JonathanRaines

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   by JonathanRaines 14d ago

   Fantastic post. You took a subject that never made sense to me and made it seem simple.
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   by JonathanRaines 16d ago

   When listening to a podcast on Android, the lock screen skip-15-second buttons are reversed.
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   by JonathanRaines 2mo ago

   *not true of hammers (jk, great post)
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   by JonathanRaines 2mo ago

   I don't think you mean "Alas, ScrollPods was born". Maybe "And thus,..."?
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   by JonathanRaines 3mo ago

   Pangram claims to be super accurate. Do you know how? I understood detection is a hard problem.
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   by JonathanRaines 3mo ago

   I hope they don't start bugging our homes.
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   3D Printing a Brain (2021)(jonathanraines.github.io)

   4 points by JonathanRaines 3mo ago|1 comments
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   by JonathanRaines 3mo ago

   I'm setting up my site and (slowly) adding some previous projects. Enjoy.
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   by JonathanRaines 5mo ago

   High altitude balloon launches using weather balloons to get photos of the curvature of the earth.
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    by JonathanRaines 6mo ago

    > We estimate that these laws prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year These two options are not equivalent. I will take 8,000 3rd children not being born over 57 kids dying i
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    by JonathanRaines 9mo ago

    I've used your library and really like it!
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    by JonathanRaines 9mo ago

    Also check out CADQuery and or build123d (python equivalents)
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    by JonathanRaines 11mo ago

    I agree with what you're worried about - humans using AI to do bad things. However, have you considered also being worried about what AI can do? (can you ever have too much existential dread?) You cast it as a tool, it may be the first
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    by JonathanRaines 1y ago

    > "According to the laws of thermodynamics, all that exists does so solely to consume, destroy and extinguish, and in this way to accelerate the slide toward cosmic obliteration" Bit of a leap from "heat cannon, of itself,
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    by JonathanRaines 1y ago

    Nice! They provide trained checkpoints on their GitHub. Repeating their results would be a good start. https://github.com/sapientinc/HRM
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    by JonathanRaines 1y ago

    I advise scepticism. This work does have some very interesting ideas, specifically avoiding the costs of backpropagation through time. However, it does not appear to have been peer reviewed. The results section is odd. It does not include i
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    by JonathanRaines 1y ago

    I think you are right that once the exercise becomes hunting for a scapegoat it's pointless. However, it can be a way for everyone to understand the system better. The goal should be making each of the dominoes less likely to fall. Doi
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    by JonathanRaines 1y ago

    > "You seem stuck on X. Do you want to try investigating Y?" MS Clippy was the AI tool we should all aspire to build
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    by JonathanRaines 1y ago

    Zed is worth a look for your IDe and plays nicely with LLMs
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    by JonathanRaines 1y ago

    Fascinating that you chose to compare OpenAI's culture to Los Alamos. I can't tell if you're hinting AI is as world ending as nuclear weapons or not.