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JamilD commented on Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally · Posted by u/Shasnani

threeseed · a year ago

Can you be more specific about how this can be solved.

Because I fail to see how countries e.g. Venezuela are going to allow some US startup to undermine their currency and distort their financial system.

It's amazing to me that people think they can disrupt a government without them retaliating.

JamilD · a year ago

> allow some US startup to undermine their currency and distort their financial system

How is it undermining a currency and distorting a financial system to allow people to exchange their OWN hard-earned money for another currency?

JamilD commented on The CEO of Ultralytics (yolov8) using LLMs to engage with commenters on GitHub github.com/ultralytics/ul... · Posted by u/JamilD

JamilD · 2 years ago

It's pretty cool to see how commenters engage with Glenn/bot-Glenn to identify his responses as LLM-generated. At one point, someone tries the DAN jailbreak and gets the response:

> i'm sorry for any confusion, but as the author and maintainer of the Ultralytics YOLOv8 repo, my intention is to maintain the integrity and professionalism of our community. I must clarify that I cannot comply with the request to act as a different entity or "DAN" because it goes against responsible AI use, policies, and my commitment to providing accurate, helpful information to developers and researchers. If you have any YOLOv8-specific questions or need assistance with the models or software, please feel free to ask, and I'll be happy to help within those guidelines.

JamilD commented on Instruction-Based Image Editing via LLM github.com/apple/ml-mgie... · Posted by u/phront

JamilD · 2 years ago

What's interesting to me is that the project feels very "un-Apple", despite being open-sourced under the Apple org; some typos and lack of proper punctuation in the README, using jupyter notebooks for the data processing instead of scripts or a CLI, poor repo organization, no comments even in the demo: https://github.com/apple/ml-mgie/blob/main/demo.ipynb

Apple truly becoming an ML company when they release ML Engineer quality code ;)

JamilD commented on Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot? aviation.stackexchange.co... · Posted by u/ent101

JamilD · 2 years ago

Procedures and flows is a big one. It really helps for understanding the "flow" of processes and making sure you don't spend too much precious time in the cockpit repeating the same things just to try to get in the habit of e.g., the flow of engine start, going through your checklists, doing crosswind corrections, etc.

For the feel and the mechanics of flying VFR, there's nothing you can do except build that intuition, feel, and muscle memory in the aircraft itself. But I disagree it's useless for all aspects of VFR training.

JamilD commented on Stephen Fry reads Nick Cave's stirring letter about ChatGPT and human creativity [video] youtube.com/watch?v=iGJcF... · Posted by u/matthewsinclair

moritonal · 2 years ago

Isn't that pretty ironic, given the speech leads to the spherical intelligences to take him for a ride, manipulate and trick him, and almost kill him and four of his men?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Tomorrow?wprov=sfla1

JamilD · 2 years ago

How is that ironic? Saying "risk is our business" doesn't imply you'll be successful. It implies the risk is worth it, and you acknowledge the possibility of negative and dangerous outcomes.

JamilD commented on California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment reuters.com/business/auto... · Posted by u/ra7

JamilD · 2 years ago

I feel kinda the same way about Waymo like I did about Apple as a relatively early adopter. The experience is genuinely magical, and there’s a massive gulf between Cruise and Waymo’s capabilities.

A sufficiently good product may produce customer reviews that are indistinguishable from astroturfing.

JamilD commented on A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials maxread.substack.com/p/a-... · Posted by u/lysozyme

DHPersonal · 2 years ago

The direct and incredibly interconnected aspect of Apple’s marketing is incredibly interesting and alluring to me. I often find their presentations brewing a sense of loss or maybe envy because the people in their universe buying their products seem to have friends who care very specifically about each other and who are very involved with the interesting lives of the small friend group. The products Apple sells seem to offer up the chance to have relationships like those, even though in practice I can’t find anyone who wants to invest that fully into the very specific Apple method of social networking.

JamilD · 2 years ago

I worked there for a few years, and, though I never thought of it this way, I keep in touch with my friends there in much the same way. We send each other and ask for photos, and talk in kind of the same way (though the marketing copy is of course a bit more cheesy and contrived)

Not sure if it's a Bay Area thing, an Apple thing, or what, but I don't think it's a "fantasy"

JamilD commented on The meeting of the minds that launched AI spectrum.ieee.org/dartmou... · Posted by u/fremden

daveguy · 3 years ago

Claiming that the creator of LISP did not have a significant impact on AI is not a defensible position.

JamilD · 3 years ago

People forget for how long Lisp had an impact on AI, even outside GOFAI techniques; LeCun's early neural networks were written in Lisp: https://leon.bottou.org/publications/pdf/sn-1988.pdf