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by beambot 4d ago
Get saavy...? More like "will require trust that manufacturers are honest" -- which I won't believe for a miliesecond.
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by beambot 5d ago
Humans still have brains (and thus human intellect) even in the presence of AI... Even today, people make varying use of their brains.
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by beambot 21d ago
"Manufacture as many paperclips as possible"
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by beambot 23d ago
"Does it?" - Yes? Did you learn arithmetic with log & exponent tables, or just calculators?
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by beambot 23d ago
Y'all are missing the point: It's probably less than 100 hours to learn the foundations of one of humanity's most-current breakthroughs. It's a disservice to any young hacker to not learn it. Here's your curriculu
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by beambot 26d ago
Maybe. As the nature of assistive tools changes, so does pedagogy. Calculators are the easy example since most of us are (still) familiar. But there are others that were just as pronounced -- e.g. log tables and slide rules were transfor
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by beambot 29d ago
> So why are ai companies shredding books Because a cartoon mouse's parent company used regulatory capture to extend copyright for decades .
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by beambot 1mo ago
> And lets not even talk, the lack of compliance in an enterprise environment, and as they defer to providers on that... A middleman that adds compliance & regulation while skimming a slice off the top for themselves: You just descri
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by beambot 1mo ago
Not sure I understand your implication... because I'm the primary consumer of the content AI generates for me. I'd rather not have its output adulterated.
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by beambot 1mo ago
Yet another reason to support open-weight alternatives, I guess.
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by beambot 1mo ago
yes, which is why Apple got massively fined for doing it -- nowhere near enough to compensate all the depressed engineering salaries though.
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by beambot 2mo ago
This is (probably) a natural evolution of Garry's gbrain, a basic RAG for individual use. Gbrain is super useful as a starting point for an individual; this seems like an extension to a company. I've found gbrain to be very effec
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by beambot 2mo ago
"...and that's a good thing."
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by beambot 2mo ago
Does basic photoshop count as AI usage...? What about changing color balance, dynamic range, etc?
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by beambot 2mo ago
They settled with a subset of copyright holders. Guarantee they violated lots of others' rights in the process
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by beambot 2mo ago
> What makes art meaningful and impactful isn’t whether it looks good or cool. I fall on the other side of that coin: I care about the final output way more than the story & struggle of the artist. Also: Nature is probably the most e
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by beambot 2mo ago
The Veritasium video on how jet engine turbine blades are "grown" in an aligned crystalline structure for enhanced material properties (e.g. thermal performance) is absolutely fascinating & well worth a watch: https:/&#x
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by beambot 2mo ago
> A lot of it is effectively bribing and menacing trading partners That's just a byproduct of propping up the military industrial complex; have to have conflicts to justify giving the primes sole-source cost+ contracts so they can m
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by beambot 2mo ago
Yet rents won't drop -- the commercial mortgage covenants prevent landlords from dropping rental rates, so they'll just sit there fallow until the market recovers.
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by beambot 2mo ago
The entire rail industry suffers from massive deferred maintenance issues that manifest as serious safety concerns. This shit happens in every industry: dieselgate, 737max, flint water crisis, PG&E camp fire, etc. Let's not preten
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by beambot 3mo ago
UK cctv and China's system are probably the closest examples?
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by beambot 3mo ago
Test-taking may only roughly correlate to intelligence, and is just one dimension of a human... but they likely care less about false negatives (like you) than they do about false positives in alternative assessments.
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by beambot 3mo ago
Google removed "Don't be evil" from its Code of Conduct in May 2018. Shocking that it took 8 years for the author to make their ethical stand -- during which time Google stock went up 600%...
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by beambot 3mo ago
You need to read about agrivoltaics. This is being used to huge effect elsewhere in the world to improve farming & soil. Here's an example from China: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs&
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by beambot 4mo ago
Google is one of the few verticalized options in AI: Data, models, cloud services, low-level silicon (TPUs), internal use cases, retail use cases, B2B uses, distribution (browser & mobile), etc. They rise with the tide of AI adoption.
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by beambot 4mo ago
Google & Meta are illustrative of late-stage capitalism -- it's all about distribution, not innovation. Their job is (mostly) to just acquire the products that have passed the gauntlet, then scale up their monetization through the
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by beambot 4mo ago
How does 's' compare to other languages' letters - e.g. arabic or chinese - in terms of difficulty?
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by beambot 4mo ago
Or more specifically: One just did sue, but lost because he waited too long.
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by beambot 4mo ago
Those Raptor 3 engines are a thing of beautiful simplicity compared to their forebears...
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by beambot 5mo ago
Andreessen-Horowitz, who most people (and they themselves) refer to as a16z and have the eponymous domain name (a16z.com). They're one of the top VC firms on the planet -- exceedingly relevant to HN audiences and commonly discussed he

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