Wow. This is crazy.
A developer trained an AI agent in simulation and deployed it onto a real robotic air hockey table using reinforcement learning.
This robot can track the puck with millimeter-level accuracy and react in roughly 20 milliseconds, fast enough to challenge even skilled human players.
We’re moving from robots that follow programmed rules to machines that learn strategies in simulation and execute them in the physical world.
I don’t understand why the pope is going on about this. It’s software. Does anyone think it possesses a body or feels joy or pain?
I do think the impact it will have so the world requires consideration from all sorts of thinkers. But I don’t understand what he’s trying to get at
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
Kevin O'Leary says Apple's genius is making people pay 5x more for a laptop they could buy for $350
"you can buy an Apple laptop, average price about $1,800, or you can buy the same functionality for $350 on a Windows laptop"
"but you still pay $1,800. Why? Brand"
"you're paying a 5x multiple in some cases for something that is exactly like a Windows machine"
"I put that out to people, they say, yeah, but it's not an Apple. So there is the genius of Jobs"
If the coach really called for this, the coach should be arrested. The opposing coach should 100% have followed the tournaments advice to call the police himself.
Youth sports are cooked. In an 11U travel baseball game over the weekend, a coach allegedly instructed his pitcher to hit a batter in the head AND throw a 70MPH heater DIRECTLY into the dugout. And the tournament is doing… NOTHING!?!
My speed month project: what if WordPress was an OS you interact with in an open canvas... The canvas holds the objects (posts, pages, media, etc) organized to your needs and taste.
I want to love @Cloudflare but every time I try it, it's so painful. The AI Gateway is buggy and just doesn't work. Bindings never seem to actually make stuff easier.
Scoop! Meta staff are outraged over a new program that trains AI off their keystrokes and mouse movements.
"This makes me super uncomfortable. How do we opt out?" was the top-rated comment in response.
"There is no option to opt out," Boz wrote to a slew of angry-face emojis.
If you own a Mac, do yourself a favor and run the following in a terminal:
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1
defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10
@IcyVert I’m actually taking the at bat against Miller. I would just put my bat over the play and hope he hits it and the bal rolls like a bunt into play. I’m never getting a hit against him or a bucket against Wemby… but at least with Miller there is a chance he hits the bat
"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer."
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For an LLM product, this is crazy bad detection.
"omfg you're the best"
"You really helped fix my shitty code, thank you!"
"This was so frustrating until you made it better"
Those would all register as negative.
lmao I can't stop laughing
claude-code has a "Frustrated User Detection"
There's a regex that detects when you're angry
( fully hard coded btw)
When triggered, it changes Claude's behavior/UI state.
Claude literally knows when you're cussing at it.