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1,818karma·417submissions·March 30, 2011
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> "Just because I'm smiling, doesn't mean I'm happy" -TrustyScribe I love street art.
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My parents’ home is like this. Control4, etc. They’re left constantly consulting the low-voltage techs who set it up just to do simple things, and are endlessly frustrated by their expensive system. M…
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Some people (like myself) derive enormous contextual object-recognition and GUI navigation assistance from iconography of any kind (such as emojis that prepend any sort of list item). But others find …
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This makes me curious about adopting the 12 Steps (per @labrador's adaptation above) for chronic procrastination, ADHD-caused issues, etc. Any fellow HN-ers have experience with this?
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The author is reasoning through analogies, which can sometimes be helpful, but it's not applicable in this case. This is a thought-provoking post, but unlikely to be an accurate map of the future…
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Is anyone else surprised that Gödel, Escher, Bach is as low on the list as it is? My experience on HN would have me believe it would be in the top 10 for sure. I wonder if it’s a string-matching issue…
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I appreciate Andrej’s optimistic spirit, and I am grateful that he dedicates so much of his time to educating the wider public about AI/LLMs. That said, it would be great to hear his perspective …
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Look into the emerging literature around "needle-in-a-haystack" tests of LLM context windows. You'll see what the poster you're replying to is describing, in part. This can also be…
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Is it fair to view this release as Nvidia strategically flexing that they can compete with their own customers in the model layer -- that they can be as vertically integrated as, say, GDM?
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If you read the original post, the author actually gives the sort of credit to Doctorow that you're providing here, and says it is precisely because he is so well-liked (justifiably) that it'…
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This reminds me of a recent reflection, upon seeing an old journal entry of mine from ~2012, where I seemed to be grappling back then with the same exact issues I do today, namely 'browser tab ov…
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Unless back-channel conversations keep 'competitors' colluding to ensure that 'public SOTA' is ~uniformly distributed...
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Have there been deals like this before in the industry? (with the same express purpose as this, which is to say, creating a dedicated permanent capital vehicle that acquires + holds legacy businesses…
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I get your point, but hardware becomes obsolete. There will be a 'hardware overhang' (or more precisely stated, 'compute overhang') here. That is, unless we find a use for what wil…
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I think that's a passing artifact of the current phase of AI development we find ourselves in. Capabilities (note how I'm not saying 'model intelligence', as I think various agenti…