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I have used it for just this purpose with kids as early as fourth grade with a lot of success, actually!

The Evolution of Cooperation is one of the best non-fiction book I've ever read. Through basic algebra it lets you in on appreciating such a deep and profound idea.

Yes, but isn't it "just" 124 light years away. So, we're looking at it 124 years ago, which, in the scale of evolution, isn't particularly long ago?

Reading through that website felt to me like trying to read the NKS book. It certainly feels like there's a there "there", but I'm either to unintelligent or can't devote the time to really get it, and then I move on

Oddly one impact on me from reading this is that Kapwing seems like probably a nice place to apply for a job -- simple enough application process, human review, sane and respectful take-home and no live pressure coding. I'm not affiliated in any way nor am I a FT software developer, but this seemed like a pretty sane process (which sadly the article reveals may not be sufficient to properly vet candidates).

I had interpreted it as some of the answers being given during the interview had been generated by an LLM, which then choked when it was met with a more sophisticated query of how several of the answers connected together. Was this not the case?

Curious to wonder how many academic papers/other kinds of analysis have perhaps come to incorrect conclusions because of these date inconsistencies!

Not opp, but I built a real-time sensitive app for a few friends of mine and have to say I was really impressed by Firebase's realtime database. There were all sorts of issues around concurrency/first-mover that I had to deal with that firebase's implementation made it pretty straightforward to address.

If I were trying to copy the same thing opp did, that'd be the first place I'd reach if it were me.

He's only 7 months old so I have a little bit of time to get this right hehe

I'm marginally in the IT space... Is there anything to my reaction that at least in dollar terms this is a multiple of the dollar amount of what Whatsapp was acquired back in the day, which was a large consumer facing product that I could see was quite literally taking over messaging all over the world, and this is a... platform I've never heard of?

I'm just trying to make sense of the numbers.

Highly recommend Apollo by Blythe Cox and Murray. Tremendous engineering history of the Apollo program, and really makes you appreciate the numerous folks and terrific stories that all had to come together to make it happen.

Have you ever seen the Google Lightfields demo? They have a rig they concocted to essentially capture a "volume" of video to allow for the stereoscopic effect in VR AND which then cleverly presents a different combination of the footage it captured based on your precise head position, so it makes up for these distortions. I found it absolutely breathtaking... first time seeing VR for a space that actually made me feel like I was in it. This was A LONG time ago and I suspected I'd be seeing a lot more of that content, but I was... very wrong, it seems.

Your point is completely correct. Even Apple's awesome new stereoscopic 3D short film for the AVP immediately loses what it could be its total awesomeness from this basic fact. The perspective being perfectly fixed will never quite be there to fool our brains so used to dealing with these micro-movements.

When I did my flight training on a CAPS-enabled airplane, they showed us footage and stats from the military to say that there was a clear bias towards "saving" planes, especially in training, and that it led to more fatalities than if folks stuck by the book. Thought it was super interesting, and definitely helped to cement the attitude of using the resources of the plane by the book, which, (I think sadly), this guy is being punished for.

It all makes sense, but it must have a chilling effect on any military aviator reading this who finds themselves in a position to consider doing the same.Z

Cirrus flight instruction uses the military statistic that historically military aviators have had a really strong negative bias to ejection during training compared to in combat. Part of the rationale was that of course ejecting during combat is easy to save face, whereas in training far more pilots would try to save a rapidly eroding flight. The lesson for Cirrus pilots was that CAPS is there to save your life, and this attitude of "but I can make it" really is just a strong predictor for killing yourself in an otherwise saveable situation.

Here, it is acknowledged he followed the procedures, but there's an implication that he could have reasoned his way into realizing it wasn't as serious as he thought. Well, to acknowledge he "did everything right," but it wasn't right enough, and therefore negatively impact his career, doesn't bode well for other pilots who'll find themselves in his situation. Of course the one asterisk is to all of this is if you fundamentally believe that at this particular job all this reasoning should inherently not apply.

Really neat... very impressive work so far, so inspiring!

It's kinda funny to see just HOW MANY of these automated chess things exist... it's like people really do want the physical experience while still playing "with" someone. As I'm guessing OP will discover, the devil with this is in the details, and getting all of the last mile mechanics to work quite right is probably a huge pain to truly be able to seamlessly play against the opponent with the pieces moving automatically.

Surely the "actual" answer to this is some robotic arm with good enough camera work? All the things that make this hard -- the pieces not being placed perfectly, the knight jumping / or pieces that are being captured in really crowded places gets theoretically solvable with that approach. Of course then you have a huge issue with the engineering precision on the grabber and camera lol.

No, that's my experience as well

This is something I've struggled with as a mostly solo dev. I've most often just stuck with vanilla javascript because of course that's good enough, but definitely there have been times where I hoped I had some typing helping me out. Alas, I haven't quite finagled the art of finding a way to use it "just a little bit."

I work at a private school and will sadly tell you that the author's points are actually pretty severely understated when it comes to the incentives of schools regarding this phenomenon. Differentiation is a word that gets thrown around as some tremendous necessity for schools to implement, yet in the case of math, where one could fairly easily (compared to other subjects) confidently assess the attainment of prerequisites, gauge student progress, comfort, etc., we comically either bound students who have clearly mastered materials OR happily move them along the math curve in which the deficiencies in mastery build on each other to eventually lead to a child who truly has a strong distaste for math.

More even than pre-teaching, I would encourage any parent to very actively be involved to ensuring that their child maintains a reasonable comfort with math throughout their study, and to the extent possible, pitch in to help those gaps beyond "passing" or doing "ok" in class, but to earnestly try to see if their child is comfortable. The reality is schools will very frequently PASS your child and given them fine enough grades, but I would argue that it is oftentimes almost orthogonal to how comfortable your child genuinely feels with what they've learned.

Not the parent comment, but I think he means something like "we know folks will be addicted to this pseudo-person and that is a good thing cause it makes our product valuable", akin to reports that tobacco companies knew the harms and addictive nature of their products and kept steadfast nonetheless. (But I'm speculating as to the parent's actual intent)

The whole "hallucination" business always seemed to me to be a marketing masterstroke -- the "wrong" output it produces is in no way more "wrong" or "right" than any other output given how LLMs are fundamentally operate, but we'll brand it in such terms to give the indication that it is a silly occasional blunder rather than an example of a fundamental limitation of the tech.

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that they so front-and-center showcased the very un-human-like capabilities, whereas the other one almost seemed to try to just be an exceptionally athletic human.

Sadly, no. I moved back to the US and then worked on other things, but still maintained it for a few years until the ENEM microdata started to get released super behind schedule, then I gave up on the whole thing. Was called dadosdoenem.org, and you probably may encounter a reference to it here or there somewhere online. Good times... insane to think it was over a decade ago.

I'm Brazilian and when I moved back home for a bit the country had recently inaugurated a national exam for all high-schoolers. About maybe a year after, they'd publish an anonymized data set for researchers with a nice question-by-question breakdown of how every student performed. I worked at a school at the time, and one thing we wanted to know was how WE had performed in the questions so we could gauge if there were some things our students were consistently unprepared for.

They didn't provide that data, but it turns out with a little bit of grokking and staring at that 10gb text file, you could reverse engineer it so you could extract all the kids of a given school, and aggregate all of their answers. I produced a nice little report for our admins, with the questions of the text next to how we had performed in the aggregate and state averages, as well as averages of our "competitor schools."

The best part, though, is how I remember it being a bit "bullshit" that we, a private school, could afford to do this, but since the data was actually valuable to inform practice, surely the department of education should do that for every school! Whelp, over the weekend, I computed that info for every school in the dataset, and just stored a CSV for every school in an S3 instance (this was my ridiculous caching strategy lol). Spun up a frontend where you could select your school, and nicely visually go through every question, as well as print a pdf summary of the whole thing. On Monday morning tweeted at an ed journalist, and in a few days had a spread of me in the country's top newspaper, and people emailing about jobs "at my company."

This was the most rewarding project I've ever done, and I'm sad to say nothing has come close since. It cost me $0, produced a public good that I could see was being accessed from every state in the whole country, was technically interesting, and I saw it through from start to finish over the weekend!

Until it isn't, though. When the thing you are selling is essentially a commodity, when the business model only works because you are balancing some crazy thing margins that rely on all the other gizmos to make work, when the tech supplants the most minimal staff (which is largely seasonal, unskilled, and poorly paid) possible to even keep the lights out, suddenly the fact that this went a bit sideways becomes a big, big problem. It's not like a mom and pop diner who all of a suddenly can't use the handheld CC system.

I'll have a slightly different take on this -- I suspect quite a bit of this might be a form of a "when in Rome" effect. I'm an immigrant myself, and the number of family members for whom going to a "original" McDonald's (and by original all that is meant is a mcdonalds in the land of where mcdonalds is from) is actually a thing. I suspect a significant portion of the folks who do go in as tourists are either in the "well this is just a quick bite that i know what I'll get cause we need to get to X place on time" or the "OMG A REAL* MCDONALDS" types for whom going to one in the US is an experience itself. Whereas we locals might recognize that perhaps the wealth of coming to somewhere like NYC is the incredible offerings available, I know for quite a few folks that the blander fast food experience actually may be the "novelty" they are seeking out!

Can only hope to unfortunately find myself with one such meeting scheduled on my calendar!

Sincere question: To the extent that "the open internet" IS valuable data, isn't Reddit in the best possible position to capitalize on it? The mechanic of the website allows for people all over the world to contribute free-form content and then has mechanics built in where the content provided is graded by free human reviewers and moderators, and graded accordingly. Not saying it is perfect data, but surely there is not better alternative to it, no? I just don't understand how this data is "terrible" -- other than very limited things like newspapers or other very highly curated (and limited sources), what other large scale data repos are better?

They won best picture at the Academy award two years ago, and seem to have been focusing on TV content. And, for what it's worth, Killers of the Flower Moon was a terrific feature film in its own right, was nominated for many categories, but certainly did not merit the best picture not. I'd argue this is a bit of a harsh criticism for a studio that, for all intents and purposes, seems to be doing quite well!

Wait, what? Aren't all of the things that Altman is doing now making all of the data that Reddit is sitting on (and its capacity to generate new ones) EVEN MORE valuable? Didn't they just announce some data sharing deal to train an LLM worth many millions not too long ago?

Have had several VR headsets, ranging from a Vuzix way back in the day to the Valve Index and Q3. This is the first one where I have actively OPTED to use for something other than gaming. The one thing I’ll knock is that other devices I’ve owned have been more comfortable (notably the Valve Index, which out of the box has had the best comfort of any device I’ve had, although I cannot use it lying down/on the couch because the head strap is so bulky).