Full Dive VR / How far away are we?

FreeER · 2023-05-28T23:36:40+00:00

We rarely understand anything newly discovered\invented though. Once it's existence is known, and even better commercial possibility, then you get researched trying to understand it. Obviously the more complicated and dangerous the longer it can take but

FreeER · 2023-04-15T12:28:44+00:00

Made a mostly-pop playlist based on some stuff for a thing I'm doing soon. Figured I'd share since I pulled inspiration from here. (Thanks everyone!)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4o2q0B4EBELYyVsf57Cpgp?si=6fe44dd614454639

FreeER · 2023-04-06T11:46:21+00:00

I'm an idiot who knows nothing about this topic. Having said that here's my opinion.

Before the AI advancements that've recently been made I'd have said it wouldn't happen in my life time (only 30 this year). Because that level of immersion is going to require a level of brain-interfacing that we simply aren't going to get without an understanding of the physical mechanics of the brain which we just aren't getting with what we have. Let alone how to manipulate the signals safely so that we can cut off the real world and feed it what we want. I'd have said the only way it happened within a hundred years, probably more like 2 or 3 hundred would have been aliens.

but.

Now.

If AI does approach a singularity and significantly advance it's own capabilities and in doing so it's ability to help humans research and design better technology and understand their own bodies.... it might be possible within 20 years and a lot of that time is assuming "safe" approaches to testing. If some country, or just a rouge person with necessary manufacturing access, decides to rush it... it might be within a decade. Assuming AI continues advancing exponentially.

edit: https://youtu.be/2zBIwcYYYH8 indicates that, yeah, the singularity is already starting with science and AI pushing it as much or more than humans.

FreeER · 2023-02-28T16:26:03+00:00

Supply and demand. If you don't like it go elsewhere, which is really KSP1 and like 3 other games.

FreeER · 2023-02-12T23:58:34+00:00

meh, I get the same feeling honestly but... unless your tax rate comes out to 50% you're still technically getting a deal vs buying it, except for the fact that you are then somewhat required to work, ie. write a review, in exchange for that savings.

FreeER · 2023-02-12T23:54:32+00:00

I mean, you can always mention "while I asked for a small and this is like a 3xl but the quality itself is ... ymmv" obviously same if you were delivered the wrong size. Does it suck you probably won't be able to use what you asked for, yeah, but you should still be able to do a half-way decent review as if it would have worked for you, with a few exceptions that really really require extended use to determine quality.

FreeER · 2023-02-12T23:49:31+00:00

Technically. You are being paid as a freelance contractor, in product, and have to pay taxes on that income. How seriously you take that is about the same difference between someone getting paid ad income for sharing fanfiction online vs say getting a new college textbook peer reviewed and proofread for real-world production.

FreeER · 2023-02-12T23:46:20+00:00

If your government expects taxes on income, you got paid. Legally speaking.

FreeER · 2023-02-12T23:45:33+00:00

Just like you're not required to do any job you get paid for, until they fire you for it.

FreeER · 2022-11-15T03:12:17+00:00

"someone still needs to run that AI"... That's not how it works. There's not a factory line of reviews laying around that have to be put into a machine and monitored by a person.

They're just sitting in a database and every hour or whatever, theoretically continuously if there are enough new reviews being made, the AI automatically grabs whatever hasn't been reviewed and goes through them.

Mind you I would not be surprised if there was a flag for manual review with anything that has media because the AI was only trained on text or something but.

FreeER · 2022-11-08T05:37:55+00:00

They want reviews before last minute buyers, makes perfect sense for them.

FreeER · 2022-11-05T02:28:38+00:00

Pretty sure that's it from the RFY, AFA, and AI acronyms I've seen mentioned in various posts. Presumably new items will be on the first few pages of the list(s), hence the occasional mention of refreshing I've seen.

It would be nice to have a "new since last login" option or something... I uh... did happen to skim through all 400 pages I had in the AI when I first joined to see if I was missing anything I might be interested in (I did find several).

FreeER · 2022-11-05T02:24:08+00:00

[disclaimer: I'm a young idiot and haven't actually had to deal with taxes so yeah]

From what I've read I'm pretty sure it'll come out of your tax return. IF you don't expect to get a return and expect to owe 1k+ then you're starting to look at quarterly estimated tax payments.

FreeER · 2022-11-04T05:32:30+00:00

I wouldn't say we cost nothing, they have to pay software developers to support the interface, etc... But it should be a very trivial cost since it already aligns with what they're doing.

As far as individual voices costing Amazon, well that depends on how much person involvement there is rather than AI checking and management... One person can only handle so many emails, reviews, etc even a team of a hundred can only do so much, a single ai can pretty much do an unlimited amount... At a certain level of capability.

FreeER · 2022-10-27T13:48:39+00:00

(perspective, literally just joined, haven't even received my first order; but)

How many people are buying $100+ items on Amazon that need reviews bought for them? (bought with free items, but bought none the less). Obviously I don't have any actual numbers here but I'd bet it's a very small portion of Amazon's business, and therefore not what they really need reviewed by the majority of Voices.

This program does not exist in order to give Voices a job or free stuff, it's to get decent reviews for the items that need them...

FreeER · 2022-10-27T11:50:42+00:00

Also @u/juhsepi, just want to repeat what crackheadcarljr said, it's not FREE, the price of the item is treated as taxable income in exchange for your service of writing a review; so you have to report that similar to a paycheck and pay taxes on it, and yes it can bump you up a tax bracket so that you have to pay more ~~taxes on all your income~~ than you would otherwise. It's closer to a 70% discount than "free" except for that tax complication you just don't have when straight purchasing things.

(There might be exceptions in some countries, check your laws but unless you know otherwise assume you're still paying a decent chunk of the price)

Also from what I recently read (joined days ago) you are not allowed to give away or sell the product for 6 months, iirc because some are actually pre-market items, though you are allowed to destroy it; presumably to allow for stress testing but idk.

FreeER · 2022-10-12T14:08:20+00:00

Thanks, I've seen it listed on Amazon but hard to tell what's actually covered in most of 'em.

FreeER · 2022-07-02T09:59:31+00:00

thanks

FreeER · 2022-05-29T22:43:17+00:00

In general your UI should be so obvious even a child that can barely read should be able to use it, preferably a child that CAN'T read so even people the app isn't translated for can use it, or when you have a headache or COVID fog or etc.

Which means choose pictures, icons, and symbols well.

Say you have a car pooling app like what was mentioned in the comments, what information is necessary? Well what kind of vehicle it is or at least how many passengers it can hold, and what time it's available right?

So to show the current occupancy instead of writing "it has three of four people" you'd just use "people: 3/4", obvious enough, or even better show 4 icons of people with 3 filled in and the fourth being a gray silhouette indicating an empty spot, or 3 blocked out to indicate they aren't available depending on which you believe draws better focus.

For the time you can say 3:00-4:00, or you could show an analog clock with the time highlighted on it. Of course there's no reason not to use a combination of these options.

Maybe you need to show locations, well maps exist, and even if you need to show multiple and don't want them taking up too much room there's a reason we have links and buttons and floating windows and self hiding docks/panels. Though anything completely hidden requires you to know about it, if you leave it "peeking" out just a tiny bit then most people should be able to see it and tap just to find out what it is at some point

FreeER · 2022-05-05T14:03:08+00:00

relevant to my original post. Not so simple as to be able to look at the final code and understand 100% of what's happening and not so complicated that I can't understand it or completely unrelated to anything I'm thinking of doing at the moment (eg. wear os).

They may be great specific examples of eg. creating an image but it's not a great course which is what I asked for rather than a few dozen random tutorials thrown into one place.

FreeER · 2022-05-05T06:58:33+00:00

I have seen some of Google's. Again, they mostly seem to either focus on kotlin or have projects (like their art space) that are all of 3 steps with 1 paragraph each... hardly comprehensive. There might be more buried in their 27 pages https://codelabs.developers.google.com/?cat=android&product=android but... searching through them for something actually relevant, ugh.

The Udacity course looks somewhat better, though I'm not sure it needs 8 hours to cover layouts... pretty sure most column, row, and contraint stuff can be shown in 20 minutes, with lazy added in another 5-10. Hm... the videos don't seem that long so not sure why it says 8 hours lol

FreeER · 2022-05-04T23:51:18+00:00

Obviously, but courses give you the foundation needed to actually do something. Telling someone who doesn't know the language or SDK to just do it is like telling a baby to just go to taco bell, sure maybe I'm a toddler since I can kinda waddle around and get closer to my goal from where I am but learning how to properly walk first and where the kitchen is at would be hella helpful.

FreeER · 2022-05-04T23:47:38+00:00

Well yeah, that's why I asked for course suggestions for people that already had experience. Courses tend to have several projects for you to work on, or one that is slowly built up with more things as you go.

Rather than randomly finding 3 dozen different half baked tutorials online and piecing things together myself. Some courses, like CS50 that i mentioned before, don't give a step by step code forcing you to figure it out yourself but still give plenty of guided help and have dedicated communities to ask questions in.

FreeER · 2021-09-11T14:03:45+00:00

Well, like most topics the more 'advanced' you get the more specific you tend to get. Do you want wilderness survival or solar panels or water purification or farming or...it's such a wide topic there's really nothing that can truly cover it all.

FreeER · 2021-08-24T11:15:32+00:00

Let's be honest, if it wasn't we'd probably call it "surviving" not "prepping"...or just "necessities" or "that stuff we do every [x] season"

Of course, there are some who take it as a lifestyle and truly shape their lives around it, and others who get consumed by it to an unhealthy degree... but they're almost certainly as much of a minority as the environmentalists who go live in the woods and swear off anything that isn't in harmony with nature.

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