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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Basically every US business I can think of that seriously attempted to compete on better products, vs. the worst cheapest one possible, went bankrupt years ago so can't blame em lol. You don't sell Americans "good" I think, at least for me, that there is no trust in what is and isn't actually good anymore because of the purposeful flooding of bullshit by con men. I don't know if the whatever I buy is good or not because of fuckery like different SKUs, being made in different factories by completely different companies that just license the name of the brand, venture capitalists who take high end poo poo and hollow it out until it's no better than Walmart poo poo, and decoy designs and misleading packaging. For example, there are several brands of those wall socket power bars that have near identical casings but when you crack open the inside you can see how much of a fire hazard the set up actually is with only part of the plugs being grounded. It's exhausting, so sometimes it's a "I'm hosed either way, might as well get the cheaper priced one".
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We put the "K" in Kuality!
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https://youtu.be/rP_yWoH_Nxs?si=f9CWgyACaTMi4U-3
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All this talk about AI allegedly subverting the dominant paradigm and revolutionizing technology reminds me of Segways. Remember Segways? They were allegedly going to revolutionize human transportation and were super trendy around 2015-ish and there were all these news articles about police forces training on them etc etc and then everyone lost interest and you just stopped hearing about them. It turns out they finally went out of production in 2020 and apparently they only ever sold 140,000 units. The Chinese corporation which bought the rights now manufactures e-scooters and lovely robot lawnmowers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_Inc.  The really hosed up aspect is that this trendy overpriced yuppie gimmick was pretty much a byproduct of technology which was originally developed for self-balancing wheelchairs which proved super difficult to bring to market since they couldn't get the FDA classifications needed to get the units fully covered by Medicare & Medicaid, which meant users had to pay at least $20,000 out of pocket. Their corporate backer discontinued production in 2009 after only selling 500 units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT  The inventor relaunched the product in 2019 through his own company but it's still hella expensive.
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I remember when they were first teasing the Segway and they said laws would have to be changed all over the world
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Chocobo posted:You just need to put weights in cheap poo poo to give them the impression of quality. I was thinking about this a little while ago. When I was a kid and I saw some version of a common product that was sleek and shiny, I immediately thought that it must be really well made. Today, it instantly sends up red flags and makes me wonder what the stylish presentation is meant to cover up.
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how many of that 140,000 were bought by Hollywood?
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pixaal posted:how many of that 140,000 were bought by Hollywood? Not enough to keep the downtown KCPD from riding around on them like a bunch of dorkasses throughout most of the 2010s. You'd think an institution so desperate to be perceived as macho as the cops wouldn't want to be seen on one, but I guess they're more lazy than they are insecure, so I guess the order goes: 1) racist 2) lazy 3) insecure
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:All this talk about AI allegedly subverting the dominant paradigm and revolutionizing technology reminds me of Segways. Remember Segways? They were allegedly going to revolutionize human transportation and were super trendy around 2015-ish and there were all these news articles about police forces training on them etc etc and then everyone lost interest and you just stopped hearing about them. It turns out they finally went out of production in 2020 and apparently they only ever sold 140,000 units. The Chinese corporation which bought the rights now manufactures e-scooters and lovely robot lawnmowers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_Inc. Lol. This morning I saw some dork bringing his trash can on a hoverboard. 'Bout 150 feed down his driveway
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Segways are really fun to ride. You look like an enormous dork doing it, but it’s still fun.
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The Management posted:Segways are really fun to ride. You look like an enormous dork doing it, but it’s still fun. He was by far the coolest dork I have seen all week
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 Gave it two very simple instructions, it managed to gently caress up both quite badly, this thing could totally replace me!
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Nah that seems correct. Your fleshy meat brain must be mistaken.
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remembering how the the owner of the company that made segways killed himself by reversing his own segway off a cliff
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A Segway tried to kill George W Bush so they’re good imo
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I remember pre-release Segway hype all the way back to 2000 or so. It never quite became a thing, but god bless 'em, they tried!
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To be fair, maybe he saw the future and decided to nope out
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IIRC the guy who invented them had some weird grudge on the concept of 'walking' and projected it on other people. His big dream was a world where nobody would ever have to walk anywhere anymore. It was all very tragic. He needed professional help.
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buddy saw the scene where the person drives their car down the laneway to pick up mail and thought "yes, this is both cool and good ". His final quote being the goofy yodeling scream.
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Was his coffin carried by six people on segways?
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The Management posted:Segways are really fun to ride. You look like an enormous dork doing it, but it’s still fun. A few of my neighbors have one wheels and I'm really tempted to get one
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slandergoose posted:A few of my neighbors have one wheels and I'm really tempted to get one Aren't those the ones that got recalled for stopping suddenly and faceplanting the rider?
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Idk if it's a recall but yeah they do that.
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RabbitWizard posted:
LLMs are *incapable* of reasoning. They regurgitate words based on a statistical model of language. That means that they can generate the right words that one would expect in a response, but they can’t provide the actual solution unless they’ve been trained on it.
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yugioh mishima posted:remembering how the the owner of the company that made segways killed himself by reversing his own segway off a cliff If you want to choose how to go, that is really choosing how to go. Make a mobility device, no one likes it, use it to drive yourself off a cliff. loving Hero
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:If you want to choose how to go, that is really choosing how to go. Make a mobility device, no one likes it, use it to drive yourself off a cliff. loving Hero Just like "Mac and Me"
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Insanite posted:It’s frustrating when your computer starts and the power light comes on, but all you see is a black screen. Some reasons you might encounter a blank screen include: Catching up but this made me scream internally.
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The Management posted:LLMs are *incapable* of reasoning. They regurgitate words based on a statistical model of language. That means that they can generate the right words that one would expect in a response, but they can’t provide the actual solution unless they’ve been trained on it.
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Dokapon Findom posted:Just like "Mac and Me" Calm down Paul Rudd
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yugioh mishima posted:remembering how the the owner of the company that made segways killed himself by reversing his own segway off a cliff great moment 
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I skipped a bunch of pages, have we posted the 3blue1brown video on LLM math?
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Here's an archaeologist who posts Youtube videos debunking dumb archaeology conspiracy theories. His latest video has a big section debunking a TikTok video which shows 'photos' of mysterious ruins discovered in Antarctica which the government allegedly tried to cover up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqm6McJYbWE&t=1333s (Skip to 22:13 if the timestamp doesn't work) He actually goes to the effort of trying to track down the source of the obviously fake AI images and finds an artist who created very similar images who knows enough about the scene to track down the actual source, which was this Nov 23 2022 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BRUSmUsHi8 The artist he found also tracks the reposts of the images via Russian disinfo sites over time, which is how they got fed into the conspiracy theory sites and spread across the internet and ended up on TikTok videos with tens of millions of views
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Google’s AI Still Giving Idiotic Answers Nearly a Year After Launch
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Segways are honestly super cool and wouldn’t have been so laughable if the pre-release hype wasn’t so comically overblown
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lmao the Rabbit R1 is the product of some NFT scammers that did nothing more impressive than release a default Unreal Engine project as their "metaverse game" before going dark and emerging as an AI company https://www.wheresyoured.at/rabbit-holed/ if you want to read the whole thing, but really the one sentence summary is all you need the big market for AI is selling services to scammers so they can scam the same rubes twice
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turns out slapping a battery on two wheels has actually made a pretty big impact on local transport in metro areas but segway had the wheel alignment wrong and also the ownership model which was probably the bigger issue
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Well this is loving cursed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPoPuQvJwTE
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