> I get shown ads for products I just purchased. All this spying, machine learning, big data result in "he bought a mattress, show him more mattresses".
You know, I had a really long argument about a decade ago with an Amazon senior engineer on the ads side of things about this. I was complaining about repeatedly being shown ads for the same blender I had just purchased (not accessories, not competing products, the exact same blender). And I hit a brick wall of "everybody complains about this, and we've been trying to change this, but every change to this makes the metrics worse".
Maybe Amazon's generous return policy means people are willing to swap products if shown alternative ones. But surely they already take this into account?
> anything that immediately jump out to me as obviously wrong
Trace any light ray through the scene, and you will see they are bending in ways that light does not.
I'm sure we could teach a world model about light, but this image model fundamentally does not understand how light behaves (which is one of the primary things an artist needs to understand).
It’s the biggest present cryptobros left us with. Before they started dabbling with diffusion models, they talked about the release of NFTs and crypto coins using the term. It’s an instant tell for me if a person is an ML insider or outsider.
They definitely helped popularise the term, but "drop shipping" was a thing long before, "rare drops" in MMOs is decades old... gamer slang steadily permeates tech spaces as younger generations of gamers join the working population
For sure, but unfortunately, there's a non-zero chance the state department at some point makes the "US" part of this mandatory for a bunch of companies.
DeepSeek Flash with kicad + autorouting churned out a couple of working PCBs with minimal prompting, and customized ZMK itself for some custom input devices. At least for casual stuff this is a solved problem
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