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fredley
12,119karma·1,819submissions·July 26, 2011
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I thought the picture on your home page was very cool, and then I moused over it. Absolutely incredible.
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The 3Blue1Brown video on holograms is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmKQsSDlaa4
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Very nice, but the map seems to be in the wrong position vs. the trains/3d elements.
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> "Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."
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As an OS, I wish the user would launch fewer programs. What a chore.
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3) Buy all the RAM, increasing the barrier to entry to push back the tide a bit, in time for a juicy IPO.
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> To William’s complete lack of surprise, the little cellar under the shed was much better built than the shed itself. But then, practically everywhere in Ankh-Morpork had cellars that were once th…
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The people behind these funds are playing Monopoly IRL, and this in particular makes me very angry. The UK high street has been a notable victim. Gradually, over the past couple of decades, company af…
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I think if local models catch up with current SOTA then that might not happen. Either way, I'm don't think the long-term for OAI, Anthropic etc. really holds up.
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Increasingly I see marketing as akin to LLM training. We are all being trained (by activating and reinforcing neural pathways in our meaty heads) to respond to certain stimuli in a certain way (e.g.: …
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I don't want to learn how GIMP works. I want to edit photos.
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Some people do. I know my way around Photoshop very well, but do not use any advanced features. I tried using GIMP once and bounced off immediately, trying to do what I knew how to do in Photoshop was…
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Almost exactly the playbook I followed (unwittingly) when designing a logotype for my Playdate game recently: https://play.date/games/hyper-vector/ …
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He did his _last_ mile in 4.17. Insane.
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I need a version of this which swears loudly when an assumption it made turns out to be wrong, with the volume/passion/verbosity correlated with how many tokens it's burned on the incor…
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https://archive.is/92Xsy
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Playdate games! Super constrained/lo-fi/retro and really a joy to program without AI. Hyper Vector is dropping on Catalog next week!
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I had the UK Age verification popup today. It verified immediately based on the age of my Apple account, I didn't have to take any further action. I am much younger than the OP, and probably than…
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It's like the mastered Factorio and applied it to real life.