Daishiman

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by Daishiman 3mo ago
> The difference is that Chinese companies and their government are much more intertwined than their American (or Western, in general) counterparts. A very naive take that is trivially refuted when you look at the history of military con
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
Bad offshore engineering teams may need that. The other teams that work as you should you just don't hear about.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
Self-reported dietary information? Then garbage study.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
Take this incel garbage back to 4chan.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
Desalination solves water issues for tap water. Islands may be short on surface area. I would also never use the word "solve", as this is just for human usage. The ecosystems themselves are irreversibly destroyed.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
Islands are extremely vulnerable to climate change all over, as they are completely dependent in near-term precipitation for all their water (no rivers, no aquifers).
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
So most likely a combination of GLP-1s and lower drug overdose deaths.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
I think it's a bit of an exaggeration. There's an interference effect but there's people who compete in natural bodybuilding that run marathons as well.
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
What's the reason for this? Publish-or-perish? Papers have to be more thorough? Extra junk tacked on for the sake of showing lengthier papers?
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by Daishiman 3mo ago
They have none. Google came to the same conclusion years ago.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
> Let's see how fast Chinese models would improve without access to latest US models and if they keep on releasing open models Chinese tech has been on an exponential growth trajectory. If they see the need for AI superiority then t
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
Then they'll outsource dev work to agencies that have no frills with it and move along.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
Not gonna happen; the incentives for bypassing this are too high.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
> You don't trust the multi-billion dollar behemoth, but you trust the militarized multi-trillion dollar behemoth to play 'robin hood'? Nobody's trusting anyone, we're just enjoying the benefits of true competiti
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
I'm not really sure that I agree. The LLM paradigm basically allows for the same development techniques, for better or worse, but amplified. So if you were lazily copying the first blog result in Google, getting the first answer from a
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
> till I have the feeling that this only works because of the vast accumulated knowledge pre-AI I'm not about to say that there's nothing new under the sun, but parsers are a really well-understood problem where 99.9% of people
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
He's not apologizing for young energy. Young energy is a wonderful thing but without accompanying wisdom and restfulness for the vast majority of people is just spinning your wheels in place burning out and not achieving anything of im
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
> I guess even an off hand example, now must be completely 100% technically correct , or you aren't worth a job? It's a litmus test, and not a terribly challenging one. It's solved by spending a week doing simple coding ch
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
They are saying a very different, obvious thing if you don't want to be cynical. And I say this as someone with some very strong opinions about many things.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
Because the most vocal rich people in this age seem to have an unusual lack of empathy and just being able to enjoy themselves.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
Beg Gvir said that all of Lebanon must burn. Consider who is the real aggressor here.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
> In the places where famine remains a problem, it's due to political issues, not that we can't grow enough. The political issues are still there so I really don't think we can call that a solved problem.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
15 years ago things were quite different: * There were far fewer tech billionaries. * The tech billionaries were not publicly associating with far-right figures or cryptofascist belives, or at least were doing so quietly while promoting ide
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
"Adverse events" is a BS term invented by people that are insufficiently knwoledgeable in the field to properly interpret the VAERS database.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
> If contamination has no effect, why does lard come with a transgenic warning on the packaging? In my jurisdiction no such warnings exist. You should check what level of paranoia your region handles because it may be based on evidence o
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
A lot of people in the past few decades seem to have made a political dogma out of the inevitability of progress and attributing it to the "nature" of capitalism. This should remind us that progress is very much a political choice
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
That's nice, but if you write docs and people don't read them then that's clearly not a winning strategy in many orgs.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
Your sarcasm is unwarranted, because what I said is true and reflects the experience of a lot of people. A decade ago I left a job and spent the last week thoroughly documenting every flow and code section of an app that I worked with, whic
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
Agents read the docs. People don't. That's the underlying reason.
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by Daishiman 4mo ago
What metrics have you found useful?

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