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New comment by kaesar14 in "Norwegian fishermen hunting for halibut caught a US nuclear sub"

kaesar14 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 15:27:17 +0000

Excuse my ignorance, what did the batteries need fresh water for, cooling?

New comment by kaesar14 in "William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun"

kaesar14 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:36:42 +0000

That's all well and good but I'd have preferred they keep some of the story points from the book like the emphasis on Blackthorn learning Japanese, and the theming overall of the book being how Blackthorn perceives the Japanese vs what it is now where it's more of how the Japanese perceive Blackthorn. Still a good show.

New comment by kaesar14 in "William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun"

kaesar14 — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:28:00 +0000

I’ve felt like it’s deviated quite a bit, but it’s well made nonetheless

New comment by kaesar14 in "United Airlines tells Boeing to stop building Max 10s and to switch to max 9s"

kaesar14 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:43:13 +0000

How is being the only good company making laptops a monopoly? Seems like you recognized that point in your second paragraph but bears repeating how ridiculous of a comparison to Boeing that is

New comment by kaesar14 in "United Airlines tells Boeing to stop building Max 10s and to switch to max 9s"

kaesar14 — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:08:28 +0000

Not sure I buy that. They're one of only two options in operating system but one of many in hardware models. They're much less able to win regulatory capture being a far less regulated industry and in a consumer market.

New comment by kaesar14 in "A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry"

kaesar14 — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:37:45 +0000

It was a pivotal movie for my journey in learning French, hope you enjoy.

New comment by kaesar14 in "A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry"

kaesar14 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:30:00 +0000

I highly recommend the movie "Être et avoir", which doesn't necessarily touch this exact subject but is a wonderful look into the world of rural France as it existed 20 years ago.

New comment by kaesar14 in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

kaesar14 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:24:00 +0000

I find it fascinating this type of response from people is always accompanied by a political label in order to insinuate some other negative baggage.

New comment by kaesar14 in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

kaesar14 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:54:40 +0000

It’s quite non-deterministic and it’s been patched since the middle of the day, as per a Google director https://x.com/jackk/status/1760334258722250785?s=46

Fwiw, it seems to have gone deeper than outright historical replacement: https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1760350903511449717?s=46

New comment by kaesar14 in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

kaesar14 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:52:26 +0000

Yeah, although it is weird that it doesn’t insert white people into results like this by accident? https://x.com/imao_/status/1760159905682509927?s=46

I’ve also seen numerous examples where it outright refuses to draw white people but will draw black people: https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1760350903511449717?s=46

That doesn’t explainable by system prompt

New comment by kaesar14 in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

kaesar14 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:49:26 +0000

Can you explain what I said that was racist?

New comment by kaesar14 in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

kaesar14 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:37:54 +0000

Carmack’s tweet is about what’s going around Twitter today regarding the implicit biases Gemini (Google’s chatbot) has when drawing images. Will refuse to draw white people (and perhaps more strongly so, refuses to draw white men?) even in prompts where appropriate, like “Draw me a Pope” where Gemini drew an Indian woman and a Black man - here’s the thread: https://x.com/imao_/status/1760093853430710557?s=46 Maybe in isolation this isn’t so bad but it will NEVER draw these sorts of diverse characters for when you ask for a non Anglo/Western background, e.g draw me a Korean woman.

Discussion on this has been flagged and shut down all day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449890

New comment by kaesar14 in "AI behavior guardrails should be public"

kaesar14 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 19:24:42 +0000

Curious to see if this thread gets flagged and shut down like the others. Shame, too, since I feel like all the Gemini stuff that’s gone down today is so important to talk about when we consider AI safety.

This has convinced me more and more that the only possible way forward that’s not a dystopian hellscape is total freedom of all AI for anyone to do with as they wish. Anything else is forcing values on other people and withholding control of certain capabilities for those who can afford to pay for them.

New comment by kaesar14 in "How many high school stars make it in the NBA? (2019)"

kaesar14 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:01:56 +0000

How is this insulting? There probably are not many more than 100 players who qualify as stars, with the term “star” being taken as someone who’s clearly one of the best high school players in the country. You can probably disqualify 90% of those high schools from producing a single player of any real skill compared to the top echelon, and of the remaining 10%, only a small fraction are good enough to get any national recognition.

New comment by kaesar14 in "How many high school stars make it in the NBA? (2019)"

kaesar14 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:59:42 +0000

The real quote is I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.

I will point out Scal was highly touted by other members of those Celtics teams as being an excellent 1:1 player, not to discount what you’re saying about him being head and shoulders above every amateur in the world, but more pointing out he’s far from the least skilled player to have reached the NBA

New comment by kaesar14 in "Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language at home"

kaesar14 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 15:55:23 +0000

For lingual reasons or other reasons?

New comment by kaesar14 in "Pentagon fails audit for sixth year in a row"

kaesar14 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 17:13:35 +0000

I don't think it's 'awful' for a person to live in debt. The richest Americans have loads of debt. A significant part of the American Dream is to own a house which is essentially debt. Perhaps the argument is more about whether the US government is drowning in debt more akin to CC debt (bad debt) or mortgage debt (good debt) but in the abstract, leverage is a perfectly fine thing for a government to use in order to fund its development.

New comment by kaesar14 in "Which Writers Will We Remember?"

kaesar14 — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 20:22:30 +0000

Well hasn’t he been a best selling author for 4 decades now?

New comment by kaesar14 in "Julian Assange to be made honorary citizen of Rome"

kaesar14 — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:41:19 +0000

"The motion to make him a citizen of the Eternal City was spearheaded by Raggi, from the left-leaning Five Star Movement, and won cross-party support."

Do they call Rome, Virginia, the Eternal City?

New comment by kaesar14 in "Return to Office Is Bullshit and Everyone Knows It"

kaesar14 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:14:02 +0000

Interesting that over those 25 years I can think of 1, maybe 2 start-ups that really succeeded being remote-first.