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This reminds me of the Psirens episode from Red Dwarf: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psirens

My understanding is that we won’t get a “mind reader” model out of this, because visual stimulus vs your imagination happen in separate parts of the brain. In other words we won’t …

This is like the AI version of Manchurian Candidate. By silently seeding corners of the web with “wake words,” a nefarious party could trick GPT to train over them, thereby giving …

I appreciate the honesty of this article but I just don’t quite understand why you’d need to burn $300K to learn these lessons: Small receipts, keeping drinks warm, staffing issues…

If you know someone who is 55+ years old, you can join them on the T-Mobile Magenta plan, which works out to $35 per line, with unlimited everything. Pretty cheap IMO, annoying act…

I’ve always wanted to get one of these old Apple Newtons and trying to upgrade the built in handwriting recognition system with something a bit more modern, within the limitations …

Bot: “I just learned the square root of 2 is 1.41” Me: “what’s your least favorite movie?” Bot: “Probably about math since I am good at it…” Conversation bots are hard lol.

I think another aspect is that most modern GBT models prefer the entire dataset to be in memory, thereby doing a full scan of the data for each iteration to calculate the optimal s…

For every 10kW they use, they’ll generate 2kW and claim they’re investing the remaining 8kW back into their company. The Uber of the power business.

I don’t see any mentions of what you define as “spoof-proof.” Are you performing a liveness check [0] ? Eg can I hold a picture up of someone else’s face, or commandeer the camera …

Are there any good 3rd party alternatives that work better?

In all seriousness what is there to do for kids in the South Bay? Is there anything fun left, compared to the 90s and 00s? Fry’s, Micro Center and Circuit City, gone. Tilt Arcade g…

To clarify I’m not sure it counts directly to income, but it starts to be taken into account when there is substantial salary and other investment funds, especially if you are righ…

Actually, I’m worried about techies specifically. It’s (was) surprisingly easy to count RSUs as income collateral, especially since the last 5 years have shown such a consistent so…

We used Redfin to buy a home in a relatively competitive market in 2017. We tried using it again recently but found the (same) agents to be considerably less invested than those fr…

Sad to see Anker on the list. I used to think of them as a pretty reliable electronics manufacturer in a sea of low quality chargers and hubs.

I like your message of avoiding MVP bloat. It’s an important one for sure. In your blog examples you showcase both true positives and true negatives (services that succeeded and fa…

Curiously what kind of tasks do you use your bot on? I’m surprised you’re able to use an android emulator. My understanding is that device attestation can detect emulation, which w…

I’m guessing it’s due to bots. Desktop websites are considerably easier for deploying and managing automations. You don’t need a physical smartphone, just any cheap and capable mac…

Maybe a microburst [0] of air from a developing thunderstorm? Basically, an extremely powerful downward burst of cold air. Seems to have killed birds in the past [1]. This is absol…

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this …

I have a dark-pattern theory: Gmail tracks retention metrics, one of whose proxies are app opens. If you don’t get a lot of email, or haven’t opened the gmail app in a while, then …

Are there any aspects of Wordle that can be patented? AFAIK, game mechanics cannot be patented unless they are demonstrably novel (whatever that means).

Can you speak about your experience building a startup with a newborn nearby?

I think the actual guessing space for these free response problems is much smaller, through simple priors over the question. For example: “Richard, Jerry, and Robert are going to s…