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I guess every Wordle on the first try and every time I refresh ThisPersonDoesNotExist it's another one of my coworkers

I spoke with my great aunt today, who's from Belgium. She told me when she first moved to the U.S. she made a point of visiting Laramie, Wyoming, cause a friend had been and told her it was cool. But when she got there, she was like, what the hell, this sucks

Lindsey Graham was a closeted straight woman. She had to hide her sexuality, as she was from an era when senators were not allowed to be women. But there were clues (Lindsey is a girl's name).

getting shot while wearing these but i transfer my consciousness to a tiny little person in the car right before the bullet destroys my brain and I drive off to safety

my husband got a photo of the exact moment a storm rolled in

strange advertisement I got while reading an article about machine learning

@BenShindel He probably blocked you cause he wants to be the only guy named Ben

Idk why OP has me blocked but this statement is only superficially true. The reason for this is because of *field decay*. Take any 2 professional athletes from 1976 and compare them to now? They've gotten worse, because they're now in their 80s. Obviously not a perfect analogy but... The fields that have arisen within the last few decades (think machine learning and synthetic biology) are where the sharpest researchers are going and hence where the best research is being published. Of course if you compare most fields to their work 50 years ago, they will be worse. Fields grow over time and their work becomes more dilute and iterative.

Videogames aren't art. Art is paintings. Only one videogame approaches art: Mario Paint.

My favorite art teacher passed away and his service was in the same chapel where they held my mom's six months ago and her birthday was yesterday. What a strange thing life is. Anyway here's a couple etchings he did of Pilgrim's Progress. ❤️

@ZeroSuitCamus @Drake NPO0OOOOOO I'M SO PISSED THIS LOOKS LIKE DOG DOO

Wow! It looks worse than I could have possibly imagined lmao thank you! @Drake

got myself a treat today

@cliobscure @eeeeow this is so lovely thank you 😭😭😭

@eeeeow @kiwehhhhh Me too, I want to know everyone's dreams

can any religious scholars or psychoanalysts on here interpret the dream my 4-year-old had last night

@mstcambot Thank you!!! I'm doing very well, I hope you've been thriving and having a wonderful time out there in the great wide world

@kiwehhhhh omg hello kiwi!!!! you look so cool anyway, hope all is well

Recently got a haircut and I think I should have told them to cut off even more hair. Realizing I may still have too much hair

@delaneys_diary YOOO

@delaneys_diary Let's see some PICSSS

@RadioFree_NE lol I had the same thought given the sticker next to it

couple good recent plates

@ZyMazza I had a sub who couldn't get into a site the other day because he didn't know how a QR-gate-code worked...I get faxed drawings as surveys...working in a construction-adjacent industry is taking crazy pills every day. They just don't know. The chasm is unfathomable

Here's something I don't understand. The writing is on the wall, right? To me it's so clear where all of this is going. Why isn't Pep Boys offering bonuses to all of their employees willing to wear a camera like this and narrate what they're doing as they repair a vehicle. Midas or another auto repair shop could even make a special glove or something like the MoCap companies do to capture really fine articulation. Shouldn't every automotive service center be doing this? Don't they know that with enough data they can completely automate maintenance in perpetuity? They have to know this, right? Why doesn't McDonald's or In N Out offer cash bonuses to exemplary employees to generate this kind of episodic training data? You could say that it's dystopian, that no one wants to automate their job away, but you can't convince me that these companies care about that. If McDonald's could build a completely automated franchise they would--they've already been doing the automated kiosk ordering for a long time, directly automating the most customer-facing "human touch" surface before they touched the back. Do they not know they can do this? Companies like Garmin and Jeppesen are sitting on years, maybe decades, of meticulously annotated data. Every month the FAA publishes charts that they have painstakingly merged into GPS maps for their flying apps. I mean they *already* have the data! And if they don't all they need to do is start saving it after each chart update. Have they not heard? Google/Alphabet has invested, what? Hundreds of millions? Maybe billions? Into Waymo. It's working, *amazingly*. Anyone looking at this can say "wow, these cars can drive themselves." Are caterpillar, case, and John Deere looking into this? I haven't seen any announcements, any demos, any invitations to participate in early access programs. I know a lot of people in construction and real estate, and I haven't heard anything about this. Developers like KB homes literally build the same set of floorplans all over the country, again and again and again. Have they invested even a dollar into motion tracking gloves and cameras for their carpenters and tradespeople to gather training data to automate home building? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I know the robots aren't there yet. I know that. Everyone knows that. But it's *so* clear they will be. It's crystal clear that the only bottleneck will be training data. Why is all of the investment so limited? Where is the vision? Do they not know? Can someone talk to them and tell them what's coming? It seems to me if you're a big company NOT in tech and NOT in AI this is your big chance. In the time after the dot com bubble giants like sears roebuck were undone by their arrogance. Or maybe their ignorance? They were unable, or unwilling, to offer online services to compliment their retail offerings. Sears got eaten alive by Amazon. Blockbuster by Netflix. Everyone knows these stories! Companies like FedEx and Charles Schwab that started offering internet services early survived, and thrived even. Do they even teach this stuff in business school?? Idk but it feels like they should. I should think if I'm in the C-Suite of some massive national company that changes tires or refurbishes HVAC units or some such "real world" task I would be intensely interested in making sure I don't get displaced in 10 years by some punk who figured out how to get a robot to do it. I should think if I run a surveying company or a digital chart app for pilots that I would want to automate as much of the data processing pipeline as I can with existing computer vision technology and be as prepared as possible to take advantage of the leaps still to come. I might, if I was forward looking, I might even try to be at the forefront of those leaps, recognizing that my business is in a particularly advantaged position to collect the required training data. I might even try to work out a deal with the frontier labs to get *them* to pay for outfitting my workforce with the gear required to create training data from our day-to-day operations and get them to license us free access to the resulting models in perpetuity. Are they trying to do this? I hear of people selling datasets for millions of dollars, but the last time I want to Midas, I didn't see anyone wearing a headset in the garage. This is to say NOTHING about organizations being so slow to adopt technology that already works today!! If you look up "Data Entry" jobs you see thousands of results. Now, some of them are actually, in truth, data annotation jobs. These companies know what's up. BUT. Thousands of these are spreadsheet monkey jobs. HELLOOOO! THAT is a job for Chat GPT. Right here, right now, no advances necessary. Do they not know?? Have they not heard???!>! I don't understand how millions, billions, I'm told even trillions of dollars are being poured into this area of AI, automation, and robotics, and NO ONE seems to be working on a "General vehicle diagnostics and repair" data set. What is going on??

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