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crancher··on U.S. National Park Service API
Thank you for creating this. How do you access/find it from within BigQuery Studio?
crancher··on Welcome to Apache OpenDAL
"OpenDAL is a data access layer that allows users to easily and efficiently retrieve data from various storage services in a unified way."

Generally agree, but this one seems clear enough.

crancher··on Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process
The encoding of information isn't specific to humans or "human spirit" is it?

Encoding happens.

We seem to be the first local observers of encoding, but we didn't initiate encoding.

In fact, we're entirely the result of (and dependent upon) an information encoding process we had no role in creating.

"AI" is simply another encoder within an encoder within an encoder... etc.

The value of discovering and propagating valuable/useful/potent encodings is the underlying pressure producing all encoding systems. Look there for "spirit"?

crancher··on GPT-4 API General Availability
API call responsiveness to the GPT-4 model varies hugely throughout the day. The #1 datapoint in measured responsiveness is slowdown associated with lunch-time use as noon sweeps around the globe.
crancher··on ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly
Emotional vampires.
crancher··on Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
Thank you!
crancher··on Theory of Mind May Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models
Excellent and useful analogy. Thank you.
crancher··on Smithsonian Open Access
I've integrated the Smithsonian API into my in-development VR exhibit design app.

It's very distractingly awesome searching for something like "dog painting" and wandering around the exhibit created from the results. There's just so much.

Thank you for helping making this resource available.

crancher··on How a cable modem works (c. 2002)
When I moved to Santa Monica (Los Angeles) in January 2000 I made many text files on neighbor Mac desktops explaining how having sharing turned made their private files available to everyone in the 'hood via their cable modem.
crancher··on 300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day
Best headline I've read in while.
crancher··on Aspect-ratio is great
This will save thousands and thousands of designer/developer/producer hours.
crancher··on The International Flag of Planet Earth
What's the current percentage of humans who identify first as Earthers? What percentage is the tipping point?
crancher··on Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings
We're on the path where each of is monitored by (hopefully benevolent) AI from birth to death. Such a scenario is really the only way for humanity.com to continue scaling, as each of us has the potential to very negatively disrupt anything/everything.
crancher··on Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings
The holy grail of insurance: each person’s individual risk behavior monitored by AI.
crancher··on Tesla Q3 2021 Earnings
From page nine:

Services and Other - Insurance

In Q3, we rolled out our “Safety Score” functionality, which will also be used for our telematics insurance product. We actively monitor braking, turning, tailgating (unsafe following), forward collision warnings and forced autopilot disengagements in order to predict the probability of a collision. This system will continue to be fine- tuned as we receive more data. We also launched our telematics insurance product in our first state – Texas – in early October. We believe our insurance premiums will be able to more accurately reflect chances of a collision than any other insurance product on the market. Additionally, we will proactively communicate to the user what driving adjustments need to be made to decrease probability of a collision.

crancher··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Wisdom accumulates!
crancher··on iPhone Macro: A Big Day for Small Things
The do indeed call it out in the keynote, including a slide with graphics indicating what each stage does.
crancher··on Show HN: A world map of 24x365 average temperature “fingerprints”
The density and type of ads masks well presented information. I don't see the ads but am left unwilling to share links to the site where I sure would otherwise.
crancher··on The unreasonable effectiveness of print debugging
Discovering this capability changed how I debug. Conditional breakpoints that log-only creating an always useful, easily enabled/disabled log of critical method results without littering the code itself with logging statements.
crancher··on Foundations of Information
Highly reccomended. I’ve read it several times, and learn something new every time.
crancher··on The Edges of Our Universe
Try and "step back" and observe the universe observing itself through your mind. Your "you" is local chunk of universe coded with a capacity to consider the smallest and largest scales of itself. Your mind can easily encompass the universe in thought, summing up everything known as easily as you take a breath. It's an incredible ability, cherish it!
crancher··on The DreamBank, a collection of over 20k dream reports
Doesn't seem to be available.
crancher··on M1 Mac mini overtakes entire Japanese desktop market in less than 2 weeks
A Mini size of the AppleTV would be great.
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