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Wow, this looks like a remake of the Mario Bros Battle Game https://www.mariowiki.com/Battle_Game_(Super_Mario_All-Stars... . Or maybe they both came from some other source

Good memories of playing this at a friends place, way back when

What would be an unbenchmaxxed model here? A general image classifier like Inception v3, without the fine-tuning?

The 200 test images here are 'wild'. Fine-tuning in-domain is the whole point. This is what model training is. A skin cancer diagnosis tool doesn't also need to generalise to dog breeds to be valid, and will almost always perform worse if it does.

Not sure if this is connected, but I've found Gemini pretty hopeless within its own notebooks. I've been doing some job applications, and added cv and docs into a notebook. I then create a new chat to say "here is a job description, help me write a cover letter" or some such.

After about 3 messages in any given chat, a follow-up to "rewrite that with a more friendly tone" will result in a letter for a completely different job from another chat within the notebook.

No they don't. The two Huawei models mentioned are completely different form factors, that are much more open-ear and further from squishy silicone than any Airpods.

This is exactly the assumption that the carefully worded juice hopes you'll make. That Apple's claim to innovation precludes even a cursory glance at the competition

If self-hosting is the only solution you can think of to maintain model stability, it's no wonder you missed the point. We already do all those things you mentioned, even with cloud providers. Model versioning exists for exactly this purpose, just like it does with any software dependency. We can specify sonnet:v1.23 and decide if and when to upgrade.

But even if we only asked for sonnet:latest, the last thing we'd expect is opus. Model names should be indicative of breaking changes, and change management doesn't just go in the bin because of non-deterministic tools.

That's a narrow take. Non-deterministic doesn't mean random; workflows can be reasonably validated and consistent to some known degree.

I work for an education department that serves a chatbot for students, and model changes go through painstaking content safety reviews. I initially assumed it's just a bunch of bureaucratic paranoia. But every other model upgrade has a measurably different adherence to the existing system prompts about not talking to the kids about sex and drugs and mental health issues.

A couple of years in Tokyo gave me great trust in certain weather apps for eerily precise minute-by-minute rainfall predictions. After a few years back in Sydney, my trust in them has dropped back down to the usual uncertain baseline, and my reliance on them has been mostly replaced with my own rough assessment of the air and sky.

On recent visits to Tokyo, with my current habits, the general crowd (who presumably check some app) has been the more reliable forecast. Either everyone has an umbrella in their hand or they don't. And I discover whether I should have brought my umbrella or if I'll be lugging it around pointlessly, just far enough from my hotel to be stuck with my choice

I wasn't aware of this game until AFTER I saw the movie. Made a lot more sense after that. Watching a guy solve the same puzzle over and over felt like an odd narrative choice.

A labyrinthine Shinjuku would still be way cooler. Shibuya station doesn't have quite the same disorienting featureless repetition to it, but offers a more overwhelming MC Escher-like experience where you can often SEE exactly where you want to go in the near-distance, but every path and every turn brings you into a completely different space, and rarely any closer to your destination.

If you just want to clone a typical garage door remote, you're way better off buying a generic $5 fob. Almost all the 433MHz garage fobs I've seen are designed to easily clone each other. And if cloning doesn't work, it's probably because you need to access the door controller and hit a few buttons to pair the remote directly. Also trivial, and also often pretty physically insecure. In the smaller apartment buildings I've lived in, the boxes containing these control units have usually just been hidden behind by a couple of screws and a "danger electricity" sticker.

If your current remote has multiple unused buttons on it as they often do, you can already try this out.

Since you cannot imagine how they'd perform, isn't this the perfect opportunity to test your assumption?

Who said that?

What do you mean by proportion? They are different data sources, and their usage is determined by system design.

eg A driving decision system needs to know object distances AND traffic light colours. It doesn't particularly need to know the source of either. You could have a camera-only system that accurately determines colour and fuzzy-determines distance. Or you could have a LIDAR-only system that accurately determines distance and fuzzy-determines colour.

Or you use both, get accurate LIDAR-distance and accurate camera-colour and skip all the fuzzy-determination steps. Or keep the fuzzy stuff and build a layer of measurement-agreement for redundancy.

So then the question becomes, what's your proportion when deciding whether to stop at a traffic light? Is it mostly light colour or mostly distance to other objects? Or 50/50?

I'd say it's 100/100.

> To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently not true. At least one of the two co-hosts of The War on Cars (again, a title which is intentionally tongue-in-cheek) has a preteen son.

Similar for the YouTube channel NotJustBikes, who has gone into great detail about the advantages of raising kids in a city planned around pedestrian and cyclist usage, and not in a suburban sprawl.

Sure they may become mercenaries. Maybe "Hyundai factory worker" is akin to "remote oil rig worker".

Or they could just be regular people with regular, stable jobs because they haven't chased a life of risk.

But China banning foreign apps also plays into their stranglehold on their domestic media and economy, so it's not a purely adversarial move against the US.

Or to put it another way, should the US also ban/censor Chinese art and cinema within it's borders?

So basically a stream deck. Those things are pretty tempting, I must admit. When similar functions are shrunk down and integrated into regular keyboards, my wallet will be in trouble.

Although this reminds me, my old Logitech G15 from 2008 already had an LCD screen and a bunch of app-customisable buttons.

So, paying for a night shift will increase the cost to customers, but higher salaries negotiated by on-call employees won't?

Or did you leave out the part where those employees discover how little negotiating power they really have

But, but, if the employer doesn't steal wages from employees, where will they get the money to pay them higher salaries?

I recently had a slack message on my Friday evening from my delayed-timezone manager starting his Friday. There was no expectation to answer out of hours, but it was some small detail I could answer in a few seconds. And this was from a new and intense 24/7 workaholic ex-FAANG manager, whose high expectations I was still getting used to, and who would likely spend his whole weekend working on this project. So I gave a quick response.

He said thanks, told me to turn my phone off, and sent a group message to the team reminding us not to work outside hours, with a link to instructions on disabling slack notifications. And then he started scheduling his own overnight/weekend DMs to send at 9am Monday.

It was an awesome response, and those firm self-imposed boundaries helped allow the work to be rewarding, rather than an absolute nightmare.

I had one of these and quite liked it. Then one day I plugged my phone in before bed as a million times before and the cable display popped and started emitting smoke.

I've been getting this a lot. Especially with Rust, where it will use functions that don't exist. It's maddening

What’s the story there?

Or the free Spacedesk, does the same.

> It really isn't a trick question. If your needs are 100% satisfied through wireless, why would you ever care?

THIS is a trick question.

Doesn't Android allow sandboxed MDMs to be added to the phone? I've seen this when using Island, which basically creates a fake work profile on the phone which is completely separated from your personal profile. For dual apps like a second WhatsApp it worked well, to the point that sharing photos from the second account was a pain because it couldn't see the main file system. And when you don't want it anymore, that whole sandbox can be burned without touching the rest of the phone.

It'd be nice if iPhones had something similar. Not sure how anyone is supposed to use them for work when it comes to apps like WhatsApp and Signal. Or even less work stuff like dealing with recruiters, real estate agents and online dating where you might end up sharing primary contact details with people you don't want to hear from a few weeks later.

I've used this to get to a browser that almost does full screen videos in a borrowed Tesla, from the YouTube app.

Then navigated to some dodgy adware infested streaming site and it was working okay until changing to another video, when it froze the whole Tesla computer and the car needed a hard reboot

iOS happily kills backswipes with inconsistent alternatives.

eg View details in Photos, and swiping back doesn't work. But there are also no back buttons or visual cues. But there are 3 ways to get out of that screen AFAIK, which some might label intuitive. But if you go one step deeper and Adjust the photo details, the only exit is a Cancel button.

Even native iOS apps have some terribly inconsistent back behaviour, particularly when handling overriding swipe functions.

Eg Photos seems to change Back on almost every view. Swiping back navigates around albums and locations and such. Until you open a photo, then it flicks between individual photos. If you are looking at a photo and want to return to album view you need to click the Back arrow at the top left. If you swiped up to view photo details and want to go back to the photo, you need to swipe down. If you are Adjusting photo details, you need to click Cancel at the top left. If you are editing a photo and want to go back to the photo, you need to click Cancel, which is at the bottom left this time.

The only place I don't notice a back button in Photos is the top right. But that's exactly where Books puts it.

On Android, every single one of navigations would be performed by the dedicated back button/swipe. Which might explain why the iOS Google Photos app seems to just stick with a top-left back button on almost all views.

And in Australia they dominate the list of highest paid professions, so I immediately wonder how many other wealthy countries were skipped before settling on Cuba as a comparison.

Cancer survival rates are gameable anyway. They depend highly on early screening. As a statistic I mean. You can have pretty solid 5 year stats without treatment, if it takes 10 years to kill people. OTOH, without screening, finding it 8 years later might make the best treatment futile, and the stats worse.