Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recipes by themselves aren’t copyrightable. Bullshit stories are.
Does copyright for a story containing a recipe protect against use of the recipe outside the context of the story?
No
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
> FAANG has access to the leading factories in Shenzhen, and heavily utilize robot tech in their HW supply chains. Do you know what the N stands for in FAANG?
This is really boring pedantry, that does not further the conversation. Do you have anything to reply to from the rest of my comment?
It’s not pedantry. Those companies have effectively nothing in common when it comes to HW.
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#183TL;DR: making industrial (e.g. manufacturing) robots easier to use, by improving sensing, planning, etc.
I suspect that Dr. Chelsea Finn's work in meta-learning (affiliated with Stanford and GBrain, when I saw it last year) might play a big part here, which is e.a. about generalisation of RL policies to out of domain tasks. (E.g. similar task, but slightly different tools, slightly different task, etc.)
Learning IRL (cameras and actuators) reinforcement learning policies is a huge time sink, so generalisation is a hugely important task. Related solutions can be found in simulation->real generalisation, also an active topic of research.
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#184But how can robots be used to harvest personal data? Maybe this is an end-use case.
It's the most effective Trojan horse if they actually succeed in general robotics. Currently the amount of people using Google home is tiny. But imagine if you can just say "Google, make me a sandwich" and a few moments later the robot comes along.... And the automatic cleanup etc. People would buy them instantly, giving Google all the private data of households which would have never bought any of the current "smart…
The problem with household robotics is that people who have the dough for the maid-bot probably own stuff way too expensive to have it cleaned by a robot.
The Lusty Automaton Maid, on the other hand, is sure to sell like botcakes.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#185I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
I can understand why the style may seem offputting, but the thing to understand is that it has been traditionally very hard to engage with the public on this topic of robotic advancement. In fact, I know a bit about this myself, having been in the robotics space for over a decade. But my own struggles in the field only reflect a longer trend, which I can even trace back to my grandfather.
Growing up in a strict Lutheran household in the southwest England town of Flenkelshire, Elias Nathaniel "Kazoo" Pendleton III did not immediately stand out among his peers. Born with dull red hair, one leg three inches shorter than the other, and shoulders that somehow resembled cornish hens, young Elias was a frequent target for the town bullies. A child at that time has only three options: fight harder, run faster, or invent some kind of device that would enable him to escape his tormentors. Luckily (by chance or by fate), Flenkelshire was home to a radio-electronics store, Bundleron's Radio and Horseshoe Supplies, which gave young Elias just the right ingredients to hatch his escape plan. And hatch a plan he did, though it would take twenty years for the town to understand exactly what had happened.
The first trap was set in the Fall of 1951. Winston Churchill had returned to power. The Festival of Britain had just wrapped up and lit the imagination of attendees and non-attendees alike. And Elias Nathaniel "Kazoo" Pendleton III, now well-armed with a stock of electronics, metalwork, and several years of intense study, went into action...
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#186I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
I like inverted pyramid style too, but it’s a very brief intro and letting the CEO of a new company introduce themselves doesn’t seem so bad? You could skip the first paragraph.
I often don't know how much to skip. Where is the point? I often give up unless it's something I'm really interested in.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#187I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
I dislike this story in journalism and podcasts too. I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts: > Before Y was murdered, they lived in X. X is a quiet town, the type of place where you don't need to lock your doors. Y has a happy upbringing collecting flowers along the river at... Like we get it, this is the first half of every 1-hour long true-crime podcast. Also quite often the first half of every long-form article.
I don't mind it as much in true crime podcasts when it's done well. Totally agree that the generic "it was a peaceful town where nobody locked their doors blah blah blah" can get old quickly. But hearing about the unique lives of the victims in murder cases can definitely add to the story. And in podcasts more focused on the investigative side (ex. Someone Knows Something) knowing the background info can even be critical to solving the puzzle so to speak.
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#188i might be willing to free up my garage for a laundry folding robot
If you pay me as much as it would cost to buy one of these robots, I'll come fold your laundry for you. I'll make "beep boop" sounds at no extra cost.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#189I really dislike this writing structure of "before I get to the point, let me tell you a story about my life" Edit: I'm not alone, https://style.mla.org/dont-bury-the-lede/
You will not be a fan of recipe blogs anywhere on the internet.
That hits so close to home. I’ve given up searching for recipes online because of this. And I’m not even mentionning all the ads you have to scroll through.
Re: Intrinsic, a new Alphabet company
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Recipes by themselves aren’t copyrightable. Bullshit stories are.
Does copyright for a story containing a recipe protect against use of the recipe outside the context of the story?
No, but it stops straight scraping, and requires a scraper to do a little bit more work to copy the recipe.