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The lack of advertisements, popups, cookie consent, propogandist language and fluffy content makes for such a pleasant reading experience. It's a real pity that this is not more co…

A lot of hullabalou from a company that hasn't shipped one useful and profitable product that some group of customers simply cannot live without. Most AGI roadmaps IMO are a form o…

Unrelated to ChatGPT, fact checking seems like a great exercise for schools to teach modern tech literacy. Imagine doing this with a tweet, a random anecdote, a video clip, etc. Wh…

Their methods are heavily based on hybrid planning, model-predictive-control, and trajectory optimization which have many parallels to popular ML methodologies [1]. Boston Dynamics…

What works for me is learning a single concept in many different ways. A textbook, a youtube video, a friend explaining it to me... Each next source of material (however casual or …

Despite errors in the statements made by the LLMs, I'm a huge fan of this syntax which has inline references. Seem like a great bridge between LLMs being "statistical babble" and a…

Is this true even if you account for the fact that cities can reclaim lanes and buildings dedicated for parking? I would think that a lot of congestion is related cars having to be…

I used to be a fan, but these days I feel like there is little to no innovation in the top ranked apples anymore. Not to mention, does SweeTango even have USB-C?!

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Yes the latter. Its not a tesla, nor is it particularly nice / flashy. Not that 4 broken windows would be justified either way.

FWIW my car's been broken into 4 times over the last 2 years in oakland! Hasn't happened since I started leaving the rear seats down, but probably just a matter of time.

Was recently using google as a calculator and noticed some very confusing behavior. See following queries and their results: 1. "100 / .95 = x" -- step-by-step algebra guide preced…

What I desperately want at this point in time: A button next to every ad that says "why me?" that details every byte of my data scraped to generate that specific ad. Was it a GPS l…

Slightly off topic, but I happened to have recently completed google's DEI training as an onboarding googler and was appalled at one of the anecdotes used as an example of inclusio…