AmericanChopper

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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Yeah this is basically how I see it, there’s a natural selection to it. If you practice deceit and politicking in interviews (and in the office), you’ll select yourself into, and only be able to succeed in organisations that value those thi
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
That SME guy sounds like an asshole, but I used to have an interview technique where I’d ask increasingly specific and low level questions about the candidates area of expertise until it got to the point where I’d be pretty confident they w
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Slack used to (still does?) credit unused licences to your account, people that have have a license provisioned but haven’t used the product during the billing period.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Swift is a messaging system, but it absolutely does manage trust. Swift messages can be used to transmit contracts and other financial obligations which are nonrepudiatable. When using Swift, the financial institution crafts the content of
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Depends entirely on how you define the parameters of the question. Egypt has been around for a very long time, but is the ~3000BC Egypt the same country as the 2024 Egypt? Did Egypt stop being Egypt during the period of Roman rule? What abo
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
To be fair it sounds like LLMs are managing that for you. You’ve got two (mostly) black boxes stacked on top of one another here. You’ve avoided managing your DB and avoided managing your ORM. What will you do when something eventually goes
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
> How does citibank know that the account at GS has the money to cover this transfer? At the moment this is all handled with Swift, and I’m not sure you what you gain from adding ZKPs. Depending on the transaction you might send a Swift
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
You don’t get any of that for free. You get it at the cost of working with the abstractions, which can be very high. Your RDBMS is not an OOP/multi-paradigm system like Python is (or whatever other language). Its objects interact diffe
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I personally don’t think DB migrations are that difficult, and I’d say they can be done a lot safer without an ORM. I’ve also never found an ORM that was easier to learn and overall easier to use than SQL. I’ve never understood how ORMs bec
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
> Especially bad ideas would elicit a response from the user, trying to iterate on them until solved. This is the assumption that’s been repeated a few times now in response to my comment, but this is the assumption that seems wrong to m
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
This is what I’m skeptical of, because my experience with LLMs doesn’t align with this description at all. Even if a response is good, I will typically give it follow up prompts to get more details, or answer other questions that the (poten
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Only on some of their interfaces, but even then that seems like a rather unreliable method to perform RLHF. I’ve never clicked a thumbs up/down on a ChatGTP output, but I don’t imagine people are validating the output very thoroughly b
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
How is it possible for OpenAI to use their users to train their model? I will sometimes as ChatGPT a couple of questions, and sometimes it gives me useful responses and I’m done, and other times it gives me useless responses and I’m done. P
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Rome didn’t even have a navy when it started the first war with Carthage, who were the dominant naval power of the Mediterranean at the time. During the first war Rome had the navies that it managed to build wiped out more than once before
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Not sure what you’re trying to say here. By the time Rome became an empire, Carthage had already been wiped out of existence for over 100 years. Who knows what Europe would have looked like under a Carthaginian empire, but I’m rather confid
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
The Punic wars are a fascinating era of history, and the article says this ram was used in the decisive battle of the first Punic war. When the first Punic war started Rome had only just expanded its territory to a portion of the Italian pe
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
The people who compromised and published the data (and the people who allowed them to do that) are responsible for 100% of the harm caused here. Once the data has been published, the harm is already done, and from a legal perspective any qu
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
According to what I read in that article, Goodwolf didn’t release the data. The hackers released the data, the city lied about it, Goodwolf went and retrieved the publicly accessible data and gave it to journalists to prove the city’s lie.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
If you live a life so isolated from other people that you can die and nobody notices for months, you are either living a sad life, or you’re highly socially dysfunctional.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I always thought the main issue this was exposing is that if it takes months for anybody to notice you’ve died, then you must have been living a rather sad life at the time.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
That’s not really how they work. The auditor attests that they were provided with evidence that the systems/business units audited were compliant at the time of auditing. That doesn’t mean that the business didn’t intentionally fake th
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Science starts with questions and hypothesis, not with conclusions. I personally don’t think it’s significantly related to any of the factors you’ve listed (or with genetics either), but thanks to perspectives like the one you’re presenting
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Well that’s certainly true, but my main point is that you want to study what interventions can be deployed to raise the IQ in these places. This absolutely is not being studied in any serious way, and I doubt it feasibly could be in the cur
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
The thing that all the moralisation around IQ misses, is that IQ is a serious problem in a lot of places around the world, and turning it into a career-ending taboo topic basically ensures that it goes completely unaddressed. I’ve worked wi
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I think that’s a rather peculiar interpretation. I always thought it was pretty obvious that Reagan was just saying that he didn’t trust the soviets, and found a polite excuse not to in the form of the Russian proverb.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
I’m very happy for Apple to geofence the EU cryptography backdoors they’re going to have to put in eventually.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
My bank used to do this too, but they were nice enough to silently truncate the password input on the login form as well, so you wouldn’t ever notice unless you accidentally did something to reveal the truncation. It annoyed the hell out of
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
Apologies, I though you were saying was that if not for a free speech issue you can have market access, today.
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
He’s incredibly averse the debt, which is just his ideological stance, and this leads him to provide very bad advice. You’re not that likely to go bankrupt following his advice (it’s not impossible, I’ve seen him advise some very questionab
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by AmericanChopper 2y ago
His entertainment is providing financial advice, which (while I'm sure he follows all the applicable laws) he's not qualified or licensed to provide. He's not necessarily a scammer, and I'm sure his advice is helpful for

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