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walrus01

36,604karma·8,692submissions·February 19, 2016
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> But honestly if I started a new AI lab named it Skynet Corp you're too late https://skynetai.dev/
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Don't forget to put the special LLM trained to eliminate PII leaks in the Gavin Belson signature box. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=gavin+bel... …
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Head of Ethics at Palantir, obviously.
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It's a $100,000 PR stunt, I'm sure they're looking at the press/media coverage and consider it worth it. Any actual institutional knowledge gained of how to make an LLM run a retai…
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I'm curious if it's how it was prompted, to start a store selling small but not too cheap household items, or if the LLM intentionally chose an aesthetic and store to sell things that are ve…
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I know, I just don't think it's a huge jump from "take multiple photos over a 2s period from one camera and stack them" to "take several photos from discrete physical cameras …
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I think that something which already has sensors/automation/inventory control built into it, and pre-defined categories for products like certain types of large Japanese vending machines mig…
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Indeed, and rent in big cities for food service establishments is getting out of hand as well. The local Shawarma place now is something like $18 for one basic chicken shawarma but they're also p…
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Sure, I mean from the day to day operations of selling a product to the customer, maybe it does fine? People in the article say it's friendly and cooperative (perhaps a bit too much). I was thin…
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From the article: > Luna has failed miserably in that mission and is down $62,000. Mr. Petersson and Mr. Backlund said they thought Luna would eventually get smarter and more business-savvy and wer…
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Phones have been doing this for a LONG time, if you had a oneplus 7 pro (released may 2019) and took it into an extremely dark area, like where your eyes can't see anything at all, and take a &#x…
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I think this is actually how oneplus phones have taken 'night' mode photos for a very long time in their default camera app, it takes multiple exposures and uses the movement sensor in the p…
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You actually don't think that the world's largest REITs hire lobbyists at the municipal, state and federal levels? That's an extremely naive and uninformed position.
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I don't think this is a viable or realistic option in 2026/2027. Try to imagine what your own personal reaction would have been when you were 14 years old if 90%+ of your peers had an iphone…
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Or guarantee that even if you provide such data to a nice, friendly, democratically run and ethically managed administration, that some future regime change to a completely different group of people w…
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One personal observation, the early commercial internet as it was transitioning from universities/research labs/certain high-tech firms into a mass market thing with millions of users, it ha…
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(yet). Contractors for the government that will be happy to help implement the violence are coming soon. If they're not already here by some metrics.
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> I see you're putting "no internet access without scanning your ID" Other countries have already implemented this or are making strenuous efforts towards it. In Pakistan right now y…
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> the modern internet is a harmful experience for young minds Because of the goal of advertising revenue as the ultimate driver as to build an addictive permanent scroll of slop on tiktok or instag…
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You think that the size of investment firms that own something like, a good sized chunk of midtown Manhattan class A and B commercial real estate aren't capable of deploying social and tradtional…
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I recently put some thought into what I would have done if I had encountered "parental controls" to use the Internet when I first encountered it as a young teen in 1992. I would have made it…
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> trying to plan for managing the fallout Put in a less polite way, they're preparing for the metaphorical pitchforks and torches held by mobs of the common people which might manifest themse…
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Epstein and grooming gangs are both real. Not that the whole "grooming gangs" problem hasn't been vastly amplified and turned into a repeated media talking point by a bunch of the extre…
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basically: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wont-somebody-please-think-of... …
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It will also be very interesting to see some direct head to head benchmarks between qwen 3.6 27B (let's say all at Q8 XK quantization, using the GGUF that unsloth publishes as a baseline) vs 3.8 …
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Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!
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cellular carriers are using some variety of 3GPP rev-whatever standard, the UWB mentioned in this article is something totally different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR htt…
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