ovi256

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ovidiu dot ciule at gmail dot com Machine learning engineer. Computer vision and predictive analytics, webapps, APIs. Available for consulting.

By carefully attending to client business, Ovi hopes to increase patronage to a most satisfactory level.

Must-read list: 'patio11, 'tptacek, 'grellas, 'rayiner.

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Comment · 19 days ago
The implant could fabricate a reason to connect to a host computer. Like "Cannot display seed words, connect to a computer to debug"
Comment · 28 days ago
I agree, should have mentioned that it must help productivity too. I was just surprised to see it on even the smallest building sites, like a 2 story house, where I thought the bother wouldn't be worth it.
Comment · 28 days ago
Depending on the task, a human doing it may be highly discouraged by H&S regulations, or the insurer.

Even on individual small building sites in France I'm now seeing mini-diggers instead of human shoveling, everywhere, or tile elevators (for a 3 man roofing team!) instead of the stereotypical exploited immigrant manual labourer. These are justified by insurers quoting such a high price for covering the expected accident and long term health costs of human shoveling or tile carrying to roofs that buying the machines is cheaper.

Comment · 28 days ago
Big companies were sometimes getting sanction waivers. In energy, Exxon for example has been getting waivers to keep investing in Russian oil and gas since 2014. They got out in 2022 though, and the waivers stopped (I've no idea which ended first, the waivers or Exxon's interest in those projects).
Comment · 1 month ago
Laya is the model this uses. Like Jev, it's blind - it can't take an image as an input. So how can it play Doom, or Atari games, or do other visual tasks, as people have shown it to do? They write a bit of app-specific adapter code that transforms the game state into a structured piece of data (here, the "semantic snapshot"). And that is what these models take as input
Comment · 1 month ago
It has always surprised me that the 'free world', NATO countries, developed countries (including Japan, Taiwan, Australia), however one wants to call them, do not have at least free trade, if not free movement of people and capital, between them.

A travesty, IMO. And a great loss making us all poorer. Not a patchwork of point-to-point free trade agreements, but several hub agreements that countries join, and, in time, the hubs agree to free trade between them too.

Comment · 1 month ago
No, this could increase diesel and gasoline prices as much as 50% by Christmas
Comment · 1 month ago
IANAL but if that should be compliant IMO.
Comment · 1 month ago
That's because OpenAI has several "do not train on my data" controls, and you may be using only one.

First one: "Settings > Data Controls > Improve the model for everyone > Switch off the toggle"

The other one is "OpenAI Privacy Portal" > "Do not train on my content" https://privacy.openai.com/policies?action=AUTOMATED_DECISIO...

Why are there several? You probably need an ML PhD to get it /s

Does using all of them achieve "do not train on my data"? I wish we could find out.

Do you think if you'd be in the race to train your own pocket God (as the CEOs of the frontier labs think they are) you'd let yourself be slowed down by such things as privacy duties?

Comment · 2 months ago
> That's a niche which exists

It's not a small niche. Anything touching European resident personal data must only be done by Euro AI Act compliant AIs. So, hosted in Europe at least (unclear to me rn, would love to learn the exact criteria).

Comment · 2 months ago
Not at all. Reducing a cost means the payer can spend the money on something else
Comment · 2 months ago
Not profit, just income
Comment · 4 months ago
I love retro UIs, and this one even more, because of course it reminds of Turbo Pascal, which was so cool.

Great job!

Comment · 5 months ago
It seems the OP agrees with you, and he's proposing a method for how to do so using agents.
Comment · 6 months ago
Definitely, the cow isn't free.

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