lanternfish

Counter-anecdote, my prescription has slid double digits since I was first diagnosed at about 7.

The obvious answer is stairs. It seems like right now Spot is getting the most use as a highly mobile camera platform for automated inspection in industrial environments. Many of these have a lot of stairs.

People very, very frequently refer to holdem as just poker. I've also heard five cars draw referred to as just poker. If you asked someone playing PLO what they're playing, a lot of people just say 'poker' and then elaborate if it becomes necessary.

Genuinely curious - what makes it stupid?

On the other hand, the sanitized titles of scientific discourse can mask uncredibility and obscure the actual core thrust of a piece.

If you were a juvenile, and wanted to light off fireworks, when else would you do it but at night?

Presumably the plane would accelerate as it climbed through the velocity gradient, never falling to a point of negative air-relative airspeed.

It's also failing as a mechanism for efficient p2p small value transactions - as a currency.

Consider, from the white paper (with regards to mediated digital transfers): ` The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for non- reversible services. `

Nobody is doing 'small casual transactions' with Bitcoin, which was evidently one of the goals.

It's also interesting that even though this is the case, many of the critiques have borne out anyway

On the other hand, learning something tabula rasa takes way longer than if you scaffold it with assumptions. Otherwise, each new skill/language you learn would take as long as the first one.

I see it as a kind of "perfect app" in that it does what it sets out to do very well and does exactly nothing else. If only all mobile games were the same...

If you like this style of puzzle, I highly recommend Simon Tatham's Puzzles on android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.boyle.chr...). It has implementations of a dozen or so puzzles including a domino puzzle not unlike this one. And it has no ads or microtransactions to boot.

I was wondering how feasible it would be to make a Minecraft agent that had a running feed of the past few seconds, continued it off w/ SORA, fed the continuation into a (relatively) simple policy translator that just pulled out what the video showed as player inputs, and the inputted that.

Presumably, this would work for non-minecraft applications, but Minecraft has a really standardized interface layer

`since it is trained to simulate the real world, as opposed to imitate the pixels.`

It's not that its learning a model of the world instead of imitating pixels - the world model is just a necessary emergent phenomenon from the pixel imitation. It's still really impressive and very useful, but it's still 'pixel imitation'

That's a sick pun though - I'd definitely consider that a success

This assumes that the limit is full generative parity, and not just a our SOTA classification techniques maxing out.

The problem is that it's pretty easy to fine tune an adversarial model to fool classifiers. In some sense, building that classifier is a very productive way to improve the model, so it's something the generative side is already doing. That makes it hard to win the arms race from the classification side.

And maybe even one day, the abbreviation will become so ubiquitous that it becomes divorced in practice from the original referent.

Hmm. Now I'm curious if you could actually get a 3d interface with all that information dynamically rendered running with reasonable performance on period accurate personal hardware - it's definitely in the scope of the 95 demo scene stuff.

There are multiple unresolvable game states (panglacial wurm...) but there are catch all rules which allows judges to say 'you're not trying to win, so your blocking line results in a game loss'. They have banned cards before (painter's servant) which resulted in competitive non-deterministic winning sequences that forced hundreds of game actions to resolve.

Yeah - there are a lot of tasks that we frequently do that don't have this kind of associated trappings (on a cultural level): opening a car door handle, tying shoes, etc.

Making coffee is much more susceptible to this kind of ritualmaking because of the implicit repetition, sequence and waiting qualities of the process. That said, there are people who engage with the process without any ritual - the patient in the dentist's waiting room who pops in a K-cup, the McDonalds worker who fills the McCafe order off a ticket, the spouse who runs out of tea and puts on a cup of their partner's coffee.

I think you could make a very, very compelling case that the process of making coffee is, for many people (especially those really into it), an important ritual which has a lot of significance beyond the specific output. Look at the discourse around the James Hoffman AeroPress saga and tell me that shit isn't insanely ritualized.

Nothing religious or spiritual (usually), but you get a lot of time/structure/cycle/morning/sleep/work semiology out of the coffee ritual. In fact, this is so true that coffee as a beverage has adopted significant phenomenological value external to its utility due to cultural osmosis - we have very strong associations between coffee and a variety of abstract qualities: work, awakeness, sleep deprivation, productivity, etc. And, these qualities are quite different between cultures even if the actual raw output/process of production are pretty much the same for many.

Fission is theoretically amazing in many cases, but is hampered by branding problems. If fusion can be marketed as "clean", it gets a comparative advantage.

In this case though, the question is what underlying motivator dominates. The claim doesn't need to be as strong as 'the us is money, no culture' and can just be 'in the US, money accounts for more willpower and political capital than culture in a head to head'

Presumably because Alibaba - the challenger that started this crackdown - is now slain.

On a political level, there are only so many Chinese companies with enough power to actually threaten the CCP, and Alibaba is probably enough of an example to keep them in line - further crackdowns are probably unnecessary.

Specifically, it's an attack on non-wealthy criminals and not wealthy criminals

Quality in this case doesn't necessarily mean ground truth accuracy - it just means ability to look accurate to humans.

This is true, but detecting and omitting code hallucinations is (functionally) as hard as just not hallucinating in the first place.

The black box nature of the model means this isn't something you can really 'patch out'. It's a byproduct of the way the system processes data - they'll get less frequent with targeted fine tuning and improved model power, but there's no easy solve.

Given that not all animals keep pets, I think it's clear that the complex evolutionary pressures that result in 'cuteness' or pet ownership aren't necessary for sentience.