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by bigyikes 4d ago
What’s upstream of the central bank? …Congress?
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by bigyikes 16d ago
The snarky analogy doesn’t really really work because plenty of people actually do credit video games for their successful career, myself included. Thanks, Roblox.
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by bigyikes 3mo ago
Why even bother with such a small layoff? Is there a reason to not just dial up your attrition for a while?
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by bigyikes 6mo ago
Yes, Dario has publicly stated that models are already profitable if you exclude R&D for the next model. Even if that’s not true, given that hardware and software efficiency gains can be expected to continue it’s likely that this is the
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by bigyikes 6mo ago
Does it matter if the author is a renowned expert in the field?
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by bigyikes 10mo ago
What does Blender do differently that makes it such a successful open source product? It’s powerful and pleasant to use. Even the release marketing page is beautiful and well-made. I like open source as much as the next guy, but outside of
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by bigyikes 11mo ago
Okay, forget everything outside that field of view in your real vision. If you could crop your real field of view somehow to just the photo in question, then would it be as though nothing changed? (Like, I get that things outside the phone
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by bigyikes 11mo ago
Not the parent, but I relate to their experience. It depends on what you mean by “see”. It’s nothing like seeing with my eyes, and it’s nothing like dreaming. When I “see” it is abstract. There are impressions and sensations. I can recall t
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by bigyikes 11mo ago
Let’s suppose you have perfect recall. Pull up the image on your phone and look at it. Now close your eyes and imagine the image as accurately as you can. Is it as though you didn’t close your eyes at all? Do you see it the same way as when
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by bigyikes 11mo ago
I’ve interrogated people about this but can never get a straight answer. —— “So you can really see things in your head when your eyes are closed?” Yeah! “And it’s as though you’re seeing the object in front of you?” Yeah, you don’t have tha
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by bigyikes 11mo ago
It might be helpful for intuiting the structure of a program. Imagine if you had to read code all on a single line, with newlines represented with \n. I can get the feel of a piece of code just by looking at it. Even if you blurred the imag
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by bigyikes 1y ago
Owning the user base seems like a huge strategic advantage.
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by bigyikes 1y ago
I love my USB-C iPhone but Lightning was smaller and easier to plug in.
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by bigyikes 1y ago
Tape a wire to the trackpad and hold the wire?
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by bigyikes 2y ago
My primary email domain is a .me. Never have problems with web forms. It can be more difficult to communicate verbally, so when saying it to non-technical folks I preface it with “my email is a bit weird” and then spell it out slowly. Young
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Every lucid dream I have becomes a nightmare. When I suddenly gain consciousness in a dream I begin to panic and the atmosphere turns sinister. The last time this happened it turned into some kind of sleep paralysis where I became aware of
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I can think of benign uses for lock picks and guns. What is the benign use of a secret exploit?
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by bigyikes 2y ago
It definitely counts! I also didn’t realize the trip count was so high, that is very impressive. The diversity of geography may be critical, though. You can only drive the Embarcadero so many times before your loss bottoms out.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
My understanding is that Waymo is applying specialized centimeter-scale mapping and lidar to achieve superior results. In contrast, Tesla is using dumb cameras and just dumping boatloads of data into their model. It’s a more general solutio
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I’m not sure about computing hardware, but Waymo absolutely has better sensors, yes. But it isn’t obvious to me that better sensors outperform better data.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
No, the duality is: Waymo works any time, except where it doesn’t. Tesla works any where, except when it doesn’t.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
The Waymo-Tesla duality is so fun. Tesla FSD already works everywhere, even on unpaved roads. It just doesn’t work as well as Waymo. Waymo works very well, just not in as many places as Tesla. You might bet on Waymo because they have a full
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I can’t live without a bidet but the Tushy ones are no good - tight knobs and awkward spray angle.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I fall apart when responding outside the bounds of my training data, too. Does that imply I’m not thinking? This idea is often used to argue that LLMs will never be capable of novel idea generation, but I don’t think it’s a good argument. F
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Funny, but how wrong are they? I haven’t had the misfortune of using Salesforce, but isn’t it a glorified relational DB in the same way that Jira is? I know a few people at Notion, and one thing I can say is that they have taste , in the w
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by bigyikes 2y ago
4o could already recover from hallucination in a limited capacity. I’ve seen it, mid-reply say things like “Actually, that’s wrong, let me try again.”
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by bigyikes 2y ago
My “litter robot” is one of my favorite purchases, although it’s more like an appliance than a robot. Combined with an air purifier, my home never smells like cat litter. My Roomba works ok, the mapping feature is neat but it still gets tri
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by bigyikes 2y ago
Imagine if we used all of our resources to develop artificial general intelligence which could multiply our prosperity and solve problems across many domains… …or we could allocate it against economic gradients, to things which don’t actual
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by bigyikes 2y ago
I think it might be partially intentional too. Nigel always has this pristine footage with uniform white backgrounds. It’s almost clinical, and the inflection is kind of on theme with that.
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by bigyikes 2y ago
They also raised with Google, interestingly. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-commits-2-billion-in-fund...

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