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cuttothechase

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    The art styling is more or less uniform too. I haven't seen many AI works that produces a pelican on a bicycle done in a "Ligne Claire" style, for example. I guess AI's narrows dow…

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    Comment #48840114

    The funny thing is that this is not a linear relationship. It is not like ah.. there is my 85K job or 150K job and now I will never get fired or laid off., Late stage capitalism wi…

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    Comment #48799925

    But that's the nature of the beast isnt it? A probabilistic token predictor will all always have some errors from a human perspective, more and more energy, money and resources wil…

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    Comment #48799859

    It will burn up the tokens to get through the deterministic gates, more so when n order dependencies are involved in the mix. Enough typewritters and monkeys could get it done too.…

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    Comment #48779206

    what is of really good use is a super factory. The super factory drives the factory which builds the harness of harnesses.

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    Comment #48778502

    3% of measurable gains is massive in itself isn't it? Taken as a percentage of the total volume of workforce and the world economy? If we can gain 3% across the board gains on AI b…

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    Comment #48440915

    It's hard to keep track of how many times American football or Baseball is used as a back drop of some TV shows or a hollywood blockbuster. How many US pop culture figures have per…

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    Comment #48440881

    Agree. "Culture" provides the nurturing "gap fill" while the capital is not exactly flowing and rules are evolving over time. Culture keeps the lights on in lean years and builds c…

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    Comment #48439455

    Answer is simple. Why isn't U.S. better at Field hockey, Badminton, Cricket, Ping pong etc.? Ideally a capitalistic system is supposed to produce the best or close to the best in e…

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    Comment #47907398

    calc, stat etc from a text book is something they would naturally be good at but I don't think book based computations thats in the training set and its extrapolations is what is a…

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    Comment #47869606

    Well the same logic can be used to justify bias too. I am surge pricing a person of religion X or race Y because I am increasing the supply for All races / religion in a equitable …

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    Comment #47866497

    Do you have a blog or a writeup about this? What would have been the cost if it was not DIY'd? Is this doable only in a rural/semi-urban settings?

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    Comment #47838282

    As one commenter put it: "You can fake a star count, but you can't fake a bug fix .. " The way to beautify the pig is to put lipstick on the pig!

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    Comment #47070523

    One could take anything like a cell and split it into genes, molecules, atoms, sub-atomic wave functions (with infinite value range) and take time which can be split into another i…

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    Comment #46571130

    >> Incidentally, San Francisco public schools had a combined admission rate of just under 20%, well below the state average. Mission had the highest rate (26.5%) and Balboa the low…

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    Comment #46522893

    Sergey's challenge looks like is not in retiring early or with non-work. We had a high performing co-worker who was scared witless after a lay-off episode and this was not because …

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    Comment #46200601

    >>This was a five-minute lightning talk given over the summer of 2025 to round out a small workshop. Glad I noticed that footnote. Article reeks of false equivalences and incorrect…

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    Comment #46093459

    https://gizmodo.com/replacement-study-mit-2000692601

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    Comment #46080506

    I am pretty sure you wouldn't have touched anything from google and meta as well.

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    Comment #45880481

    Isn't this sort of defense a weak argument by the courts. If your abstraction is to override a well known common usage/function of a term, then the abstraction doesn't hold much wa…

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    Comment #45871797

    What kind of blue collar work gets you $335K? What would be a 10 - 20 year average wage / year look like?