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Those products are disapeearing anyways. People used to buy packs of bars and eat them as a quick snack in the afternoon. Not anymore. It became the thing you might get at a gas station cause you're on a road trip, and it is that or beef jerky.
Sometimes coding is hard. There are two types of hard things: algorithms and architecture. LLMs are good at algorithms, not good at architecture.
Most of the time coding is not very hard, it’s filling in the blanks, implementing the business logic, writing boilerplate code. LLMs are good at this too.
cutoff is officially mid 2024. I don’t know if some older cars have been firmware-updated to have these features turned on by default.
Author is conveniently avoiding mentioning France, which does not have a major figure weighing on the others that much. Hugo is probably the most homeric of the classic French litterature, but he’s much more recent and nowhere nearly as dominant as Shakespeare in England or Cervantes in Spain (which borders on the ridiculous in both countries imo).
It’s a better situation not to have an Homer but a constellation of good stuff.
The point is that LLMs aren’t right, and the people who took the test were probably reminded of that.
Would people have trusted the textbook you’re mentioning if there was a big red warning on each page that said “this book may contain errors”.
The willingness to trust AI even though it may be wrong and even though there’s money on the line is intersting enough as a study imo
1 billion is a very large number, and thinking of it as 10^9 make it seem smaller.
1 trillion is "just" 3 orders of magnitude above 1 billion, and "only" 9 orders of magnitude less than the number of atoms in a mole.
I don't know the answer to making the mind understand scale. I don't think things like "it 's about 2000 football pitches" help either. I don't think "a billion is the number of cubic milimeter in a cubic meter" work either. I don't think the logarithm based "zoom visualization" work either. I just think the brain just cannot picture what those numbers mean. We're not wired to understand those things very well, just as we aren't wired to work with 4+ dimensions
I wouldn’t recommend domestic violence victims to install graphene os on their phone by themselves
“An analyst thinks OpenAI may miss its 2030 ad revenue target by 90%” is what the article says.
Maybe the incal world doesnt really qualify as punk and more like regular scifi or perhaps bordeline new-agey, but it doesn’t strike me as fundamentally different from Akira in story style.
I don’t like react very much and dislike the other ones even more. Yet, it’d be stupid to say you can’t make them work. They come with a large community and pckages and solve a ton of problems that a homebrewed framework doesn’t even conceive of. And you can just start writing the stuff you need right away.
On the other hand, a homemade framework doesn’t require the extra overhead of knowing the framework, and maintaining it overtime. You don’t need to track down why the code gets run a gazillion times more than it needs to, you can debug through your events, etc.
They’re just different ways of doing things.
But mainly: react is a pain in the butt but if time is your constrain, it should get you to where you want to be faster than if you’re not using it.
> We will reduce management layers to no more than 5, and where possible, 3
I don’t understand why they need to make a big announcement when what they’re doing is cutting the stupid management structure. Everybody hates cuts, except those that cut middle management.
They should have titled this “xbox cuts middle management: Less burocracy, faster delivery, more original games, more money for everyone involved, yay!”
And we shouldn’t assume that all mRna vaccines are the same. The rna sequence that’s used potentially can matter as well.
It’s not very complicated.
trials ok => drug most likely ok
trials not done => we don’t really know.
Could the vaccines have side effects that became visible after 6 months? Yes and we couldn’t have known that they didn’t.
Could the vaccines have side effects on people with rare conditions? Sure, and we couldn’t have known that either.
My point is that in 2020, the decision to approve the vaccines and pretty much force everyone to get it was a risk tradeoff. It was way more risky to let the disease continue spreading and mutate than it was to release the vaccines. mrna vaccines had been in trials and there was no reason to believe they could have been harmful. But the reality is that we just didn’t know. Biology is complex enough that you can’t just assume everything will be fine without proper testing. And what we deem proper testing is a process that these drugs hadn’t gone through.
I happily got vaxed in early 2021, and did it again 4 times , so I was willing to trust the tradeoff.
But ignoring that it was a tradeoff and hiding behind a sign that says “science” is just taking people for dummies.
Seriously though, I am very pro-vax, but the fact that studies like these come out now is just confirmation that people had the right to doubt the safety of mRNA back then. Many people shamed others for being anti vax but everyone has the right to be careful.
I mean, your ISP knows your IP, the government can know your IP, Google knows your IP, Meta knows your IP, all the websites you log on know who you are and what you're IP is, and forward your data to 3rd parties, many of these connect the dots between the various websites you visit.
If there is one benefit to true ID verification on the internet, is that people won't feel as if they're browsing things anonymously while they're not.
Author is at times a little too emphatic, but he has some sentences like this one that are really efficient in conveying the idea.
There are 2 things I don't understand.
1. Most online ads are illegal in EU, cause it's illegal to lie/mislead in an ad in the EU. The Tai Chi ads, the water pressure thing or the breezamax scams are all I see on Youtube, yet, they're obviously fake, and still running strong. How is it that they're not taken down?
2. The tai chi ad campaign must be costing millions of dollars. Everyone I know is seeing these fifteen times a day. Is anyone actually paying for that crap? Shouldn't Youtube increase the price of ads, so that they make more money and actually push scammers off the platform?
It doesn't make any sense
What?
That doesn’t sound true at all.
Jude Kofie started the piano at the age of 8. But music prodigy apart, I defintely don’t have perfect pitch right now, but I am very confident that I could with some training.
Like, when I sing a song without music, I usually am very close to the right tone. Mostly because I intuitively know how my voice is supposed to feel (the vocal chords move differently based on the tone).
And I can clearly ear the different “colors” between different scales.
And when I play the guitar a lot, after a month or so I start to be able to know where a note I hear is on the guitar.
It’s confusing because unlike most security features, it’s meant to protect the users from themselves. The risk comes from a combination of users being allowed to visit malevolent sites and browsers letting all websites do a lot of random stuff, including making 3rd party requests with cookies and private stuff
I personally never specifically consent to anything, yet get a ton of marketing emails. To most companies that send me those emails 1.8m would be a slap on the wrist.