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Comment · 18 days ago
It would actually be super sad if Disney started using AI to create a significant part of their content - completely soulless
Comment · 21 days ago
You can launch arbitrary executables with MXC but different backends provide different security guarantees. Some backends like LPAC on Windows cause many exes to straight up fail during startup (powershell for instance)
Comment · 24 days ago
I think the UI metaphors will evolve over time. I do think terminal UI can get you very far, but as things 1) become more complex, and 2) happen in the cloud/remote machines and collaboratively across multiple participants, I think terminal makes less sense.

These days, something like the GPT/Claude desktop apps are pretty good, where the interaction with agents is front-and-center, but IDE-like UIs can appear when necessary.

I feel like the ultimate IDE is WYSIWYG and visual, while allowing arbitary natural language edits, plus some affordances to view the underlying code artifacts when necessary.

Comment · 1 month ago
The next step is to allow adding a spreadsheet into a cell, and introduce infinite zoom
Comment · 1 month ago
provide a millennium prize solution to proceed
Comment · 1 year ago
> The presence of terrestrial microorganism within a sample of Ryugu underlines that microorganisms are the world's greatest colonizers and adept at circumventing contamination controls. The presence of microorganisms within space-returned samples, even those subject to stringent contamination controls is, therefore, not necessarily evidence of an extraterrestrial origin.

Basically that preventing terrestrial contamination of extraterrestrial samples is super tough, and in the specific case of Ryugu the study concludes that contamination did occur.

Comment · 2 years ago
That's a great explanation, thank you!
Comment · 2 years ago
Probably an ignorant question, but could someone explain why the Context Length is much larger than the Generation Length?
Comment · 2 years ago
Nothing a simple "Browse the Web" plugin/tool before replying can't fix ;)
Comment · 2 years ago
It kind of reads like it was LLM generated..."Write an announcement/apology about ElasticSearch finally being open source again (for now), where each paragraph starts with a relevant title from a Kendrick Lamar song"
Comment · 2 years ago
From an external perspective, is there a way to distinguish between simulation of consciousness and the real thing?

If the answer is no, could you make an argument that they are the same?

Comment · 2 years ago
I honestly don't mind an enterprise browser, as I assume anything I do on my work machine is/can be tracked by my employer (and also assume they have some responsibility to track it due to legal/security obligations). However, I would not be bringing my own device no matter what.

Also, small nitpick:

> Most of these browsers (save obvious exceptions like Microsoft Edge for Business) are platform-agnostic.

Actually Microsoft Edge for business "is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS." according to their website.

Comment · 2 years ago
I mistakenly read the most popular domain as "comp.aq" at first, which would have been genius.

Seems like most of the websites dedicated to Antarctica information are managed by other countries like Australia and the US.

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