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by cdcox 7mo ago
I think there are few plausible reasons not mentioned. We are still early in the tech. 2021 LLMs were not fit for any real purpose outside zany Madlibs. The tech has only really gotten fit for purpose since GPT4 and coherent models only got
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by cdcox 1y ago
The B2C case here seems off to me. The market of people who are going to pay the high price tag, have enough storage, and tolerate the extreme limitations and slowness of these machines seems to be: the rich, the elderly, and people with ph
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by cdcox 1y ago
Visual anagrams popped up last year using similar, though simpler methods to those in the posted. Flips, internal rotations, rearrangements, color negatives etc. [0] Diffusion illusions did something similar at about the same time but with
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by cdcox 1y ago
You are right, current CRISPR systems tends to accumulate in the liver. Most CRISPR companies have shifted their focus to the liver over time because it's easiest to deliver there. Most viruses people use to target other organs are not
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by cdcox 2y ago
That's a good point, I assumed the farmers in the article were correct on getting squeezed, but individual producers rarely have a good view on the market. And McDonald's et al has been getting flack lately for the price of fries
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by cdcox 2y ago
While this seems true and I hope these companies get a large fine and some regulatory action takes place to wipe out these third party apps, I'm kind of surprised at the corporate learned helplessness here. Back in the day McDonald&#x2
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by cdcox 2y ago
Absolutely, and in picking collabs with people who are willing to work with the weirdness and make it funny. Vedal is definitely a fantastic creator to make it work so well and the amount of fine-tuning and tweaking he must do must be unrea
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by cdcox 2y ago
This was probably an okay idea terribly implemented. GenAI creators on social media kind of sense. Neurosama, an AI streamer, is massively popular. Silllytavern which lets people make and chat with characters or tell stories with LLMs feeds
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by cdcox 3y ago
Valve actually backed off the ban and clarified their stance [0]. Now they allow AI art by the same standards as non-AI art if it is pre-generated and expect certain guardrails with regards to content and copyright if live generated. While
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by cdcox 3y ago
Linkin Park used it in 4 videos recently and seemed to use a combination of img2img and leaning into the glitchy style. [0] (These are 9-11 mo old so using much older models and techniques) Peter Gabriel used it extensively in some recent m
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by cdcox 4y ago
Too many users, I don't know Hugging Face's rules but they seem to limit how much each demo can use to a ceiling. When I ran it originally it was like 12 people using it, looks like the queue is now around 300 and Hugging Face doe
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by cdcox 4y ago
Web demo for anyone interested takes about 2 minutes to run: https://huggingface.co/spaces/osanseviero/point-e Seems super fast, some are saying 600x faster [0], than than the version made off of Google's pap
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by cdcox 4y ago
This is amazing but Google/OpenAI haven't released their models and don't seem to plan to. There is stable diffusion which was released and is probably slightly less good but still good if anyone wants to mess with it. There
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by cdcox 7y ago
Also seems to ignore that social pressure keeps people from account hoping. Personally, I'd be much more likely to a la carte services on a month by month basis if I didn't have the subtle social pressure that 'well I'm
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by cdcox 7y ago
I think the biology revolution will look less like the computing (1940s-2010s) or transportation (1890s-1970s) revolutions and more like the chemistry revolution (1800s-1950s). It will be less iterating on one process and more years of seem
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by cdcox 7y ago
I don't know the specifics for microscope lenses, I know a little about camera lenses, but I think it's largely high failure rate. It's a lot of mechanical grinding and heating and cooling with some final human checks. Each h
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by cdcox 7y ago
That is somewhat true but there are some fixed costs that cannot be easily brought down. 1. Optics- especially when you start talking 63x (looking at internal cell structures) color corrected objectives are generally going to run around 10k
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by cdcox 8y ago
I'm actually surprised this whole suit is being pursued by a professional society. Closed publications seem to be out of line with the interest of their members. Unless the society makes substantial money from their publications, which
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by cdcox 8y ago
The original study https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25975 that prompted the SSC article has an interesting discussion of this result in their supplement: "A study using 14C birthdating on sorted NeuN+ nuclei
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by cdcox 8y ago
While this comes to the right conclusion I think it mistraces a lot of the issues. For example: a fair amount of the depression and neurogenesis studies (and indeed neurogenesis manipulation studies) suffered from the same issue: it's
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by cdcox 9y ago
I do wonder how Google, Facebook and the ad sphere sees Patreon. A fair number of creators I've seen use Patreon to go ad free. It seems small but growing with strong network effects, and a clear path to profitability. In a lot of plac
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by cdcox 11y ago
I think this project in particular is not hugely useful, the optics aren't really up to snuff to do anything other than look at small things with your eyes, it's pretty tricky to use it, and hard to take a picture with it. (Also
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by cdcox 11y ago
I think the coolest part is the Geiger counter for number of images taken in an area. Having that playing while you walk around a new city could be a lot of fun.
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by cdcox 12y ago
True, but if you were somewhere where data was unavailable or you didn't want to use a local data connection, it might be a nice way to force a map app to update to your current location, get an email, send your location to somebody, o
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by cdcox 12y ago
Could you achieve a more high throughput version over voice? I wonder, after compression what the data rate ends up being. I'm reading gzip can get 2:1-4:1 with text. So about a kb/s?
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by cdcox 12y ago
A teardown last year showed the Oculus DK2 was using a Galaxy Note 3 as its screen system [0]. Being able to pull the phone out seems like a logical enough step. Though I wonder how much of the 'other stuff' like positional sensor
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by cdcox 12y ago
I don't know about connected to the internet, but it would nice to have more built in sensors in an oven/stove. They have digital thermometers, but it would be nice to get a total IR/temperature profile of what's inside.
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by cdcox 13y ago
I suspect the bigger reason is because Ph.Ds are difficult to accurately assess. When a company wants to hire a candidate, they give preference to someone who has a connection to the company or to someone on the inside. Ph.Ds are extremely
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by cdcox 13y ago
There was an interesting profile in Forbes about how he saw improving access to birth control, eliminating childhood and early adult mortality, and improving education both here and abroad as ways of leading to decreased populations and inc
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by cdcox 13y ago
I can't imagine a future or situation where the NSA would possibly want or need this information. I could imagine US immigration or US health insurance asking for this information if they decided to move to the US, but in both cases, t

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