jackbrookes

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by jackbrookes 2mo ago
> LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output > The magic and absurdity of life is a necessary thing to create such works. These two points seem slightly conflicting. Why if a human is truly more creative th
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by jackbrookes 4mo ago
The irony is that beef and cattle feed use vastly more water than oat milk production. Oat milk would help reduce water use if its used as a substitute for dairy.
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by jackbrookes 9mo ago
By that logic, 'Basque', 'Cantonese', 'Cajun', and 'Tex-Mex' shouldn't exist either
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by jackbrookes 1y ago
> why have mechanical keyboards become so damn popular and not "keyboards on screens?" I mean... have you ever used a phone?
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by jackbrookes 1y ago
This reads a bit like like a pre-PC take: "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?" Imagine it’s 1992: Cookbook: Open book, follow steps. PC: Turn on tower, wait for DOS, fiddle with floppies, pray the printer works, hope t
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by jackbrookes 1y ago
I tried for a while to get ChatGPT to generate connections style puzzles with some suggested topics, including red herrings to create some answers that seemingly fit in multiple categories. Then it would post them to https://conn
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by jackbrookes 1y ago
just record as mp4 in the first place, gif has limited colour palette, low frame rate and poor compression
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by jackbrookes 2y ago
Yes I'd bet most users just 50/50 it, which actually makes it more remarkable that there was a 56% selection rate
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by jackbrookes 2y ago
Playlists allow spotify to create a moat. It encourages you to listen to (and build) playlists, that wouldn't then be easily available if you try to switch platforms
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by jackbrookes 2y ago
It just needs a little hint Me: spell "strawberry" with 1 bullet point per letter ChatGPT: S T R A W B E R R Y Me: How many Rs? ChatGPT: Ther
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by jackbrookes 2y ago
Apple delivers ads (for e.g. Apple Music) in the Settings app of iPhone. Wouldn't be surprised if macOS ends up with similar things.
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Well, my point was made in reference to the original comment which said > If consciousness is not well understood, how is AI on silicon allowed, or any computing machines at all Which implies that we should care about some kind of suffer
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
We understand it well enough to know that animals suffer, yet still commit on the order of a Holocaust per hour (in terms of number of lives)[0]. We have accepted that we don't care enough. [0] https://ourworldindata.org&#x2
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
How can you stop that? An intelligent AI will send emails, create companies, hire people, and literally anything else you can do digitally in order to create means by which it can manifest itself into meatspace.
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
No display, 2 cameras, much thinner form factor
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Maybe unrelated, but I think some people do this to check (at least partially) what email is tied to an account. E.g. if you suspect an anonymous instagram user to be your friend Bob, you can invoke the reset email procedure to see We
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
not really marbles = (BlackMarble() for _ in range(random.randint(0, 10))) all(isinstance(m, BlackMarble) for m in marbles) Surely should always be true
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Agree, if anyone knows themes that make this better I'd love to know
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Also IGTV standalone app
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
The point is that Mark's vision is much more social... The most Apple showed was FaceTime but with added 3D on their avatar. There's so much missed opportunity here for true spatial social interaction that Apple avoided
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
There's a small but passionate group of VR enthusiasts, more so than most other consumer tech categories in my experience
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Of course every one has been wrong. If they were right, you wouldn't be here talking about it. It shouldn't be surprising that everyone has been wrong before
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Disabling updates in a recipe for malware - you can remove the search bar in 4 clicks.
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Or more likely, ask ChatGPT to simplify it.
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by jackbrookes 3y ago
Give it access to a Python repl, show it how to send HTTP requests, how to take look at images of webpages if it needs to, and how to spawn new instances of itself - give it a budget and tell it to make money for you.
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
The other aspect is latency, even streaming from a wired ethernet connection to a wifi phone or tablet makes platformers especially feel frustrating to play
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
If you try the tool you'll see there's some UI around building out specific sections with some small details that you offer
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
Part of its training data includes books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3#Training_and_capabilitie...
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
Websites will optimise for AI eyes rather than Human eyes. Advertisers will pay to embed information in the websites that is read by AI, which subtlety makes the advertisers' products more valuable in the eyes of the AI. Then the AI wo
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by jackbrookes 4y ago
Why do you think AI cannot be as good as a lawyer for all these things? Take the technology to its logical end and it can be better than a lawyer

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