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neuralkoi

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About neuralkoi

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    Comment #49217674

    The paper claims LUCA doesn't count as life because it still depended on its environment to metabolize. It's kind of interesting that there's parasites that arguably don't meet thi…

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    Comment #49172364

    Great stuff by them! As soon as beta drops, I'm ditching FF.

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    Comment #49112307

    xcancel has a whole freaking captcha now.

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    Comment #49102484

    Coursera was co-founded by Andrew Ng. Interesting bit from Wikipedia: > In December 2024, Greg Hart, who served 23 years as Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos at Amazon was hired as C…

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    Comment #49093633

    What kind of stuff are you doing with these agents?

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    Comment #49079971

    We are so full of ourselves we called ourselves Homo sapiens, wise man, but wise we don't seem to be. I recently faced this feeling of overconfidence in knowledge trying to think a…

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    Comment #49072484

    Check out Alan Kay's perspective on this [0]. This talk is excellent and will cue you in on how to go about thinking about the fact that the way we program and view and understand …

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    Comment #49031501

    Every time Google comes out with a new "feature" like this, it reminds me to resume my de-Googling journey with reinforced vigor. Drive and Photos are low-hanging fruit. GMail and …

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    Comment #49025225

    I would use "Defense in Depth" as an argument to addressing this issue.

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    Comment #49022567

    This was an excellent write-up and taught me more in 20 minutes than my linear algebra teacher did in 6 months. The material however, got fairly dense. After chapter 10, it is no l…

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    Comment #48998938

    Even if it is marketing, wouldn't it still be a concern that an advanced model unintentionally breached another company's production system? Or required resources on their end to m…

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    Comment #48998510

    Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m., EDT, on August 29.

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    Comment #48970620

    I hope the author can break down the recommendations in a future post. I'd love to learn how to build this kind of hardware (what tools are needed), how to iterate on the results, …

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    Comment #48969980

    > Terence told friends, “history’s going to end any day now.” Friends worried they’d “gone off the rails,” and Dennis later conceded they had a point. I always imagine the reckless…

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    Comment #48969542

    This really begs the question as to how much juice you can get from $5 compute. This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridge or wifi-connected f…

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    Comment #48941807

    This is awesome. I hope you can make a chatbot based on the responses of your users. I felt like a Kirkland Meeseeks responding to some of these prompts.

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    Comment #48920474

    On your goals: 1. It's okay to make mistakes. Pain + reflection = progress. 2. Try to shift your perspective so your sense of worth isn't tied to your work. 3. Anytime you say "I s…

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    Comment #48730933

    The biggest fear of AI companies: that open source models will scale in such a way that renders these data centers obsolete.

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    Comment #48630749

    A recent example: https://vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-...

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    Comment #48628089

    This is a great read. I wish the author had listed a bit more about their offers and which they ended up taking. The author didn't list any advice regarding negotiation but I found…

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    Comment #48627602

    Vibe coding takes "move fast and break things" to a whole nother level.

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    Comment #48616602

    FB would still be throwing money in the metaverse furnace.

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    Comment #48602046

    Skype was doing this back in 2003.

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    Comment #48523482

    Translation is an art. [0] Each of us carries a slightly different model of reality shaped by our genetics, society, and our subjective experience, and we try to share pieces of th…