Incredible work. I am just learning about PyBoy from your project, and it made me think of many fun ways to use that library to play Pokemon autonomously.
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Wow-- this is so cool. Maybe someone can fix that MissingNo glitch I kept running into as a kid? ;)
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Shout out to Tyrone Hayes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Hayes), frog scientist, who turned down piles of industry hush money to speak out against the dangers of atrazine and publish his research. He seems like a cool guy. I'd totally buy him a drink and talk about frogs.
Wow-- props to Professor Hayes. This guy is a role model for researchers!
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benopal64 commented on Do Coding Boot Camps Make Sense in an A.I. World? nytimes.com/2024/11/24/bu... · Posted by u/DamnInteresting
Learning to code, both in person, and online, both formally, and informally are invaluable.
Agreed. The more unique situations I program in, whether it is new people I am building software for or whether I am building on a new tech stack, the more I realize why so many packages and solutions exist in pip and npm.
Coding new solutions in new ways has helped me learn so much. Getting a career that supports that was one of the biggest catalysts for me (unsurprisingly), however, attempting to code anything is certainly beneficial.
If anyone here has an issue with their Claude Desktop app seeing the new MCP tools you've added to your computer, restart it fully. Restarting the Claude Desktop app did NOT work for me, I had to do a full OS restart.
I am not sure how these large companies think they will reach "greater-than-human" intelligence any time soon if they do not create systems that financially incentivize people to sell their knowledge labor (unstable contracting gigs are not attractive).
Where do these large "AI" companies think the mass amounts of data used to train these models come from? People! The most powerful and compact complex systems in existence, IMO.
Superintelligence is not the same branch of the tech tree as drones or surveillance.
I think it is reasonable to believe humans will use all three technologies as a means to an end. I think the user you replied to was more concerned about that, from my understanding.
I think Jake Sullivan's protectionist philosophy is super old school. I'm not a huge fan since it's just more Cold War-era policies coming out of Biden's cabinet. I'm speaking about the policies of lawmakers only and not the politics.
benopal64 commented on U.S. border surveillance towers have always been broken eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10... · Posted by u/gslin
Many don't but many countries do. Take a look at a world map and then note how many other countries have such long borders with countries with whom they have some sort of adversarial risk with.
I took a very quick look and stopped after a couple dozen and still had plenty to go. This is a problem not remotely unique to the US.
Is the border an actual problem though? Specifically speaking to the US border.
Is migration the number one problem that Americans struggle with? Or even in the top ten concerns, your average American holds?
I have not had a single issue with migration or an immigrant, ever. I've never met a single person, in the US, with a material issue related to migration or immigration. I have never felt worried about being near a migrant/immigrant based on who they are or their behavior.