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GPS (2022)(ciechanow.ski)
4 points by at1as 2d ago|2 comments
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Not Regulating AI Is Still a Regulatory Choice(jasonwillems.com)
4 points by at1as 3d ago|0 comments
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by at1as 7d ago
I would probably still have my iPhone 12 mini if not for what happened to its battery. Loved that form factor, but the battery went from bad to worse in just a couple of years. Hopefully these models have a longer lifespan before the batter
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by at1as 7d ago
I have no idea which iPhone version I have anymore. It doesn't feel as though it's missing anything, though.But I'd upgrade immediately if the new models truly offered better AI experience. Forgive my skepticism that Apple wi
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by at1as 8d ago
The only thing I really want is significantly improved battery life (that could last for an entire flight). But in the end, it'll be the desire to eradicate the lightning port from my life that forces my hand on the upgrade
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by at1as 13d ago
Yeah, I wouldn't purport to use this as a measure of intelligence as it applies to humans. I'd leave that to the philosophers, but my intuition is that models are still a long way off of true human-like intelligence (though benefi
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by at1as 13d ago
What does this mean? There are 1217 problems that Erdos proposed, 595 of which are open: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems Unlike traditional benchmarks, it's difficult to overfit your models to produce flat
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by at1as 13d ago
I like Erdos problems as a benchmark. Models continue to solve them, but a pretty tepid rate now that the low hanging fruit has been taken. From https://epoch.ai/latest/announcing-frontiermath-erdos > Only GPT-6 Ast
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by at1as 13d ago
I do miss that mall. When I first moved to SF I'd go for dinner and then watch movies there with friends. Became a bit of a ritual. After those options disappeared, I'd still go regularly to peruse the Bloomingdales and Nordstrom,
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by at1as 14d ago
for how long were you in this career? How did your job change (if it all) during that time?
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How Railroad Crossings Work (2024)(practical.engineering)
37 points by at1as 15d ago|20 comments
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by at1as 15d ago
I think FF is in a difficult place. The only community they have any penetration in is the developer one (in its prime non-technical people would tell me they used Firefox since IE was insecure. Their techy friends would tell them to use
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Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
63 points by at1as 24d ago|72 comments
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Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals(jackschaedler.github.io)
1 points by at1as 1mo ago|0 comments
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by at1as 1mo ago
I'd let the dust settle rather than trusting benchmarks. But in general a third competitive frontier model would be great. I still think that it's very possible Gemini gets its act together and becomes the true competitor to the e
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Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)(jackschaedler.github.io)
43 points by at1as 1mo ago|9 comments
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by at1as 1mo ago
I've asked it before to write in a style similar to Orwell (either directly, or by following his published rules for writing). I do hope that continues to be supported. I just can't stand to see any more "Why It Matters.&quot
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by at1as 1mo ago
But then how will I possibly know that someone in my network achieved a new highscore in puzzle solving??
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The Mechanical Transmission of Power: Stangenkunst (2013)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
1 points by at1as 2mo ago|0 comments
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by at1as 2mo ago
I’d be interested these stats broken down between domains associated with operating companies and personal or hobby domains. The latter are likely to adopt much more slowly simply because of less perceived risk, lower payoff (no vendor revi
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How JPEG works: Interactively explore JPEG's lossy compression methods(cgjennings.ca)
132 points by at1as 2mo ago|14 comments
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by at1as 2mo ago
Thanks for the extra context! I didn't see a published date, but taking another look, I suppose that "Copyright © 1995-2012 nycsubway.org." is a giveaway that some of this information might be stale. Doesn't feel much li
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NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide (2012)(nycsubway.org)
52 points by at1as 2mo ago|9 comments
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by at1as 2mo ago
Moving in the right direction, but unfortunately it's still quite a few years before H264 is off patent, globally: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_M... At which point, the continued marc
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The End of the Crawlable Web(jasonwillems.com)
3 points by at1as 7mo ago|0 comments
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by at1as 8mo ago
Thanks, I'm glad it helped! I still think it's too long, but kudos to those that made it through
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by at1as 8mo ago
Agreed on all of these points. I think that this will happen (...eventually)
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by at1as 8mo ago
I think this is part of a recurring pattern in tech of pushing boundaries around copyright. In the last few years, we had Google scanning books, Google threatening to shut down News in Canada rather than pay publishers, LLMs summarizing art
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by at1as 8mo ago
I think the problem is that “transformation” has never been clearly defined in copyright law, and that ambiguity is exactly what AI companies lean on in their defense. At a human scale, those boundaries get clarified through litigation on a
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by at1as 8mo ago
> Personally I feel that the excessive duration of copyright just weakens authors arguments against AI. That excess exists precisely because of the industry’s clout. For decades, rightsholders successfully lobbied Congress to extend copy

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