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by IKantRead 3y ago
Do you have any data to back that up claim? My experience with bootstrapped companies is that they are just as subject to pressure to grow as startups, and probably have a higher success rate. Atlassian, Github, Mailchimp and Shopify are al
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I'm guessing you're not an American by this comment, at least from the US >Do not be so stupid to think that >A place should only belong to those who are born there Does not imply unchecked migration since the entire social
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Could you point out where they are supporting "unchecked migration"? The statement there only reads to me as a call to have compassion for those caught up in what will be a perpetually escalating migration crisis (and will likely
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Could you articulate what that opposing view is in this case? It's also worth pointing out that Python (and it's ecosystem) is developed by an international team of people, most of whom volunteer their time out of good will and se
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I like this better in theory, but my experience is that, given my current hours, work tends to very frequently spill over until later in the evening. If my day was supposed to end at 3 or even noon I don't think it would make a practic
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Wow, that's interesting because some of my favorite books are from university presses, often smaller ones (but MIT Press, Cambridge and Princeton are pretty well represented). I do find that my philosophy and critical theory books are
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Zuckerberg's "vision" is so hilariously and transparently: "I want to build a new internet so I can own it all from the very start, inject ads and tracking into places never dreamed of before and take a cut from everyone
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> is close enough that they'll probably reach a version that is viable very soon. Haven't we seen this type of thinking to be proven a fallacy enough in the last decade to at least be skeptical of solving that last 1% until we
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> In the world of high interest rates It's worth pointing out that, historically speaking [0], we're not an in era of particularly high interest rates yet, just not absurdly low ones. https://fred.stlouisfed.org&#x2F
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Did tech fundamentals suddenly get sane or did the layoff train just stop at the AI hype station? While I do believe AI (imho shorthand for LLMs and Diffusion models) has a lot of potential, it's main function has been to reignite irra
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by IKantRead 3y ago
"optimal given the history of how humans evolved" but this contains the same false logic. The premise that there is something optimal about the state we evolved in has no basis in what we understand about evolutionary processes. T
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by IKantRead 3y ago
It's strange to me that "what Nature intended" is a concept entertained by rational, educated, adults. It's one of those carry overs from a time when we had widespread belief in divine providence that doesn't really
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> but I'm still seeing nothing to indicate anything more than "overpriced, non-essential toy." I saw a reviewer mention that VR is like "having your favorite amusement park ride at home": it's awesome, but a
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> ruin the internet in a few months. I'm sure the internet will be fine, and the web has already been essentially destroyed as the drive for extracting revenue from every human interaction has rendered it just an amusing advertiseme
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> I hate the idea of having to hold a natural-language conversation with a computer in order to make use of its functionality. I hate the idea of having to use a mouse to click on a visual GUI to navigate a file system in order to make
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> Someone willing to extract CO2 from the air and store it in some rock forever can indeed offset some carbon you emitted. Except that doing so requires more energy than you got out of the process which created the CO2 in the first place
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by IKantRead 3y ago
The methane will eventually break down in to CO2 on it's own, so whether your burn it or not you'll get that CO2. However before it breaks down methane is a wildly more potent greenhouse gas. It still takes decades to break down,
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> scrub atmospheric carbon I've seen this phrasing frequently in regards to carbon sequestration and it always seems to wildly understate the real problem with removing CO2 from the atmosphere. CO2 isn't some unnecessary byprod
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> not living in the counterfactual reality where there are millions of new apartments that are inexpensive, tiny, safe, quiet, modern, clean, dignified, and well-located. China serves as this counter factual and it's facing an even
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> Shenzhen grew from 100,000 people in the 1980s to 13M now with no housing affordability crisis...by building. I wouldn't use China as an example of solving the housing problem by simply building. There's currently a large ove
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I've never heard of a publicly traded company that allows employees to buy/sell options on their stock, and I'm willing to bet that the fine print at most places includes companies you're soon to acquire/be acquired
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Have you never worked for a publicly traded company where part of your compensation is in RSUs? You are only able to trade share's during specific windows of time typically 1 week after earnings are released. Additionally virtually eve
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by IKantRead 3y ago
It's a good benchmark because it's so trivial. Sure it's not great at differentiating between SotA techniques, but it's very useful for sanity checks like this one. Even for SotA models, it's still useful to verif
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Thanks for posting this. Most people don't realize that Logistic regression can get ~90% accuracy on MNIST. As a big fan of starting with simple models first and adding complexity later, I've frequently been told that "logist
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I don't think any leadership team has hired McKinsey because they think McKinsey does a world class job at leading software projects. McKinsey is in the business of reputation laundering. They start the process by building up reputatio
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Not doubting that chart, but it's worth a bit of skepticism. If people are making more money relative to inflation and the workforce participation rate has been steadily rising, then why is credit card debt at record highs and personal
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> foundation for the economy was strong. There were and increasingly are some major concerns about the economy. For starters we're still seeing very low unemployment with rapidly decreasing personal saving rate (near record lows)
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by IKantRead 3y ago
The problem is that as the market increasingly becomes removed from reality the only thing left for "leadership" to do is follow the trends that their biggest investors are following. What benefit would sound, thoughtful leadershi
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> can the RAG pattern be useful here? From your questions it looks like you are only interesting in the R part. RAG implies the retrieval step is then used to augment a user prompt. To answer 1, a good heuristic would be "can a huma
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Give it some time. Good news is that "faster than expected" seems to be a very common saying among people studying these areas, so you might not have to wait as long as the geological time might suggest! Honestly, as someone who h

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