var_cw

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by var_cw 1y ago
The point is how much non-vision sensors vs pure vision, helps humans to be humans. Don't you think this point was proven by LLMs already that generalizability doesn't come from multi-modality but by scaling a single modality itse
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by var_cw 1y ago
have few thoughts on this, esp after working in voice AI since couple of years 1. > "What’s the voice equivalent of a thumbs-up or a keyboard shortcut?" Current ASR systems are much narrow in terms of just capturing the transcr
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by var_cw 2y ago
there seems to be a common theme around not believing in the idea/product/people too deeply, thus leading to faulty or mis-step execution. would it be right to say that? a contrast to others who are not a "failure"? mad
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by var_cw 2y ago
yeah well his 2024 "predictions" were nothing but regression to mean
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by var_cw 2y ago
this almost seems like win-win, leonardo ends up as amassing compute and licensed data and canva gets to expand their revenue by offering better a stack for image gen, what am i missing though?
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by var_cw 2y ago
imo most of the software play is going to be an infra play where the max of value is being provided/captured by the big tech there will def be some opportunities for mid-tier software(not necessarily saas) companies where they end up l
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by var_cw 2y ago
> Software has been and always will be fundamentally a problem of communication. its a problem of communication with a system. that system can be a human, a group of humans, some esoteric knowledge graph, internet or even a single webpag
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by var_cw 3y ago
P(are we alone) = more less
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by var_cw 3y ago
I see alot of new founders just jumping into AI cause it's cool, all of them should give a read to get the reality of being an "AI startup"
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by var_cw 3y ago
AI's matching hit rates in drug discovery is a game-changer. It's like AlphaFold just gave us the GPS coordinates for the biochemical treasure we've been blindly digging for. LSD's serotonin link and the quest for simila
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by var_cw 4y ago
Founder of dubverse.ai here. As someone who has done production level TTS(deployed on India's largest news network) I can say there is alot of room for improvement in terms of intelligibility. Most of these open source toolkits/mo
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by var_cw 4y ago
wow this is such an incredible idea reminds me of the earth-moon fire pole https://what-if.xkcd.com/157/
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by var_cw 4y ago
i think this type of beaming tech would be a prior to dyson sphere dyson sphere still needs a lot of huge engineering upgrades at scale in order to reach there humanity will have go to through series of such mega scale projects
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by var_cw 4y ago
> How’s AI going to do that better than a fellow human? The idea of AI getting better than a fellow human is flawed at the definition itself. Instead of focusing of AI being generally better than a fellow human we should look at how AI g
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by var_cw 5y ago
I wish a day comes when the compute at inference is more optimized than the raw camera sensor processing Is this too much to ask for? :/
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by var_cw 5y ago
Pretty soon. But won't you prefer subs over dubs for anime?
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by var_cw 5y ago
Don't you think thats more of a translation problem rather than how well it was spoken?