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One of the biggest issues is with cherry-picking. Generative ML results benefit greatly from humans sampling the best results. They are capable of producing astonishing results but don’t do this consistently this has a huge impact on any effort to productize. For example I’ve seen quite a few examples of text->design, text->code, with GPT-3 you could build a demo in a day, but the product will probably be useless if it’s not delivering results 50%+ of the time

Well done. The rect page is better for sure.

Runnaroo is lacking in design Visually everything is very similar and hard to quickly parse.

I want to immediately be able to scan results to tell what url's they are from. Two issues, the url is light grey and blends in with the text body. There is no favicon.

Eric Weinstein has a theory that it's caused by the embedded growth obligations in our institutions.

I'm not sure it's the answer, but I think there is something seriously amiss with our institutions that causes them to all have a similar set of self silencing momentum. The amount of corruption that has been exposed in institutions over the last 20 years that has gone largely ignored in traditional media and inside this institutions themselves is staggering. Every time we hear institution X has a problem with Y, the story quietly disappears and there is no institutional change enacted.

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/eric-weinstein-intelle...

The rule of three helped me get get over my initial abstraction issues, but I leaned much more towards a rule of 5 or 6. Around three you finally find an abstraction, but around six uses there is a good chance it breaks down. Making an abstraction saves you from having to make the same change to the code you copied multiple times. But the cost of repeating yourself is so low. With good keyboard mechanic repeating a change in four to five place take just a bit longer than doing it once since most of the upfront cost is in deciding on the correct change. It does feel a bit like drudgery, but it’s also very freeing to not think about abstractions and just make progress at all costs. It’s strategy can bite you if you don’t take the time to look back and make a refactor later, but I find the approach of churn out code and letting the patterns emerge then restructuring with hindsight much more fruitful than pausing frequently to think about it abstractions. They are really two different mindsets and best left for different sessions of work.

This has been one of the hardest fought lessons I’ve learned it my programming career, but also one of the most fruitful. I am to make my abstractions too late rather than too early. My rule of thumb tends to me copy things six to seven times before you try to build an abstraction for it.

When a set small of companies control your ability to communicate freely on the internet and they act in consort it becomes an issue of free speech.

Racism is racism no matter what direction it's pointing. You don't need to have experienced hundred's of years of prejudice to experience racism. Racism is treating someone differently because of their race. It is wrong full stop, no matter the status of the perpetrator or the victim.

Seconded, The power of language is incredibly important. "Defund the police", "Abolish the police", the many different ways it's being phrased are radical demands. If the people saying these things mean something else they should use another set of words. Because there are plenty of people in this movement who really want to tear things down.

> The adversarial loss "learns" what is a compressed image and tries to make the decoder go away from such outputs.

Could you expand on this point

Wholeheartedly agree I worked remotely for the first 6 years or so of my career and hybrid approaches turn the remote team into second class citizens more like contractors.

Small correction, It's not any view deemed acceptable. It's any view not deemed properly righteous. For any not displaying the correct righteousness will be deemed to have not just the views they expose, must also be hiding views deemed reprehensible.

I just moved to android and this bugs the shit out of me. It’s definitely real. I had to retype a character once by using the side of the key farthest from the one it was touch jacking.

The bar for proving that "America is run by white supremacists" needs to be a lot higher than, one guy in the white house reads a blog.

The good journalists are mostly gone. The NYT has fired a lot of people the last 4 years.

I tried to set this up yesterday and spent 3 hours and still couldn't get it working.

Interesting point. Chapelle can hardly punch anywhere, but down at this point with the amount of success he has had.

I don't think that's the case at all with flight vs vehicles. Autonomous driving is complicated because you have to take into account a wide range of scenarios and wide range of human behaviors, and a complex environment to understand. And then make very fuzzy choices on how to react to those scenarios.

Combat is a simpler zero sum game, pick and target and destroy.

Based on how AI plays top games right now(Starcraft and Dota), very fast quick reflexes and pin point accuracy of their attacks I think the AI drones are going to crush humans.

Or the clear of forests, the rapidly decreasing biodiversity, diseases that are spreading to kill bats, trees, and bees. The rapidly increasing contamination of the ocean with plastics. The politicization of environmentalism has narrowed the focus so much. We need environmental protection on a massive scale.

China an Russia have been stirring up American discourse aggressively through the internet for years. They would most certainly seize on an opportunity like this. The incident is ultimately caused in the US, but it's for sure going to have its flamed stoked by foreign actors. They don't build there systems for one off attacks. They have weapons of war.

Yea. This article just hijacks all the graphics from the ars technica article and makes it harder to read.

Even if the content creators overwhelm the rest of the crowd now, you can still find experts and their content continues to pile up. For example, iq of internet graphics is still adding incredible content to his site 10 years later. https://iquilezles.org/. He's not the only example of this. There may be a higher noise to quality ratio, but the quality content is still growing, you just have to get better at tuning out the noise.

If you're having kids you're striving for things that aren't happiness. Often trading exhaustion for purpose and meaning.

It depends on what you're watching. I read a lot less than I used to, but that's because I prefer to watch long form discussion in the form of podcast. In my eyes it's often disseminating the same information of the authors book, but in a form of spoken word and conversation that is much more natural for a human to digest.

"A man's search for meaning" - Viktor Frankl

This book has more profundity than anything I've ever read. The type of sentences which cause you to stop and think, woah, what did I just read. The type of sentences where it is obvious the author has understood something you don't, but not obvious exactly what. The type of sentence that is short and simple in what it says, but with great depth in its meaning.

I'm about done with this book and I already want to re-read it. I've decided I'll read it once every few years. To remind myself of the important parts of living. The parts that are easy to figure about going about living day to day.

It's an inaccurate comparison. The problems are very different. Magic Leap is trying to create a viable product for a market that doesn't exist. What they are actually going to ship and how it's going to be useful is still up in the air.

Autonomous is going to be incredibly valuable and it's a hard problem that we'll have to keep hacking away at for a long time. Waymo has made more advancements than any other company. There is a big pack of companies all trying to get a piece of this pie and none of them may succeed in the short term, but Waymo looks to have the best shot.

Elon has already made it cleared he wants all businesses open. If he could make that happen he would. But there is one place he can affect and that's his own.

Agreed. Maybe at a large organization where you are working on system that have more concern about stability and maintenance. At a startup setting deadlines and cutting corners is key for me to be a good engineer. My goal is get to "something" in the hands of a user or customer as fast as possible to determine what I actually need to build vs what I think I need to build. Cutting corners and getting out features faster allows me to validate what I'm building is useful and better direction for what I'm building next.

Before my current project is designing an API for logging and viewing image segmentation masks, A mask that segments an image into n classes. We started with a large design that allowed users to configure to masks in different layers. Toggle them on and off and do composting. Instead of building this exactly I shipped a small fast very that renders images with masks and adds some toggles for each class.

Turns out one of our main assumptions was wrong we thought the number of classes(n) would be small. It's 1-2 order of magnitude larger on average for all of our users. And sorting through large amounts of classes is the biggest issue our users are clamoring for. Now instead of spending a bunch of time building a UI for editing the masks. We first focused on handing large counts of classes usefully.

As well, all of the different settings for mask composition and layout we dreamed up really don't matter. While there is 100's of different ways you can layout and compost the masks. Turns out there is 3 default layouts that everyone wants, we don't need a UI for tweaking layouts we just need a toggle between the three common states.

Instead of spending extra time to get it right. We aggressively cut scope and shipped a not particularly useful feature. We got two big benefits out of this. We ended up building something much smaller in scope than our initial design and we ended up building something better and more useful.

There is another balance of threats here as well. Government overreach vs the benefit the government provides. Conservatives are concerned about government overreach. When the governor tells you you can't leave your home that's a massive step in the direction of authoritarianism, while it was initially justified. History shows those in power rarely excise it judicially, especially in times of crisis. The balance of power is tenous and exists because we push back against the government's authority and question its decision making.

The range of government actions taken internationally in response to covid includes, "please stay home" and welding apartment doors shut. I'm not worried about the government welding my door shut, not because I trust my government, but because I know our citizens won't let them. While I appreciate the early lockdowns buying us time in California each park and beach that close scares me more and more, there is no line for those in power they will infringe as much as we let them. I'd rather push back on infringement of liberties too soon rather than too late.

While we don't have to worry about getting our doors welded shut. They government has already shown it can't be trusted to care for us.

The quick money that was promised to go to the people spent a long time working it's way through a corrupt beurocracy as our politicalians all tacked on their agendas and most of it was redirected to line the same pockets the government has for years. People not having money to pay the bills or buy food would be irrational to listen to the government telling them to stay home for their safety.

I bought an alarm clock last year and its been huge for my mental health/morning routine. Now my day starts exactly how I want it. No phone. Straight to exercise.

The carnival hoops I've examined all have ellipsis shaped rims. Impossible to distinguish from a circle when observed from the front, but clearly squished if you walk around and get underneath it.