rocmcd

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by rocmcd 16d ago
Same here. The video looks cool, but what I see is much messier and hard to identify shapes and objects. Tried on latest Brave and Firefox on Arch Linux.
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by rocmcd 1mo ago
I find it ironic that between the money they have raised, the talent they have in-house, and the quasi-super intelligence they have at their disposal, you would think they could have just created their own brand of smartphone (or done somet
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by rocmcd 1mo ago
It's hard to read Gwern's accompanying article without seeing this for what it is, which is a kind of mania. I'm sure he means well and is genuine in his aspirations, but what's outlined for GA is framing LLM's as q
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by rocmcd 2mo ago
If you didn't have the time to write something, why would you expect someone to spend the time to read it? Did _you_ read all of the documentation you generated?
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by rocmcd 3mo ago
"Hyperactive and distracted" is not necessarily the exact reason, but there is a large, well documented gap in performance for boys vs girls in elementary school (at least in the US).
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by rocmcd 5mo ago
Well put. I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment. Maybe this is me just being angry at the new world that's being created, but the beauty of the open source ecosystem was humans giving away things they found useful in the hope that
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by rocmcd 5mo ago
Maybe not every 12 months / session, but I definitely think having a way to "sunset" certain types of laws would be a net positive on society.
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by rocmcd 5mo ago
Lovely. Thanks for sharing. Are there directories for similar items? I love the idea of a simple, single purpose device that has maintenance and repair-ability at the forefront.
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by rocmcd 5mo ago
You're getting downvoted, but this is really the only answer here. Companies won't stop acting this way as long as their shitty behavior is rewarded, and people keep rewarding their shitty behavior. No amount of legislation is goi
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by rocmcd 6mo ago
Unless you have worked with Oracle or other big enterprises, you may not realize the scale of how these companies operate and the breadth of what they actually do. Just by looking at their product page[0] you can see they offer software, ha
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by rocmcd 6mo ago
One thing that I think goes under discussed when it comes to the big AI companies is the _insane_ transfer of knowledge from sources like Britannica (among others) to the AI companies, which now use that knowledge to make money. If deemed l
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by rocmcd 6mo ago
I couldn't agree more. I think what has happened is that everything has become so fragmented due to the sheer volume of content being created that discovery is still a challenge. If you are someone who thinks that music, movies, novels
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by rocmcd 6mo ago
As a parent, this is a hilarious comment. This is like saying "why don't you just teach your cat to use the toilet instead of using a litter box?". I mean, yeah, that sounds awesome. Given infinite time and energy, I'm s
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by rocmcd 7mo ago
There's no need for (local) AI acceleration if you are leveraging a remote LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, etc). The vast, vast majority of users are most likely just making API calls to a remote service. No need for specialized or beefy hardwar
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by rocmcd 7mo ago
I agree with the sentiment, but that is completely unrelated to the topic at hand. Just because Congress is stuck doesn't mean the Executive gets to do whatever they want.
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by rocmcd 8mo ago
You would think that if you genuinely wanted to curb illegal immigration, then this would be the way to do it. People come here for money. Take away the money and they will no longer come. Hell, you would probably have bipartisan support fo
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by rocmcd 8mo ago
Yeah, I'm not aware of any regulation preventing new painters/drywallers from entering the market that would drive up costs. This is a pretty straightforward example of the Baumol effect, where _anything_ bespoke (not manufactured
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by rocmcd 8mo ago
I don't doubt that they have improved a lot this year, but the same claims were being made last year as well. And the year before that. I still haven't seen anything that proves to me that people are truly that much more productiv
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by rocmcd 8mo ago
This has been my biggest question through this whole AI craze. If AI is making everyone X% more productive, where is the proof? Shouldn't we expect to see new startups now able to compete with large enterprises? Shouldn't we be se
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by rocmcd 9mo ago
QA? What's that? /s In all seriousness, it's been a long time since I've seen a dedicated QA position instead of just assuming that devs will test as they go.
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by rocmcd 10mo ago
The mummy example is interesting, but we're not trying to reanimate mummies in an artificial way so I'm not sure it poses the same issue. There's also an educational and historical aspect with mummies that is missing here. Th
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by rocmcd 10mo ago
Maybe I'm getting old, but, I have to say, seeing stuff like "Alan Turing™" (a legend and titan of computing history, followed by a ™) really bums me out. I don't believe for one second that any of the deceased people li
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by rocmcd 10mo ago
Exactly, they wouldn't even need all of the emails in gmail for that example, just the ones from a specific account. The real equivalent here would be if gmail itself was injecting NYT articles into your emails. I'm assuming in th
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by rocmcd 11mo ago
> I haven't studied much about political/economic ideologies and at this point don't even know where to start. "The Road to Serfdom" by FA Hayek[0] is a good start. There's also a Wikipedia page outlining th
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by rocmcd 11mo ago
I don't mean to be rude, but why would you give them even more money after screwing it up so bad the first time? You're just rewarding bad behavior at this point.
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by rocmcd 11mo ago
What I don't get is how did the pilots not see it? Are they that hard to see, or was vision obscured? The balloon in the attached picture looks pretty large.
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by rocmcd 11mo ago
> You could buy three for the price of a Tesla. Except you could actually buy a Tesla today, which is not something you can do for a Slate. Also they don't even have expected delivery dates or official pricing yet, so who knows whe
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by rocmcd 1y ago
"obviously rubbish" is doing a lot of work here. How do you gauge whether something is obviously rubbish?
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by rocmcd 1y ago
That's still how it is, at least for me in the US. I've never had to interact with a chat bot for anything, but maybe it depends on what you're returning.
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by rocmcd 1y ago
I use Firefox (dev edition, v142.0b9) and it works great.

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