by taste for traditional appearance vs. other cost/performance characteristics. The difference in styles between residential and commercial construction is pr
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by xnx 12d ago
If you're interested in the topic, the author writes extensively on manufactured homes.
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by xnx 12d ago
Interesting, but currently more of a novelty.
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by xnx 12d ago
Dollars are a very good first estimate of environmental cost.
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by xnx 12d ago
Interesting, but title is missing the key word "Garmin". "How I build a mechanical Garmin watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears"
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by xnx 13d ago
Google used AI assistance in designing their last one or two TPUs.
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by xnx 13d ago
Another win for EVs from this war.
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by xnx 13d ago
Keeping features out was important when the complexity burden of that feature would be borne by the entire user base. Restricting features is much less important (or even an anti-pattern) when software is more bespoke, or even has a userbas
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by xnx 13d ago
Isn't most of the financing just another way of expressing discounts and payment plans for very expensive hardware?
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by xnx 13d ago
> Most likely it was some sort of computer vision algorithm that flagged something. Possible, but probably more likely they weren't wearing their seatbelts and then a Waymo remote support person saw the gun and immediately called po
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by xnx 14d ago
Google was way ahead of OpenAI and Anthropic on slowing down frontier model releases. (I kid. I'm a regular Gemini Flash 3.8 user.)
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by xnx 14d ago
I'll believe it when I can flash an open os onto my TCL/Roku tv or pocket camera.
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by xnx 14d ago
> You need expertise to productively use that AI. Certainly true now, but might not be in 2 years. Similar to how a person can hire a lawyer or a carpenter without knowing anything about those fields. Knowing what you want (even expresse
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by xnx 14d ago
If "Dayzle" (the app being advertised?) cost $5 to install, bot downloads would stop immediately.
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by xnx 15d ago
Switch to a pay app and the problem goes away.
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by xnx 15d ago
The core basically disappears if you cut an apple in disks (or each from the bottom).
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by xnx 15d ago
> set of problems that you face as a software engineer and realize that there is so much left Definitely true at this exact moment, but very uncertain that AI won't also outrun those other areas faster than even existing experts.
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by xnx 15d ago
Hard to make the effect work on a laptop because the final position of the physical screen is not known.

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