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MonkeyMalarky

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    Comment #35284554

    Invasion of privacy? After entering someone else's private property without their consent? Surely they will be laughed out of court!

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    Comment #35276235

    I don't know if it's a scam but there's been guys hanging around the local greyhound station with stories like "my phone battery died while I was on the bus, can I use your phone t…

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    Comment #35255522

    Now there's an idea! Chat with a psychologist using your dead parents voices. I wonder what Freud would make of that.

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    Comment #35255034

    So who's going to build the sex phone line where you can talk to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe?

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    Comment #35245504

    Just take this 5-strip of acid at a 3 day music festival surrounded by 20,000 people for your first time bro!

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    Comment #35238060

    Die? I think it's die. Look at Biden, Putin, Xi, and Rupert Murdoch they range from old to really fucking old.

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    Comment #35220145

    Now it's the senior engineers and architects turn to panic!

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    Comment #35219158

    I saw that Mr. Z. was getting into MMA in his free time, but this is taking it a bit too far isn't it?

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    Comment #35218906

    I have micro-services that haven't been touched in years because they do one thing, and the requirements of that one thing never change.

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    Comment #35218538

    Human contact has been a bad thing for a lot of bird species.

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    Comment #35204060

    Have a link handy?

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    Comment #35188626

    Yeah this thread has been the motivation for me to sign up on the wait list and cost out what it would take to try fine-tuning their older models on our data. There's still plenty …

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    Comment #35188535

    Also what happens to the intuition and unwritten skills that humans learned and passed on over time? Sure, the model has probably internalized them implicitly from the training dat…

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    Comment #35188430

    The price isn't even that bad, even the most expensive at 6cents per 1k tokens, it won't cost me much. It's the context size that's amazing. Gone are the days of only being able to…

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    Comment #35187392

    I'm not at a big tech company, and we don't sell algorithms, but my team does use a lot of NLP stuff in internal algorithms. The only panic I have is trying to keep up and take the…

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    Comment #35186688

    If you're in NA, I bet there's undergrads running around campus just as skimpily dressed. What do you do, walk around with your eyes closed lest you be fired for looking at a woman…

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    Comment #35183769

    The sad thing is this isn't even that hot of take given what happened with Facebook and the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar...

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    Comment #35160358

    Thousands of laid off tech workers playing around with the bot / scraper / side project they always wanted to build? Maybe we'll see a flood of indie games on steam in 6 months too…

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    Comment #35155849

    If it's trained on material scraped from the web, I imagine it would include all the test prep sites and forums.

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    Comment #35154225

    >Workers will be required to go through multiple rounds of disinfection and testing before being given clearance to enter, and won’t be able to leave the site until their next brea…

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    Comment #35126143

    They weren't all strictly the same though, there's some variations on the theme. One company in the past was in the business of buying fish from fishermen in small remote towns, tr…

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    Comment #35124872

    Aw come on, those little hands are just perfect for getting into and cleaning all the nooks and crannies of industrial equipment.

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    Comment #35124797

    Heck, there's this case where the workers aren't even citizens. Just cheap labor imported en mass to work in the service/hospitality industry: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince…

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    Comment #35124750

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-texas-town-52386513 Just imagine, not only could you lose your job for running afoul of a temperamental man child, but your family could be m…

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    Comment #35122750

    Are bidders expected to forget or "un-see" such knowledge afterwards? Or is the information not that detailed / anonymized in some way?