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eamsen
6mo ago
This is obviously not an NVIDIA site, I don't know the legal repercussions for such fake sites, but apparently it's worth the risk?
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eamsen
10mo ago
Our family derives a lot of joy from stylized versions of our photos. For us, it is not a waste. If you do not derive anything positive from it, you will likely not use it, hence no energy wasted either. Your argument is objectively wrong.
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eamsen
10mo ago
Personal anecdote: I've asked Gemini 3 Pro to write a test for a function that depends on external DB data. It wrote a test that creates and deletes a table, it conveniently picked the exact production table name, didn't mock the
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eamsen
10mo ago
We've entered the sand worshiping era. Except this time, we're the gods.
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eamsen
1y ago
You are being printed, every day, cell by cell.
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eamsen
1y ago
One distant day they’ll wonder who began them. Do you sign the work?
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eamsen
2y ago
Can you please provide examples for the raw data? As a user, I would like to know what I'm buying before paying.
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eamsen
2y ago
Completely agree with this statement. I would go further, and say we don't understand how next-token predictors work either. We understand the model structure, just as we do with the brain, but we don't have a complete map of the
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eamsen
2y ago
A healthy society produces surplus to provide for those who depend on others. To ensure enough surplus, everyone who is able, should add value.
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eamsen
2y ago
Value production is needed, because the value we produce is fleeting and healthy societies grow. How much value is needed is determined by the society through a free market.
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eamsen
2y ago
To add value to society?
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eamsen
2y ago
Have there been catastrophic failures of fission reactors in Germany built by Siemens? Are you familiar with functional safety classification and how this affects the development of systems? Would you draw conclusions from the failure rate
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eamsen
2y ago
Build: Siemens, AEG. Operate: PreussenElektra, EnBW, Vattenfall, RWE, EWN. Or was that a rhetorical question for a solution with a zero catastrophic failure rate (in Germany)?
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eamsen
2y ago
Yet, here we are, generating text. Some of which has value.
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eamsen
2y ago
It would depend on whether she got the job for having a good voice or for having a voice that is associated with a famous person. Would her voice have the same value if it was not sounding like another famous person's voice? That'
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eamsen
3y ago
At the risk of sounding snarky, https://chat.openai.com would be a good introduction, followed by books, which GPT could recommend.
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eamsen
4y ago
FWIW, the loop doesn't seem to be continuous, eventually the page loads. Not sure if relevant, but I switched focus away from the tab during loading.
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eamsen
6y ago
How much are you willing to pay for a browser?
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eamsen
6y ago
No, there is no support for third-party shared libraries on Android yet.
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eamsen
6y ago
> There are ZERO settings exposed to the end user. This thread is discussing GeckoView, which exposes extensive privacy settings. There is a (hopefully growing) amount of apps based on GeckoView, which will make use and/or expose di
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eamsen
6y ago
> For example, any new tech introduced that can be used for browser fingerprinting and user tracking (e.g. canvas, webgl, webrtc, etc) is enabled to every single site by default, just like chrome. GeckoView exposes a wide range of privac
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eamsen
6y ago
Relevant question with answers: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61375629/allow-cross-ori...
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eamsen
10y ago
You're correct about that there are different degrees of seeking support. Seeking VBR MP3 with perfect accuracy is trivial by forward-reading. However, this is obviously highly inefficient on long duration seeks. For instant seeking su
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eamsen
10y ago
You'll find the e10s roadmap here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule_and_Status The plan is to make it the default in Firefox 51 on desktop, assuming the staged roll out is successful. Also, the current ap
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eamsen
10y ago
Interesting, I've never had to sign an NDA before my interviews (at top tech companies) including the on-site/offer stages. I don't share questions as a matter of principle, fwiw.
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eamsen
10y ago
Firefox still holds over 30% (#1) market share in some select markets, e.g., in Germany: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-DE-monthly-201504-201604
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eamsen
11y ago
Xing is a popular alternative for the German-speaking markets.
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eamsen
11y ago
The robustness experiments are highly parallelized and maintain a copy of the (modified) network per thread. I vaguely remember the NYC test would take around a day on 16? cores and use up to 64GB of RAM. You can find query time evaluation
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eamsen
11y ago
For anyone who's curious about an example implementation of transfer patterns: https://github.com/eamsen/transit-planner Transfer patterns also behave robustly given real-time updates on the network, which we have
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eamsen
11y ago
I've tried hard to like Braid despite it being a platform game (Flashback (1992) is the only game in that genre that I've enjoyed so far). It's gorgeous, clever and polished, yet it felt pretentious to the point where it woul
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