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by robotresearcher 7d ago
See also: Power steering Jet engines Anesthetics Rubber tires Flat screen TVs How grubby of them to take a high end feature and make it more affordable.
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by robotresearcher 8d ago
You do. ASML, ARM, Linux (originally), Spotify, Logitech. Novartis, Astra Zenica.
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by robotresearcher 9d ago
What name do you use for an approach that probably gets a better than random success rate (without guaranteeing that)? I’m leaving out the ‘pseudo-scientific’ part of GP’s description, since it doesn’t entail anything technically.
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by robotresearcher 9d ago
So it’s a heuristic. Lots of very valuable heuristics exist.
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by robotresearcher 11d ago
The word was invented by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist. He described ideas as reproducing with variation under selection pressure, which is the definition of the evolutionary mechanism. There is a more recent use of ‘meme’ to r
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by robotresearcher 12d ago
Oh, I see. That’s a very different requirement. It’s not a technical limitation but a product decision to not allow training. An advantage of properly open source models is that you can train and tune them. It’s an interesting challenge tho
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by robotresearcher 12d ago
Well, Go is a pretty complex game, and AlphaGo RL’d its way to excellence just by playing the game like you describe.
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by robotresearcher 12d ago
“Hello, how are you?”
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by robotresearcher 13d ago
The second half of the article talks about avoiding this, by not keeping any separate index of the (un)allocated orders. All the orders are allocated, and all are processed by the same pipeline, it's just that some of them are nearly n
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by robotresearcher 13d ago
Whether it's regular ordinary everyday slang or not, it's exactly hyperbole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
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by robotresearcher 13d ago
If this was awesome, we would have it on wheelchairs. We very rarely do. Stairs are built for legs.
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by robotresearcher 14d ago
> We either go to the store and bring back groceries ourselves or pay a helper to do it. Or order it from Amazon, in which case there was likely a robot in the pipeline. Robots are very widely deployed, but almost entirely invisibly to t
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by robotresearcher 14d ago
The hope is that RL in simulation can fill the gap. Also there’s imitating humans, via a suitable mapping from the human sensor, control and configuration space to the robot’s. Some groups have gathered video and other data from humans doin
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by robotresearcher 14d ago
Yuck. I still fancy my chances buying an app-free toilet seat for a while.
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by robotresearcher 14d ago
Do smart TVs require an app? Or do they have a self-hosted setup process?
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by robotresearcher 14d ago
I agree with the thesis that expecting an app is a non-trivial ask of the user, particularly for those with relevant disabilities. But if you purchase a toilet that needs an app, it’s not really the toilet that obligated you to use the app.
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by robotresearcher 14d ago
Right, but “two or three out of potentially hundreds” doesn’t mean the same as “hundreds”. That’s the hyperbole the parent was pointing out.
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by robotresearcher 19d ago
Just did the fun thought experiment of playing back this comment thread in my head ten years in the past and it's amusingly incomprehensible.
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by robotresearcher 19d ago
I have two thoughts simultaneously about the anthropomorphisation of these systems: 1. we should do it less, because it distorts our ability to think about them properly. Calling these processes 'thinking', 'holidays', e
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by robotresearcher 19d ago
Courts do this stuff all the time. Meta was just fined $18B for making their services addictive, and failing on purpose to keep kids away. That number is entirely made up. How it works is that the complainant makes an argument with an amoun
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by robotresearcher 19d ago
Your additional explanation does help clarify your meaning. Serving up records with TTLs in the past is so deeply weird that I didn't even consider that was what the grandparent had in mind.
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by robotresearcher 19d ago
No, it's using a fridge in the understanding of the fundamental limitations of fridges. You asked ‘why would I want to use a service that serves stale data’. The answer is you don’t want to. But if you have a distributed system your on
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by robotresearcher 20d ago
Every distributed system serves stale data. You can define away ‘stale’ by picking a consistency model, but look inside the consistency machinery and you will see fresher data you aren’t allowed to have yet.
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by robotresearcher 20d ago
This is smart, task-specific caching in front of database.
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by robotresearcher 20d ago
The household robot business other than vacuums are a classic way to lose your shirt, sadly. Many, many startups and several megacorps have burned their money. Robots are so fun to make, if you have that spirit in you! But alas they are v
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by robotresearcher 20d ago
For me it’s more that you can show them your financial and medical data without BigCo looking over your shoulder.
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by robotresearcher 21d ago
Humans are not aligned with each other and there is no consensus on what we should align with each other on. So of course, no, there is no ideal alignment specification.
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by robotresearcher 21d ago
Or good old fashioned privacy. There’s no law or business advantage preventing me giving my financial transaction and medical info to Google/Anthropic/OpenAI but I just don’t want to.
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by robotresearcher 22d ago
The form factor of a humanoid is enormously difficult to achieve human level or better performance. This is progress. Just the energy storage and compact high torque motors are very challenging, and that’s before the control problem. Humans
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by robotresearcher 22d ago
‘Apple Foundation Model’

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