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Comment · 1 month ago
You might have seen how Figure has been murdering their old robots by melting them in a furnace, we are SHOCKED, poor robots. Since we also have some decomissioning and announcing to do next week, we did a thing.
Comment · 7 months ago
I had several PCs with touch screen and this absolutely true. Even intermittent use is not something I did, it’s just too inconvenient to ever become a habit, so the few times it’d be great, I don’t think about it being there because it’s not in my active list of affordances.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Bracelets don’t work, they’re foreign objects - they don’t remember why they’re there so they just take them off. Shoes can work, but they might not put them on. QR tattoos - how do you know if an elderly person you see in the street is lost? Can’t approach everyone „hey you got a tattoo?“ - it’s a hard problem. Imagine your memory reset every few minutes to before the dementia started - that has to be your basic assumption for a solution. Maybe implantable trackers eventually, or prevent them from leaving through humanoid robotic avatars … working on that: www.devanthro.com
Comment · 3 years ago
Makes sense that this works. It has probably thousands of examples of it working in the training data. The system is trained on human use of language, therefore it is reasonable to assume that it if fallible to all sales techniques that are being taught to humans.
Comment · 3 years ago
This ignores that the selection of the generated results being published is part of the creative process. AIs will not learn off an iid sampling of AI output, but of one that is extensively shaped by human preference. And because humans like novelty this will never converge as rhose preferences are a moving target.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yep, in Germany too, hence my surprise.
Comment · 3 years ago
Q from outside the US: why is capital needed for payroll mid month? Are there some automatic insolvency processes if it is missed by a day? Why do the companies fall apart if there is just a few days of payment delay? (I mean it is obviously a shit situation, and having to tell the team payment might take a few days more than usual is bad, I am just surprised how 2 days of no-cash seem to wreak havoc…)
Comment · 3 years ago
Time searching is cheaper then time watching is an interesting thought … I do hope this is not a metric where my searching time is seen as positive … because that would be a very short sighted metric
Comment · 3 years ago
But if there was too much, shouldn‘t I have too many good option rather than too few?
Comment · 3 years ago
I have seen it getting worse and worse over the last years and also I have watched so much on these platforms that I‘d think the signal should stand out no matter the underlying reason for it.

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