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Wait, did you actually claim that most work at FAANGs doesn’t require an NDA and that was evidence to support your accusation?

They used to sell one that was much closer, the Horizon Kompact, that is reasonably available used (https://shop.lomography.com/us/horizon-kompakt)

Looks to be an AI summary of:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience...

Scienceblog.com is an extremely low quality site. Looks like an old content farm ‘splog’ that upgraded from markov chain nonsense to LLMs.

No. Something genuine has been lost.

I used to be able to curate my feed and pay attention to people I knew. I could see the photo projects my friends were working on, hear about life updates from past acquaintances, or reach out if someone was having a rough time.

Now, all cohorts, from recent coworkers to childhood friends I made before the first web browser, routinely spew paragraphs of LLM slop to shill a career coaching podcast. It’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Social networks are only a small part of it. It’s email, mailing lists, billboards, sheets of paper stapled to utility poles, newspaper articles, dentist office phone lines, jigsaw puzzles, home furnishings, homework assigned to grade schoolers, birthday cards and on and on.

Absolutely, I had that in my draft but chopped it out along with a digression into black body radiation.

This is conflating two kinds of pink. The pink made from combining ends of the spectrum is most commonly termed ‘hot pink.’

The other, very often just ‘pink,’ is predominantly a light red. A quick and sloppy way to describe this is a light grey with a raised red component.

Also, you can make hot pink without needing to use spectral violet (the ‘end’ of the spectrum) since there are combinations of blue and red that are ‘metameric,’ creating a perceptually matching response in our eyes.

I'm not a hardware expert here but this strikes me as inaccurate, though the actual performance can be scenario dependent.

The Jetson hardware is targeted to low power robotics implementations.

The Jetson Orin is currently marketed as prototyping platform, and I believe it does not generally challenge recent Apple Silicon for inference performance, even considering prefill.

In the latest Blackwell based Jetson Thor, the key advantage over Apple Silicon is its capable FP4 tensor cores, which do indeed help with prefill. However, it also has half the memory bandwidth of an M4 Max, so this puts a big bottleneck on token generation with large context. If your use case did some kind of RAG lookup with very short responses then you might come out ahead using an optimized model, but for straightforward inference you are likely to lag behind Apple Silicon.

At this stage, professional inference solutions ideally use discrete GPUs that are far more capable than either, but those are a different class of monetary expense.

The story as told may be inaccurate but it wasn’t simply ‘what we had at the time’ either.

The 74 minute length resulted from Sony rejecting the Philips 60 minute 11.5cm diameter “Pinkeltje” disc size in favor of a 12cm diameter.

It’s quite possible that Sony’s Norio Ohga simply argued that the 9th symphony or various operas fitting would be enough of an advantage for the slight size increase without meaningfully decreasing portability.

I read Roger Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind when I was younger. It suggested quantum processes as a last ditch effort for a non-deterministic brain. At the time, I thought it was a fascinating prediction of how our minds might work and that reading it made me a smarter person.

I have since come to view it more as an interesting lesson in the pitfalls of hypothesis formation, popular non-fiction, and vanity.

Even so, as a layperson, it's entirely understandable to perk up whenever someone discovers 'tubules' in the brain, even if none of that sufficiently supports any of the collapse requirements of the Penrose/Hammeroff quantum microtubes.

More like, “Gary has a new novel coming out in July”

I made no assertions as to whether or not this was an appropriate trade-off.

The issue at hand, however, is not about any particular media content being censored but about the manipulation of how that media is presented or suppressed by a foreign source. I think people should be given the freedom to choose what to view, but I am also not naive enough to think that we as a whole are not susceptible to influence, often without even being aware of how we are influenced.

To the end that the US has a national security interest here: We have other laws on foreign political influence like FARA and the Logan Act that have similar tradeoffs around free speech and free association, but these elicit much less controversy. There’s a fundamental question: should the ideals of free speech be allowed to undermine the framework that allows that free speech to exist? To some, saying yes to that question is like arguing the US Constitution is a death pact.

Simple exposure to culture, propaganda and points of view is child’s play compared to the modern strategy of inciting discord by amplifying existing differences and mass scale disinformation.

Don’t forget that part of the reason there’s a compartmentalization between Douyin and Tiktok is China’s own concerns about their nationals being exposed to outside influence in a manner far greater than what the US dictates the other way.

I really enjoyed TikTok and will miss it, but it’s hard to argue that it didn’t at least provide the potential for the CCP to more directly have an intentionally negative influence on western audiences.

If the only place nearby to kick a ball around with friends is on an incline, turns to mud half the year, filled with dog droppings, pocked by holes in the ground, peppered with fire ants, lined with poison ivy behind the lopsided structures that stand in for goals, and you utterly hate it-- you might spend a lot of time there anyway.

AT&T was broken up based on location, hence the term Regional Bell Operating Companies.

I’m not sure how the relative straightforwardness of that approach maps to a company that basically has two main supply chains (737 in Renton and everything else in Everett with North Charleston as a satellite.)

Regarding the similarities between Hawaiian and Japanese: There are theories among linguists that there is a connection between Austronesian languages and Japanese. These theories don’t seem to be infeasible, but are currently lacking sufficient supporting evidence.

So, it’s still no. They sell to a third-party company and forget about it.

You can buy Target return/overstock pallets at auction, and a deals account likely just resells that. Target doesn’t have to deal with it on an item level at that point.

From my experience you just weren’t actually billed until they were done, it could be many hours after you left the store.

I think “Nothing Gold Can Stay” fits the mold. It’s a heartbreaking poem of beautiful construction and depth that is dismissed because it has been heavily cited by popular culture. It doesn’t help that what it has to say, at first glance, appears to be cut short by its title:

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Early versions of the poem show meandering sequential steps of revision that suddenly give way to a less intuitive flourish that anchors it.

This contains the best description of the revisions I have found online- https://poemshape.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/the-making-of-rob...

truly a leap that I’m not sure many at the time were prepared to take.

I mean, at least one other company took the leap a few years before Ikea did: Sauder.

Yeah it’s much closer to if Jony Ive worked at Suzuki or something.

I think the issue was playing the same artist or album back-to-back. So they made ‘smart shuffle’ in 2005. (https://www.wired.com/story/requiem-for-the-ipod-shuffle/)

A shuffle already implies shuffling like a deck of cards, so you wouldn’t get duplicates unless you had two of the same card, and I that’s how it was described in the manual.

You are absolutely correct, I mistakenly thought you were responding to a different comment.

Pickett argued there were original elements, not me. But whether they existed didn’t matter to the court. From the decision:

“We need not pursue the issue of originality of derivative works. The Copyright Act grants the owner of a copyright the exclusive right to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work. […] So Pickett could not make a derivative work based on the Prince symbol without Prince's authorization even if Pickett's guitar had a smidgeon of originality.”

Did you not study Pickett v Prince in your class?

To the the contrary, in the US, there is caselaw that, if your unauthorized derivative work is infringing, then you do not own the original elements of that work either. See Pickett v Prince.

The Quest app lets you record mixed reality and there are a decent number of videos of people ordering coffee or baking or whatever in that mode. It turns out that the quality is generally much higher from those recordings than it looks live through the lens.

An example of in camera footage (and narrative saying it is misleading) is at 1:18 in https://youtu.be/Gh_46fSwY4U

I have never seen people so excited for VR/AR as they have been by the in-device recording of AR views. Generally everyone is careful to clarify that the real experience is full of warping and distortion, but people are genuinely enjoying even that poor version of what is to come.

VR gaming is maybe not the killer app that VR fans think it is, only Beat Saber has really come close. A lot of us genuinely tried to get into VR gaming (for my part I’ve owned: DK2, Rift, GearVR, Rift S, Quest, Quest 2) but decided 2D gaming is better in the current state of things.

That’s a really good point about video compression degrading transitions, and it follows that the blocky compression effects will (and have[1]) been used intentionally to move between shots.

The recently ‘memeified’ Godfather dissolve[2] between mustache and tree feels a lot like the no-key frame video codec transition in how the portions that move grab my attention first.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression_artifact#Artistic_...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pg9JbmGqM

How is this line any different than the sleazy ‘work for free and you’ll get exposure!’ grift that people constantly do with creative workers?