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Possibly. Even if this incarnation is a fad and goes away, it clearly touched a nerve and peaked many people's curiosity in ways other AI agents haven't so far. (I'm talking about …

I don't think gymnastics, shower ads, or medical examinations show naked breasts bouncing, among other things. The models could learn how things might behave from observing clothed…

Are AI image and video generators trained with lots of porn images and video? They seem very capable of generating porn (even though they are filtered/moderated not to do so) with …

I know that AI is improving, but for the sake of argument, if AI makes no progress in the next few years, are current capabilities enough to justify current valuations and investme…

No

Maybe

Yes - Either in person or online

Yes - Online video calls only

Yes - In person only

I've been thinking that founders over the age of 50 (I'm one of them) have some unique challenges, experience, insights, etc and so would be good to have a forum to exchange tips, …

Honest question: if you and your kids use YouTube to the degree you describe, why not pay for the ad free experience? Why go through so many hoops? Is it the amount of money, is it…

As I recall, as of a few years ago, that was the case, ie web apps could not do some of the things Flash was able to do. But maybe web technologies have advanced recently so that t…

Does this need any regulatory approval, or will it go through as is?

Not sure if people have studied this in detail, but my anecdotal evidence is that when I read a tweet related to politics, the top response is a contrarian one (i.e. disagrees with…

People are mentioning this is due to lack of testing, but if that were the case wouldn’t hospitals be overwhelmed like they have been in Italy and elsewhere? Testing or no testing …

I agree that if the attitudes of people in Japan bother him so much, not clear why he’s staying Having said that, the phenomenon he describes is pure racism. Not easy to shrug off

Not a dupe. It’s focusing on the leak instead of the sunsetting

Relevant: http://andrewoneverything.com/post/43840346900/we-will-alway... I don’t think there will ever be a way to make a “big decision” with thorough analysis that will make you …

A very poignant if cynical poem by the Greek poet Kavafis on this topic: You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whateve…

Assuming you're a programmer, researcher, or an entrepreneur (which I assume is a good chunk of HN readers), what would you be doing if you had enough money that you didn't have to…

This is a library that provides access to Matlab-like plotting functions for easily creating javascript plots from within Python. No need to deal with HTML, Javascript, or CSS to g…

I did look at some empirical data to derive the shape of the curve, though the derivation is not as thorough as it can be. If I get time to make the derivation more formal, I'll po…