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I am old enough to remember when similar things were said about AI - neural networks in particular.

Sometimes these bets payoff, the investors adjust for that likelihood. But it's not a game for the faint of heart.

Many (most?) of us business-founders/owners do worry about inequalities, please don't label us all as a heartless one-track automatons. There are many entrepreneurs/CEOs who would like universal healthcare, justice system reform, and some form of UBI.

That's the core problem with such ideas: Blekko, metacafe et al have tried it. It's getting people to pay for this service that seemed an impossible hurdle to cross.

This sounds awfully lot like metacafe.com , or mamma.com from even before - the so-called metasearch engines. You perhaps should try and see if you can monetize it.

IMHO, an expert is someone who not only is good at something, but truly enjoys doing it.

Put another way, our already overpaid highnesses want higher and higher salaries, without having to work for it. So it goes both ways.

Are there simpler ways of magnifying video? For example, converting to HSV and amplifying the Hue scale inter-frame differences for example?

Sorry if that seem a very simplistic approach, but curious what other techniques have been tried outside of Eulerian/Lagrangian magnification?

I think we might need more creative solutions to the problem of spam <everything> including online reviews, posts, phone calls. Some kind of PKI id verification system that every user should sign up with. Sure that will be turn off a lot of users, but the trade off is only the true enthusiasts will be participants.

I think lot of these analyses are post hoc woo-woo psycho-babble.

I am a 3x entrepreneur (1 failure, 1 moderate success, 1 ongoing) and IDK of anyone who got to product market fit using the "start with why" or even "start with who". As some others have pointed solving a "problem" involves looking at the who, what and why conjunctively and iterating like a demon.

Most businesses are just winging it, but stick with it and iterate furiously.My 2c.

Thanks for sharing this viewpoint. This is the cancel culture run amok. While these people might very well be well-meaning, their ideological purity tests often end up being just sanctimonious holier-than-thou rants and tantrums.

It is at its core, the issue of the perfect being the enemy of the good. Bill might be an imperfect angel, but he is an angel nonetheless in spending his fortune to help millions/billions out of abject poverty and suffering. That dwarfs almost any effort by other people.

You could psychoanalyze this as acts of redemption, guilty conscience, seeking further world domination or whatnot, However it's undeniable he's helped many, many people and far, far,far more than his keyboard detractors ever would or could. And that's a very good thing IMHO.

Isn't the fact that we are even having the debate if GPT can potentially "know what it's talking about", the real breakthrough?

awesome idea! great implementation.

> One of the functions of politicians in recent decades seems to be being public cheerleaders

It's very easy to blame the politicians, the average American has led a largely comfortable, coddled life and is unprepared to hear anything negative. Politicians are also sales-persons and they tell the public what it wants to hear.

To paraphrase Steve Martin from LA story: "the peace prize nominees might not be the truth of life, they are what we wish were true".

While there's something to be said about wealth inequality, but the current atmosphere of demonizing the successful/wealthy is a perfect example cutting off one's nose to spite the face.As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Sorry for hijacking this thread, but it'd be great if some serious science/politics show hosts an extended debate from both POVs and have a serious scientific conversation about what's next in covid? herd immunity or not?

Why not try something very different outside of programming? Such as learning to play an instrument, a foreign language, Jiu Jitsu etc. In the long run, such offbeat pursuits have a multiplier effect.

Tens of thousands killed, millions forced to flee their ancestral lands overnight, guess who I am talking about: Germans Post WW2. They too loved their lands which they too had lived in for millennia. How many Germans do you see blowing up cafes in Warsaw or Prague asking for their land back?

How about the 12 Million South Asians displaced in the partition of India & Pakistan? How many Hindus/Sikhs do you see asking for their lands back? the Indus Valley (modern day Pakistan) is the cradle of Indian civilization.

Mind you, both these events happened at the same time (1945-50) as the founding of Israel. Somehow they all seem to have moved on with their lives, and yet the Palestinians seem to be the only one fixated on "our lands" and indulging in self-flagellation.

IMHO the The Palestinians just need to get over it and move on with building a new life in some Arab countries. This idea of condemning generations to oppression and racism, and living in that hell hole of Gaza/West Bank, in the vain hope of winning it all back, is utter insanity.

A comparable precursor to the internet was MINITEL in France.

I think "search" needs a paradigm shift, in fact keywords -> links paradigm needs radical change. Something akin to a GPT-3 model but with interactivity and self-customization.

Unfortunately, I don't have a clear cut answer for you either, but share my experience:

1. I didn't "choose" the idea, the idea chose me. i.e. It took on a life of its own, and we had product market fit.

2. The fact that you are dabbling might actually be a good thing i.e. the explore-exploit dilemma.

Hi, this is a very interesting project. Are you considering including temporality into this? Video understanding for example.

This would likely rank among the greatest human achievements of all time, if the vaccine is out by end of the year and is actually efficacious.

> 1/3 of London burned down in 1666. It was right at the end of the great plague of London

kind of like 2020.

That's a well reasoned argument, I am especially thrilled to hear one that didn't appeal to the extremes, although I don't agree that there is a direct causal relationship between supposedly low salaries and h1b.

Here's a quick experiment, click clearancejobs.com [1], as of this writing it lists 50K+ well paying jobs (high 6-figs) fully reserved for US Citizens, especially those whose antecedents can be traced. And this usually means people with surnames like Smith, Green, Johnson et al. And, this is just one website, over say a job cycle time of a few weeks. Now one can extrapolate that there are hundreds of thousands of such jobs.

Now H1b is 65K Visas a year, Let's say that 80% of H1b are fraudulent - which it is NOT, but just for the sake of argument, let's say 80% are outright fakes - this is more than offset by very high paying US citizen only jobs in on a single website, over just a few weeks!

Now salaries might not be going up as as much as some wish for, but in an economy there are many more variables than just supply & demand, that determine wages. I would also remind you tech worker salaries are already among the highest, if not the highest, salaries in any professional class. Only very specialized doctors like Neurosurgeons, plastic surgeons etc make more.

To somehow say that H1b is the root of all evil can only come from a very spoilt entitled class - dare-I-say White American Males - that has all the bountiful benefit of an economy with FULL employment, Actually FULL++ employment. And yet, they are just so fragile, entitled and selfish....

H1b is, at most, a _minor_ inconvenience to a set of very spoilt brats, used to having it their way, or throwing a tantrum otherwise. 65K jobs is not even a droplet in the ocean that's the US economy, and yet the fact that this issue gets some much coverage is a testament to the power of this very privileged group.

[1] www.clearancejobs.com

This seems to be the stock answer to everything: "Raise wages", this would raise your healthcare costs many x more. This is as insane a policy as Open Borders and Free Trade. There are no solutions, only trade-offs.

How does this compare to mux.com?

This is a great "follow-up" documentary about the reporter investigating his family's deaths and talking to Pol Pot's deputy "brother number 2" icymi

https://enemiesofthepeoplemovie.com/

Because at some point they run out of people to blame, and turn on each other.