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by varelse 2y ago
It's certainly one of the few things that actually gets their attention. But aren't there more important things than this for the Luigis among us? I would suspect there's good money in offering a service to detect AI content
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by varelse 2y ago
Mamba-ish models are the breakthrough to cheap inference if they pan out. Calling a dead-end already is just silly.
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by varelse 2y ago
The heart rate monitors in Google and Fitbit devices are insanely inaccurate during exercise. I had suspected as much already. Whenever a brisk walk indicated my pulse was 150 or so. But first, I could not reproduce this wearing a halter de
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by varelse 2y ago
Bezos? Abandoned by his dad who was literally an alcoholic clown and raised by his mom and her 2nd husband Bezos? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Jorgensen So $300K in 1994 is about $640K. That's nice but about
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by varelse 2y ago
It's the past. I've let go of it as much as I can. But I will always have what if questions about it. But broadly, academia was a dead-end. I should have never gotten a doctorate, it was a waste of time. And I doubly should never
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by varelse 2y ago
ACE score of 5. I turned out badly. Rich, but badly. Just ask any of the data faking cheating scientists I channeled my trauma into exposing who got me kicked out of academia. But that's how I got rich. Money changes everything. You wi
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by varelse 2y ago
It was only last year that I realized the country music opening theme "Benson, Arizona" was about relativistic travel through space, shortly after playing it because I had just driven through Benson, Arizona.
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by varelse 2y ago
In 5 to 10 years we will have likely moved on to the next big model architecture just like it was all about convolutional networks 5 to 10 years ago despite the pivotal paper being published in 2017.
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by varelse 2y ago
Sure, people hate tech. And tech clearly hates its own customers. So why hasn't something that doesn't hate its own customers disrupted tech? If anything, the enshittification is just getting worse. Prime video's random ads a
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by varelse 3y ago
Ministry For The Future was far too optimistic. Termination Shock presents how late stage capitalism and the accelerationists would team up to make money on half-baked science to save the planet. The West will probably be fine but we'r
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by varelse 3y ago
Why the burgeoning economic development of full self-driving space needles! Sure, their former homes will be uninhabitable, but imagine how much they'll get selling the land? Why they'll be able to move to Antarctica if that'
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by varelse 3y ago
There are a ton of contaminants in our drinking water that the EPA recommends you remove and we know they are harmful but they are not mandated to do so. Get yourself a water filter because they're not going to filter it for you.
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by varelse 3y ago
And that's the consequence of giving the market leader a decade and a half head start. No one and I mean no one was preventing AMD or Intel from building a competitive hardware and software ecosystem other than themselves.
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by varelse 3y ago
Yes drugs should be legalized and regulated nationally just like Portugal did. But also we should absolutely unambiguously no excuses house and feed the homeless the end full stop we have plenty of money. It just needs to be redirected to d
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by varelse 3y ago
Or simplify a white list for all cell phones by default. But just like they make it hard to keep your snail mailbox from being clogged from garbage, this remains hard.
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by varelse 3y ago
Which is pretty much what the proposed regulations on AI will do as well whist destroying small company innovation and treating consumer AI like software and media piracy. I guess the president felt bad about banning GPU sales to China so h
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by varelse 3y ago
I once had a manager at my dad's company steal my code for my opus Star Trek game. He left tracks so I followed those tracks into his account and made the game absolutely no fun to play by making it impossibly hard (1979). He then had
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by varelse 3y ago
The real question would be why anyone cares about empty mission statements like this anyway? Parsing them for meaning is nearly as useful as parsing your morning bowel movement to predict your day.
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by varelse 3y ago
The biggest tell I got out of this article is OpenAI's willingness to pay $1M per AI researcher but they only want to pay $300K for their new hardware design people. I think we know how that will play out, but narcissists gotta narciss
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by varelse 3y ago
NUMAAF I guess, but it doesn't seem like they did anything interesting with it yet.
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by varelse 3y ago
Runway runs circles around zeroscope. But that shouldn't be a blocker for zeroscope to catch up and/or surpass. Both runway and pika Labs deliver better quality at the moment. Evidence: struggling with all three of them. Runway ou
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by varelse 3y ago
George Hotz: because eventually Elon Musk's false promises and over the top shenanigans just weren't doing it for you anymore...
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by varelse 3y ago
Sure, they give you two computers. But you better not ask for a GPU!
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by varelse 3y ago
I drive a class B up to 400 miles a day. You really don't want to drive more than 8 hours daily no more than you want to work more than 8 hours daily. And I say that as someone who went from San Diego to Seattle in a single crazy marat
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by varelse 4y ago
It's a feed forward network guaranteed to halt with an obscene power envelope that tells lies with an air of absolute certainty. Not scared, but really annoyed with those who are...
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by varelse 4y ago
Too bad about all the sexual harassment, but he was good people.
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by varelse 4y ago
Legalize it all and regulate it to protect sex workers. Make pimps and their equivalents obsolete. It would be better if we could provide better options to those who end up turning to sex work, but that's crazy talk. So let them make t
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by varelse 5y ago
The concept of anything a light year away or more being able to wipe out life on Earth is pretty mind-boggling to me. I wish we focused more on things that were mind-boggling rather than mind killing. But that's just not how this cultu
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by varelse 5y ago
Anything beyond ~50 light years is out of range.
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by varelse 5y ago
New variants are now emerging every 30 days. Good luck with that plan. Why is the concept that life finds a way so hard to accept? We're getting our asses kicked by this thing. But I would agree with you if the variants would just stop

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