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Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:45PM (#36373185)
Great point! Since they are not showing the decks, for all we know these GPT4 pitches may have been proposing they found a cure for cancer.
Re:GPT-4 Outperforms Humans in Pitch Deck Effectiveness on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:32PM (#36373025)
I'm in agreement regarding more. But I think it also says something about clear messaging and how many people struggle with that. It's actually consistent with YC advice. They say most pitches fail to even convey what the hell they are doing and what problem they are solving. I suspect a language model will get that part across rather well.
Re:Show HN: Real or AI – Game on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:29PM (#36348444)
Nice idea, but somehow not too much fun when you constantly lose. I think a better game mechanism might be how many correct vs. incorrect ones you can get in a time period.
Among them: Good documentation
I'm working on an open-source platform for full-stack robotics (called Transitive) and this is on my roadmap, but I haven't started on that piece yet. Like you I've seen the pain though. Airbotics.io is developing a CI/CD pipeline for robotics and I could imagine they'd be interested in helping build a solution for what you are interested in as well. Would be happy to chat and potentially collaborate.
Life is not zero sum.
The robot's manufacturer, of course, if the surgical robot was acting autonomously, i.e., unsupervised, as the title suggests. AI-trained or hard-coded doesn't matter. It's the manufacturer's responsibility to ensure their robots are safe or, when they cannot guarantee safety, abort and ask for help. This does not mean that surgery success has to 100% -- that's a different matter. But in the course of it's operation it shouldn't cause undue harm.
Nice! Does it support adding a camera (usb/ip)?
Re:Robots from ICRA 2023 on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @11:07AM (#36311345)
Thirty years ago people working in computers were uncool, too. Proud to be, then and now.
How was your experience working with the Farm-ng base? Did they also provide software or just the hardware? Does it run ROS?

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+1 on timezone. Much easier to work with South America.
Re:ROS 2 Iron Irwini Release on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:01PM (#36049173)
Are you aware that ros service calls are RPCs (not based on pub/sub like actions)? Furthermore, if you use nodelets (http://wiki.ros.org/nodelet) you get zero copy communication between your algorithms. So I actually think that ROS has the facilities to address the needs you describe.

I'd be interested, though, in your suggestions on what a real architecture for robotics looks like in your mind? I still remember the time before ROS, 20 years ago, when each robotics team had to designate a sub-team just for building and maintaining the middleware. That was a waste of time and effort. But you seem to suggest that we go back to that? ROS might not be perfect but it's so much better than anything else that exists. It's also open source and we can all work together to make it better rather than reinventing the wheel each time.

Re:An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms on Thursday May 18, 2023 @04:54PM (#35993921)
That first audio example just blew my mind! I can't believe I've lived my whole life to learn only now that our ears essentially just pick out all the sine waves in a complicated wave. Thank you!
Re:Building ClickHouse Cloud from Scratch in a Year on Thursday March 16, 2023 @02:21PM (#35186068)
Interesting. What's your estimate on how much overhead it was to support multiple clouds vs. just settling on one? Any tools/libraries/abstractions you can recommend that makes developing against multiple clouds easier?
Re:Don't you know what you want in your life? Read this on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:03AM (#34820419)
When I ask myself this I always come back to the Ikigai: https://zekluu.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/noticia2_def.p...
"It’s hard for old mate Joe to get re-elected.." -- Glad to see that this was written by a highly objective and professional journalist with no personal political opinions of their own mixed into the narrative ;-)
Re:Paul Graham’s Legacy on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:55PM (#34793149)
Has nothing to do with Paul Graham. Click-bait?
Re:Show HN: G-Script – Visual Scripting for the Web on Saturday February 11, 2023 @09:58PM (#34759213)
I don't get it from your web page. What can I connect? Slack, Github, other APIs (like Zapier) -- or is it meant for running code on an existing page (automate front end)? I on purpose did not read your description above so I can give you feedback on the more important piece, your web page.
Re:I made ChatGPT and Bing AI have a conversation on Saturday February 11, 2023 @05:06PM (#34756891)
Great experiment. Surprisingly boring result.
Re: on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @02:45PM (#34698268)
> Using container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Nomad is usually an overkill for projects that will do fine with a single-server Docker Compose setup.

Couldn't agree more! Very nice!

Re:Go-like channels in 10 lines of JavaScript on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:01PM (#34659345)
But there is no concurrency in Javascript! So even after this exercise, the running function still has to finish before the next can start. This will only create actual concurrency when each of the actors are themselves doing pretty IO heavy things where they wait for external processes to finish. Otherwise, if you actually have compute heavy processes that should run in parallel you should use the node.js cluster package or worker threads, both of which come with IPC built in already.
Re:Libostree on Saturday February 04, 2023 @02:25PM (#34657279)
Can you use this to create PXE bootable systems?
Re:Neil Young Archives on Saturday February 04, 2023 @01:43PM (#34656868)
I love Neil Young, but it's still a shame that he left Spotify. Joe Rogan or not, a music collection like Spotify is incomplete without his music.
"considering that 2016 is generally regarded as the date of the deep learning revolution" --

I thought it was 2012, when AlexNet took the imagenet crown?

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