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oneoff786··on Denver's mayor hopefuls want to arrest homeless living on the street
That sound dubious. Can you back that claim up?
oneoff786··on Nvidia predicts AI models 1,000,000X more powerful than ChatGPT within 10 years
Still outlandish. Not especially well defended either.
oneoff786··on U.S. inflation stays high as housing costs bite
That is correct.

Your beliefs are also irrelevant here. If prices were dropping, inflation would be default be negative. That is, deflation.

oneoff786··on U.S. inflation stays high as housing costs bite
Inflation is the rate of change. If inflation is positive prices are rising. Inflation can be declining (second derivative) but still positive.

Right now inflation over a 12 month period is higher than the historical norm of about 2%, but is falling. For individual months it’s been mostly normal levels.

Largely a nothing story.

oneoff786··on Unique Identification of 50k VR Users from Head and Hand Motion Data
Reading into it more, the second most predictive feature was a context variable. That is, identifying features of the specific song.

I think this one gets a thumbs down from me.

oneoff786··on McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its Biggest Rounds of Cuts
Then it seems you wasted your time.
oneoff786··on Unique Identification of 50k VR Users from Head and Hand Motion Data
Hold up. They did this on beat saber… with a 50000 class output (one per user).

They seem to be using mod songs, and are not accounting for the fact that people are playing different songs.

Your motion is entirely determined by the song. I think they’re just identifying pairs of song choice and user height.

Note that one of their metadata features is “replay > 100”, meaning they probably have examples of the same user doing the same song many many times

oneoff786··on North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year
I like the use of “statists” to negatively refer to people who use facts to support their arguments.
oneoff786··on Musk’s takeover turbocharged VC Twitter usage
Just don’t read it and don’t get rid of your account?
oneoff786··on McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its Biggest Rounds of Cuts
Please tell me more about my job.
oneoff786··on AGI in sight: our look at the game board
Can’t make a sandwich though.
oneoff786··on AGI in sight: our look at the game board
> We don’t have any obstacle left in mind that we don’t expect to get overcome in more than 6 months after efforts are invested to take it down.

Tell a robot to do something new and have it do it.

oneoff786··on McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its Biggest Rounds of Cuts
An associate is typically a fresh MBA grad or someone with a few years of tenure out of school.

Awkward imbalance of levels aside, I enjoy the consulting lifestyle personally. It’s interesting to work with many different clients and have enough political clout to get things done on a fast timeline.

oneoff786··on McKinsey Plans to Eliminate About 2000 Jobs in One of Its Biggest Rounds of Cuts
I work at McKinsey. Many times business is better during hard times contrary to what you may think. ymmv
oneoff786··on Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
So… what if the AI does better on those things
oneoff786··on Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
There are gameshows like this, and contestants do just fine.
oneoff786··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
While it is true that using a fake ID to commit other crimes is generally more serious and is the more common case, producing an image of a fake ID is still recognized as a felony.
oneoff786··on Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination
A lot of Americans say this and don’t realize their Indian coworkers all belong to the same couple groups and that it’s actually pretty insular
oneoff786··on Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities
The canceling out part is the reason quantum computing works. We basically just avoid computing a bunch of bad answers making the actual problem faster to solve. So it has some observable examples.
oneoff786··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
No it would not. And it would not be a felony to show one to Facebook either. But the question was about generating new IDs with AI. That is a felony.
oneoff786··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
Generating the ID is. The Facebook part is irrelevant.
oneoff786··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
Well that would be a felony to start. Which is more noteworthy than just against terms of service.
oneoff786··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
> Comment on whatever the local council has planned?

That seems plausible? Already achievable with some interns mind you. But still

oneoff786··on Bing threatens to dox a student in revenge for prompt hacking
I hope Microsoft just shrugs. It doesn’t matter.

People acting all superior like this needs to be a big deal and is proof of their hubris can buzz off.

oneoff786··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
That’s not how the law works.
oneoff786··on Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
Fox is generally more popular among the very wealthy in the business world
oneoff786··on The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon over Canada
The places you can casually drive around are no the places you would want to target with a spy balloon.
oneoff786··on MarioGPT Uses AI to Generate Endless Super Mario Levels for Free
That is a vault

Edit: not to be confused with the Vaults floor*

Vaults are custom handcrafted rooms.

oneoff786··on MarioGPT Uses AI to Generate Endless Super Mario Levels for Free
I don’t believe that’s true. DCSS is mostly true procedural generation from a seed against constraints. There however some special fixed layouts for final floors, and small predefined vault rooms.
oneoff786··on GitHub's Copilot AI for Business now available for $19/month
Extremely cheap from an enterprise perspective
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