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Lord of the Flies?


Definitely relevant and maybe inspirational, though I find "fight to death game show" format quite distinctive, so much so that it created its game genre 15 years later even with the same name as the movie.



interesting, had no idea!


Yeah, that was the oldest reference to humans hunting humans I could muster.



Smash TV arcade game is from 1990. Not that distinctive in gaming.


Big money! Big prizes! … IIIII LOVE IT!


Manhunt?


“Hi, I’m NG Resonance. What would you like to talk about?”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Fwb8OrvSw&pp=ygUMbmcgcmVzb25...


> AI doesn't need to be ready tomorrow, but its capabilities are already really good.

A majority don’t deny that it’s good. The problem is that so many think it is actually reasoning, believing the answers can be trusted.


Does it need to do reasoning perfectly?

If it created meta concepts from billion words on the internet and has meta models which are correct and are more and better than an avg human, isn't it actually good in reasoning?

Its a very narrow thing to say 'is that so many think its actually reasoning' to say AI is just hype or everything we are doing is a waste etc.

There are human benchmarks they are winning at. The critic could be more that we don't have enough benchmarks.


It's generally reasoning better than me, so using them I do less mistakes than if I did my own logic.


Been working on a fishing journal app. Pulls in weather, tides (salt), USGS streamflows (streams), add access points, save notes, make journal entries with catch log, and photo/videos.

https://bluelines.app/


Not into fishing and so not the target audience for this, but I just wanted to say this thing jumps out at me as one of those products the excitement over "web 2.0" and the API gold rush was all about. A world of niche web-accessible raw data streams, ready to be processed, combined, added to, and made into something useful by an enterprising developer. Cool project.


This is really neat! Kudos.


> Instead, workers tend to have higher productivity, which drives higher wages.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/


Was ok until they locked screen share recording behind office 365 settings. Haven’t been able to get it to work despite all the settings being correct.


Yeah, not a fan of Harris' videos at all. He defines journalism...differently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dum0bqWfiGw


He was good with "Borders", after that no so much. His "documentation" on the Soccer World Cup worker was, well, a repetition of what other journalista already reported on, with less detail and depth but sold in way to make it look like he was the oloy one uncovering it and risking his life doing so.

So no, not a fan neither.


Is there something wrong with Mtn. Dew specifically or do you think all soda drinks are filth?


Hm, might be useful when capturing fishing videos. Instead of strapping a gopro or insta 360 to your body, just wear these and you get the added plus of polarized glasses. The video doesn't seem to have any stabilization yet though, so maybe a few generations later would be better.


That's just a software thing though. Not sure why they didn't run it through a stabilizer.


Hardware stabilization is superior to pure software stabilization. Software (aside from real fancy neural nets) can't fix pixels which are blurred from the camera rapidly moving while the shutter was open. My Panasonic GH5 has optical stabilization in the lens as well as a five axis linear motor system to move the camera sensor, and these systems work together to keep the image pipeline frozen in space even when the camera is physically moving. Makes a huge difference in image quality and overall camera system capabilities.

I was curious if this is in use in smartphones. This reference [1] suggests that all iPhone 13 models have sensor shift stabilization, and I assume they have continued with this trend on newer releases.

So yeah, proper stabilization is a hardware thing.

[1] https://www.mysmartprice.com/gear/sensor-shift-stabilization...


TIL, ty!


Hardware stabilization is better but it takes space. For pure software stabilization, it can be done by PC or powerful smartphone so it's better to not to have on glass frame for saving battery.


Whether or not it is better depends entirely on what the end images look like and how important the pictures are. If it’s meant to act as a camera to snap and share the fun you are having, then it might be a real turn off if it is noticeably worse than your smartphone, which does have hardware stabilization. If customers stop using the camera on the device and reach for their phone to get the best possible picture, then the glasses lose 1/3 of their major features in the eyes of the customers, and it makes it harder to justify the price.

I’m not convinced software correction is enough, but maybe it is fine. It just depends on what is possible, what matters, and how much people are willing to pay for it.


> "ha ha AI like crypto amirite?"

I don’t think that was the meaning at all. I think the image was supposed to convey how the crypto grifters and con artists were veering into AI to run scams under the guise of AI.


^^ yes


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