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Comment · 3 years ago
Hi Peter,

Would love your thoughts on the recent EO on AI and it's possible impact on immigration.

Comment · 3 years ago
this is awesome
Comment · 3 years ago
this is awesome
Comment · 4 years ago
Figma could have been much bigger than adobe in 5-10 years. Why not go public? Is the economic scenario so bad that they could not raise money?
Comment · 4 years ago
The parts of the model and how to go about training it are well known (i.e VIT VQGAN, auto-regressive transformers etc). They also use LAION-400 for training which is an open source dataset. Can be replicated, but will take time, patience and compute.

This is not true for some of the other recent headline papers: DALL-E2, PALM, Imagen etc. datasets are the primary deterrent, model details are well known.

Comment · 4 years ago
Can be done yes. Is it the best dataset to do what you describe, no.
Comment · 4 years ago
You could train the initial model in sim and do sim2real finetuning. Someone must be working on this already
Comment · 4 years ago
Self-driving car companies are already working on this. Check out: https://waymo.com/research/block-nerf/

NERF is a very active research area, and the progress from 2020 to now has been nothing sort of astonishing. In 5 years, I expect there to be fully generative NERF's in research i.e describe a scene, and a NN produces a full 3d scene that can you interact with.

Comment · 4 years ago
There are on chain NFTs like cryptopunks. The rest of articles details around API centralization stand true.
Comment · 4 years ago
"Email provides light-speed delivery, dirt-cheap cost, and brain-dead convenience on top of also being able to mail. So email actually never competed with mail"

These advantages are obvious now. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gipL_CEw-fk . My point being that blockchain does offer some new capabilities that were hard to build before. We maybe oblivious in what applications that may unlock.

Regarding money transfer, I know the technology exists, but all providers don't built it. That is native technology in blockchain.

Comment · 4 years ago
Depends on whether the NFT is on-chain or off-chain. Both are valid.
Comment · 4 years ago
I don't understand what problem email can solve that mail cannot.

Sorry to be sarcastic.

I am still skeptical of most web3 use cases touted on twitter, but have personally experienced a few that have made me pause and be a bit more open minded.

Personal experiences: - Transferring money was in seconds, compared to Fidelity/Venmo which took 3 days!!! - Very easy to loan money against crypto holdings vs stocks - ResearchDao's like ResearchHub

Comment · 4 years ago
LinkedIn is basically a giant water-cooler where everyone can show-off. That i s the incentive, the network decided to promote.
Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting. My current side project is exploring semantic search using sentence transformers. Will definitely check this out.

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