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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
I find it interesting how deeply downvoted this comment is. This is pretty much what TCI Management, a not insignificant investor in Alphabet, has said in a note that they published recently [0]: TCI also pointed out that Alphabet's O
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
I think a lot of people thought it would be exactly as hard as it has turned out to be but were dismissed as being luddites or lacking imagination. There may have been a lot of people like that, but there were very few knowledgeable peo
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
The Fed was buying up government bonds in order to reduce long-term interest rates. The focus of Fed policy has always been on the long-term interest rates as a tool to control inflation/unemployment, and raising the demand for governm
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Eric Lippert was my hero back when his blog was hosted on MSDN. Sad to see him go into retirement when he's at his prime. Hope he finds some new exciting project.
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
I work with a system similar to Copilot and find it helpful. It memorizes APIs and code patterns so that I don't have to. I don't expect it to solve algorithmic problems for me. It's a better version of autocomplete, which is
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Look, if you don't like the work because the model is too big and expensive to run or because it is stochastic and can spit out garbage sometimes - that's valid criticism and something that a scientist can respond to. If you'
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
The vast majority of FTX Trading’s recorded assets are either illiquid venture capital investments [...] In all, the spreadsheet says FTX Trading’s assets were [...] $3.2bn of illiquid private equity investments. Sounds like the VCs may h
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
> You can suggest that coverage is inaccurate or unfair, but suggesting that tech should not be covered with an investigative lens is hard to argue. That's because he's being very charitable to what is happening. In fact, under
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
While this is correct, I don't think that's how things will play out. Wall Street views Alphabet as a growth company, and X, Waymo etc. are perceived to be where the growth will come from. So I expect X to be largely untouched and
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Remember the uproar when the George W. Bush admin banned research in stem cells on religious grounds? All the uproar from the left and the pledges of enlightened EU countries to step in to support the freedom of scientific inquiry? Whatever
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
I have never seen another company that offers its own employees a platform to mock its leadership.
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
We're talking about algorithms for TPUs, which quietly quantize your float32 matrices to bfloat16 behind your back [0]. This is aimed at a crowd that doesn't care about stability. [0] https://cloud.google.com/blog&
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Reinforcement learning is usually introduced as a technique to train an agent in simulation that would then be let loose in a real environment. Interesting that they choose to treat it is a search strategy.
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
One of the winners, Demis Hassabis, is the head of DeepMind, an org of about 1,000 employees and an annual budget of about $1 bn. One really has to wonder how closely he was involved in the work given his administrative responsibilities.
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
I don't understand where is the censorship. Here is the relevant quote: UNI’s demands were clear: either remove all material except the critique of Amazon or hide UNI’s funding. (It was suggested that Tech Inquiry wait six months befo
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Just read the NLRB dismissal letter of her complaint [0]. The NLRB found that Google decided to offer her a relocation from Mexico to Brazil before she started her BDS crusade against Google. By the way, discrimination on the basis of natio
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
They are targeting edge devices like your phone or watch. Computations that use too much battery (e.g., because they do too many cache misses) have to go to the cloud. I am guessing the reason they're targeting edge is because the tech
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Sundar recently said that GOOG hired a ton of people in recent years but earnings have not kept up. There is apparently a productivity crisis. I predict that Silicon Valley is switching to 5 days/week in the office by next year.
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Hi, what is a non-transable good? You're using a non-dictionary word to justify a pretty radical policy, so I'm curious.
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
https://archive.ph/4bxhn
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Why Chinese driverless car company AutoX disengaged its safety features(ft.com)
4 points by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago|1 comments
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
He is harming himself. The people enabling him are not his friends.
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Hey, Google engineer: Can you please run these queries through your chatbot?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
6 points by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago|0 comments
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
Like drone pilots who destroy villages in Afghanistan from an air-conditioned trailer in Nevada, the engineers of the O.S.B. experienced an uncanny incongruity between the safety of their surroundings and the knowledge that their work supp
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California parents whose children become addicted to social media could soon sue(nbcnews.com)
11 points by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago|14 comments
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
FMA can't be broken on Windows because FMA is implemented in hardware by Intel. What's broken is the compiler that Julia uses on Windows.
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
I have an idea. I'll pay my damn taxes if you'll pay back your government-sponsored student loan. Deal?
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
There are many reasons why someone might resign four years after joining. [Hint: RSU grants vest over 4 years.]
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by KKKKkkkk1 4y ago
In 2016, the Apple Watch was selling so badly that Apple was giving it away to its employees at an 80% discount. If any engineer at the company were responsible for such an epochal failure, he would have been tarred and feathered and then h
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by KKKKkkkk1 5y ago
> If russia did that, they would be treated a lot differently than israel or eg. USA. Russia poisoned multiple British nationals with chemical and radioactive weapons on British soil and got away with it scot-free. https://www

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