madsmith

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by madsmith 11d ago
Unfortunately I can no longer take any official communication from my government at face value. They have lost my trust that they are operating as directed by the letter of the law without fear nor favor.
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by madsmith 7mo ago
Not sure if it’s using the same FSD decision matrix but my model S chimed at me to drive into the intersection while sitting at a red light Last night with absolutely zero possibility it saw a green light anywhere in the intersection. Perfe
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by madsmith 8mo ago
Having handed over control of my vehicles to FSD many times, I’ve yet to come away from the experience feeling that my vehicle was operating in a safer regime for the general public than within my own control.
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by madsmith 1y ago
Something like 400 people just died because of a claim about nuclear weapons which is not backed up by evidence. Claims that have been echoed for decades… Purportedly 400 people just died… Was it because a sovereign country wants to have
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by madsmith 1y ago
Model Control Protocol is not Model Context Protocol. We might be suffering from too many acronyms. (Just to be clearer, I think you’re referencing on the wrong MCP)
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by madsmith 2y ago
Where positive impact is purely defined as a reduction in investment on public initiatives and ignoring the much more complicated returns those investments may have produced both fiscally and socially.
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by madsmith 2y ago
Amazing project.
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by madsmith 2y ago
I’m sure the 30k is below cost assuming Tesla makes some revenue on the taxi service over the lifetime of the vehicle.
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by madsmith 2y ago
The vehicle decided to go into oncoming traffic to clear a light change?! What type of an excuse is that. The vehicle should not have been in an intersection it is unable to clear.
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by madsmith 2y ago
As much as the headline leads to satirization, I think this is a good thing. I’d much rather have someone who’s leading the forefront of a technical innovation on the board than not. At least they can participate and inform the board what i
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by madsmith 2y ago
There’s a sentiment which isn’t really being expressed here so far. I don’t begrudge people who are less fortunate and need help. I don’t enjoy my food any less because someone who is hungry can get free food from a food bank. There are so
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by madsmith 2y ago
“OpenTofu Project was recently made aware of a letter by HashiCorp’s lawyers, alleging that OpenTofu was not respecting the terms of its BSL license governing its Terraform codebase. OpenTofu vehemently disagrees with any suggestion that it
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by madsmith 3y ago
Just leaving this here without making simplistic claims of what constitutes a fact. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_terrorism )
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by madsmith 3y ago
Having worked at Facebook, albeit a long time ago. It’s far more likely that a conflict of events caused a false positive of an Automated spam system than Facebook giving a crap about privacy campaigns that hurt revenue. But alas, we humans
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by madsmith 3y ago
I’m running and finishing missions daily. There are bugs, yes, but it is imminently playable.
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by madsmith 3y ago
35mm film is equivalent to about 21MP. https://api.filmfix.com/blog.asp?post=599
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by madsmith 3y ago
I would think it has to do with the IP owners using the likeness of the actors to continue to market the show year after year.
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by madsmith 3y ago
All knowledge is lossy compression. My thinking “the enemy gate is down” when considering the tokens “Ender’s Game” is my recalling a learned association of those tokens to the given token string. My knowing that doesn’t strip the copyright
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by madsmith 3y ago
I believe LLMs should be allowed to read/view/consume content and learn from it even if that content has a copyright. We phrase it like somehow the material is being copied into the LLM, but that’s not what it’s doing. It’s buildi
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by madsmith 3y ago
I’ve been trying to install git on the hypervisor of my smartOS install intermittently for a year. I run into system package conflicts or key signing errors and then I give up and switch to a zone that isn’t so borked with package issues. T
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by madsmith 3y ago
Except that generative AI is actually generative. It isn’t recreating a work by shape and line and form. It is using the knowledge gained from studying many works to determine when given a random pixel, what color pixel should it and its ne
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by madsmith 4y ago
And the other 30% is unknown so we can’t say they selectively comply. It’s quite possible the other 30% are invalid warrants, in which case there’s nothing to comply with.
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by madsmith 4y ago
I’m biased because I used to work for Facebook a long time ago. So take my words with a grain of salt. But Facebook research really wants to build amazing tech to power new experiences. The company has attracted many smart and amazing devel
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by madsmith 4y ago
I gave it a picture of the Mahi Mahi and jambalaya I was having in a restaurant. It showed me pictures of food. Fair enough. But it’s completely disingenuous to say it’s finding attribution to any images you give it. Finding similar picture
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by madsmith 4y ago
I think it’s misleading to say Tesla faked the driving. They were running one off software, purpose trained for the route, showing the golden run that was successful.. yes. But it was computer vision and self driving that they demonstrated.
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by madsmith 4y ago
1) it makes the engineers happy to be able to speak about the interesting projects they are working on and give back to the wider community. 2) it serves as a venue for attracting other talented candidates who are likewise minded on working
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by madsmith 4y ago
This thread was a delightful read. Just NOT in twitter. I gave up on twitter and signed out of it years ago and refuse to sign back in. I spent a good hour of my life looking for ways to read this thread. I personally know Yishan and value
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by madsmith 4y ago
That you’ve never felt this way does not preclude that others may. Texts do not convey emotion. Allow verification of nuanced points with simple interjections and interrogatives. The limitation of threads of conversation to simplify discour
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by madsmith 5y ago
That is entirely untrue. So many student films, home movies, YouTube posts get shown before human review. You seem to be wildly underestimating the complexity of the task and the long tail of content creation. There are 1.9 billion daily us
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by madsmith 5y ago
Wow… someone just nuked this right off of the front page.

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