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The downgrade in lens type is a huge difference in user experience. Pancake lens is strictly superior than fresnel in almost all aspects, unless you want OLED. In the case of 3S you don't get OLED anyways, so it's a pretty big downgrade.

Yeah we're stuck with lame also-rans like Google, Meta, Apple and nvidia. California sounds like it really needs your help.

- Component libraries must either be co-owned by eng and design, or there should at least be a designer who is willing and enthusiastic about ownership and maintenance. Otherwise the project may decay as soon as it launches.

- Think about versioning early on. Do you want to allow backwards incompatible changes or lock it down? What about dependencies? Will all your components live at the same "level"? Or will some components be used to form bigger components?

- Talk to people. Constantly. You don't want to spend months building something no one will use. Your users are your peers and they're right there. Make sure it solves actual problems, and not just meet the goal of "we now have a component library."

> If policing has a net negative impact on some people's lives

I think the problem is that this premise itself is a big pill to swallow. Do people really believe this to be the case? I'm a minority who holds a severe dislike for cops in general, but I don't think this is something I'd ever agree with.

I see it less as an issue of blind trust and more of an opportunity cost I guess. While it does raise my blood pressure that banks can slip in these little mistakes that almost always favor them, I don't see myself ever investing as much time and effort as you did to verify the numbers every month.

Maybe once these AI agents get reliable enough, it might be a fun side project to automate the verification process.

Many people dislike their boss. I severely dislike Elon, but if they do move to the South Bay where I live and I happen to be out of a job, I'd entertain an offer from X.

Many instances of numerical manipulations end up being discovered because the cheater didn't understand math well enough to hide their tracks correctly.

See this link for a recent example that's been on my mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnet_vote_manipulation_inves... Basically, they just grabbed a random-looking numerical constant and used its multiples as the difference between vote numbers.

The future of Netflix isn't going to feature DiCaprio or Zendaya. It will be you, your wife, and your friends on the screen as hobbits adventuring to Mordor.

The truth we cannot change is that people simply want to follow charismatic leaders. We can sit and lament on how stupid that is, but we aren't magically fixing that anytime soon.

There should be congressional hearings on this. Not just post mortems.

I keep hearing this, but my personal experience refutes this. I first encountered cilantro at the age of 15 and I immediately thought my soup bowl has unwashed soap in it. I did not eat cilantro-included dishes for years after, but fast forward 2 decades and I love cilantro now. I can't really detect the soapyness that once bothered me so much.

I don't think cilantro preferences are as set in stone as the story alludes.

The west? Alcohol has a much, much firmer grip over East Asia than any western countries I've seen. I think your analysis is very much incomplete.

Same here. Also bilingual, also never related with people who think in sentences. It's all abstract bytes until it needs to be formatted and output into a specific language.

Our lives have been bullshit sans sans bullshit sans.

As someone not in this space, I was immediately tripped up by this as well. Does spatial computing mean something else in this context?

Magic 8 balls have the same exact problem. A wrong answer can literally kill you.

It is indeed a problem that LLMs can instill a false sense of trust because it will confidently hallucinate. I see it as an education problem. You know and I know that LLMs can hallucinate and should not be trusted. The rest of the population needs to be educated on this fact as well.

I personally don't find this line of rhetoric useful or relevant. Let's agree to disagree.

This flies directly in the face of technologies such as Deep Blue and AlphaGo. They excel in tiny domains previously thought to be the pinnacle of intelligence, and now they dominate humans. Are they AGI in your definition?

> kids can easily learn their new favorite animal in as little as a single example

Until they encounter a similar animal and get confused, at which point you understand the implicit heuristic they were relying on. (Eg. They confused a dairy cow as a zebra, which means their heuristic was a black-and-white quadrupedal)

Doesn't this seem remarkably close to how LLMs behave with one-shot or few-shot learning? I think there are a lot more similarities here than you give it credit for.

Also, I grew up in South Korea where early math education is highly prioritized (for better or for worse). I remember having to solve 2 dozen arithmetic problems every week after school with a private tutor. Yes, it was torture and I was miserable, but it did expose me to thousands more arithmetic questions than my American peers. All that misery paid off when I moved to the U.S. at the age of 12 and realized that my math level was 3-4 years above my peers. So yes, I think human intelligence accuracy also does improve with more training data.

Did you try the puzzles?

Okay. This has a lot more depth than it initially appeared. What a great twist on a simple game!

Now you know a few. I love the idea of being able to ask my phone for things like "the guy who emailed last week about the interview, what was his name?" without having to dig through emails trying not to lose the context in my head.

Tim Cook doesn't seem to mind hanging his reputation on sama's promise, so at least that's something

It required the victim to take matters into his own hands and invest inyo buying multiple AirTags in order to sort out the burglary. I wonder how many of these burglary cases just sat there gathering dust and for how long.

Agreed. It's understandable that people were fed up with the rampant misinformation around the dangers of weed, but I fear we may be overcorrecting in the other direction now. Some people like to pretend that it's completely harmless even as they struggle with dependency issues.

We need some actual fact-based education around weed.

I assume the original comment was calling for a revolution

My comment was directly influenced by the article.

There's been a myria news regarding AI-related incidents in the academic settings. One constant in most of these stories appear to be that most educators have no interest in educating themselves about AI.

How many years until my Pixel phone locks up as I'm writing a lewd text to my wife?

Thanks Google, for appointing yourself as the Sunday school snitch.

They're designed to be sycophants. A eunuch in a pocket.