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robot

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I'm working on a UI automation bot. In my view this is a pre-requisite for physical robots.

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    Comment #47329466

    BTW Rob Pike designed the Go language channels inspired by this work: https://go.dev/tour/concurrency/2

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    Comment #47326703

    "Communicating Sequential Processes" by Tony Hoare: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Hoare78.pdf It had intrigued me due to its promise of designing lock-free concurrent syste…

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    Comment #45970950

    I don't get this. I installed the tesla app and was approved to book a drive in 1 week (last week). I've been in the Waymo waiting list for at least 6 months, and still haven't got…

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    Comment #44828978

    best course: don't. they have a shitty structure so don't bother. find users who are also buyers.

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    Comment #44251696

    your comment is not aligned with how science is done. For discoveries you certainly work with limited approaches and certainly don't know if there is a "clear trajectory".

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    Comment #43404596

    I don't see this to be a problem worth solving. Some problems are problems but for a startup to succeed it needs to be a very important problem. Having a unique insight is also not…

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    Comment #43166001

    these examples are all exceptions. how much do the exceptions contribute to the discussion?

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    Comment #43136550

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42371648

    there is so much skepticism on quantum computing that instead of inflated marketing words one should always start by what the biggest problems are, how they are not still solved ye…

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    Comment #40941002

    well I wouldn't be so sure. if you cook with it or add it to dishes (not drink it on its own, who would do that) it certainly has beneficiary effects and it is less of a cause for …

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    Comment #40940696

    question is DOES OLIVE OIL HAVE THIS COMPOUND? HOW MUCH?

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    Comment #39976228

    very cool, also the coding style looks good.

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    Comment #39769534

    Yes, he was first like, we're totally doing this on AMD! A few weeks later he's like wtf@#! this is the buggiest thing ever

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    Comment #39769495

    "it’s not that hard for a customer to get their software working on a competing hardware platform and cut out a bunch of Nvidia’s enormous markup" Agree and yet none of the contend…

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    Comment #39520595

    It all depends on whether fortune 500 can improve their business processes using AI. It seems like it is able to do so, which translates to vast numbers of AI chips being sold in t…

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    Comment #39150791

    Don't waste time fixing superiors or whoever you work with, you are not in this world to correct those people, try and join another functional organization. One option is to bring …

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    Comment #38454825

    It is not open source. The source code is open but with an evaluation, i.e. proprietary license: https://github.com/azure-rtos/threadx/blob/master/LICENSE.tx...

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    Comment #38376622

    there is a lot of money made (100m paid users?) by everyone and momentum so groupthink is forced to occur kind of.

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    Comment #37854212

    this is already done by libraries and how new instructions are leveraged on cores that have them. During init a library checks availability of instructions and sets function pointe…

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    Comment #37489073

    for startups I guess this means nail your use case with gpt-4, and when scaling cost becomes an issue consider fine tuning.

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    Comment #37251573

    what is missing in 2 words: "problem solving"

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    Comment #36875671

    my fastest purchase of a book so far, after reading the first paragraph and the amazon review. I appreciate any reading material that helps with understanding how the world works. …

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    Comment #36545406

    good riddance it is a hell hole of people promoting stuff + conspiracy theorists and manipulators. it differentiates itself as "the shitshow social network".