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by lambdaone 1y ago
This is essentially useless without the training set or the weights. It's open-source theatre.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Age verification at the content end has always been a silly idea. Eyeball networks can, and do, implement such filtering already - for example, UK mobile networks block porn by default, but allow any adult account holder to connect to unfil
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by lambdaone 1y ago
What I find most amusing in this article is that its author states with great confidence that electronic systems designers don't use anything like rule checkers or typing, when the EDA industry is well-known for its extensive use of va
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by lambdaone 1y ago
This exists already in the form of "ready meals" a.k.a. TV dinners. Fast food shops are already substantially mechanised; huge effots have been made to robotize cooking, but people are still cheaper to hire. It's still nowher
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Buckets of bacterial muck sound a lot more efficient and environmentally friendly than expensive high-tech devices that need to be powered and maintained. And buckets are unlikely to blind anyone if their safety system fails.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I built my own LLM-based interactive text adventure system last year, but in addition to LLMs, it used an auxiliary database to keep track of where everything was, what state it was in, and so on. The LLM thus did two things: first, it used
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Not all solutions are going with just 64 bits worth of seconds, although 64 bit time_t will certainly sort out the Epochalypse. ext4 moved some time ago to 30 bits of fractional resolution (on the order of nanoseconds) and 34 bits of second
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by lambdaone 1y ago
It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has played both a linear isomorphic keyboard like this, and two-dimensional isomorphic keyboards e.g. the Lumatone keyboards
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by lambdaone 1y ago
It doesn't have to be true of everyone to be an entirely plausible hypothesis for why highly-processed mock-meat alternatives are struggling.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Delicious vegetarian food is already a thing, and doesn't require new technology, and it's not necessary to completely eliminate meat-eating to significantly reduce your ethical-harm footprint. It's a matter of changing food
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Purely symbolic AI has been tried and found wanting. Decades of research by hundreds of extremely bright people explored a large number of promising-looking approaches to no avail. Intuition tells us thinking is symbolic; the failure of sym
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by lambdaone 1y ago
You still have to rely on other drivers not being actually suicidal. Just to give one terrifying example scenario: you will pass hundreds, if not thousands of other drivers driving in the opposite direction in the course of a long journey.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Our capacity for psychological projection of our unconscious desires onto inanimate objects is quite amazing. Given what is possible in terms of projection onto things as random as Ouija boards, tealeaves or Tarot cards, I'm surprised
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by lambdaone 1y ago
The (final version of the) physical Phoenix computer still exists, but the disks are missing - see https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/fixed_pages/IBM3084.html A backup was taken before shutdown: https://web.a
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by lambdaone 1y ago
BCPL was great. Cambridge Lisp was written in BCPL, and I found BCPL really pleasant to work in.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I think you might find that the Teletubbies have already solved this problem, in a variety of different configurations, including the rigid and curly antenna you mention above. The benefits of the circular and triangular configurations are
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by lambdaone 1y ago
There would probably be a Universal Common Embedding used as an intermediate representation between people's individual private neural representations. Likely the distant descendant of our open-source neural models. And machines would
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Or they are a hive mind, like Alastair Reynolds' Conjoiners.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I find this simultaneously fascinating and disturbing; once you have someone using this, they become a hitherto-impossible human-AI hybrid, where their mind is now a fusion between the two, completely unnoticed to the user.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I think the Internet warriors are trying to build their own entirely self-sufficient network independent of the state or commercial worlds, which is, as you say, tricky to do only with resources legally available to the general public. Arme
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by lambdaone 1y ago
You could just about squeeze voice down LoRa with a really low-bandwidth codec, as really aggressive codecs can manage < 0.5 kbps. If you want to sacrifice voice quality but use standard codecs, the military MELPe codec has 600 bits&#x2F
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by lambdaone 1y ago
The ISPs also have a system that runs without power so long as their batteries (and gensets) last. Typically 1 or 2 days without refuelling.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
The real "resilience teams" are going to be at the telcos/ISPs, and they will have dark fibre between their networks and autonomous backup power in their data centres. They will be able to do IRC, VoIP telephony, email, etc.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I didn't know about the chip having separate TX and RX pins. There must be a gap in the market for rooftop-to-rooftop LoRa transceivers that don't cost a fortune. Even using something like a 24 dB gain antenna would push range up
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by lambdaone 1y ago
I've just realised I've talked my way into the idea of creating per-city club-operated backbone networks based on something like 100 Mbit point-to-point Ethernet-over-microwave links. With tall buildings as hubs, you might actuall
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by lambdaone 1y ago
Mesh radio bandwidth is pretty poor. Firstly, you have to compete with many interferers (albeit this might get better if the power goes down), including other LoRa radios, but more to the point, long-distance connections consume bandwidth a
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by lambdaone 1y ago
It's substantially harder than linear programming: it's equivalent to SAT, whereas linear programming is merely polynomial-time (and in practice weakly polynomial-time with current algorithms).
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by lambdaone 1y ago
HyperCard was undoubtedly the inspiration for Visual Basic, which for quite some time dominated the bespoke UI industry in the same way web frameworks do today.
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by lambdaone 1y ago
It allows the Mac to use far less RAM to display overlapping windows, and doesn't require any extra hardware. Individual regions are refreshed independently of the rest of the screen, with occlusion, updates, and clipping managed autom
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by lambdaone 1y ago
They don't create contiguous surfaces, and GPUs are optimized to deal with sets of triangles that share vertices (a vertex typically being shared by four to six triangles), rather than not shared at all as with this. "Watertight&q

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