HPsquared

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by HPsquared 3d ago
Always worth studying 1980s USSR.
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by HPsquared 3d ago
It's a bit like Asimov's laws of robotics. "Do no harm", but how to evaluate that?
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by HPsquared 3d ago
Seems like a thing you should be able to do at the post office.
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by HPsquared 3d ago
Even with easy typing, it's a single step (say what you want) vs multiple UI operations. This applies to cars too.
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by HPsquared 3d ago
I guess there's a niche for people willing to pay extra, but probably not enough to support the volume they need. Edit: and that niche is business, of course
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by HPsquared 4d ago
It seems conditions are such that the TV selling business is worthless (i.e. unprofitable) without collecting the data, and the TV data collection business can't work without selling TVs.
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by HPsquared 4d ago
Yeah you'd think they should allow a "dumb TV mode" where you agree to nothing.
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by HPsquared 4d ago
Voice recognition is really useful when searching. It's annoying to type with a TV remote. Also you can just say what you want like "play breaking bad on Netflix" and it'll just do it. Edit: also the mic in the remote ha
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by HPsquared 4d ago
Any time sometime makes a loan at a bank, that money is created. An accompanying debt is also created. It's like matter and antimatter. And when the debt is repaid, the matter and antimatter disappear again.
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by HPsquared 5d ago
You could start a consultancy called Optify to help them optimize their engineering.
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by HPsquared 5d ago
I wonder if there could be something other than vacuum, in which light would travel faster.
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by HPsquared 6d ago
Hey now, some of them reach -50% profit margins!
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by HPsquared 6d ago
It is a form of temporary insanity, I suppose (though self-induced).
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by HPsquared 6d ago
Silicon Valley was practically built by the military industrial complex.
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by HPsquared 6d ago
I start with section headers, then subheadings, then fill in the details.
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by HPsquared 6d ago
See also: Eulerian Video Magnification (EVM) to amplify subtle motions and colour changes: https://youtu.be/ONZcjs1Pjmk https://youtu.be/_qtzWNZApsw
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by HPsquared 6d ago
Visual Rust sounds like a defect but I'm looking forward to it.
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by HPsquared 6d ago
Yes technically speaking there is a different physical reference now but that's where it came from. A bit like how 1 ft is now 304.8mm but that's because it's the size of a human foot (with some historic details no doubt). Et
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by HPsquared 6d ago
Funnily enough the metre is defined by the globe as well: the arc from the equator to North pole is defined as 10,000 km. I think this might be where the alternative angle metrics came from, which went with the metre: full circle is 400 gra
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by HPsquared 6d ago
On the other hand think of the wavelength of light and how absurdly fast the oscillation frequency is to provide a wavelength of a few hundred nm at the speed of light. 8 minutes is a lot of cycles, and 150M km is a lot of wavelengths!
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by HPsquared 7d ago
Cars also seem to get bigger with each iteration. Then the introduce new smaller models that are the same size as the earlier model..
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by HPsquared 9d ago
Yes that's giving me a bit of pause. I wonder what, say, Apple's ToS has for this kind of functionality.
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by HPsquared 9d ago
This general kind of thing is why diverse (currently Chinese) AI is so important ... and one reason it'll be banned.
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by HPsquared 9d ago
Then you have lobbyists, who perform the same function as advertisers. Those with power are the most ad-targeted of all.
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by HPsquared 10d ago
Legal ownership is just that, subordinate to a legal system under a state.
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by HPsquared 10d ago
It's not like we are born with a "phone number library" skill. It's a specific skill that's developed to meet a need. It's carved out of the grey matter, a little table for storing 7- or 9-digit numbers. But th
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by HPsquared 10d ago
The government will receive like 40% of whatever value the robots produce.
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by HPsquared 11d ago
Too LLMy; didn't read
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by HPsquared 14d ago
It's usually about how much weight is placed on perceived negative externalities.
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by HPsquared 15d ago
I like the bag style more as well. It's so much cleaner when it comes time to empty it, no dust cloud.

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