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Always love playing with this especially after reading Red Mars and recognizing a lot of place names.

But also sad google hasn’t even kept the styling updated to their branding or added any features.

People always joke that a success like this will be blasted by the media as a failure, but it's the most predictable thing ever. Massive success today for SpaceX but the story is massive failure. So silly.

I'm as anti-Musk as the next, but it's also weird to see so many people gleeful that Musk must be so embarrassed at this 'massive failure'. Like, how uninformed do you have to be to think that Elon would be humiliated by such a resounding success? Oy.

I mean, the content isn't fake though...?

Using multiple usernames on your own website is definitely legal.

I like this one: https://www.space.com/16946-mars-rover-landing-seen-from-spa...

Mars Rover Landing Spotted by Orbiting Spacecraft

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And per se and and per se and;

I saw a yellow maintenance train in Montreal metro once after getting off the last train at night. I had a digital camera with me (2006 or so) and I started to take pictures but I was immediately chased away my multiple (several) very angry employees shouting at me in French. I couldn’t believe that they treated it with such secrecy but also ran the train through while people were in the station still.

FWIW, I am in a similar position. There is a hardware project I want to build, but had no idea where to start. I asked ChatGPT to guide me and it has gone very well. I haven't actually built anything yet, but my mental state is 100% different. I prompted with something like,

"You are an expert consumer hardware designer and builder. I am a software developer and I want to make a hardware project for the first time. Here are my requirements: _____. Please make a plan to teach me how to build a prototype at home. Start off with a high-level overview and we'll dive into details as we go"

The book is excellent, I also remember the exhilarating read, all the way through. It should be noted that the film isn't just any movie though - it's a rare work of art itself and was done with collaboration by Clarke and Kubrick.

It's your choice, but I think the movie does do really well and complements the book nicely. It does leave a lot out, but - that's part of the art of it.

It’s incredible how the future is arriving all at once: SpaceX is orbital-testing the new Mars-focused rocket within a few weeks, and AI is ramping up quickly.

(Also, we’ve survived a global pandemic and we’re seeing insane fire seasons every year (in US West).)

It’s a crazy time to be alive.

Not so simple. No ridiculing Xi makes the platform less comfortable for people in other countries like the US. We expect freedom to ridicule and if that’s not available on a platform because the owner prefers to cater to a specific dictator, then we may be less likely to use it. I might still use it , I might not.

But bowing to a dictator who says you can’t say Winnie the Pooh anymore seems like a one-sided, pro-dictator decision.

It has nothing to do with the CEO wanting to make people in China comfortable - surely he wants people in the US to feel comfortable too if that was the case?

I suppose you can’t have both. So siding with the dictator was the choice made? Bold move cotton.

? No mental gymnastics? Sure there are!

“Use this tech” implies the same tech as everyone else, including satire, no? What else could it mean? Oh, it could mean, “use this tech in only ways that are allowed by a totalitarian dictator, continuing to spread china’s government’s racism and hatred of certain minorities, and also normalize self-censorship globally”.

That’s really what it means-that it’s more important to the CEO that China should continue suppression of its people and also to exert the maximum influence it can socially on the world, than it is too stop specifically midjourney in China.

Plenty of mental gymnastics required there.

Well, sea level rise from climate change isn't gonna end well for most of the bay area either.

I've long thought that eventually the SF Bay will be dammed, with locks, etc, at golden gate.

Re: wired headphones: I am so sick of wireless controllers on consoles. The switch controllers are a nightmare - constantly disconnecting, nearly impossible to reconnect. I got my first-ever xbox last month and the wireless controllers are also a pain. I would play both consoles much more if I had wired controllers - and probably also buy more games. (edit: I'm mid-30s)

Ah, I found something, he spoke just a few days ago at #Abundance360, see for example (scroll a bit) https://twitter.com/search?q=ray%20Kurzweil

Not sure of the content yet, will have to look at it later. But happy he's around and talking about it all!

Too much drip, I guess.

The physical labor jobs are only a few years behind due to the ramp-up required in manufacturing for robotics - and price points. But the embodied AIs are coming, in humanoid form, to take all the labor jobs as well.

Pretty sure those 3 examples will be completed by robots this year if they haven’t already.

Best of luck! Here's one paper I referenced for a starting point, may be the most useful one (not sure..been a while..) https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atot/35/3/jtech-d...

Yes, but, significant work was done at an academic level between 2011 and 2017, researchers at universities, grad student projects, etc, that resulted in usable data being extracted. I worked on this problem for ~10 years off and on. It is absolutely doable.

Especially since you don't actually _need_ raw pressure data to be useful. Pressure rate of change over time is still useful and produces improved accuracy in some local forecasts.

But not only that, the researchers at UW under Cliff Mass found that you can do on-device ML to clean the quality of the data, remove errors, and live-adjust to MSLP on-device, without even needing the dense network of sensors nearby for error correction.

It's 100% doable, but it just takes some hard science and effort.

> That makes it extremely noisy for detecting slow moving metrics like the weather

Yes, but, the noise problem was solved half a decade ago.

Another Dark Sky thread, another opportunity to ask the community if anyone knows about Apple doing research with the barometers in their phones. Dark Sky claimed they 'did' but they never expanded on what that meant for them. Did they actually use the barometer data collected from the app? Or did it just get sent to /dev/null as I suspect?

And if Apple bought that code, did they use it themselves? Is Apple doing anything to improve weather forecast accuracy in the main weather models by running data assimilation on cleaned barometer data?

If not it is such a wasted opportunity that I just get so angry about. If so....please tell us more.

Well, this is quite a detailed analysis and I don't want to take a dump on it because it's obviously a good analysis. BUT. Masterpiece? I don't think so. Dark Sky's data visualization was all shiny gold and not enough real science.

Their radar map with all those pretty colors was super buggy, so much so that you couldn't trust it. If you move the map or zoom in, or pan around, the rain / radar data often would not move with the map. So you would have a 2x scaling issue with how large the rain area was.

Also, they never provided confidence information. They often made predictions that were wrong, and never informed you of how confident their forecasts were. But they would always show a 'flawless' representation of the data so you would be convinced it was right.

Yes yes, it was pretty. But it was not backed by science, and the data was misrepresented I'd say 100% of the time. You can't have a masterpiece of data visualization where a major component of the vis is 'looking pretty' and the factualness of it is ignored.

Makes you wonder how much power a random internet comment about a niche/new topic has, at least temporarily. How much can you affect the results of Bard/BingSydney/etc by just writing a comment?

Not sure what you mean? If you are referencing my username, cryptography is going strong!

I made this account before cryptocurrency even existed I think.

Well I’m not taking it too seriously myself, but I gotta say, it’s been extremely fun. I see it mostly as a technique for learning the real limits of ChatGPT, not in answering prompts accurately so much as interfacing with the real world.

Yeah and super curious how the various efforts will go-are some people way better at prompt-writing and also raw skills and they will pull ahead and build something useful? Or is it so good that nearly anyone can follow its directions and make a functioning small business? Will be interesting to find out.

The #HustleGPT movement[1] has been using ChatGPT as the CEO of their ~$100 budget startups. (I am also doing the challenge). Wonder about new risks of company data being leaked from companies who are 100% ChatGPT-based and built totally in the open.

(shameless, https://pitcharchitect.app / https://twitter.com/PitchArchitect is my 'hustle') and yes I know the title cuts off on mobile :( will fix shortly)

[1] https://github.com/jtmuller5/The-HustleGPT-Challenge

I'm doing the HustleGPT challenge, where you direct ChatGPT to be the CEO and you are the irl human counterpart.

I picked the idea of AI-guided pitch deck creation and have been following HustleGPT's directions. ChatGPT wrote 99% of the code for the site and I have deployed it following their directions as well.

The most exciting feature I have prototyped before on Android and am excited to build for web is an interactive audio experience: Answer rapid-fire questions through voice input, and let our AI transcribe and organize your responses into a cohesive pitch deck.

The next step is to send a survey with questions to help validate the idea. ChatGPT and I wrote the survey questions but I haven't got any responses yet. We decided to build a mailing list of interested people first and then ask them. Maybe you are interested?

Part of HustleGPT is building in the open, I tweet all the progress:

https://twitter.com/PitchArchitect

FWIW I wrote this whole post, not ChatGPT :)

If you want to answer the survey right away and not wait for a mailing list to go out, here it is:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbAEZ3biJa2GvryCsU...

Also, I will provide early access to the site to those who answer the survey! (once we have built some features out.)

Someone has compiled an intro and list of #HustleGPT if you are interested: https://github.com/jtmuller5/The-HustleGPT-Challenge

Well, it did threaten violence towards a user.

I think it’s happening to everybody, hopefully a bug that is fixed soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ljd26/chat_histo...