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JoshTko commented on Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry   stohl.substack.com/p/excl... · Posted by u/FreeQueso
JoshTko · 22 days ago
I’m guessing Meta isn’t the only one doing this
JoshTko commented on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'   wired.com/story/sam-altma... · Posted by u/spenvo
JoshTko · 6 months ago
"ChatGPT can you give me a catchy phrase I can use to sway the public discourse against Meta that puts OpenAI in the most favorable light? Also sprinkle in some alliteration if you could"
JoshTko commented on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab   nytimes.com/2025/06/12/te... · Posted by u/RyanShook
spiderfarmer · 6 months ago
The FTC will do nothing. Not under Trump.
JoshTko · 6 months ago
Competitors just need to lobby sufficiently to get action
JoshTko commented on Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application   ikuyo.kenrick95.org/... · Posted by u/kenrick95
JoshTko · 6 months ago
What key feature are you providing that can't be easily done by a google sheet?
JoshTko commented on Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days   phys.org/news/2025-05-mas... · Posted by u/pseudolus
rurban · 7 months ago
> B/W cameras and AI.

You forgot multi-spectral. That means single hires images for a lot of frequency ranges, which is better than a single color image, which merges together all frequencies at once.

In the end the accuracy of detections, false-positives, false-negatives wins. And this not comparable to this certain car company which refuses to use proper sensors. we also do infrared, 3d pointclouds to get the angle at each pixel, and thermal imaging.

another neighbor of us is doing real-time imaging for face detection, which is the industry leader world-wide. They can install a lot of cheap cams in football stadiums and give you a list of all 80.000 people, when they have access to the government passport/driver license photo database. they have. but they cannot detect virus infections as we can do. nor bacterial infections. only if they do something illegal. who threw a bengal fire or started a fight.

JoshTko · 7 months ago
This. Mass Spectrometry should portably only be used to confirm/train AI vision models. Once a large enough data set has been created for a particular pathogen, incremental diagnostic cost would be effectively 0.
JoshTko commented on Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English   accent-strength.boldvoice... · Posted by u/ilyausorov
asveikau · 7 months ago
Victor's problem isn't really the vowels or pacing. The final consonants are soft or not really audible. I am not hearing the /ŋ/ of "long" as the most marked example. It sounds closer to "law". In his "improved" recording he hasn't fixed this.

I sometimes see content on social media encouraging people to sound more native or improve their accent. But IMO it's perfectly ok to have an accent, as long as the speech meets some baseline of intelligibility. (So Victor needs to work on "long" but not "days".) I've even come across people who are trying to mimick a native accent but lose intelligibility, where they'd sound better with their foreign accent. (An example I've seen is a native Spanish speaker trying to imitate the American accent's intervocalic T and D, and I don't understand them. A Spanish /t/ or /d/ would be different from most English language accents, but be way more understandable.)

JoshTko · 7 months ago
Thank you for pinpoints my confusion/disconnect on what lack of improvement that I was sensing. There was an improvement on pacing, and cadence, yes, but that was not the main challenge with Victors accent. Visually I'd say victor improved by at most 5% and not 50% as indicated by the visualization. In some regards it was even harder to understand than the original due to speed and cadence without improvement in core pronunciation.
JoshTko commented on People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies   rollingstone.com/culture/... · Posted by u/wzm
patrickhogan1 · 8 months ago
1. It feels like those old Rolling Stone pieces from the late ’90s and early ’00s about kids who couldn’t tear themselves away from their computers. Fear was overblown, but made headlines.

2. OpenAI has admitted that GPT‑4o showed “sycophancy” traits and has since rolled them back (see https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/).

JoshTko · 8 months ago
The societal brain drain damage that infinite scroll has caused is definitely not overblown. These models are about to kick this problem up to the next level, when each clip is dynamically generated to maximise resonance with you.
JoshTko commented on People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies   rollingstone.com/culture/... · Posted by u/wzm
JoshTko · 8 months ago
How do you know the models are actually managing and not simply amplifying?
JoshTko commented on Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists   theregister.com/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/pseudolus
erkt · 8 months ago
I just asked O3 for a software stack for deploying AI in a local application and it recommended llama over OpenAI API.

It has always been easy to imagine how advertising could destroy the integrity of LLM's. I can guarantee that there will be companies unable to resist the temporary cash flows from it. Those models will destroy their reputation in no time.

JoshTko · 8 months ago
My bet is that free versions of models will become sponsor aligned.
JoshTko commented on Pope Francis has died   reuters.com/world/pope-fr... · Posted by u/phillipharris
carlos-menezes · 8 months ago
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-04/pope-francis...

> According to Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Master of Apostolic Ceremonies, the late Pope Francis had requested that the funeral rites be simplified and focused on expressing the faith of the Church in the Risen Body of Christ.

Always struck me as a simple man and that likely contributed to people liking him more when compared to his predecessors. RIP.

JoshTko · 8 months ago
His persona as being simple focus is just PR, no different than puff pieces about bill gates driving a Prius, or Warren buffet living in the first house that be bought.

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