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scrozier commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million   calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709
Dilettante_ · 2 months ago
Respectfully, there's a Wikipedia link.
scrozier · 2 months ago
Absolutely. And thank you for that.
scrozier commented on The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million   calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/... · Posted by u/c249709
chrisweekly · 2 months ago
IA - Independent Agency
scrozier · 2 months ago
Thank you. While abbreviations are handy for those in the know, it's so helpful for general readers if one takes a moment to spell things out.
scrozier commented on AI Horseless Carriages   koomen.dev/essays/horsele... · Posted by u/petekoomen
otabdeveloper4 · 5 months ago
Such as?
scrozier · 4 months ago
Serious question? Good literature that's not sci-fi? Hard to know where to start. For (mostly) "Western" literature, here's a good list:

https://thegreatestbooks.org/

I'm sure there are others for other cultures.

scrozier commented on AI Horseless Carriages   koomen.dev/essays/horsele... · Posted by u/petekoomen
bluGill · 5 months ago
I'm not sure? Are humans - at least sometimes - more creative?

Many sci-fi novels feature non-humans, but their cultures are all either very shallow (all orcs are violent - there is no variation at all in what any orc wants), or they are just humans with a different name and some slight body variation. (even the intelligent birds are just humans that fly). Can AI do better, or will it be even worse because AI won't even explore what orcs love for violent means for the rest of their cultures and nations.

The one movie set in Japan might be good, but I want some other settings once in a while. Will AI do that?

scrozier · 5 months ago
Do you limit your reading to sci-fi? There is a world of amazing literature out there with much better ideas, characters, and plots.
scrozier commented on AI Horseless Carriages   koomen.dev/essays/horsele... · Posted by u/petekoomen
kkoncevicius · 5 months ago
For me posts like these go in the right direction but stop mid-way.

Sure, at first you will want an AI agent to draft emails that you review and approve before sending. But later you will get bored of approving AI drafts and want another agent to review them automatically. And then - you are no longer replying to your own emails.

Or to take another example where I've seen people excited about video-generation and thinking they will be using that for creating their own movies and video games. But if AI is advanced enough - why would someone go see a movie that you generated instead of generating a movie for himself. Just go with "AI - create an hour-long action movie that is set in ancient japan, has a love triangle between the main characters, contains some light horror elements, and a few unexpected twists in the story". And then watch that yourself.

Seems like many, if not all, AI applications, when taken to the limit, reduce the need of interaction between humans to 0.

scrozier · 5 months ago
Are you saying this is what you'd like to happen? That you would like to remove the element of human creation?
scrozier commented on A secret poker game you can play on the subway   experience.prfalken.dev/e... · Posted by u/oktcho
tetris11 · 7 months ago
You can definitely select a new hand each station by making inappropriate gestures or sounds.
scrozier · 7 months ago
I was waiting for the author to discuss actual strategies, like subtly herding new passengers toward a seat, sitting in your own row so you can get up when the right person comes along and graciously offer them your seat, saying "I think there's some spilled Sprite there" if the wrong person attempts to sit down (only if there are plenty of seats left, of course), etc.

Other ideas?

scrozier commented on I've acquired a new superpower   danielwirtz.com/blog/spot... · Posted by u/wirtzdan
smusamashah · 8 months ago
There is a way to help yourself.

Put the pair of images in front of your eyes.

Bring your finger between your face and the image.

Now look at your finger.

Move your finger back and forth.

While doing this, notice that at a particular distance, the images in background will perfectly overlap each other.

That's your moment.

Pull out your finger and look at that image.

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Should take lot less tries to learn doing it without finger. I have taught cross eye to my siblings and cousins using this method. But if you always need finger to focus it's fine.

scrozier · 8 months ago
The finger trick did it for me. As mentioned elsewhere, I used to do this academically (looking at protein structures), but I couldn't easily get back in the groove here without the finger.
scrozier commented on I've acquired a new superpower   danielwirtz.com/blog/spot... · Posted by u/wirtzdan
scrozier · 8 months ago
I spent weeks doing this, looking at stereoscopic (?) images of protein structures, while a grad student in molecular biophysics. I got so that I could see the overlapped images pretty much instantly. But I'm having a hard time getting it now, even on the easy one.
scrozier commented on I've acquired a new superpower   danielwirtz.com/blog/spot... · Posted by u/wirtzdan
duxup · 8 months ago
>Probably my peak fame right there.

My son and I always make jokes about everyone's 5 minutes of fame. Some random person on the jumbotron at a sporting event "Yup, there's his moment, it's over now."

At least yours got you something ;)

scrozier · 8 months ago
You may or may not be aware that Andy Warhol famously quipped that, "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes," back in the late 1960s. As media has gotten to be ever more ubiquitous and the cost of entry lower, he was clearly onto something decades before the internet!
scrozier commented on All clocks are 30 seconds late   victorpoughon.fr/all-cloc... · Posted by u/fouronnes3
dboreham · 8 months ago
This is regional. US never used quarters afaik.
scrozier · 8 months ago
Oh yes, I grew saying "quarter past four." Probably don't anymore, but it was definitely in the vernacular in the US in years past.

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