Daniel Nebdal

@thebigbulldozer @wewmoid3 The bronze thing? It's a Vajra/Dorje, though I don't know why he would have one. They've been in a bunch of games, though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajra

@wewmoid3 Is that the Vril Device from COD

@Mountianmanlurk @NEET_Shamanka A lot of them are just a couple of generations of some hard work and a lot of luck, maybe smoothed out by general upper-class connections. Old nobility doesn't seem that much better than "my dad happened to work for Fairchild in the 60s so I have Silicon Valley contacts".

@NEET_Shamanka Okay but when I say that the elites are descendants of royalty and those royal bloodlines think they’re the descendants of the powerful leaders of antiquity… I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist.

@Workus6 @mycoliza It means "suitable for teaching (someone something)" - not a word that comes up every day for me, but if you works in education or literature or something it might be more normal.

@mycoliza You made that word up

my hot take is that the generative AI minecraft is both (a) extremely cool and (b) profoundly didactic about the fundamental limitations of this technology

@evietvie @mycoliza Basically "instructive" or "suitable for teaching".

@jpFromTlon @keysmashbandit There's the other camp of "I know how they did this and that's why I'm not impressed" - rendering another frame that seems like it could follow from the last few plus your input is a small side step from video gen, and they don' seem to have solved the state/rules problems.

@keysmashbandit Not really surprising, as most people are not that technical to understand the significance of rendering entire game. I remember how shocked I was when reaction of people to Midjourney generating photorealistic images was like "aren't computers supposed to do that?"

im shocked at how poorly the general public is receiving ai minecraft. ive never seen a work of sci-fi that predicted that people would react to powerful new technology as though it was unimpressive+ unimaginative + idiotic

@ShawnFumo @__HMYS__ @keysmashbandit My personal ambivalence to this is that it seems to be video generation based on the last second or so plus your input - and yet people rave over it replacing the "huge state machine with a bit of graphics output on top" experience of gaming.

@__HMYS__ @keysmashbandit Any time "world model" gets thrown around, the implications are more in that direction and also things like models being able to solve problems involving spatial reasoning

@beophisto @keysmashbandit We absolutely will not have good AAA-quality games based on this approach in two years. This is about creating the visual experience of playing the game, while a lot of the gameplay is in the exact mechanics - which this approach fails at. Gamers want *predictability* in systems.

@keysmashbandit public's already climatized to badly generated video, and there's no difference for the laymind in the demo. they can't make the jump to where in two years time we'll be playing our own personalized photorealistic AAAs in real time

@charlieboardman @LukeFarritor idlewords.com/2007/04/the_al…

@LukeFarritor There should actually be food delivery that cooks en route somehow. Terrestrial tho

@Tween2TeenBooks @oldenoughtosay Despite the capitalist novelty of a privately owned volcano, I think we still have to admit that its activity is still an uncontrollable natural phenomenon.

@oldenoughtosay Holy crap! I saw a documentary about this but not once did it mention it being privately owned?!?! Portrayed as just an unfortunate natural phenomenon

@one_big_duck @selcukorkmaz @jm_alexia What are you even talking about? A lot of research questions come down to "we finally got the money to measure some markers in these patients", and the stats are two lines of code that runs in ~50ms on an old laptop, and gives a reproducible, correct, answer. Why add ML?

Statisticians are still living in the 60's while we now generate videos from text in AI.

@trickylabyrinth Defunctland's 1:43 video about all the variations of Fastpass at Disney parks goes off on a queueing theory and simulation tangent and is surprisingly interesting: youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?si…

yo mutuals, what's your favorite vid that ~fits this description?

@MaMaJulie3 @Douglas_Wolf_ @AP There's different applications of the same underlying technology, and I'd personally have been quite happy if text and image generation was never made available to the general public.

@dnebdal @Douglas_Wolf_ @AP And this is the obscure reason to unleash this on the world? It has more negatives than positives...and it sucks up so much more electricity. I live in north Texas and we don't need that.

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said apnews.com/article/ai-art…

@likhnywala @theashrb I think they all have cafeterias with warm food, and mostly the same menus everywhere. If you want Swedish meatballs with potatoes, brown sauce, and lingonberry jam, they can probably help you.

@dnebdal @theashrb I saw the IKEA, never IKEA restaurant

The worst culinary region in the world

@MaMaJulie3 @Douglas_Wolf_ @AP Those models also do better because you're only asking it to pick between a couple of options for each chunk of image (e.g. normal/tumor/background), instead of having to handle free-form English or any possible photo; it's much easier to train a model when there's clear answers.

@MaMaJulie3 @Douglas_Wolf_ @AP The AI models you use for "point out tumors in this CT scan" or whatever are very specifically trained on just that, and you validate them by comparing its output to big stacks of manually annotated images. The better ones are on par with a good (and non-overworked) professional.

@likhnywala @theashrb Does the Ikea restaurant count? It's Swedish food and there's a lot of them.

@theashrb I never saw a Swedish, Finnish or any of these restaurant in any other country. Got your point.

@barrkel @marksanborn @kerckhove_ts Java's approach of letting you not handle exceptions, but you have to declare which ones your code could throw/forward, is honestly a good compromise. People used to complain about it being verbose, but compared to that ...

@marksanborn @kerckhove_ts Most errors shouldn't be handled. This is the insight that made exceptions successful. Exceptions should bubble up, aborting the current action, and not be thought about. The exception to the exception is systems programming, i.e. operating systems, databases and so on.

Yau may not like it, but this is peak programming... apparently. I really don't like it. That's 3/4 error handling just because you refuse to even implement rust's "?".

@soc1alcontag1on @yeotjr @aoyamaszn There seems to be an independent Scandi derivation through Gaius/Caius, but honestly who knows; all it takes is one Danish sailor hearing a name in Wales in 1270 and liking it.

@yeotjr @aoyamaszn I was thinking this too, Cai/Cei/Kei and later Kay are all Welsh (the knight sir kay is one of the longest lasting characters from medieval lit)

because it's on my birth certificate

@Ttyler63l @colin_fraser Could be bio mom and step mom, or an adoption, and of course there are a number of ways a same-sex couple can end up raising a child. A fair few children have more than one "mom" or "dad" in some sense, independent of the biology.

@colin_fraser You can’t have 2 mothers or fathers. So the surgeon is the boys father.

Correct

@marketswithmay @compound248 Which is a big if, of course - but it's a good point. Still, it sounds like he let the established markets deteriorate while gambling on China? I can see how that'd spook investors. Also I'm not the OP. :)

Ah...I did not understand your posts. While his choices were bad, it's slightly unfair b/c the headwind from China is pretty severe. The Asian markets in general, are actually the last remaining low hanging fruit growth markets for coffee, but how to monetize it isn't straight forward. However, with $SBUX over 40% exposed to China, this guy will look like a champ regardless of what strategy he takes, if the US & China ever pause their pissing match. Because any strategy he implements will take at least 3 quarters to even start to bear fruit and this macro event is closer, it will be hard to say if Niccol's is talented or lucky...

It must be an absolute shtshow over at Starbucks. It is hard to emphasize this enough: The proposed strategy outlined below by $SBUX’s new CEO - Brian Niccol - undoes EVERY point of emphasis of his predecessor (a former McKinsey partner). Disaster.