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might want to look into statistics on ppl who play a lot of first-person shooting games. does it have to navigation of physical environments? or virtuals ones work too?

so their idea is to put an ipad in the middle of the forest, installed with games, and if played right, delievers a treat... makes me wonder if something alien civilization is not …

came here to say some version of this. for the average joe, good financial advice is simple and boring (low cost ETF tracking broad based index), and AI is definitely able to give …

if authors get an advance that's greater than the sale of their books, doesn't it mean that the publishers lose money, i.e. paid more for those books than the books sales?

Apple seems a counter example, no?

There are any number of smaller region/states that are already benefiting. Singapore comes to mind. Leading labs are all setting up in Singapore and both 1) internally-transferring…

Yes, this... all the hype from the leading AI companies just pattern-matched so many past cases where things didn't pan out. really giving me the bad vibes..

I want to thank you for the following reasons: - that's an amazing, mind-opening essay; - I've been looking for this toy (Meccano) for my entire adult life. I remember playing with…

this article itself is AI dump...

because, as Musk once said, always bet on the more interesting outcome (because we live in a simulation)

I felt Hassabis' heart was never in consumer applications or even LLMs. He'd much rather be doing scientific research.

and esp. since DOGE was led by Musk, who has an appreciation of basic science. One'd think he'd exercise good judgement and caution when it comes to cutting funding for science res…

S&P 500 is already heavily skewed towards tech companies (Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft etc.). I think it's something like 40% of S&P500 is tech. If SpaceX/OpenAI/Anthropi…

based on your description, one reasonable way to 'revolutionize' school might simply allow people (who don't want to be there) to leave.

for what it's worth, back when i was in b-schoo, the predominant theory for the existence of large, diversified Asian conglomerates (Japanese keiretsu is a prime example, but it's …

it was only after I had to manage others that I realized the logic for a lot of these simplistic metrics and rules. they are in place to hold accountable the worst performers. a si…

even if this were true, PG (who can code, and can tell if someone else can) didn't think it was an issue when handing over YC to Altman.

this function will be a must-have for all home security systems. I used to spend hours going through home security cameras to check if our cat went out the house when the door was …

my question has always been why (I think most vertebrates) stop at two? It seems that an extra eye here and there could be really helpful. Maybe it's because all verterbrates evolv…

i'd love to watch its rendering of any of the recent big budget sci-fi productions

I thought this a pretty mature technique? I have seen more than once our local vet using this technique to treat cats with large wounds -- with great results by the way. Interestin…

but then again in this day and age maybe marketing skills are more important than anything else...

one example is auto generating subtitles -- elements of this tasks, e.g. speech to text with time coding, have been around for a while (openai whisper and others), but they have on…