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by bjterry 3mo ago
The Meta glasses camera has a very wide field of view. You'd need to be quite close to a person to realistically take "pervy" photos, and it'd be really obvious. Seems like it'd be no better at this than a cell phon
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by bjterry 6mo ago
For all the people represented in the training data to receive royalties would be an incredible wealth transfer to the Extremely Online. My forum posts, StackOverflow answers etc are also contributing to the model outputs. The training data
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by bjterry 9mo ago
Having a relatively new LinkedIn account now is probably a very bad move if you don't have an established network to reach out to for jobs. There are tons of AI generated profiles flooding every job post (particularly remote) from scam
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Show HN: Board Game Bench – arena-based evaluation of reasoning LLMs(boardgamebench.com)
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by bjterry 2y ago
Controlled burns aren't impossible in chaparral, even based on the logic of that article the controlled burns just need to be less frequent and more intense than for forest. There's no reason they couldn't be done.
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by bjterry 2y ago
YouTube also has a recording of Robert Frost himself reciting the poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebVUgCgSAU
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by bjterry 2y ago
A founding CTO is more effective than a hired CTO, because the founding CTO has more moral authority to create a consistent system. In other companies there's infighting between people (senior engineers, senior managers) with different
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by bjterry 2y ago
I mean, I know nothing about your network. If your network access servers are within a datacenter under your exclusive physical control, perhaps it's not an issue since it requires a man-in-the-middle position. Something like a neighbo
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by bjterry 2y ago
> Those customers are already untrusted, so it really does not matter. Perhaps it doesn't matter to the health of your network, but if it leads to a customer's account being disabled due to incorrectly assigned abuse, surely it
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by bjterry 2y ago
Thanks!
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by bjterry 2y ago
It would be interesting to allow users of models to customize inference by tweaking these features, sort of like a semantic equalizer for LLMs. My guess is that this wouldn't work as well as fine-tuning, since that would tweak all the
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by bjterry 2y ago
You can use the Claude APIs via OpenRouter with a pre-paid account.
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by bjterry 2y ago
It's interesting that Valve's policy requires disclosure of AI generated code: > Any kind of content (art/code/sound/etc) created with the help of AI tools during development. But that none of the categories the
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by bjterry 2y ago
Karpathy says: > The single number that should summarize your expectations about any LLM is the number of total flops that went into its training. One thing I've been curious about is whether a model that's trained well beyond
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by bjterry 2y ago
> there's still no way in hell they'd get 30,000 people inside Yeah, I'm pretty sure that would be physically impossible, unless they are planning on hosting most of the conference on the grounds, parking lot and maybe sur
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by bjterry 2y ago
I don't think this is true. My startup had a couple desks in the Palace of Fine Arts when they had an ill-fated attempt to convert part of it to a co-working space. They shut down co-working to turn it into a full-time event space. The
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by bjterry 2y ago
NASA has a project they call the Earth System Digital Twin (ESDT): https://esto.nasa.gov/earth-system-digital-twin/ . The ESA also uses the same language at https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images
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by bjterry 2y ago
I bought this book on Audible based on a random recommendation, not really knowing anything about it. On the page to buy it, it said it was released in 2020. I spent the first 80% of the book thinking that it was written in the 2010s, but i
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by bjterry 2y ago
Right, but if a plane has a maximum takeoff weight of 600k lb, I doubt if it can safely takeoff while being 600k lb AND towing another x00k lb in a glider, which is what would be required to reduce cargo costs by 65%.
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by bjterry 2y ago
The cargo a plane can carry isn't limited only by the volume of the interior, but also by the amount of weight that can be carried safely in the plane. Airlines try to balance the amount of dense and non-dense (a.k.a. volumetric) cargo
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by bjterry 3y ago
That is not at all in conflict with the post. The selection effect is one of the sources of the empirical diseconomies of scale the author mentions.
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by bjterry 3y ago
It's pronounced like "charisma" without the "cha" or the "m."
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by bjterry 3y ago
In WW2, British intelligence analysts inferred that a secret Nazi radar system used only a single beam based on its code name: Wotan (Odin), a god with one eye. For a long time, I have occasionally referenced this example, but today I learn
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by bjterry 3y ago
Best practices are not actually the best practice in many situations. Best practices by their nature are legible and acceptable in a broad variety of contexts. What are the chances that in your situation, the legible, broadly acceptable p
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by bjterry 3y ago
I was curious what it would actually be. Assuming a full offset with expensive direct air capture of CO2 ($238 / tonne [0]), the carbon tax would only be $2.12 per gallon for 8,887 grams CO2 [1]. [0]: https://www.iea.org&#x2
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by bjterry 3y ago
The formalisms of systems thinking don't really work when you try to incorporate uncertainty. You have to frame things in terms of stocks and flows, but risk and uncertainty resolve in sudden leaps, not incrementally. If you assign 30%
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by bjterry 3y ago
A couple years ago I did a deep dive into systems thinking. Two people whose ideas I highly respect, John Cutler and Will Larsen, reference ideas from systems thinking, which is what piqued my interest. In the end, what I found is that it w
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by bjterry 4y ago
Perplexity.ai processes Bing search results through GPT-3. It works really well, and you can see the prompt they use at https://blog.ouseful.info/2022/12/09/combing-chatgpt-and-sea...
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by bjterry 4y ago
No one in this thread (nor in the article) has made the obvious observation that this means there are a massive variety of genuinely safe foods that could be made via currently banned practices. You can only get an exception at great cost f
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by bjterry 4y ago
It's possible that if you changed from translating the code to prose by hand and translating it with the tool, you would find that the "value" of that translation would be reduced. Basically, I think reading the code and ment

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