smlacy

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Comment · 3 days ago
ADHD + Life
Comment · 4 days ago
Can someone ELI5 how this "Leads to AGI"? I can kind of understand some sort of "theory of mind" going on here, but how would having a complex world model enable, say, an AGI that could file my taxes for me?
Comment · 5 days ago
You mean on a corporate managed device? Why yes, yes I am.
Comment · 5 days ago
Cool looking camera, but OMG this website is HORRID. Brings my entire computer to a crawl, barely can scroll the article at all.
Comment · 12 days ago
Wow, I honestly didn't think HN would succumb to the AI := Slop perspective.
Comment · 15 days ago
This is what we actually call a Ponzi scheme. It'll come crashing down, eventually, but will take a long time due to the current state of the DoJ.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think this is fairly common practice when writing compilers. You ideally want to be able to bootstrap from other languages, and C is a much simpler starting point.
Comment · 1 month ago
I guess universities suffer from NIH-syndrome just as much as big tech does.
Comment · 1 month ago
Or Japan? Having digital accuracy and 10 year battery life is pretty nice.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yet
Comment · 2 months ago
> When you see an elegantly designed building ...was that really made by a human or did the AI generate it as part of a much larger generation step?

Does it matter? Why?

Comment · 3 months ago
The ultimate driving machine... for marginal revenue.
Comment · 3 months ago
Can we please just make emoji bigger onscreen? They're not even em-height most of the time. Most interfaces don't scale the emojis when scaling the text.

There's so much artistry and time & effort put into these, and they end up feeling l ike a yellow smudge behind a crack on a dim screen in my life.

Comment · 3 months ago
I'm yours!
Comment · 4 months ago
boycotting?

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