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The failures on stage were kind of endearing, to be honest, especially the one with Zuck. Plus the products seem really cool, I hope I'll be able to try them out soon.

Zuck and "endearing" do not belong in the same galaxy, yet alone in the same sentence together.

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Nathan for You is almost physically painful to watch, the cringe is so intense I can only take a few seconds at a time.

Canadians do it best. https://youtu.be/tXgfzxXUVsc?si=vBXu20TewUldSBJB

That he certainly is good at, but I loved his interview with Fabio, also that Monica Lewinsky one.

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This appears to be a classic vision fail on the VLM's part. Which is entirely unsurprising for anyone who has used open VLMs for anything except ""benchmarks"" in the past two god damn years. The field is in a truly embarrassing state, where they pride themselves how it can solve equations off a blackboard, yet couldn't even accurately read a d20 dice roll among many other things. I've tried (and failed) to have VLMs accurately caption images for such a long time, yet anytime I check on the output it is blindingly clear that these models are awful at actually _seeing things_.

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Yes, the mocking, gleeful negativity really does make me concerned that this place is becoming Reddit. The fact that the highest upvoted post on this thread is just a link to Reddit isn't doing much to help me feel better. And I've been here for at least a decade, so I don't think this is the noob illusion.

The signal to noise ratio certainly became worse. You'll see the same folks spamming their hatred towards tesla/microsoft/meta/google over and over with zero substance other than sentimental blabbering.

I"ve not seen that honestly. I think you are looking for it satisfy your internal narrative you've created.

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The failures on stage were kind of endearing, to be honest, especially the one with Zuck. Plus the products seem really cool, I hope I'll be able to try them out soon.

Zuckerberg has negative charisma, it's painful to watch... Jobs handled this so much better; while clearly he is pissed, he doesn't leave you cringing in mutual embarrassment, goes to show it isn't as easy as he makes it look! See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M4t14s7nSM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxQOPFg2mo

These ppl expect perfect ( made up answers) in their "tell me about a time" interviews.

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When people get something shoved in their face day in day out some of them react negatively to it. Is the concept really so outlandish?

No, but have you seen what people are like when they react negatively? Their behavior is angry and aggressive and unpredictable. What needs to be explained is a group of people predictably all acting exactly the same way.

You're seeing conspiracies where there are none. A group of people all acting the same way is not suspicious when their actions are the thing that groups them together.

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It's funny because he spent so much money on hair and clothing stylists, jewellery, BJJ coaching, surfing lessons , really made an effort to come across as "cool" and the end result is...you cannot fake who you are, and your actions are what define you and make up your character, he is prime example of that. He cannot escape who he is.

> He cannot escape who he is. One of the best CEOs in the world with about 20 years of experience at age 40? And also founded the company? He’s doing pretty good. And if you’re talking about “image” he is a millennial archetype.

Yes he's rich and influential and blah blah blah blah blah and he's also AN ENORMOUS FUCKING DORK with the intellectual depth of a half-empty bottle of salad dressing. For all his money I'd rather be me than him.

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The signal to noise ratio certainly became worse. You'll see the same folks spamming their hatred towards tesla/microsoft/meta/google over and over with zero substance other than sentimental blabbering.

I"ve not seen that honestly. I think you are looking for it satisfy your internal narrative you've created.

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God, that's actually painful to watch. I can't believe I lasted two minutes.

There are such long gaps after each question too. Apparently the sci-fi future will be laggier than expected.

This will also not change much, since they want you to use their centralized services for data collection, not local or onsite processing. So you will always have roundtrips and shared resources. For IO this is pretty unacceptable, people get annoyed by millisecond delays.
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