LPisGood

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by LPisGood 8mo ago
One thing I wonder is why design of experiments (DOE) methodology is so seldom used for these things. Statisticians and operations researchers have spent a hundred years deciding how to do as few experiments as possible to tweak parameters
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
Well it’s open source, so you can check in principle. I would imagine there’s some fame and notoriety in discovering that.
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
I really disagree with this. I don’t think you can be a good software engineer without being a good product manager and a good architect.
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
I think the fact that it’s primarily an Internet related term that gets used a lot on the Internet, has something to do with the acceleration in the broadening of its meaning
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily handwaving. I don’t think anyone has a monopoly on the way language is used and broadening terms is a very natural thing that happens as language evolves
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
Words change meaning as they are used. Especially negative words that may start rather specific tend to get used more generally until the specificity is lost.
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
The government having the power to curate access to information seems bad. You could try to separate it as an independent agency, but as the current US administration is showing, that’s not really a thing.
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
The Age of Empires 3 path finding was so impressive, but also with cavalry it got clumpy and could be used tactically (which is sort of realistic)
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
Yeah but the cost of trying it is like 3 minutes of your time. Have you no curiosity?
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
Why have you never even _tried_ it? It’s very easy to try and surely you are somewhat curious.
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
Shape the world to benefit the US - having US dollar be strong primarily.
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
It seems to me like someone would have at least _tried_ to have a CEO agent talk to a board of directors of agents, have a marketing department of agents try to find market fit for a product, etc. has this been done?
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Ask HN: Have any 100% AI companies been founded yet?
1 points by LPisGood 8mo ago|4 comments
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
Really? That is so interesting - which ones? Any ancestors of commonly used ones today?
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by LPisGood 8mo ago
Why do you think it will be increasingly bad? It seems to me like it’s already as bad as it’s capable of getting.
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
Those people have always annoyed the hell out of me and I would prefer to not work with them.
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
> Financial analysis is not easier than programming. You don't feed in numbers, turn a crank, and get out correct answers It’s not, but if software engineering is solved then of course so is financial analysis, because a program cou
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
That’s the thing here. Software engineering is an intelligence-complete problem. If AI can solve it, then it can solve any sort of knowledge work like accounting, financial analysis, etc
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
What’s still not clear to me about this story is if there was ever live human monitoring of shoppers. Did the low confidence resolution occur in real time, at some point between the customer grabbing the item and getting their bill?
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
What about the style are you bothered by? The content seems to be nothing new, so maybe that is the issue, but the style itself seems fine, no?
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
Correct form and relevant citations have been, for generations up to a couple of years ago, mighty strong signals that a work is good and done by a serious and reliable author. This is no longer the case and we are worse off for it.
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
This basically just the ethical framework philosophers call Contractarianism. One version says that an action is morally permissible if it is in your rational self interest from behind the “veil of ignorance” (you don’t know if you are the
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
This is why I like using mathematical or algorithmic approaches to solve difficult problems. Writing programs that use statistics, mathematics, optimization, analytical geometry, etc guarantee a certain level of security from the swarms of
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
I think it’s a pretty easy principle that machines are not people and people learning should be treated differently than machines learning
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
Yes, I remember a friend that interned there a couple times showed me that. One of them was “list comprehensive python” and the Google website would split in 2 and give you some really fun coding challenges. I did a few, and you get 4(?) ri
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
Chase Sapphire Preferred is less than 100 per year and it has those things.
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
Realistically if the biggest problem is couple’s divorcing to get a second home, then the problem has been pretty well attacked
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
I disagree with this logic. To take it to an extreme, if one person earning a million dollars per minute has moral value X, then a million people earning one dollar per minute has moral value X. I disagree on principle.
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
I’m confused. Claude is a few years old.
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by LPisGood 9mo ago
How is it a lie? It’s a plausible story to be sure and you certainly haven’t given us any reason to think that a different story is more likely than this one

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