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JonathanRaines

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    Comment #48862759

    *not true of hammers (jk, great post)

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    Comment #48862723

    I don't think you mean "Alas, ScrollPods was born". Maybe "And thus,..."?

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    Comment #48788824

    Pangram claims to be super accurate. Do you know how? I understood detection is a hard problem.

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    Comment #48772798

    I hope they don't start bugging our homes.

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    Comment #48762385

    I'm setting up my site and (slowly) adding some previous projects. Enjoy.

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    Comment #47695140

    High altitude balloon launches using weather balloons to get photos of the curvature of the earth.

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    Comment #47590979

    > We estimate that these laws prevented fatalities of 57 children in car crashes in 2017 but reduced total births by 8,000 that year These two options are not equivalent. I will ta…

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    Comment #46339462

    I've used your library and really like it!

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    Comment #46338571

    Also check out CADQuery and or build123d (python equivalents)

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    Comment #45595249

    I agree with what you're worried about - humans using AI to do bad things. However, have you considered also being worried about what AI can do? (can you ever have too much existen…

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    Comment #44994834

    > "According to the laws of thermodynamics, all that exists does so solely to consume, destroy and extinguish, and in this way to accelerate the slide toward cosmic obliteration" B…

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    Comment #44700964

    Nice! They provide trained checkpoints on their GitHub. Repeating their results would be a good start. https://github.com/sapientinc/HRM

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    Comment #44700455

    I advise scepticism. This work does have some very interesting ideas, specifically avoiding the costs of backpropagation through time. However, it does not appear to have been peer…

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    Comment #44670516

    I think you are right that once the exercise becomes hunting for a scapegoat it's pointless. However, it can be a way for everyone to understand the system better. The goal should …

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    Comment #44662448

    > "You seem stuck on X. Do you want to try investigating Y?" MS Clippy was the AI tool we should all aspire to build

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    Comment #44652651

    Zed is worth a look for your IDe and plays nicely with LLMs

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    Comment #44575258

    Fascinating that you chose to compare OpenAI's culture to Los Alamos. I can't tell if you're hinting AI is as world ending as nuclear weapons or not.