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Re:Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet? on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:02AM (#40943289)
God, what a depressing take
People post on twitter. It's a thing. Asking to avoid posting links to twitter is ridiculous
Eventually; openai, adept, etc. are working on these types of agents. But currently, name a model that can replace selenium (ie. engage with the browser)
Re:The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @11:56PM (#39463410)
The point is you can do massive compression. It’s more like a sequence of sparse images than video.
Re:The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is video on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @11:41PM (#39463335)
Isn’t this what rewind does?
Re:What's the fun in writing on the internet anymore? on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:14AM (#39416416)
Same with image models. So many fine-tuned models, LoRA’s, etc
Re:What's the fun in writing on the internet anymore? on Sunday February 18, 2024 @12:13AM (#39416411)
> "the internet was so much better back in the old days"

Nowhere in this blog post did the author make any such claims.

Re:Altman's Ambition on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:58PM (#39416054)
I thought maybe I was just too dumb, but looking back, the lack of coherence or structure definitely contributed to not forming a clear model of everything he wrote.
Re:Stable-Audio-Demo on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @08:40PM (#39365328)
What other inputs besides text promoting is there for SD? Are you referring to img2img, controlnet, etc?
Re:John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died on Thursday February 08, 2024 @02:23AM (#39299278)
Although rare, there are managers who are both technically competent and good at managing people (disparate skillsets). I think a manager who knows nothing about tech is often as destructive as a technical manager who's bad at people management. There just seems to be more of the former
To be fair, who doesn't listen to Tupac?
Re:An API for Dalle-3 on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:40PM (#37993588)
How did you implement idea2img? Very cool
Re:Superlinear Returns on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @06:20PM (#37922387)
It’s a function of power law distribution. A lot of natural phenomena follows it.
Re:First of its kind material can reconnect severed nerves on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @02:42AM (#37841666)
20 years is infinitely better than never. There are a lot of life-altering diseases whose future outlook is much bleaker (eg. little funding or research interest). But yea, having to wait so long definitely sucks for those currently suffering.
Re:Organization Probably Doesn't Want to Improve Things on Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:51AM (#37807958)
I still don’t understand why things need to be this way? Like, people could not be worthless. It’s theoretically possible.
Re:Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @05:11PM (#27201205)
Advantageous even if you don't have a working prototype. See Microsoft vaporware
> Now take it a step further. Inside the simulation someone introduces Hard Seltzer. The in game year is 2021 and a player just read that some NPC somewhere had just created a brain/computer interface. He rips off his headset and goes to unplug the computer because fuck this game, all the DLC clearly ruined it.

Lmao. Hard seltzer isn’t that bad

More like a shit stack
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. Haven’t they always been able to remotely gather telemetry data and control devices? How was this achieved with network access?
Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:15PM (#26042857)
QA your site. It’s breaking under the load
Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website on Friday February 05, 2021 @07:14PM (#26042845)
What does this even mean? Uber extracts money from you when you take rides. So how is a UI that makes it overly complicated to do that “designed to extract as much money from you as possible”?
This resonates with me. I’ve noticed an absolute dependence on mental stimulation. I think your solutions is the same conclusion I came to. Cheers!
Re:Study Reveals Immune Driver of Brain Aging on Friday January 22, 2021 @11:46AM (#25873258)
What have been the most effective lifestyle changes you've made? And how long did it take you before noticing their effects? Hope they continue working for you!
On the contrary, having a giant monitor with two tabs open... /s

Who cares? So nit. You could hotkey to switch between two windows of the same program.

What devices with on-screen keyboards are you running vim in?
Re:Futuristic Helmet Has Its Own HEPA Filter and Fan on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:14PM (#25849811)
Product idea alert
Re:I no longer trust The Great Suspender on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @11:36AM (#25848445)
Crazy. Can I ask what extension this is? Wish I had the problem of tens of thousands of new users wanting my product weekly :)
Didn’t LinkedIn do the same thing and lose?
Re:Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:04PM (#25753626)
I wholeheartedly agree. But I think it’s just a matter of preference for top-down or bottom-up
My friend just moved to Germany. They make WAY less than SV engineers (working at the same company). Granted, they don’t have to work 24 hour oncall shifts. I’m not saying the less wages is because of unions, just pointing it out.

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