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> A human WILL NOT make up non-existent facts

Categorically not true and there’s so many examples of this in every day practice that I can’t help but feel you’re saying this to disprove your own statement.

Until Yahoo! broke the news, did you know anything about Google’s involvement with PRISM?

> The creators of this algorithm note that it can enumerate all tic-tac-toe games in just over a second!

This is achievable in most languages, no?

> At the time I thought their approach was clinically insane

Let’s be clear, it’s still clinically insane, even if marginally rationalized.

> With LLMs, we can give the exact same instructions, and not be guaranteed the same code.

Set temperature appropriately, that problem is then solved, no?

Not GP, but no, these aren’t long dead people, but recently departed veterans with way too much information being disclosed than should be given the timeline.

I’m also a veteran and immediately had the same thought. Thank you for thoughtfully replying, I probably would’ve been more aggressively toned had I not read your reply first.

Explain to me how you can prove…

1. You aren’t a troll posing as a human

2. That if you are a human, that you won’t die in the next hour.

3. That if you don’t die today, that the Earth won’t be impacted by an asteroid this year.

> Amazon might be a good analogy here. I'm old enough to remember when Amazon absorbed billions of VC money, making losses year over year.

Apparently old enough to forget the details. I highly recommend refreshing your memory on the topic so you don’t sound so foolish.

1. Amazon had a very minimal amount of VC funding (less than $100M, pretty sure less than $10M)

2. They IPO’d in 1997 and that still brought in less than $100M to them.

3. They intentionally kept the company at near profitability, instead deciding to invest it into growth for the first 4-5yrs as a public company. It’s not that they were literally burning money like Uber.

4. As further proof they could’ve been profitable sooner if they wanted, they intentionally showed a profit in ~2001 following the dotcom crash.

Edit: seems the only VC investment pre-IPO was KP’s $8M. Combine that with the seed round they raised from individual investors and that comes in under $10M like I remembered.

Entirely disagree.

> has the potential

Good choice of wording! Definitely not a given though.

> The only question that matters is would it result in fewer road deaths?

Speed doesn’t kill, it’s the sudden stopping that does.

> No they can't because they make stuff up, fail to follow directions, need to be minutely supervised, all output checked and workflow integrated with your companies shitty over complicated procedures and systems.

What’s the difference between what you describe and what’s needed for a fresh hire off the street, especially one just starting their career?

My first Linux machine was in 1993, what would you like to know? Pre-1.0 Kernels were an adventure that’s for sure.

> Same procedure when you buy one (source: i did) - paperwork, here's your keycards, follow me onto the lot, mount license plate, bye!

They offered to do way more for me, I politely declined.

> Tesla themselves do this. If you book a test drive, you'll get emails where they tell you to watch a list of Youtube videos on how to handle the car.

This is different though, you intentionally went in to drive a Tesla, that puts more onus on you. You didn’t go to pick up a Mazda and then got switched to a Tesla as an “upgrade.”

> Other car rentals do it as well.

I had the same thought and have used that point in debates in the past on this topic. For some reason, electric is different to people and they just won’t accept logic and reason. What’s different about getting a Tesla when expecting a Taurus vs getting a manual transmission diesel U-Haul truck when expecting automatic and gasoline?

> First, I think they were just too far ahead of the market. I don’t think there are enough EV owners out there for this to work well.

This is exactly the problem. They do zero education of substance to help a non-EV driver get used to the experience. If I wasn’t already an experienced EV driver (or intentionally using the rental as an extended test drive), I’d be super pissed personally as they really leave you hanging.

It’s Jalopnik, it’s basically guaranteed to be poorly sourced and usually not supported with more evidence than a single tweet or Reddit post. Half the article is a ramble about the author never actually trying a Tesla.

The Hertz situation is in my opinion more their own fault vs Tesla. I’ve rented Teslas from them every time they were available when traveling in like 10-12 cities and all of them were poorly handled by local staff imho. As a Tesla owner from back when there was long wait lists (aka before the price cuts), I do sympathize with the insane depreciation aspect though.

> there is no such thing as too big as long as there are enough pixels!

4K is absolutely too few pixels for 55” for me. To go 55”, I’d need at minimum 2.5x that many personally. As such a thing doesn’t exist, I use two 27” 5K monitors and endure the bezel divider.

I had one of the 36” Sony Wega Trinitron CRTs for years. Weighed well over 200lbs, which combined with the shape, made it a really “fun” thing to move.

As someone who was part of the developer community and had multiple of the prototype devices, both phone and tablet, I can say it’s not because of the software they lost to Apple, it’s because of the hardware. The hardware was plain inferior, even for the era.

Need to try this directly before passing judgement, but this can unlock a few project ideas I have if the quality lives up to the examples with this low of resource requirements.

Wish this could be reduced lower. If I don’t unlock my phone in a day, something is up and extra paranoia is warranted.

> To not be cherry-picking would mean that it's actually ready and works fine in all situations

A claim I never made in any of my posts. What a way to straw man and fail! ;)

Way to cherry pick yourself into the one cherry picked claim I never actually made!

And if someone wants to claim I’m cherry picking the video, happy to shoot a new video with this post visible on an iPad in the seat next to me. Is it autonomous? Hell no. Can it drive in Manhattan? Nope. But can it do >80% of my regular city (suburb outside nyc) and highway driving, yep.

> I have absolutely zero faith in your anecdote that you didn't touch the steering wheel. I bet it's a lie.

I’m not GP, but I can share video showing it driving across residential, city, highway, and even gravel roads all in a single trip without touching the steering wheel a single time over a 90min trip (using 12.5.4.1).

> What I want is a computer opponent that plays at a level of my choosing but plays a game that feels like that of a typical human player of that level.

Chess.com’s NPC players feel fairly in line with what you are asking for.

Not GP, but I had one just the other day that didn’t allow dashes in the password, but did require a special character (of a list of like a dozen, just not including dash). Also, it wasn’t that the dash wasn’t recognized as a special character, but that it wasn’t allowed at all. Wish I could remember what site now.

> You can add a million features to the camera app but she opens it and presses the shutter.

Even the most lax laymen of photographer would notice the tremendous difference in photo quality between an 8 year old iPhone and today. I’d argue even from 13-15 it was a big bump, but certainly going back 8 generations.

Python is the only one mentioned that “actually works” without endless exceptions to the rule in the normal case. The ones mentioned (Rust/Javascript/Lisp/Go) all have specific syntax that is commonly enough used which makes it harder to search. Possible, absolutely, but still harder.