ane

6 ms·

1.
by ane 7d ago
Using AI for design will always be derivative. For many cases that is good enough but for good product design, a human element will most likely always be necessary. Until the machine gains the ability to do just that
2.
by ane 9d ago
If you want to buy them legitimately, there aren't a lot of options Illegitimately, there are tons of options
3.
by ane 20d ago
They have very good thermal coeffiency: ground source heat pumps will typically generate 3-6kWh of thermal energy from 1kWh of electricity. By reversing the flow you can also use ground source heat pumps for cooling as well.
4.
by ane 2mo ago
If we can solve 99% of the world's problems with current non-AGI models then nobody besides a select few will care about AGI
5.
by ane 3mo ago
I would call them market economies instead of socialist governments
6.
by ane 4mo ago
Why can't you just publish the prompt instead? Do you not see how LLMs subtly alter your original message and erase your voice? They fill gaps that didn't exist, they create syllogisms that make no sense, and the voice is now so r
7.
by ane 4mo ago
Do the research yourself, the old fashioned way? Search things, write them down, summarize? The problem with LLMs outputting English is that they're very good at bullshit and it can be really hard to see through the nonsense. The outpu
8.
by ane 4mo ago
Why not just write it yourself? We can all have ChatGPT regurgitate the same information. You're supposed to add value, editorializing isn't enough. Just like I don't want to look at AI art or listen to AI music, I don't
9.
by ane 4mo ago
Java?
10.
by ane 5mo ago
A heat pump is not necessarily dug into the earth. Rather, the flow of the heat pump is moving heat (thermal energy) from outdoors to indoors or the other way around in an air conditioner. Depending on the direction of the coolant flow, you
11.
by ane 5mo ago
Depends what you make it from. If you distill eight litres of wine into about a litre brandy without removing methanol, it has the same amount of methanol than eight litres of wine did. Given the average of 150mg/l of methanol in red w
12.
by ane 7mo ago
It is a good reminder that most of us that work in software engineering will never build anything remarkable and will fade into history. Even if you do brilliant engineering work for a company, said work was commissioned by the company and
13.
by ane 7mo ago
I am also glad the commercial niche illustration markets like Magic the Gathering are extremely hostile to AI art, though of course I would think Wizards of the Coast, the company that publishes MTG, probably see artists as a cost. Maybe.
14.
by ane 7mo ago
Makes sense, though, doesn't it? An elephant's trunk is the fusion of its nose and upper lip, wouldn't that be the location where the mystacial vibrissae (whiskers) be located on any other mammal, making these homologous to e
15.
by ane 7mo ago
I loved There is no Antimemetics division. I haven't read the new updated to the end but the prose and writing is greatly improved. The idea of anomalous anti-memes is scary. I mean, we do have examples of them, somewhat, see Heaven&#x
16.
by ane 8mo ago
Now it is. In the late 90s/early 00s it wasn’t. MS is quite different today from what it was back then.
17.
by ane 1y ago
Never been more scared in my life when I drove through narrow country roads in Ireland
18.
by ane 1y ago
Could you elaborate on the subject of the foundations of a curriculum (of what?) being entirely fake? That's a bold statement to make!
19.
by ane 1y ago
Refers to corporate personhood. You can't jail Apple Inc.
20.
by ane 1y ago
Alex, the bird mentioned in the article, is also the first animal ever to have asked a question. When shown its reflection in a mirror, it asked what color it was. We've trained chimps and gorillas for decades and they have never asked
21.
by ane 1y ago
Depends on the niche. Original physical art for trading card games or comics is a significant chunk of the income of your typical artist. Digital art in those niches does not have this source of income. But then again digital art has other
22.
by ane 2y ago
Indeed, as a kid of 10, I remember learning C/C++ thanks to DJGPP, a DOS port of GCC, being free software. I didn't have any money to buy a commercial compiler, though I never asked my parents. I wasn't sure how to frame the
23.
by ane 2y ago
Your sentence makes it sound like Yeniseian languages are language isolates, but what is absolutely astounding is that Yeniseian languages seem to form a family with the Na-Dene languages of North America. Two language families separated by
24.
by ane 2y ago
Battery cell production alone is massively expensive. The expenses in setting up a production line is counted in the billions. So the only way to start fresh here is to raise billions in capital. Unless you're Volkswagen or something,
25.
by ane 2y ago
GNU Emacs is not the first Emacs, but Lucid Emacs is a fork of GNU Emacs. Lucid Emacs eventually renamed itself as XEmacs (the "X" meaning "something" because they didn't know who owns the trademark as Lucid Inc wen
26.
by ane 2y ago
I have been using Send to kindle[1] for years to upload epubs directly to Kindle. It even syncs the position in the books so that if I read it on my Kindle, it syncs the position to the Kindle app on my phone. [1] https://www.ama
27.
by ane 2y ago
And birds! https://www.uvbirds.com/
28.
by ane 2y ago
Is the third movie supposed to be Elysium?
29.
by ane 2y ago
They could've used Guy Henry's likeness as-is. He already looks a lot like Peter Cushing. And his accent was impeccable
30.
by ane 2y ago
It's also curious how a variation of the CCR5 gene, CCR5-Δ32, which gives increased immunity to HIV, is thought to have been selected for by smallpox in Northern Europe. While giving increased immunity to HIV and smallpox, it makes the

More ›