Chinjut

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by Chinjut 10mo ago
This doesn't sound monotonic. This sounds like a mapping from pre-benefit income to post-benefit income which sends just under $10k/yr to just under $15k/yr, but sends just over $10k/yr to just over $10k/yr. So it s
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by Chinjut 10mo ago
Why continuously differentiable and not just monotonic?
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by Chinjut 10mo ago
Why are we limiting ourselves to business concepts?
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by Chinjut 10mo ago
The fact that there is a precise analogy between how Ax + s = b works when A is a matrix and the other quantities are vectors, and how this works when everything is scalars or what have you, is a fundamental insight which is useful to notat
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Nevada Governor's office covered up Boring Co safety violations(fortune.com)
336 points by Chinjut 11mo ago|74 comments
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by Chinjut 11mo ago
Oh, I didn't realize there was a threshold. What is the threshold?
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by Chinjut 11mo ago
Ah, it turns out this is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903670 . (I thought the submission process used to catch such dupes? The title and URL match exactly.)
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I Worked All over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine(nytimes.com)
11 points by Chinjut 11mo ago|5 comments
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by Chinjut 11mo ago
I'm not saying it's actually written with AI (and indeed, I don't think that's the case; hence my calling it "AI-esque" rather than actually AI generated). It's just that it's a particular style of bu
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by Chinjut 11mo ago
AI-esque blog post about how infinite AI content is awful, from "a co-founder at Paid, which is the first and only monetization and billing system for AI Agents".
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by Chinjut 11mo ago
The 10% number is completely made up. According to Paul Graham, "I was there when this statistic was cooked up, and this was the recipe: someone guessed that there were about 60,000 computers attached to the Internet, and that the worm
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by Chinjut 1y ago
This was titled "The IDEs we had 30 years ago..." in 2023. It is now 2025.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
What would distinguish this from existing statically typed, pure, and lazy functional languages such as Haskell?
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by Chinjut 1y ago
The title needs to be updated. These are IDEs we had 32 years ago.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Everyone is aware of this. Sites like this aren't created to be useful. They are created to be an amusement, a joke.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
That's not a problem, as they are the same.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Note that two matrices (of the same dimensions) can be transformed into each other if and only if they have the same rank. A (non-optimal, but straightforward) procedure for doing so is like so: First, use Gaussian elimination row-wise to p
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Looking at death rates in isolation paints a misleading picture, like accounting only for costs and ignoring revenue. Net profit is the measure of overall value to the economy, and whatever maximizes profit is by definition the greatest goo
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Hear, hear.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Family is not the point of life. Family is a chore we put up with to get to the point of life, maximizing profits for employers.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Ordinary floating point calculations allow for tractable reasoning about their behavior, reliable hard predictions of their behavior. At the scale used in LLMs, this is not possible; a Pachinko machine may be deterministic in theory, but no
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by Chinjut 1y ago
But diamonds don't denote multiplication. That never happened. That was just you misreading.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
For what it's worth, this response is explicitly anticipated in the article.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
What diamond symbol?
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by Chinjut 1y ago
A scary (if not particularly original) thought: If people become utterly reliant on LLMs and no longer embrace any new language etc for which there is insufficient LLM training, new languages etc will no longer continue to be created.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Why do you say it's practically impossible to motivate matrix multiplication? The motivation is that this represents composition of linear functions, exactly as you follow up by mentioning. It's a disservice to anyone to tell them
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by Chinjut 1y ago
What makes WhatsApp revolutionary compared to SMS or ICQ (or AIM or gchat or Facebook Messenger or...)?
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by Chinjut 1y ago
I agree, but under the current administration, the FTC isn't going to do anything to impede a megacorporation's profits. We're fucked, at least for the time being.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
The election where the billionaire prominently campaigned for by the richest megabillionaire in the world won proves that money plays little role in politics.
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by Chinjut 1y ago
Note that the article describes this Berlekamp-Massey approach as involving a step of complexity on the order of EV, which is V^3 in the worst-case. So this is only beneficial for sparse matrices. It does seem like Berlekamp-Massey is used

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