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by drtz 13d ago
> So of course a reasonable judicial system tried to find a way to stop this wild behavior perpetrated by a woman with self-dealing political sway. Wow that's a lot of assumptions baked into one sentence.
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by drtz 20d ago
Unless there's a third country controlling part of Lake Ontario that I don't know about, something is off with Google's math. 62+25 = 87%
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Alphabet's Waymo Has Built a Custom Chip for Its Robotaxis(bloomberg.com)
3 points by drtz 27d ago|2 comments
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by drtz 27d ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/pi8xy > The chip is made using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 5-nanometer technique, Waymo said. It's great to see alternatives to NVIDIA chips coming up, but this really h
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by drtz 1mo ago
I think the issue of what your average citizen can or cannot do is a relatively minor. The bigger problem is law enforcement's use of private business as end-around to dodge 4th amendment. Google and Apple, Verizon and AT&T, auto m
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by drtz 1mo ago
"Autonomous dragnet surveillance cameras" wasn't as popular with the focus groups. > No one expected doorbell cameras to join a mass surveillance network Doorbell cameras were at least for individual security, initially. T
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by drtz 1mo ago
Reducing the portion size for junk food is probably a good thing. This is a rare case where shrinkflation may actually be beneficial to all parties.
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by drtz 2mo ago
The article clearly lays out that the take-home test was not a test of memorization, but a test of students' understanding of the class material and ability to reason about how different assumptions affect its conclusions.
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by drtz 2mo ago
> Any semblance of capitalism we have is a shambling corpse barely getting around. Do you know who pulls on all the strings of our economy, gives out student aid loans to kids who just barely graduates high school? Who controls market in
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by drtz 3mo ago
> There's a huge difference between being shaken down highway robbery style "versus" pre-emptively paying the toll in advance for safe passage. We've seen the shakedown of Anthropic out in the open. It's reasonab
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by drtz 3mo ago
I think you're take is a bit off for multiple reasons. First, people need transportation, not cars. For the vast majority of people, if you truly need a car, it's because your infrastructure was built in a way that doesn't pr
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by drtz 3mo ago
Bikes actually deliver a lot of packages and food in areas where car infrastructure hasn't made other forms of transportation practically impossible, and they do it much more cost-effectively. On the medical front, that's quite a
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by drtz 3mo ago
> You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it. It's entirely possible that models could be "d
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by drtz 3mo ago
> would we trust a Software engineer, which in general don’t always obtain the mathematical foundation to understand deep learning in the first place, on the trajectory of AI? Valid point, but it suggests a mathematician who understands
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by drtz 3mo ago
> Websites are still inferior to Flash of the early 2000s. It's taken decades and they can only mimic a fraction of its power. Is this a troll? What could an application do with Flash in 2005 that we can't do with a modern web
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by drtz 3mo ago
Maybe I'm looking through rose colored glasses, but software that writes itself seems like a pretty big breakthrough to me.
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by drtz 3mo ago
Are you suggesting that performing a specific task without unnecessary abstractions is indicative of poor quality?
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by drtz 4mo ago
> Having an account on a company's platform is a privilege, not a right. Businesses can lose a lot traffic by not being present on Facebook and Instagram, so being unjustifiably banned is doing measurable financial harm in many case
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by drtz 4mo ago
Yeah it's bad, but AI isn't required for this type of thing to work. My anecdotal experience is my Facebook account was compromised several years ago after TOTP 2FA was disabled. Didn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy about Face
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by drtz 4mo ago
Yes this is Google helping vendors block access to their APIs by using hardware attestation. I recently hit the same wall trying to directly my garage door opener's API (MyQ). I'd be amazed if Google enabling this behavior doesn&#
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by drtz 4mo ago
I'm not a handyman, but I am a man who happens to be handy. I have done quite a bit of painting and caulking for a guy who's not in the profession. I despise both with a passion, though, especially caulking, and I have never once
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by drtz 4mo ago
> What are you talking about, it had the option for nuanced responses The prompt allowed for exactly four valid outputs and explicitly disallowed explanations and qualifiers. > Output exactly one label: True, > Mostly True, Misl
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by drtz 4mo ago
True or mostly true could easily be argued from a statistical likelihood perspective: life exists on Earth and, based on what we know, Earth doesn't appear to be all that special in a very large universe. I think you could come up with
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by drtz 4mo ago
> It's a weird fact claim, because the ground truth is "nobody knows for sure" and that's not one of the available options. It's even weirder to suggest that the disagreement is indicative of a problem. If you as
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by drtz 4mo ago
> They are not coerced (stupidity is not coercion) into it They are coerced in the same way as any other gambling: the false allure of easy money in a society built on financial struggle.
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by drtz 4mo ago
I tried with a couple other AI search tools and got much better responses. Google sucks here. Bad title? Yes. Real issue? Definitely. https://scout.yahoo.com/chat/share/019e50d7-01fc-7db7-b6fa-9... https:/&#
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by drtz 4mo ago
> The current state of AI affairs is a lot about outrightly selling some one else's intellectual property. Blocking archiving in a flailing attempt to keep AIs away is extremely shortsighted. Archiving is important for keeping histo
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by drtz 4mo ago
And this new thread was just demoted from the front page despite a lot of activity and upvotes in a short time.
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by drtz 4mo ago
Some people -- many people, actually -- use em dashes in their writing. Real people even use contrast to make a point on occasion, believe it or not. It's not AI writing that bothers me, it's the constant complaining about the sup
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by drtz 4mo ago
Similar situation here. I primarily bounce between TypeScript, Python, and occasional Java -- all very well supported by JetBrains IDEs. I occasionally try switching editors, most recently to vscode, but between the near flawless vim emulat

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