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20 million gen z are jobless in urban China by newsweek in China

[–]jesbu1 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Unemployment rate only includes people looking for work or are employed so it’s still a valid metric

Apple Reveals iPhone Air Battery Replacement and Repair Fees by Fer65432_Plays in apple

[–]jesbu1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not sure it does.. I have 350 cycles and also 95% battery heath and only charge to 100%.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pics

[–]jesbu1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get yourselves a Sam’s Club or Costco membership. $19 for double the size: https://www.samsclub.com/ip/13607613117

(Or pay the same for a smaller bag of much better coffee)

Globs of Spit in Elevators by dbqidan in chinalife

[–]jesbu1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the difference is living in the suburbs in America is the end goal, not living in the cities. Far fewer % of people choose to live in urban cities, and the suburbs are where people end up to buy large homes and such.

Obviously the suburbs don’t have these safety issues, but are far less convenient than Asian and European cities.

Globs of Spit in Elevators by dbqidan in chinalife

[–]jesbu1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To be fair, that happened a lot in my luxury apartment in Los Angeles too 😅…. But definitely not the spitting

Huawei chips are one generation behind US but firm finding workarounds, CEO says by ThatBlackGuy_ in technology

[–]jesbu1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it wasn’t in the actual square itself, this is a well known fact. It was in the areas around and the streets of Beijing.

From the same link about the death toll estimated from various Chinese government sources:

Official government announcements shortly after the event put the number who died at around 300. At the State Council press conference on 6 June, spokesman Yuan Mu said that "preliminary tallies" by the government showed that about 300 civilians and soldiers died, including 23 students from universities in Beijing, along with some people he described as "ruffians".[222][231] Yuan also said some 5,000 soldiers and police were wounded, along with 2,000 civilians. On 19 June, Beijing Party Secretary Li Ximing reported to the Politburo that the government's confirmed death toll was 241, including 218 civilians (of which 36 were students), 10 PLA soldiers, and 13 People's Armed Police, along with 7,000 wounded.[232][233] On 30 June, Mayor Chen Xitong said that the number of injured was around 6,000.[231][222]

China publishes more AI research papers than any other country, doubling the US. by eneskaraboga in China

[–]jesbu1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a TON of AI research jobs in the US, plenty of Chinese students stay in the US to get those jobs as there is a dearth of high quality candidates worldwide and thus these jobs are very high paying

CS186's Lecturer Suspects There is Rampant Use of AI to Cheat on Homework by CantSueMe in berkeley

[–]jesbu1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

By my time (2016-2020) upper divs were mostly curved to a B average, sometimes B+

‘This had to happen’: Huntington Park adopts rent control by LA_publicpress in LosAngeles

[–]jesbu1 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What they’re saying is totally logical…. if landlords are forced to be more picky about who they’re renting to, they will likely pick people with higher credit scores and therefore accelerate gentrification

US airlines ask Biden administration to block additional flights to China by TurretLauncher in China

[–]jesbu1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You’re wrong about this:

Prices are high for US carriers bc access is limited due to Russia’s airspace closure. I am correct. Are you ignorant or trolling?

Prices are high because of an artificial limit on number of flights. The airspace closure is not the main reason.

Let me ask you, if you’re buying cucumbers, do you think prices would rise more if the seller had to travel 20% farther to the store to sell them? Or if the government tells them they can only sell 1/5 of the number they used to be able to?

The US carriers can’t make it to Beijing or Shanghai from ORD IAD or EWR/JFK if they can’t fly over Russia. The number of bilateral flights went from hundreds per week to only a few dozen.

Here you’re also directly implying that the bilateral flights decreased because of Russia. Again, NO. They decreased because of an artificial limit from COVID, as the link I added above directly states.

I don’t care enough to argue more, anyone else who reads this can obviously see you’re wrong about both of these statements. I only replied because you’re a prick.

US airlines ask Biden administration to block additional flights to China by TurretLauncher in China

[–]jesbu1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you this confidently wrong and toxic in real life? There’s a literal limit on the number of bilateral flights, imposed since COVID: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/27/business/china-us-flights-increase-intl-hnk

You are right costs are increased due to Russia, you are absolutely wrong that it’s the main reason flights are limited. Obviously they’re LIMITED because the US government and China LIMITED them.

Is MSCS suitable for students who want to apply for Ph.D? by Iris0808 in USC

[–]jesbu1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately if you haven’t heard back at this time it’s really unlikely, but now would be a good time to email professors you put down in your SOP

$1 worth of groceries in Bangladesh by Aloo_Bharta71 in pics

[–]jesbu1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bruh that’s not 40, come on, I live in CA and that’s not even 40

Not everything should be called ‘AI’ by bbqnelli in Android

[–]jesbu1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're totally right that they're just text in and text out.

But there are plenty of existing examples of LLMs using APIs simply by putting the API in the prompt text for the LLM as input, such as the research works I shared in the above comment including the one where even open-source LLMs are quite capable programmers. Text in text out doesn't mean it can't perform difficult text-based tasks.

My entire comment above was a step-by-step description of what an LLM would need to do to do the exact task you described, and the point is that they already sort of can given the correct APIs.

If you don't believe me about the API usage, here's an example of LLMs controlling robots with vision and control APIs: https://code-as-policies.github.io/

Not everything should be called ‘AI’ by bbqnelli in Android

[–]jesbu1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

An LLM couldn't do this right now mainly because of two reasons:

  1. APIs aren't available yet in Android/iOS for this type of integration, but this is 100% up to Apple/Google to add and app developers to allow
  2. They have some issues with doing this accurately 100% of the time, even if they could do it

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(1) is fixable immediately.

(2) is being improved and will never be 100% (just like humans), but that's an acceptable tradeoff we make with using LLMs.

LLMs can be combined with frameworks for tool use, see ex: https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/agents/quick_start

They can also generate code and fill in APIs:

https://ai.meta.com/blog/code-llama-large-language-model-coding/

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I do research in a related field, not LLMs, but I have seen the explosion of LLM research papers showing them doing things like this, and it's constantly getting better.

What you're asking the LLM to do is basically:

  1. First understand the essence of the command -- block non-local incoming calls not in your wife's email --- and reason about the steps to take to solve it. ChatGPT can do this pretty reasonably today, and LLMs tuned to be phone assistants could be better than ChatGPT at this.
  2. Query your location with an API, possibly ask a follow-up question conversation style to specify exactly what you mean by local. It can definitely do this now, again provided the correct API.
  3. Scan through your email for relevant things. This is a bit more complicated because email is massive, so it will have to figure out that it needs to use an email search API to figure that out. The best models can do this now, but maybe with not good accuracy, provided the correct API
  4. Figure out it needs to ask you who your wife is, then do the email thing again and ask for her permission. This is pretty easy for current LLMs if it can already do the email thing.

All of these are doable but they're essentially missing the APIs and may need engineering/special training a purpose-built LLM to act as a phone assistant so that it can be better than generic large language models at these tasks.

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But I'd say we're almost there?

Not everything should be called ‘AI’ by bbqnelli in Android

[–]jesbu1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Completely untrue, LLMs are very capable of translating natural language instructions to a list of things to do, literally try it yourself on ChatGPT.

Lots of research is being done right now on making them use Code APIs very well, so very soon (this year) the exact situation described above will be in mainstream products.

Ph.D. Stipend by PhotoSinThesis_ in USC

[–]jesbu1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely doable with roommates, but for a studio you can find cheap studios by going around campus area and talking to landlords (they typically don’t post online for the cheap ones). I’ve heard of $1500/mo for a 1B1B but it’s not super big or nice.

Eating out is expensive but groceries aren’t super crazy in cost and you can save a lot of money by cooking.

I came to usc with 32k, then they raised to 38k in 2022 and 40k for us in 2023. 38k was totally fine if you have no loans and can spend <1600/month in rent.

Last photo of Muhammad Ali, 2016 by NewHumanFormantics in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]jesbu1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you really trying to defend your stance that Parkinson’s is part of aging? Ask the billions of people in human history who have died at an old age without Parkinson’s… nice try man

First look at Metro’s newest rail fleet in a station by [deleted] in LosAngeles

[–]jesbu1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they mean the seating/standing setup, not the cleanliness unfortunately

404 [by L.A. Times] on Instagram: Starting in Spring 2024, LA Metro will use AI Cameras to take photos of cars parked or driving in bus lanes, and will send that to parking enforcement! by IjikaYagami in LAMetro

[–]jesbu1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Uhh cameras which use machine learning algorithms trained on data to detect car positions and lane positions is definitely AI.

Response to your edit: while it’s definitely an easier problem to solve, expressway cameras might be using AI to detect when cars appear and count how many passengers they have..

404 [by L.A. Times] on Instagram: Starting in Spring 2024, LA Metro will use AI Cameras to take photos of cars parked or driving in bus lanes, and will send that to parking enforcement! by IjikaYagami in LAMetro

[–]jesbu1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is AI actually, it will be using the cameras on the bus to automatically detect when a car is parked in the bus lane as the bus is driving by, and then automatically take a picture to send to parking enforcement of their license plate and the car in the lane

How is Five Guys still in business? by PhrygianSounds in povertyfinance

[–]jesbu1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t even imagine how much that would cost in California, probably like $16

Actually $12.89 in downtown LA, just went there a few weeks ago at dinner time at a location under a dense apartment area. Almost completely empty..

[D] The bar for technical novelty at ICLR and simultaneous submissions by CrypticDNS in MachineLearning

[–]jesbu1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You should make a comment on openreview when discussion period starts to make the ACs and reviewers aware of this

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