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I had an interesting one yesterday. Someone responded to me on Reddit with very official sounding words to make their argument. I was still dubious and googled a few of the concepts they threw out there.

The AI confidently told me they were right. Then I checked the sources, and found the only source that agreed with them was their own Reddit comment!!!

If I only had a brain...

Tokens don’t matter if you have any slow deterministic processes. The bottleneck is already on testing infrastructure in the work I do. Screenshot tests are slow. Enormous codebases are slow. We have whole teams devoted to speeding these things up, so all I can do is get the agent to call the minimum set of commands necessary to check their latest iteration. This of course flies right in the face of the mountains of slow commands the harness tells it to use, resulting in chaos.

The movie "vice" covers this nicely. The only thing stopping US presidents from acting like kings is precedent.

If you want an ambulance dial 911.

These hotlines are for providing support. They are trained not to escalate to sending someone unless they absolutely deem it necessary (and the caller agrees). My wife has been working the hotline as a volunteer for 6 years and has not once escalated to sending someone.

As others noted, my California county has a dedicated team to respond to this.

So you’re saying I should’ve eaten the cat that lived in my apartment when I was a baby?

I briefly owned a gen 1 leaf. It went from 70 miles of “range” (more like 25) at 100% to 50 in a couple of years of very light driving. Poor guy who bought it from me had all kinds of trouble trying to get it home.

Don’t they usually get a better stock package than the average new hire?

It isn’t empowered to do anything you can’t already do in the UI, so it is useless to me.

Perhaps there is a group that isn’t served by legacy ui discovery methods and it’s great for them, but 100% of chat bots I’ve interacted with have damaged brand reputation for me.

I’ve only taken it once.

I woke up feeling sick, stiff, and lethargic while staying with a friend in NYC in 2008. My friend said “I’ve got just the thing” and gave me one of his adderall.

20 minutes later I was feeling better than I’ve ever felt in my life. We had one of the most exciting, memorable days in my life, just pinging all over the city. That night we went out to a club, where I somehow charmed a girl way out of my league.

We met up the next day and she was very disappointed.

That is to say, it was quite pleasant for me.

I sometimes think I have undiagnosed ADHD (my daughter has it), but this would seem like evidence against it, as it was undeniably stimulating.

The example of the cat and detective hat shows that even with the latest update, it isn't "editing" the image. The generated cat is younger, with bigger, brighter eyes, more "perfect" ears.

I found that when editing images of myself, the result looked weird, like a funky version of me. For the cat, it looks "more attractive" I guess, but for humans (and I'd imagine for a cat looking at the edited cat with a keen eye for cat faces), the features often don't work together when changed slightly.

I think the unstated assumption is that there's a block list somewhere being fed into a guardian model's context

The chain is spazzing out in every shot like it's tightening and loosening over and over again. Mid drives already wear out chains quickly. Seems like this is just asking to snap a chain

There is lots of human feedback. This isn’t a game with an end state that it can easily play against itself. It needs problems with known solutions, or realistic simulations. This is why people wonder if our own universe is a simulation for training an asi.

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Each new model opens up new possibilities for my work. In a year it's gone from sort of useful but I'd rather write a script, to "gets me 90% of the way there with zero shots and 95% with few-shot"

It would be out of date in months.

Things that didn’t work 6 months ago do now. Things that don’t work now, who knows…

Google seems to think monogamish is the new word for it, but that is a really confusing word (I thought it meant you can cuddle puddle with your friends).

The word swinger wasn't mentioned once. Probably because the swingers are just quietly enjoying their lives under the radar.

His little bike helmet is adorable

Western POWs. Eastern front was a whole other thing.

Me? I downloaded a wurly patch “wurly logic” that I can pretty much play like a piano on the reface dx.

I bring it camping all the time.

Hard to say as someone with the power.

Ask a bird what flying is good for and their answer will be encumbered by reality.

Kind of the opposite of “everything looks like a nail”.

Strange headline for a very positive article about Waymo safety

If you think dating apps skew male…

Can’t they just stack these into packs like they do with cells?

4k for a leaf battery? Last I checked it was way more than that.

increasing the volume of predictions produces patterns that often lead to underlying principles.

That article is an absolute hodgepodge of statements and retractions, but the same hitman appears to have also killed the laywer's clients, who were causing problems for the regime. That seems like pretty strong evidence that it wasn't a suicide by hitman, unless the lawyer also had his own clients killed?

The demo they're describing was released after the initial set of demos and made by a third party. I don't think the bar for disclosure is as high when you say "look what some content creators were able to do with this".

Tweens and children are the only ones with supple inner ear linings.

As a 40-yo VR enthusiast, I can't play anything that requires elective X/Y movement (first person shooter) without getting sick. The "teleport" mechanic is really clunky.

My kids can play anything and never get sick.

My parents can't even do a driving sim without getting dizzy in a couple of minutes.