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e/acc. a passionate advocate of ai. a builder of many things. currently VP at WBD. formerly head of VOD at AWS, CTO / founder of many startups.

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@growing_daniel Really not cool to call her ‘the fatter girl’. She is Yeji’s roommate btw.
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@MKBHD I am supper confused why Apple ( and others ) have the camera bump. Please just give me a flat phone! I don't care if it's a bit thicker ... use that extra space for more battery!
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@Trust_Lion_ You need to chill man. She didn’t want to go on a date, she didn’t abuse you. By your own admission you stayed friends. Girl from way back calls up wants to get coffee you get coffee. It’s how you keep friends.
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@Targ_Nation I mean he just showed up and we let him on the set. He’s Ed Sheeran, seemed the thing to do!
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@Mijeski @historyinmemes We had to buy all this stuff, these were limits not ‘free’ rations. We could buy other things, like vegetables and cheeses and and some fruit ( mostly apples ) without limits. Tea was always available Some items like chocolate were at a super premium. I remember standing in
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@GoingParabolic This is specifically targeted at high net worth individuals ( who have over $100m ) who are living on loans to avoid paying any tax. You may not know this but when you die your unrealized gains are automatically stepped up to their current net worth so that means your estate (
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@xHearshot @spectatorindex You are not really reading between the lines. The Russians are claiming that the Ukraine attacked Putin and hence they can respond proportionally ( ie. they can target Zelensky directly ). This is very much a new development.
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@travis_batman69 @SaeedDiCaprio If Joe and Jill are still into that kind of thing at their age I say power to them!
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@a_musingcat Consider that as a student today you essentially have access to a full time tutor that can explain almost any subject, review any assignement and critique any paper you write. That’s pretty mind blowing.
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@1goodtern You risk your life to get to the highest point in the world and when you get there … there is a queue! There is some hidden meaning here!
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@sporadicalia After a billion dollars spent we’d still be debating the gender and race of the colossus and if building it would harm the local ( totally in no way endangered ) seagull habitat.
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@cointards @Rothmus You can’t cryo freeze a person who is alive. That would be murder. All the people who were cryogenically stored had died and then were frozen. In the most recent efforts there are many who make arrangements to have a team on standby for this process - sometime going into
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@DantzlerLowe @Trust_Lion_ I made no assessment of her motives. They could be entirely disingenuous. You won’t know unless you actually talk to her!
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@difficultpatty Why does one need salted butter? Unsalted butter is clearly the superior product for one can easily make salted butter from unsalted butter but one clearly cannot do the reverse.
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@sentdata @sentdefender Or, hear me out here, there could have just sent them to Belarus without the morale destroying theatrics?
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@Teslaconomics This can’t be real. Nothing moves with you. If he started walking the windows he has would just be where he left them.
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@OrwellNGoode The bald guy on the left likely had 2+ kids in his 30’s. A large % of 30 year olds today are virgins.
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@Beska Listen Ben, you either build the fish the Taj Mahal of fish ponds or you’ll be labeled a neglectful fish parent and ostracized by the fish loving community. You picked up the mostly dead fish and at that time you made a binding commitment akin to adopting a child!
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@seconds_0 It gets even more insane at 1:36 😂🤣😂
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@BGatesIsaPyscho The comments from ‘conservative’ posters here are wild. You do all understand that what these farmers are protesting is the reduction of farming subsidies? These farmers want a greater redistribution of wealth to them from taxpayers - a principal tenet of communism.
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@brickroad7 I agree with this. I’ve been critical of the FSD narrative - because there were many common and very problematic use cases - but the latest version is very good. I had it drive me from the airport to my house the other day. It was dark and rainy. I had one disengagement just to
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@dieworkwear Before Kids: Wake up early. “Let’s go to Paris”. You’re having lunch in Paris 4 hours later. After Kids: Wake up early. “Let’s go to Costco”. You’re ready to go to Costco 4 hours later.
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@thomasforth Umm, don’t you have to do that because you can’t afford the electricity to run a dryer?
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@cmclymer It doesn’t have any windows so not even a glimpse. A much more appealing idea would be to pilot a virtual sub using VR ( or Apple Vision Pro ) with a invisible guide who can point out interesting landmarks.
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@jonotan86 Rent it for $19.99 or rent it for a $24.99 for longer period ( until the people you bought it from lose their license to this content ).
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@cboyack @QasimRashid So your against roads, the police, firemen, school, protection of children, the armed forces, etc? Excuse isn’t that taxpayers providing others with services?
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@chinesegon This can’t be right. Must be annual.
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@Rainmaker1973 I was there when this campaign happened. There was only $500k in the case for demonstration purposes ( the remainder was fake ) and anyway if you broke the glass they would write you a check. There was a security guard posted so you followed the rules: only hands and feet were
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@uncledoomer Sure you do. Every 4 years!
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@emollick I honestly don’t find this compelling. They obviously trained on a large corpus of games screenshots and it’s just generating the screen that probilistixally follows the current one. The issue is that this can only be achieved by having an initial game from which a corpus can
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@Rothmus And let’s remember that if you do nothing with your money by leaving in a bank account the government will tax you on any interest your earn.
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@DanielJLosey These are 0.5-millimeter-wide clumps of cells. At worst it's industrial farming.
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@lu_shennan Hey @elonmusk , please consider that it’s stories like this that has advertisers fleeing Twitter. No outside pressure groups required.
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There is much excitement about this prompt with claims that it helps Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperform o1 in reasoning. I benchmarked this prompt to find out if the this claim is true ( thanks for @ai_for_success for the heads on this last night ) 🧵
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Can @AnthropicAI Claude 3.5 sonnet outperform @OpenAI o1 in reasoning? Combining Dynamic Chain of Thoughts, reflection, and verbal reinforcement, existing LLMs like Claude 3.5 Sonnet can be prompted to increase test-time compute and match reasoning strong models like OpenAI o1.
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@Rainmaker1973 The issue here is not eating chicken ( or other meat ). The issue is factory farming.
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@svpino This is my models response.
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@samuel_spitz Simple, just don’t iron your clothes.
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@burkov Who shall we blame for the Taliban driving Humvees?
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I don't want to be negative by any means here about the work @mattshumer_ and his team have . These guys have done some fantastic work and I am super excited to try their models and you should be too! However the benchmark comparisons aren't really fair because the model is
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I'm excited to announce Reflection 70B, the world’s top open-source model. Trained using Reflection-Tuning, a technique developed to enable LLMs to fix their own mistakes. 405B coming next week - we expect it to be the best model in the world. Built w/ @GlaiveAI . Read on ⬇️:
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@meaning_enjoyer As a youth this guy spent 9 years in prison and then became hot dog vendor. In his 50’s he built the largest mercenary force in the world. In his 60’s he tried to topple a major nuclear power.
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@levelsio The vast majority of computer science graduates from (virtually any) University in the western world will go on to have high paying careers with good ( if not great ) job security and work life balance. It’s almost a slam dunk if you’re lucky enough to be in the US. The vast
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@nickfloats @MKBHD I mean his biggest complaint is that it’s hard to find reasons to upgrade. He didn’t say anything bad about it.
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@owl_poster There is no mystical human exceptionalism. If the ML models are bad at this it’s likely because not all the data needed for the prediction is being fed into the model.
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@ns123abc You can’t do efficient / real time vision without some conv layers. It’s not just transformers all the way through their implementation. Now Musk may be right that they no longer use a pure CNN but it’s just splitting hairs.
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@levelsio I appreciate that. But recognize that just because you do that, it doesn’t mean this has any impact on the software engineering market. That hiring strategy isn’t even a rounding error. So for the average young person interested in computers following that path is unlikely to
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@JDVance1 Trumps attorneys approved every juror. Are you questioning their legitimacy? Because that seems un American.
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@Teslaconomics A good chunk of the Atlas behavior - including the bulk of it’s movement - is using an ML model. It’s vision also uses ML. It does have traditional code that ties all that together. But your basic premise is sound. Boston Dynamics is not going to turn Atlas into a product
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@The_Acumen Taylor Swift sold out 4 concerts at the Tokyo Done ( over 200k tickets ) in less then 15 minutes.
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@bodhi_roots411 This is a hard core communist plan, straight out of Mao’s playbook. He also sent the youth to the farms.
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@bhgarcia @Mijeski @historyinmemes We had apples, pears, cherries, blueberries, and strawberries that I recall. We also had citrus fruit like lemons and oranges but those were more rare and I remember my grandmother would use every piece of the orange, even the peel ( she’d use it to add decorations to deserts ).
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@PicoPaco17 The more women in the workforce the lower the birth rate. It’s not about abundance. As the birth rate decreases there are further opportunities for women and the greater the impact on birth rates. It’s a cycle that will not break.
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@JosephPolitano Because surrogacy is now much more practical and often cheaper and easier.
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@paulg I mean ok but …
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@levelsio It’s especially comical because only a small fraction of US teenage / young adult girls actually talk like this.
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@thechosenberg An internship is not about the employer receiving value, it’s about the intern growing their skill. This person didn’t defraud their boss, they shortchanged themselves
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@SexCounseling @realDonaldTrump Yes, I absolutely agree. THe USA has 41k cases, Canada and Mexico have less that 3k combined. I am sure both are very glad they have a border they can close to American residents.
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@ronawang A New York love story
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@Rainmaker1973 It’s all fun and games until the person in the upper seat passes gas.
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@mattfricke @MKBHD No, the average person will not buy this. ( Because that's like 5% of the average Americans household income. ) This is first generations device primarily targeted at developers and early adopters. The goal is to ensure the next device has lots of software and that this that
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@TomSeston @carbdiem The form suggests it’s a day collar. In a submissive/dominant relationship the day collar is worn by the submissive partner and indicates that they are ‘owned’ by the dominant partner.
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@HannahPosted Game Of Thrones
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@antoniogm Every prominent US college and university has the highest application rates and lowest acceptance rate in their history. So whatever these parents are wondering they’re still sending their kids to these same schools.
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@SwiftOnSecurity I am so confused. This is for kids. Or do adults like ‘NSFW Pics’ of a cartoon rabbit?
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@EricHolthaus I do think that @elonmusk says some questionable things at times but this really isn’t one of them. He is saying that climate change is function of fossil fuel use rather than farming. He is mostly correct: 89% of the man made CO2 comes from fossil fuels while about 9% comes
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@Noahpinion A major and degrowth and minor in regulation will take you far in Europe!
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@shrihacker @emollick I have read the paper and it clearly says ( right in that text you highlighted ) that they trained an agent to play the game. Meaning that this behavior would not be possible without there actually being a fully implemented game! Any other questions I can answer for you?
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@srbryson @cboyack @QasimRashid In fact, in virtually every western democracy it is exactly the same thing.
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@0xgaut We are well on a path to a privacy free environment.
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@asallen You know you’re no longer a startup when you bring forth the cringe.
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@BleacherReport Surprisingly, Jared Goff.
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@elonmusk @brickroad7 Yeah in this case I am not sure it was really necessary to disengage. It’s possible the car would have done the right thing. I do want to add that this was on a 5 year old car ( with upgraded hardware )! Over the air updates to FSD just make me love that car more!
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@ThomasOrTK I tried this but Gemini told me, as a fair and glanced AI, it couldn’t help me with my business because it might hurt other similar business.
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@dieworkwear The grey color scheme is popular because, while not exciting, it is not offensive to the majority. So while many would like the rich wooden decor in the second photo many would not. Builders, and increasingly home owners, optimize for resale value. Notice also that the
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@_sn_n Pfft. I drive my Tesla grocery shopping in the suburbs. I only take the armored car when I am going into the city.
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@CheriseRohr @dieworkwear I used to live in London so it was only a 2 hour train ride to Paris.
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@Carnage4Life A bad analogy. A self driving car that drives well 99.9% of the time is not usable as a self driving car ( without supervision ). An LLM as it is today is already extremely useful.
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@TerribleMaps No matter how many ‘other’ polands you put there, Szczęście will remain unpronounceable outside the real Poland.
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@JohnLeFevre He and his second wife are still married ( she looks great for a 60 year old! ) He more than doubled his money on the ranch purchase. Winning at life.
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@ariellelok Your profile picture has you posing with a keyboard and your complaining about meeting other members of the nerd herd? 😉
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@chairsign She got silver and beat the world record. Her ‘roommate’ got gold beating her world record in turn.
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@CNN Wow she was stripped of awards because of cannabis? How is that performance enhancing? If anything that should make it harder for her.
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@DemiiVT I am not actually this dark.
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@FedericoHuneeus I am Polish and love the ‘Polish Miracle’ but a) Poland started from a much lower actual GDP per capita than the US so this charr is a bit misleading and b) Poland is next door to the country with the 3rd highest GDP and not far from the 7th highest which leveraged the Polish
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@TMediaDetective @svpino This is Llama 3 120b ( a merge ) and then fine tuned on a number of datasets from Hermes ( so ChatML ), some proprietary conversational datasets I have and some synthetic datasets I constructed that explicitly including thinking through a request ( which I can trigger through
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@VikParuchuri What is this models architecture?
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@Carnage4Life Didn’t Trump just say he wouldn’t defend Taiwan? How are we going to ‘beat’ China with no silicon?
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@MostlyMonkey Works for me.
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@goodside How long before socially awkward engineers use this ChatGPT to help them interact with women online!? This would be a great Touring’ish test ( or a solid Rom com )!!!
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@eric_seufert Without taking anything away from the accomplishments of Poland it’s important to recognize that its per capita GDP is still about half of its European peers.
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@Noahpinion Palestine wasn’t a geographical entity until after 135 AD when the Roman’s decided to call the region Syria Palestina. At the time of his birth Jesus was simply a Jew ( a person from Judea, which encompassed modern day Bethlehem and Jerusalem ).
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@sentientist Uhh. If this person was upfront with all these women and they still chose to be with him that’s one thing. The fact that he actually has to lie to them ALL suggests his access was actually much more limited and he simply a poser.
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@cryptoendgamer @GoingParabolic I hate taxes. I am in the top tax bracket. Jeff Bezos still pays way less than me proportionately. In some years he pays less then me in total! This seems unfair no?
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