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by IKantRead 3y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, I think it's not accidental that SBF was pumped full of delusions of being a boy genius. This worked great as a marketing gimmick for sure, as people love the mythos of a revolutionary company run by
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> My guess is they made money of this clown I've always felt this was probably the case. Take an idiot that needs to feel important, tell him he's a "boy genius" who can do no wrong and is always going to be misunders
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Companies aren't worried about "problem solving" they're worried about "using AI". Not long ago I was at a company that was rushing to get their AI "chat with our documentation" bot out the door as fa
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I really like High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik. It's published by O'Reilly but is also free online [0]. What's particularly great about it is, unlike most other networking books, it focuses on the issue
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> can eating soap give us some of those benefits for viruses that are already in our bodies? I think the thing people are missing in a lot of these comments is that viruses are typically traveling from the skin to a mucus membrane in you
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> Honestly, the long form tweets became a signal to just ignore that tweet. I unfollow or block users that tweet long form often. Even though I don't use Twitter much any more, I fully agree here. Whenever I see the "[thread em
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by IKantRead 3y ago
This has been my experience as well, which is a bummer because I think hidden services are the best part of Tor, and my understanding is that I2P is basically designed with hidden service like features in mind from the ground up.
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by IKantRead 3y ago
This is a good opportunity to point out this strategy of climate denial, and why it is not a rational approach to refuting climate change. Let's suppose that all the other commenters are wrong, that the river has not changed course in
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> I should have held the stock I think the most important wisdom in all of quantitative finance is that the expected future value of a stock it it's current value plus the value from the "risk-free" rate. It happened that
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by IKantRead 3y ago
The classic Information Retrieval , though out of date in many ways, does a great job covering the "old school" NLP approaches for IR and has an excellent section on Latent Semantic Indexing which you might find enjoyable: https
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Do you not consider SVD/PCA to be "embeddings"? Latent Semantic Indexing long precedes word2vec (I believe the initial paper was 1988) but also attempted to derived semantic vectors (and was arguably successful) using SVD on
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by IKantRead 3y ago
That comment is just based on my experience going to SF a few weeks ago. - Every billboard on the way to the hotel from the airport was for AI (which not the case a few months ago) - Uber driver interrogated me all the way to the hotel on t
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by IKantRead 3y ago
SF today is as close to Blade Runner that we'll ever get. Every billboard is for some AI company, you ride in a driverless cab across a literal mile of homeless people drugged out of their minds, screaming and pooping on the sidewalk.
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by IKantRead 3y ago
This sounds similar to a shockingly large number of linkedin posts I've seen recently. That certainly has transformed in to quite a different "social network" than I remember it being.
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> let reality hit a few folks in the face, wait for those prices to drop. I don't think house prices will drop until there's a pressure on home owners to sell. The two biggest reasons I can think are: - People with ARMs unable
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> The bar for taking a sick day is getting lower... > For one, more workers are using up sick time often for reasons such as mental health. It's sad that we're still so far from viewing mental health as any where near as &qu
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by IKantRead 3y ago
For slowing currents, at least in the long run, there's reasonable evidence that, in the extreme, the ocean becomes anoxic[0], stops producing oxygen and starts releasing hydrogen sulfide instead. It's happened a few times in Eart
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by IKantRead 3y ago
This does align pretty well with my experience. Especially when I've seen multiple ideas that are clearly valuable to customers but not flashy enough for VCs get quickly deprioritized.
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> essentially same pandas just for R You are aware the pandas was designed to replicate the behavior of base R's dataframes? I've been a heavy user of both and R's data frames are still superior to pandas even without the
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I would say most startups are guilty of this, though they don't attempt to formalize the measurements. At least from a few places I've been recently, "productivity" is viewed as the number of PRs you push through. QA of
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> Perhaps perspectives are based on whether you're booking domestically or not. I've had the best success when traveling abroad booking directly. Anyone in the hospitality industry is going to have someone on staff with enough
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I worked for a travel startup for a bit, it was by far the most toxic org I've ever worked for with a smiling disdain for their users (meaning they would chat about how much they loved users while actively implementing features that
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by IKantRead 3y ago
And doesn't even question the root cause of this decline in "knowledge". This collapse of knowledge is akin to when engineering leadership pushes for faster and faster product releases, with less and less time for thinking ab
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> I'm starting to question whether the planet warming won't actually be posivite for a lot of first world economies Well this is a fun new twist on climate denial. I have a hard time understanding how you can believe this when
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by IKantRead 3y ago
OCLC is a parasitic company masquerading as a "membership cooperative". Libraries (often publicly funded) produce all the work, OCLC claims ownership of the results of that work, Libraries pay to get it back (but they do get a dis
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by IKantRead 3y ago
It's a bit sad to me that people can only imagine writing code for large production systems. Static types are hugely beneficial in this area which is why we see this trend. Personally I think Python moving in the direction of static ty
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Dynamic vs static typing is a similar level of design decision as interpreted versus compiled. It's ridiculous to try to claim one is universally better than the other as they both have styles of programming and domains they are better
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I try to bring up as often as possible in conversation that nearly all the progress we're seeing in terms of usability and performance is precisely because of the open source support for these models. Especially because these tools are
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Are you using custom weights? I'm assuming you are but there is a major difference between using the default RunwayML 1.5 weights and using a model finetuned for a specific purpose. Generally the trade off is that any of the impressi
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by IKantRead 3y ago
But when they were early stage, which is when the discounts being discussed apply, they were bootstrapped companies. Parent's argument is that bootstrapped companies are dramatically less likely to ever grow and that only VC backed ear

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