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- dophI think what's fair is to expect police officers to have as their top priority the protection the citizens they are serving. Too often they seem to have as a top priority the protection of themselves, which means as a consequence that they'd rather risk the lives of others than their own. What good are they to us then?
- There's a reason nearly all of the old guard VFX studios were driven to bankruptcy over the last decade and it doesn't have anything to do with massive demand for talent.
- ESP32 - quite a range of dev boards and places like Seeed and Adafruit have a nice selection of accessories. Adafruit develops CircuitPython which is IMO the lowest barrier to entry for programming MCUs. Adafruit even has CircuitPython sketches on their site for how to interface with the components they sell.
Rust on ESP32 is still a bit early - the HAL crate is still pretty unstable, but the toolchain is quite nice and I'm able to be productive enough that I never reach for C or C++.
- I share this opinion. I've used FSD quite a bit during the free trial periods and each time come away with the sense that it's like driving with a newly licensed teenager at the wheel. If I have to be as alert and ready to avoid an accident as when I'm in command of the car, then this offers no improvement to the experience, just an added layer of stress trying to anticipate the actions of yet another actor in the environment.
- I'm in Los Angeles, which can be a challenging place to drive. Each time they give me a free trial of FSD for a month, I enable it and test it with excitement and optimism. Each time I only use it for a day or two before it does something dangerous enough to scare me.
- In-wheel application is possible, but it's important to understand that the pancake shape is only a consequence of the axial flux design and Yasa doesn't make motors in other "formats". Yasa motors shaped like this have been used in several supercars and all of them have been in-board on the axles, not in-wheel.
- I don't think their motors are axial flux, they're just large and narrow to fit inside wheels. Or at least all the images on their website depict radial flux designs.
- lots of people can notice that. my last job involved meticulously timing our software's input-tp-display latency, testing viewers' responses to it, and fighting for each and every ms we should shave off of it.
- Very much this. After multiple very painful stings, I have a zero tolerance policy for nests on the house, but I am very grateful when they show up in the garden. Wasps are more effective at controlling garden pests than any chemical means I've tried. Plus they seem to be the only pollinators of my passionfruit.
- Mostly agree, however this kind of quirk could issue entirely from post-training, where the preferences/habits of a tiny number of people (relative to the main training corpus) can have outsize influence of the style of the model's output. See also the "delve" phenomenon.
- Did they ever address that? I have not been able to stop thinking about it, it was so bizarre.
- It hasn't been effective for me. I've put up two bat boxes, and neither has had any tenants in the 8 months they've been out. There are plenty of bats around, maybe they've got better housing options. The ones I observe occasionally fly low to the ground and near the house (it's a thrill to get buzzed by one), but mostly they're further away and higher up and we still get plenty of bugs, including mosquitos in the house. Bats probably do help reduce the numbers, but all it takes is one mosquito to ruin your night.
- The article you link is a very specific type of failure that apparently did not happen in this instance, where Claude was able to access the author's writing. And the author apparently found the insights useful, though the lack of analysis from the author on that value makes this article basically meaningless for an outsider.
I am apparently a different type of person than the author because my obsidian vaults look nothing like theirs, but I can't imagine asking an LLM for a meta-analysis of my writing. The whole point of organizing it with Obsidian is that I do that analysis myself - it is part and parcel of the organization itself.
- I didn't believe it and after trying those samples, I still don't. All of them run flawlessly for me on FF 104.0.4 on an up-to-date Arch install on my laptop.
- Microwaving causes individual particles to join into a delicious plastic-cheese emulsion, making them undetectable.
- Yes, and this provides a nice intuition about the relation of wavelength to energy. But x and γ wavelengths are several oom shorter than visible light, so you'd have to be traveling at very close to c to experience that amount of Doppler shift.
- >it's been about 100 years so now each day is 2.3 milliseconds longer
>after 1000 days 1000 * 2.3 milliseconds = 2.3 seconds
I don't think the example helps at all to explain the concept, but I think the math is right
- I just stopped paying for Plus and my history seems to be retained on the free tier.
- Exactly my thoughts. I think people who make arguments like Chiang's are unwilling to examine our own decision making process, and in particular are unwilling to entertain the idea that it is as mechanistic as an artificial neutral network.
- I'd argue that an LLM has a fuller understanding of what we mean when we say "art" than most individual users of the term (Chiang's definition sounds more like the one for "craft" to me). Indeed, asking ChatGPT about the difference between art and craft gives me a more nuanced contemplation on the subject than I found in the article. Maybe these models are closer to the experts than we are willing to give them credit for? At the vet least, they are the best mirror we've ever invented.