JamilD

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Interactive, 3D disassembly of an ETA watch movement(eta6497-disassembly.netlify.app)
3 points by JamilD 1mo ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 2y ago
> allow some US startup to undermine their currency and distort their financial system How is it undermining a currency and distorting a financial system to allow people to exchange their OWN hard-earned money for another currency?
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by JamilD 3y ago
It's pretty cool to see how commenters engage with Glenn/bot-Glenn to identify his responses as LLM-generated. At one point, someone tries the DAN jailbreak and gets the response: > i'm sorry for any confusion, but as the
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The CEO of Ultralytics (yolov8) using LLMs to engage with commenters on GitHub(github.com)
6 points by JamilD 3y ago|2 comments
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by JamilD 3y ago
What's interesting to me is that the project feels very "un-Apple", despite being open-sourced under the Apple org; some typos and lack of proper punctuation in the README, using jupyter notebooks for the data processing inst
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by JamilD 3y ago
Procedures and flows is a big one. It really helps for understanding the "flow" of processes and making sure you don't spend too much precious time in the cockpit repeating the same things just to try to get in the habit of e
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by JamilD 3y ago
How is that ironic? Saying "risk is our business" doesn't imply you'll be successful. It implies the risk is worth it, and you acknowledge the possibility of negative and dangerous outcomes.
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by JamilD 3y ago
I feel kinda the same way about Waymo like I did about Apple as a relatively early adopter. The experience is genuinely magical, and there’s a massive gulf between Cruise and Waymo’s capabilities. A sufficiently good product may produce cus
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by JamilD 3y ago
I worked there for a few years, and, though I never thought of it this way, I keep in touch with my friends there in much the same way. We send each other and ask for photos, and talk in kind of the same way (though the marketing copy is of
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by JamilD 3y ago
People forget for how long Lisp had an impact on AI, even outside GOFAI techniques; LeCun's early neural networks were written in Lisp: https://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/sn-1988.pdf
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by JamilD 3y ago
I think out of all companies, Apple has generally been the best (though not perfect) at maintaining focus even when a product is "good enough". I felt the same about the early MacBook Airs too, and my iPads. Reaching a local optim
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by JamilD 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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by JamilD 4y ago
There's an aquatic cave in Death Valley called Devil's Hole; divers have gone to ~600 ft, but the cave is likely over twice as deep. A magnitude 7.6 earthquake 1,500 miles away caused 4 ft high waves at Devil's Hole: https:&
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Open for Danger: Adventure Playground Berkeley(510families.com)
2 points by JamilD 4y ago|0 comments
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by JamilD 5y ago
STXNFT.com | Remote & San Francisco STXNFT is the premier marketplace for Bitcoin NFTs, built on the Stacks blockchain. it’s currently the leading NFT marketplace there, with over 40,000 users. We aim to be the social hub for your NFTs,
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by JamilD 5y ago
Gall’s Law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a workin
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by JamilD 5y ago
It's easier to hide bad writing with more difficult words. When writing in a way that's easily understandable, bad writing or arguments that don't make sense become much more evident. I see it as a progression. It's easy
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by JamilD 5y ago
The article’s claim that “inflation is far worse than the government admits” may well be true, or it may not be, but it doesn’t provide any evidence either way. The closest it gets is here: > When we look around, we see stories about how
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by JamilD 5y ago
I just started watching the historical footage from CNN; it's interesting to hear the commentary in between when the first and second planes hit the tower. "Was the plane having any difficulty flying?" "Yes, it seemed to
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by JamilD 5y ago
Not quite an answer to your question, but in the 60s and 70s hijackings were quite common (86 hijackings in 1969) and weren’t seen in the way they are now. The common understanding was that the hijackers wanted to re-route the plane somewhe
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by JamilD 5y ago
On the other hand, I’ve seen the other side of this. Leadership makes an issue out of something the engineers perceive as insignificant and the “wrong problem to solve”, nobody speaks up. The problem gets fixed, engineers feel resentful but
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by JamilD 5y ago
> There is a different incentive at play here. Netflix wants to track individuals. Maybe this is naive, but doesn't Netflix already have enough information from the account already? Credit card info, name, address… what does having
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by JamilD 5y ago
Relevant article; it focuses on one candidate but the techniques are often universal (albeit at different magnitudes): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donatio...
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by JamilD 5y ago
One potential hypothesis: the Conservative Party in the UK tends to be centered around a particular social and educational class; many front-bench cabinet members in the Cameron government went to the same schools for their entire lives. Th
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by JamilD 5y ago
Steve Jobs in 2010: > Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain English, and repeatedly. That’s what it means. I’m an optimist, I believe people are smart. And some people want to share more data than other people d
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by JamilD 5y ago
A students are often formerly unhappy C students. C students are often happy C students.
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by JamilD 5y ago
I’m very skeptical about the veracity and accuracy of facial recognition software to detect emotions. I went to an affective computing conference in 2019 and was underwhelmed; models couldn’t distinguish between looking upwards (and raising
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by JamilD 5y ago
I guess it's just based on my observations in the US. I'm a Sport Pilot; I don't see many others in the Bay Area. Often I'm the only one that rents the Skycatcher at KPAO in a given month, and there's basically only
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by JamilD 5y ago
It’s a shame Light Sport Aircraft (LSAs) never really caught on. Most of them use Rotax engines which take regular unleaded gasoline. They’re much more fuel efficient too!
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by JamilD 5y ago
And Atherton, and Mountain View, and Cupertino, and Los Altos, … ;)

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