MetalGuru | 1 year ago | on: Why don't we know how antidepressants work yet?
God, what a depressing take
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MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: I recorded a screen capture of a task. Gemini generated code to replicate it
People post on twitter. It's a thing. Asking to avoid posting links to twitter is ridiculous
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: I recorded a screen capture of a task. Gemini generated code to replicate it
Eventually; openai, adept, etc. are working on these types of agents. But currently, name a model that can replace selenium (ie. engage with the browser)
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
The point is you can do massive compression. It’s more like a sequence of sparse images than video.
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
Isn’t this what rewind does?
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: What's the fun in writing on the internet anymore?
Same with image models. So many fine-tuned models, LoRA’s, etc
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: What's the fun in writing on the internet anymore?
> "the internet was so much better back in the old days"
Nowhere in this blog post did the author make any such claims.
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: Altman's Ambition
I thought maybe I was just too dumb, but looking back, the lack of coherence or structure definitely contributed to not forming a clear model of everything he wrote.
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: Stable-Audio-Demo
What other inputs besides text promoting is there for SD? Are you referring to img2img, controlnet, etc?
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died
Although rare, there are managers who are both technically competent and good at managing people (disparate skillsets). I think a manager who knows nothing about tech is often as destructive as a technical manager who's bad at people management. There just seems to be more of the former
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
To be fair, who doesn't listen to Tupac?
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: An API for Dalle-3
How did you implement idea2img? Very cool
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: Superlinear Returns
It’s a function of power law distribution. A lot of natural phenomena follows it.
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: Engineered material can reconnect severed nerves
20 years is infinitely better than never. There are a lot of life-altering diseases whose future outlook is much bleaker (eg. little funding or research interest). But yea, having to wait so long definitely sucks for those currently suffering.
MetalGuru | 2 years ago | on: Organization probably doesn't want to improve things
I still don’t understand why things need to be this way? Like, people could not be worthless. It’s theoretically possible.
MetalGuru | 4 years ago | on: Project Starline: Feel like you're there, together
Advantageous even if you don't have a working prototype. See Microsoft vaporware
MetalGuru | 4 years ago | on: Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface
> Now take it a step further. Inside the simulation someone introduces Hard Seltzer. The in game year is 2021 and a player just read that some NPC somewhere had just created a brain/computer interface. He rips off his headset and goes to unplug the computer because fuck this game, all the DLC clearly ruined it.
Lmao. Hard seltzer isn’t that bad
MetalGuru | 5 years ago | on: Shitbowl: The algorithmically powered in-home physical caching platform
More like a shit stack
MetalGuru | 5 years ago | on: What’s interesting about the Florida water system hack is that we heard about it
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition. Haven’t they always been able to remotely gather telemetry data and control devices? How was this achieved with network access?
MetalGuru | 5 years ago | on: I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website
QA your site. It’s breaking under the load
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