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chamanbuga
·السنة الماضية·discuss
This is cap. I worked on heads up glasses, and one of our issues was the lack of integration with Apple's iMessage ecosystem. Device makers are willing to go through several security measures, like deploying the MFi chips and certification. However, at best this gives you access to the notification system, not iMessage itself. You are able to respond to messages via the notification framework, but not integrate directly with iMessage even after taking all security and certification efforts. This isn't a security play. This is a walled garden play.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
While the folks you mentioned advanced deep learning techniques, Fei-Fei Li transformed computer vision by creating ImageNet, which fuelled progress in the computer vision field. Beyond that, she’s been a champion of ethical, human-centered AI and has worked to make AI more accessible.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
The first guess was shockingly spot on. Tried it again and it thought I was English. Tried it again and it thought I was Dutch. First guess was right though.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
I didn't know Orthodox Christians prostrated in their prayer much less use prayer rugs. Curious where this practice remains today.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
I vividly remember this incident and more like it. I was coached by my manager to never reply all to an email addressed to a larger distribution group because of this exact reason. Not only were you annoying people, but everyone's email ended up getting delayed for an hour or two.

Can someone explain to me why the backlog would happen? Why they didn't have systems to protect from such a basic DOS attack?
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
I disagree with the unbiased part of the comment. IMO all social medias, whether it's Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok - they are all heavily censored and their algorithm is tipped in a direction that optimizes attention, click throughs, and in general, is not good for you.

Notice how on TikTok, even accounts you follow sometimes will show up with the + sign, begging you to click Follow eventhough you are already following them. This isn't a bug, rather, it's dark UX tricks to keep you trained on clicking the follow button.

On Meta (be it Facebook or Instagram), you only need to be sympathetic to what people in Gaza are experiencing to begin to see the censorship. It's blatantly obvious.

Coming back to TikTok, similar to Meta, they have crafted an incredible algorithm that will keep you glued to your phone. We have no idea if they have adjusted the levers to increase dissent in young people in the West. Just because they are saying they haven't, or we have not been able to prove that they haven't, doesn't mean they won't. I can tell you with a guarantee that if Instagram or YouTube were allowed to operate in China, they would certainly use these levers to increase dissent against the CCP. We already have an example of what these companies are doing to censor certain content and boost others in places like India and Pakistan.

In general, all of these social media companies are this generations cigarette companies. We need heavy regulation from congress. We need to take tech's lobbyist money and not do their bidding.

We need to shutdown lunatics like Andreessen Horowitz and more.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
This is what I initially thought, however, I have already witnessed working demoes of 3DGS when using a single viewpoint, but armed with additional auxiliary data that is contextual relevant to the subject.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
I learned about 3D Gaussian Splatting from the research team at work just 2 weeks ago, and they demoed some incredible use cases. This tech will definitely become mainstream in camera technologies.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
This is exactly how Cortana and Google Assistant have been built as well.
chamanbuga
·قبل سنتين·discuss
IMO Alexa is just a bad product, which Amazon thought scale scale scale instead of finding value and product market fit. So many things that it does is better than predecessors, but overall is subpar and didn't get better over time.

Ex. Music. Bread and butter for Alexa. Conversion opportunity to Amazon Music. Conversion opportunity for podcasts, news, so much... Try asking Alexa to play new music, something different, slow jazz, I didn't like that song, play something like blah, etc... Most of these queries do not work. It's such a POS.

Ex. Proactive notifications. Alexa routinely informs me that diapers or something else from my routine purchases is likely running out and I should refill them. I've used this feature 100s of times in the 7+ years I've owned Alexa. I'm sure the LTV I've given Amazon is hell a lot more than most Alexa users. That being said, I can get so many more recommendations than just the 1-2 things in my routine purchase history.

I could go on and on. Ultimately, like many products by large companies, Amazon had a product that received early success because of novelties like hands-free music, alarms, timers - but never found more utility beyond that. Instead of doubling down on discovery, they worked on scaling out the platform and opening it up to 3P developers. The platform they exposed was limited in frustrating ways, and ultimately did not help them discover any hidden gem skills.

IMO the smart home virtual assistant is ripe for easy disruption. Throw out Amazon's model and use ChatGPT / Anthropic instead. Keep the 3P plugins. This fusion would be a sufficiently better product than what's in the market today.