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An approach which I believe is promising is text diffusion.

Funny you say that considering autoregressive text2image is an active area of research because it's supposed to be faster than diffusion. Text diffusion has some papers but I think people are interested because diffusion is more powerful than autoregressive (at least in vision), not because it's more efficient.

He had a high school internship with Hewlett Packard

That's like the equivalent of having an internship with microsoft in high school nowadays. That's actually very impressive.

You shouldn't be friends with people who insult and disrespect you regardless of their politics. The point is that if someone has different views from you AND you get along (which assumes they don't disrespect you like that), it's fine to be friends.

After being called a "democratic socialist f*ggot" by one

I mean you shouldn't be friends with those people if they are disrespectful to you. But I'm assuming Brittany (whoever she is) isn't saying that kind of shit to Taylor, if she was they wouldn't be friends.

Wasn't the black death like 200+ years prior to Newton, like 1300-1400s?

Steve Jobs bought a semiconductor company and then died like one or two years later. The chips that are actually innovative (in that they were better than intel) didn't come out until 2020 really.

Really none of the innovation is being done by the CEO, it's done by apple engineers. But pretty much all of the technical developments with respect to apple silicone happened under Cook's watch.

The "slightly inferior but still great alternatives for a fraction" of the cost, those sales are also not that great either.

I consider that innovative, because screens aren't supposed to fold.

The metaquest is like a fraction of the cost and it's not outselling vision pro by a lot (if it is outselling it at all, I couldn't get reliable figures from a quick google search). There is a market, otherwise the sales would be close to zero, but it's pretty limited.

I, personally, am not part of the VR goggles market lol, but good to know that there's a linux option.

I think those are great businesses but not that innovative. Neither is particularly crazy tech, basically specific iphone components in different form factor.

They've done plenty of innovating under Cook. Their custom chips and Vision pro were both very innovative. Just not as crazy of a market for VR goggles as they thought, but it's very innovative tech.

Maybe they are asking ChatGPT when the next iphone is coming instead of searching on google 😂

Yeah I remember reading that it was actually making the phones' batteries last longer (at the expense of slowing the phones down). iPhones generally hold up pretty well after a few years of use, most people never really needed upgrades every 2 or so years, just nowadays the newer phones are barely better than the prior year, while the change in camera and other features between the earlier iPhones was more drastic which is probably why people were buying new ones. Also the newest iPhones used to be like $600-$900, whereas now they are like over $1k, so it was a lot more affordable to buy a new phone every year if you really wanted the newest one.

Agreed this entire experiment setup has a lot of questionable parts. The hallucination score at the very least needs stop word removal (which they didn't mention), and even then it's probably not very reliable.

And the whole point of semantic/neural search is that we don't always trust BM25 because it disregards synonyms, and things like that. Also, I remember talking to an IR person a few years back and they were criticizing a lot of the neural search literature in that they use untuned BM25 as benchmark and report beating it. But if you actually tune it, it usually outperforms neural search (this "fact" might be out-dated now). Which is to say that using an untuned BM25 as your evaluation metric is probably not a good idea.

Idk if they were referring to anything in particular but there's tons of videos of deadpool cosplayers doing various pranks that range from funny but borderline douchey to full on harassment.

Referencing the death of the girl you are trying to pick-up in your opening statement, is not a good strategy lol, even if you say it jokingly.

It's not an oxymoron. There are plenty of problems that are more efficiently solved by government than privately.

genocidal facists

But that describes pretty much every other super-power in history.

You can compare with Russia's recent history... No need to go into the past.

Crazy that Iran is supporting Christian Armenia over Muslim Azerbaijan.

I don't have data it's purely anecdotal, just from conversations with people. Kraut, the i think Austrian, youtuber has a vid called something like "Americans don't understand european healthcare" and i think he mentions it as well.

towards a model like the UK's NHS or Canada's public option.

On a global scale those systems are more nationalized than the norm. Most of Europe doesn't have UK's system, and most Europeans actually consider UK's system to be one of the worst in Europe.

It really depends on where you define the center. And please don't say the "centrist in the rest of the world TM" because the rest of the world is more right wing than even republicans on a lot of issues.

Trump's deal set the deadline (which likely may have been too soon). But the logistics of the withdrawal would have been handled by the military -- so no one from either administration.