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www.nicowesterdale.com 3mo ago

Why LLMs Can't Play Chess

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What Does LLM Stand For?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Anyone else not so excited about the metaverse?

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www.bbc.com 3y ago

Elon Musk suspends Kanye West from Twitter for inciting violence

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www.bbc.com 3y ago

Twitter to ban unlabelled parody accounts

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Can I vent a portable AC into a thermos flask?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How are world leaders able to visit Ukraine?

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www.bbc.com 4y ago

Plane passengers sent crash images via AirDrop before takeoff

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www.bbc.co.uk 4y ago

Alexa tells girl to put coin in plug socket

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: You can reinvent browser UI technologies, what would you do differently?

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cybernews.com 5y ago

Father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee Prepares ‘Do-Over’

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Show HN: UK Company Dashboard and Search (Lockdown Project)

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: If you could reinvent the web browser, what would you do differently?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Demand for a less complex, yet beautiful alternative to PDFs?

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techcrunch.com 6y ago

Oxford scientists develop coronavirus test that gives results in just 30 minutes

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

WeWork rescue 'hands Adam Neumann $1.7bn payout'

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www.bbc.co.uk 6y ago

Fake news: BBC and tech firms join forces to fight disinformation

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www.techradar.com 6y ago

I'm sick of Chrome eating all my RAM

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Netflix shares sink 10% as subscriber take-up slows

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Does Apple violate anti-competition laws by disallowing other browsers?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: How do I get into electronics from scratch?

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onezero.medium.com 7y ago

The End of App Stores Is Rapidly Approaching

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en.wikipedia.org 7y ago

The Hindu Milk Miracle

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www.bbc.com 7y ago

Shares in Beyond Meat up 163% on first day of trading

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Samsung's folding phone breaks after 1 day

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Genius Bar caught ripping customer off on camera

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

A really simple guide to India’s general election

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Jeff Bezos: World's richest man agrees $35bn divorce

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Mushrooms may 'reduce the risk of mild brain decline'

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www.bbc.co.uk 7y ago

Facebook suffers the most severe outage in its history

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I don't think they're attacking you, but suggesting you read more carefully. The information provided is correct and clear, but you need to let go of your own biases when consuming it.

I personally prefer the M to the B. I guess as an engineer, noticing the units comes pretty naturally.

I found the same with a number of LLMs playing scrabble. Absolute gibberish coming out of them. Almost better off getting it to design a proper scrabble engine, and then play against that!

No doubt that AI is useful, but not generally useful for everything.

QEMU 10.1.0 11 months ago

A great piece of software that makes my and my dev team's life infinitely better and easier. A big thank you to the QEMU developers :)

How so? You said my comment was ridiculous because I was implying stupidity or a lack of evolution in the general sense, but my comment concerned the evolution of their humility, not their evolution in general. My last comment simply clarified that.

A less evolved sense of humility (as I originally put it) does not equate to stupid. They are far from stupid - they are ruthless consumers of every scrap of advantage they can get, including the best education, food, clothes to name but a few things. They believe they deserve that advantage.

In fact, they see the person who can't afford lunch as stupid - after all, an intelligent person should at least be able to get lunch - it's so easy! What they don't realise is how much each person is impacted by their own starting position in life (which, I believe to be random), and how that in turn impacts where they are now.

Many "privileged" people lack empathy, because they believe the tables can never turn. They don't even want to entertain the thought. They believe their privilege is a birthright. In some cases, they are probably correct; they will enjoy privilege for their entire lives. But in exceptional circumstances, they will be caught out, and their opinion will undoubtedly change.

So, it's not stupidity, it is willful ignorance. History is full of such examples, some more chilling and devastating than others.

Yes, plus the ever shifting deadlines make me think this is all being somewhat rushed, to finally deliver what they promised ages ago. I personally don't want to use tech like this if it has been rushed. Realistic deadlines with a smooth landing and stable narrative are what you need to inspire confidence.

Cyber truck build quality was also a red flag, suggesting that pthe company lacks rigor.

Good you walked away. In my experience, the heavy lifting in a tech start up is, by definition, the tech. The "idea guys" rarely understand that it's the execution that makes an idea valuable.

Sales are important, but are a bit of a crapshoot. You can't consistently sell trash, no matter how good a salesperson you are. The guy was happy to roll the dice, while using your mental energy. Great deal for him, but not so good for you. You risk the burnout, stress and pressure, while he feeds you requirements and deadlines, and essentially becomes your manager.

In my younger days I got a lot of similar proposals, but thankfully could see right through them from day one. Bootstrapping as a solo founder was the harder, but ultimately more rewarding route for me.

The reluctance to use LiDAR boggles the mind. The rationale provided by Elon is also questionable (humans don't use it, so we shouldn't need to either).

The cars themselves are nothing special at best, and given the political shenanigans the CEO is pulling, it really will turn a lot of people off trusting anything associated with him.

In a lot of cases, the companies leverage a large chunk of their employees' time to make very hefty returns. It's the least they can do. As someone who runs a company now (having been an employee previously), it is obvious to me that the cost of providing food is a rounding error in the overall company budget, and is well worth it, if it keeps people happy.

So you propose any invaded territory just concedes to prevent nuclear war? Would your opinion be the same if it was your homeland that was invaded?

Also, it's not clear what you're getting at... perhaps you can elaborate on your thinking?