The question wasn’t whether there was a need. The question was why there isn’t one. That agreement doesn’t prevent you or anyone else from making your own design.
A common answer to "the question" is that passably good printers are dirt cheap, and excellent printers are highly complex multidisciplinary efforts. Things don't exist in the open source world unless somebody has a need, or passion, to make it happen.
Given the availability and complexity, the question becomes "why bother." Microdots are an answer to that.
Then I'd ask, is there a legitimate purpose? Supposing the end goal is a totally open source chip foundry: yeah, you don't want microdots on your masks. Edit: oh god, and printers that won't do b&w without yellow dye available.
I am in no way qualified to give HR advice, but I would bring it up with him and give him options...
Anyways, this is the highest-upvoted 'Mental Health' post in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14711621 and maybe there are useful ideas in the comments.
It's not a coincidence that we have idioms such as 'digesting an idea' or 'ruminating' . It takes time to assimilate and relate concepts, it is not a write operation.
They claim they are working with Deltares which if you are not familiar is a reference research institute in the Netherlands for Waterway management.
On top of the principle you linked I think an important feature of their concept is that the bubble barrier is diagonal to the waterway so that the debrie is accumulated and guided to a single collection point on the river bank.
I know that big chemical manufacturing facilities with waterway connections use a similar approach to keep chemicals from entering the waterway in case of an accident. So when it works for liquids, I'd assume it'd also work for solid objects such as plastic waste. However, I doubt this is something fishes would pass, I couldn't find anything about that that proves this claim.
Footage of the stone in a museum. [0] https://youtu.be/hTmI68vBMu8?t=17
Dated 196 BC. Discovered 1799.
Hieroglyphic (top), Demotic (middle), and Greek (bottom)
$100 can become $1000 or whatever. It is in fact this the reason checks have the quantity written in letters too, and also a dash that occupies the rest of the space.
It’s not the same if you complete the amount with cents. 100.00$ can become 9100.00$ much easier than $100.00.
I explicitly and carefully write out my tip and total with a dollar sign and cents and sometimes circle the total in an attempt to prevent the temptation for anyone to alter the amount (I’ve heard this happening to a could of friends back in college at restaurants and bars).
No, it means we need to learn how to prompt, and maybe future versions need to be more self guarded. If you prompt GPT-3 properly it can detect nonsense questions. Nonsense detection should be more efficient in future versions, also detecting inflammatory content (currently being tested in the GPT console).
What I would like to see is a larger training corpus that also includes all the supervised NLP datasets (translation, numerical and symbolic math, programming from prompts, all sorts of linguistic and logic tasks, and any of thousands of tasks we could conceive...) The end result would be a GPT that excels in all these sub-tasks while remaining general. It's a matter of making the training data better and model larger. Btw, we could teach GPT to detect bias, explain it and rewrite the text. I expect no huge hurdles on this task.
Another thing I would like to see is some sort of kNN memory to enlarge the context to any size, acting like a semantic search engine inside the model. We should be able to build more interesting applications if we could put much more initial data in the prompt.
Basically make the base model larger, augment the corpus with many tasks and enlarge the prompt capacity.
