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freddealmeida··on Apple Vision Pro's components cost $1,542–but that's not the full story
Why is that important? If you go to a Michelin star restaurant, the input costs are lower than what you pay. But the value is in the creation. The experience itself is valuable. There goes a lot into building a device. More than its parts.
freddealmeida··on Ask HN: ChatGPT device like Amazon Echo
A number of companies are and have tried to build this. I myself did once in 2018. Alyc.ai if you care to look. We had voice, vision, llm, domain specific training (called fine tuning today I suppose), emotion detection, gesture detection, pose estimation, action recognition (ie. guy is drinking a beer), multiple stereoscopic cameras, microphone mesh, infrared camera (used for depth and night vision), and used nvidia chipsets (jetson) to run models at the edge. Other models ran in the cloud. Our LLM was about 2B parameters trained on about 800MB of Japanese data. Also our interface was a sophisticated peppers ghost (Today I would use lightfield displays) but it was fun. We didn't have RLHF feedback loops so Alyc was a bit complex. Still people loved her. Covid killed this project.
freddealmeida··on Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous
ieee has lost any semblance of trustworthiness.
freddealmeida··on Beavers are driving methane release and warming the Arctic, say scientists
Beaver methane does not drive warming. Not even a little.
freddealmeida··on How to Avoid Being Boring at 60
please be boring.
freddealmeida··on Ask HN: What's the best out-of-box Document OCR/Analyzing/recognition API?
tesseract OCR is open source and very good. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
freddealmeida··on Things are about to get worse for generative AI
not in japan.
freddealmeida··on Japan says reason behind 1,200 tonnes of fish washing ashore is unknown
Could also be a bacterial bloom that extracted all oxygen from the water and the fish all died due to this. I've seen this before though I can't seem to find evidence for this.
freddealmeida··on Ask HN: I am a Co-founder looking to leave startup before a raise, how to handle
I thorny issue for sure. One suggestion is update the current investors that you will be leaving and you will create a succession plan that includes finding a new CTO (co-founder) to take on your role. For new investors, tell them clearly what that plan is, that you believe in the firm and you are willing to provide some of your shares to the new CTO. Accept that you will stay on until you and your co-founder can find this person. Be open to paying a headhunter. speed is important. Hope this helps.
freddealmeida··on Ilya Sutskever has become invisible at OpenAI, his future uncertain
Ilya did soemething that is highly unforgivable. He betrayed his friends for an ideal. Greg and Sam trusted him. That is the only reason he is being pushed out and I believe it is a good thing for both. Ego is in the way for everyone right now but in the end, Ilya will be better off. Hopefully he can walk away with some money and take some time to think where he wants to go next. Maybe teach the next group of kids? We need great minds in the Universities. Even if he has crazy woke ideas.
freddealmeida··on How much land does a man need? (1886)
10 acres.
freddealmeida··on Trading on Terror?: Short-selling Israeli ETFs before Oct 7 attack
fascinating. This happened on 9/11. Someone was shorting.
freddealmeida··on Ask HN: What would the state of AI be if OpenAI never existed?
About the same. Nothing they did was as significant as making chatgpt. Research was not a factor.
freddealmeida··on CRISPR cure for HIV now tested in 3 people
undetectable levels are dectectable? So using CRISPER to eradicate HIV that you can not detect means you can't detect it after as well. This is not science.
freddealmeida··on 'It's quite soul-destroying': how we fell out of love with dating apps
Darren Brown once had an interesting experiment, where he created a psychological profile and shared it with a broad room of people. Everyone agreed that it was a perfect approximation of their personality. ie. People don't really have a sense of who they are. (The few that do, are exceptional and don't need dating sites). Profiles are probably not the right artifact to use to determine a match.

Social cues will always be more valuable than personality, or kindness. For men, that is status and wealth and physical attractiveness. For women, it is beauty and age. Regardless if you like that or not, it may be what is missing in these utilities.

Further, I like how the Japanese make group dates. 3 boys and 3 girls go out on a date. Gokkon. Maybe this is something the West should consider. Safer, far more interesting, and allows people to broadly consider each other.

freddealmeida··on The Geometry of Truth: Do LLM's Know True and False
does anyone?
freddealmeida··on What we learned making a plastic injection mold with a Chinese mold maker
I have done something similar. I just learned not to work with the chinese.
freddealmeida··on There were no humans at all in New Zealand until about 1250AD
There may actually have none right now. (jk)
freddealmeida··on Crypto Startup Bankrupt After Losing Password to $38.9M Crypto Wallet
wow. I've made a ton of mistakes but this is exquisite.
freddealmeida··on Extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans
Imagine growing up to be an extra in a film AI is good for this industry.
freddealmeida··on Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet
When people make statements like this. I would like to know a few things: where was the temperature taken? at surface level? 1cm below the surface? 1m below the surface? 10m below the surface? 1-2m above the surface? because they are all different.

Then I want to know how the previous temp was determined that they compared it to. I'm sure they are not trying to lie to us but I'm certain they are wrong. The ocean is not warming.

Let's see.

freddealmeida··on Scientists detect sign that a crucial ocean current is near collapse
I disagree about oil and NG,LNG. We need more of that. Cheap energy is better for the world than anything else. You would decimate the world if we move off carbon fuels. fyi oil is not made from fossils or decaying matter. No evidence of that at all.
freddealmeida··on Authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT
Japan has allowed us to do this legally. Going to be interesting over here.
freddealmeida··on California strikes deal with engine makers on zero-emissions trucking by 2036
Zero emission is a lie. You are simply shifting the emissions up or down the chain. Batteries are horrible if you look at how they are produced. Wind farms too. Diesel is better than electrical when you look at total cost vs benefits.
freddealmeida··on SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope to map the 'dark universe'
no dark universe to map.
freddealmeida··on Do Foundation Model Providers Comply with the EU AI Act?
We are a Japan based AI firm. We will not comply with the EU AI Act. We will be releasing our AI models MIT open source. Let them deal with that.
freddealmeida··on Economists Love Immigration. Why Do So Many Americans Hate It?
Money is not the only important thing. Integration, shared values, morality, the ability to feel (emphatic), intelligence, education, etc. skills do not translate in long term value. Which economics is horrible to judging.
freddealmeida··on ‘It’s not even good for money laundering’: Nassim Taleb lashes out at Bitcoin
It was never meant for money laundering.
freddealmeida··on Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was
Yet not available to really decided that. Their role out strategy is too slow.
freddealmeida··on Share of Americans skipping medical care due to money woes jumps significantly
this is very troubling. The FED has done too much harm.
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