jxcole

Joined 17 years ago

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I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space
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Comment · 14 days ago
It's probably caused more by anthropogenic climate change than sun luminosity.
Comment · 29 days ago
I think the point here is that LeCun was arguing that training on pure text would not grant spatial understanding. I believe most models are trained on spatial data as well, so you are both right.
Comment · 2 months ago
If many people hated their products, they wouldn't use them. If they didn't use them they would not be financially successful. Google is not dying just because you personally have a feeling the results are worse than before and there is no definition of dying that would be consistent with Google's current state. If Google were to die they would die the way Yahoo did, because a competitor was demonstrably better than them and everyone switched off. There is no realistic evidence that this might occur in the near future.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
The obvious solution is to just copy paste it into Claude itself and ask it to fix. Works for almost any Claude problem
Comment · 9 months ago
A better analogy would be to compare it to being able to install anything from online vs only installing from an app store. If you wouldn't trust an exe from bad adhacker.com you probably shouldn't trust a skill from there either.
Comment · 1 year ago
IANAL but I would be scared of getting sued. For example, if I try to give a perfectly good car seat to good will they refuse to take it for liability reasons. Baby safety is serious business.
Comment · 2 years ago
He would need to fire at least 30% of the staff to make a difference. You can't fix the rot that started with the McDonald Douglas purchase by changing one person.
Comment · 2 years ago
If you look carefully you see that they actually started with a much bigger drone and then shrunk it down. The minimum is 9 mg (that they could build) but it sounds like the design can be expanded to almost any size. A more obvious question would be is there any functional difference between this and a balloon.
Comment · 2 years ago
Each pilot can have a button they must always press, if both are released loud tritones alarms and flashing will fill the cockpit, something no one can sleep to.
Comment · 3 years ago
Surely any one with 700 million users could just build their own?
Comment · 3 years ago
I disagree completely. Facebook was just Myspace without the terrible UX. Google was just Yahoo but better. Tech businesses can easily move in over each other if there is a way to make it noticeably better.
Comment · 3 years ago
I think it's possible that some generous person determines a sequence of prompts that generate, say novels, and then pipes these prompts into a program causing thousands or even millions of wholly varied novels to be generated in the public domain. I imagine this is what the OP meant.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why would that make it less reversible? Honestly it's not like it was ever easy to reverse DNA damage. Reversing other kinds of damage might be harder, but unless you have more information it's not clear that it _must_ be.
Comment · 3 years ago

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