I'm sure author's company does good work, but the marketplace doesn't respond well to, "we're really, _really_ good,", "trust me," "you won't be disappointed." It not only feels desperate, but is proof-free. Show me your last three great projects and have your customers tell me what they loved about working with you. Anybody can say, "seriously, we're really good."
Readit Newsscrozier commented on It’s been a very hard year bell.bz/its-been-a-very-h... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Eschew abbreviations!
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
Respectfully, there's a Wikipedia link.
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
IA - Independent Agency
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.
Such as?
Serious question? Good literature that's not sci-fi? Hard to know where to start. For (mostly) "Western" literature, here's a good list:
I'm sure there are others for other cultures.
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?
Do you limit your reading to sci-fi? There is a world of amazing literature out there with much better ideas, characters, and plots.
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.
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
You can definitely select a new hand each station by making inappropriate gestures or sounds.
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
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.
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
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.