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Wow, as others have said below, disabling the “Slide to Type” feature in Settings > General > Keyboard makes typing work well again on iOS. I cannot believe I put up with this awfu…

This is an amazing archive of interviews. The audio quality is astounding — you would think these were podcasts from this week. I enjoyed the 1959 discussion with Arthur C. Clarke …

You can absolutely specify your own lyrics and structure to Suno.

A few small things as I think of them: -To practice for the moment of a real launch command, he would receive encoded messages every day that had to be manually decoded as quickly …

Coincidentally, I just toured the South Dakota minuteman launch control facility this week [1] and it was fascinating. The park ranger giving the tour was a veteran who manned the …

Since the technical nugget is hidden in the code, the fun trick here is to alternate on odd and even steps between moving toward a duck in the latent space image and moving toward …

Possibly a reference to the 1956 Isaac Asimov short story "Someday": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Someday_(short_story) "The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrad…

Eternal inflation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation A more reader-friendly explanation: https://medium.com/amazing-science/if-inflation-is-true-then...

Yes, the situation works. The fact that the first two logicians say “I don’t know” means they do want beer but they are unsure if everyone wants beer. The last logician knows this …

I noticed this phenomenon when asking for a story involving Stephen Hawking, Darth Vader, and Wookiees. I spelled it “Wookies” by mistake and ChatGPT used my misspelling throughout…

OpenAI announced and released CLIP on GitHub on January 5, 2021: https://github.com/openai/CLIP You need CLIP to have CLIP guided diffusion. So the current situation seems to trace…

Aha! This explains a 20-year-old mystery bug! In undergrad, one of my side projects was a procedural 3D world from scratch (kind of Myst meets Halo), including physics, graphics (O…

Yes, this is both the most misunderstood and the most amazing (and unpredicted?) thing about GPT-3 et al. You have to tell it who it is and what the rules are. And it gains or lack…

ELI5 is: If the universe is computable, might we be in the simplest computable universe or the fastest computable universe? Can computer science and math help us figure out the rea…

I thought the overhang was going to be along the lines of the following, whether realistic or not: -GPT-3, as is, should be the inner loop of a continuously running process which g…

Agreed, it takes awhile to get there but the core idea comes toward the end: The genius — sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental — of the enterprises now on such a steep ascent…

Beautiful -- several years ago, I created an iOS app that does this live on screen in real time (via CoreImage filters, saving a video of the trails building up) but then never rel…

100% correct. There is no way they included a depth sensor in this device just to blur the background. They may also be aiming to map any Amazon clothing purchases to 3D body shape…

Does anyone know if the languages all live in the same 300-dimensional space, or are they each trained independently? (i.e. do words and their translations have similar vectors?)

Here is some of that IIHS research [1] from Jan 2016 that gives lots of raw crash numbers broken down by manufacturer, type of system (AEB/FCW), injuries involved, etc. Really info…

Since it's not mentioned in the article, this is also called bilateral filtering [1]. The external links section of the Wikipedia article lists some famous SIGGRAPH papers describi…

While you would never do this kind of training on your user's machines (which takes multiple weeks even with a powerful GPU), you should be able to apply the trained model to a sin…

Impressive work, Daniel! Do I understand correctly that any image prediction for which the deltas are smaller in absolute value than the full JPEG/DCT coefficients would offer cont…