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by binarybits 2y ago
Defining who "really" invented something is often tricky. For example I mentioned in the article that there is some dispute about who discovered backpropagation. A According to Wikipedia, Nvidia released its first product, the RV1
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Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI(understandingai.org)
2 points by binarybits 3y ago|0 comments
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by binarybits 3y ago
Author here. What do you mean? The article this thread is about has hardly any opinion in it. Or consider this piece explaining how LLMs work: https://www.understandingai.org/p/large-language-models-expl...
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by binarybits 3y ago
What isn't really true? The passage is about a hypothetical LLM so obviously the exact steps depicted here don't correspond to any particular LLM. But LLMs undoubtedly modify hidden states to reflect context gleaned from other wor
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by binarybits 3y ago
I actually don't have a job! I'm a self-employed writer who made low five figures last year.
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by binarybits 3y ago
I discussed this in the final section: "The level of employment across the economy is ultimately driven by macroeconomic factors: If consumers spend more money, then businesses will respond by hiring more workers. The last three years
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by binarybits 3y ago
My argument that it won't cause mass unemployment is that most jobs in the economy are not jobs AI can automate because (1) they involve physical work that current robots can't do (like plumbers or any of the building trades), or
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by binarybits 4y ago
Yes exactly.
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by binarybits 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember them too! I'm not saying that system was better. I'm just saying it's weird that the new system is so much more expensive to run.
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I ordered robot takeout on two campuses with wildly different results(fullstackeconomics.com)
3 points by binarybits 4y ago|0 comments
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by binarybits 4y ago
And then people frequently complain about these varieties—for example, that the BLS produces a "core" version that excludes food and energy even though there's also a version with that stuff included.
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by binarybits 4y ago
OP author here. I wrote a shadowstats debunker back in November: https://fullstackeconomics.com/no-the-real-inflation-rate-is... tldr: they don't actually reconstruct the old methodology. They add a fudge factor based
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Walmart and Google's Wing jumped ahead of Amazon in drone delivery(fullstackeconomics.com)
2 points by binarybits 4y ago|0 comments
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by binarybits 5y ago
There wasn’t a 2010 long form. The 2010 census had about 10 questions: sex, race, age, ethnicity, as well as your relationship to the primary homeowner and whether the home was owned or rented. Nothing about money or jobs. There used to be
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by binarybits 5y ago
Right, that was my point: the nanny does more than just keep the kid safe.
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by binarybits 5y ago
No, this was before she became a successful author. About half of it was an inheritance on her side. The other half came from his side.
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by binarybits 5y ago
What do you use?
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Linus discusses challenges getting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs(zdnet.com)
6 points by binarybits 6y ago|1 comments
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by binarybits 6y ago
Sorry, but this is not an accurate summary of the state of the law. Whether Android's implementation of Java was fair use is one of the questions the Supreme Court is considering. Google was absolutely trying to achieve interoperabilit
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by binarybits 6y ago
No, it's closer to the opposite. The statute says that the courts "may, only to the extent necessary" charge fees for access to PACER. I don't think there would be any legal barrier to the courts eliminating the paywall
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by binarybits 7y ago
Man, you're reading way too much into my headline. The headline describes the article accurately: I created a deepfake. It took me two weeks and I spent $552. The headline doesn't say anything about whether it was convincing or no
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by binarybits 7y ago
Absolutely, but they have that influence and so far they've mostly been using it in ways that make journalism worse (creating powerful incentives for shallow articles with clickbait headlines). This seems like a step in the right direc
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by binarybits 7y ago
The question is how you want to characterize an iPhone. If the phone is Apple's property that they're letting you use, then Apple's app store restrictions are analogous to McDonalds deciding what going on their menu. If the i
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by binarybits 8y ago
Nope.
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by binarybits 8y ago
Mainstream news sites aren't going to give you the kind of super-deep insights you're going to find in academic research or trade press or whatever. 90 percent of any site's audience knows very little about any given topic, s
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by binarybits 8y ago
Author here. What do you mean by "short?" The piece is 1,500 words, which is about double the length of a typical newspaper column. I'm not going to get into the exact economics, but Ars writers write about a piece a day, and
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by binarybits 8y ago
Timothy B. Lee here. You are correct, except that I think it's a mistake to treat ADAS systems as "self-driving cars." I'm bullish on true self-driving car projects like Waymo and Cruise. I think ADAS systems have a lot
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by binarybits 8y ago
Tesla cut ties with Mobileye in 2016, and this was a 2017 Model X, so it probably wasn't running Mobileye's software.
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by binarybits 8y ago
(1) Yes. (2) Yes. (3) Yes. The main point is that Waymo had a 4-6 year head start over virtually everyone else in this industry. So it's not surprising that their technology seems significantly better! Obviously we don't yet know
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by binarybits 8y ago
The Jaguar I-PACE deal envisioned designing a custom version of the I-PACE so that the sensors and computing hardware could be installed at the factory. I haven't seen specifics on the Pacifica deal but it seems likely they'd take

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