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Thank god...

If there are at least 50 applicants, arguably, perhaps the price is too low...

It is indeed embarrassing that "replace(chr(0x0020), chr(0x2004))" is an "algorithm" and that a paper can be submitted about it... *rant

Ha, if logical inconsistencies could "flip the scripture" the world would be very different place than it is...

I wonder if at that point people will rightfully lose confidence in the authenticity of digital media, or if people are doomed to believe what they see...

"Such extensive data collection allows the profiling of users in order to show them personalized ads and marketing campaigns to increase the revenue for the mentioned companies."

On a bit of a philosophical tangent: Targeted ads increase revenues because they are focused on people with a higher proabability of responding positively to the ads. If you asume agency of the user then this is a good thing, a win-win. But by treating this negatively you are asuming that the user has no agency over their actions. They reply to the ad, but it hurts them or they don't really want to. And we should protect users from this "temptation". This is the line of reasoning behind banning the sale of addictive substances to minors. Note that I am not talking about privacy issues, only about the quoted reservation which is quite common.

I can attest personally that my accuracy while typing on my mobile is abysmal and (assuming it isn't just me) I can believe we're all ok with this. I was much better and faster on my Nokia with T9...

Wow, this is the first contradiction to Betteridge's law that I've encountered...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

Wow, looking at this with a red-team cap on, there is so much human "messiness" to exploit here. It shouldn't be too hard too be able to pass a bit or two of information.

Consider this: The total emission amount of the entire East Coast of the US is much bigger than that of California. Since the total amount (and not per capita) is what matters, we should focus on how to lower the East Coast's emissions and pay less attention to California.

In other words, one can look at "China" as just a big inclusion circle around a group of people.

Really? This seems like one Chrome extension away...

I thought that Deep Blue and Alpha Zero would be the demise of Chess and especially online chess. Why play when a machine can trivially beat you, or worse, score how "correct" your moves are?

But somehow people don't mind...

Do we know what/how TikTok is "spying"? I mean it is just an app running on a mobile device just like any other app. What data does it collect that the feds would like to get their hands on? Perhaps the ban should be on the ability of any app to collect this data in the first place?

Everything looks so simple clear and obvious in hind-sight...

It's very easy to forget that things could have happened differently: COVID hysteria could have been around for many years, crypto currencies could have become a major player in the world's economics, the Germans could have won...

One way to appreciate this fact is to try and predict the near future. Which of the current "hot" trends will fizzle out into (rightful) nothingness, and which will change the world? Area such as A(g)I, Quantum Computing, Self driving Cars, VR/AR/metaverse, Nuclear Fisson, Carbon Capture, etc etc.

And what percentage of your portfolio are you willing to bet on it?

This backwards compatibility chain reminds me of the age old tale of how rockets are the width of two horses... (1)

(1) http://astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

> "divorce stats by number of previous sexual partners"

Perhaps the number of previous sexual partners before marriage is a proxy to how difficult a person is to be with...

I heard of this (very neat) idea and gave it some thought. I think it can work very well in the short term. Perhaps OpenAI has already implemented this and can secretly detect long enough text created by GPT with high levels of accuracy.

However, as soon a detection tool becomes publicly available (or even just the knowledge that watermarking has been implemented internally), a simple enough garbling LLM would pop up that would only need to be smart enough to change words and phrasing here and there.

Of course these garbling LLMs could have a watermark of their own... So it might turn out to be a kind of cat-and-mouse game but with strong bias towards the mouse, as FOSS versions of garblers would be created or people would actually do some work manually, and make the changes by hand.

Ah, the end of an era...

http://x.com used to return a single uncached "x" as a reply. I used it countless times as a quick connectivity test. Alas, simplicity always fades...

> meaning n-m workers can now do the job of n... Thus the market for programmers will shrink henceforth.

Maybe in the far future when we have programmed nearly everything there is to program... Until then companies will just produce n*(n/(n-m)) more output.

Actually, the reduction of the cost of programming output will logically lead to more demand as solutions that were previously deemed too expensive to produce will become viable.

Wow. The first few paragraphs read like a story from The Onion.

My math teacher in high school gave us this number to ponder: 4^4^4^4 It makes 52! seem like a speck of dust.

Can anyone explain how this worked? as per the paper (which I TLDRed): "A single incorrect instruction in the AssemblyGame can potentially invalidate the entire algorithm, making exploration in this space of games incredibly challenging."

What did it do if it didn't have a useful partial score function? How did it avoid brute force?

I'm willing to take the opposite "bet", and say that I think this will receive very little traction.

The single reason being that it's uncomfortable to use. That's it. It's an "Emperor's New Clothes" type saying: It doesn't matter how impressive the capabilities are, if it's uncomfortable, people will, after the initial allure fades, just not use it.

IMO The only viable future for VR/AR is when the form factor will come down to normal looking/weighting glasses that I might look around for while having them on.

The proper title for this article should be "sleight of hand magic tricks involving opposable thumbs only fool monkeys with opposable thumbs"

This "Title Fluffing" trend is quite annoying

You can derail any discussion by asking for definitions. Human languages is magical in the sense that we can't rigorously define anything (try "Love", "Excitement", "Emancipation" or anything else, really) yet we still seem to be able to have meaningful discussions.

So just because we can't define it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Did you know that professional wine sommeliers confuse white wine and red wine if tricked by visual cues?

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...

This site is extraordinary...

This is really cool! I've been waiting for such a library to show up. Thank you. One thing: The documentation is currently a bit scarce as to how to tweak the assistant in terms of voice/prompt manipulation etc.

For example, it would be very instructional if you could show how you implemented the Gen-Z demo (great idea btw).

or if you're adventurous, cancel your own room and rebook it immediately...