LPisGood

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by LPisGood 11mo ago
I’m seeing 2021 on page 10 - an I missing something?
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by LPisGood 11mo ago
No it’s largely the same situation I think. I was drawing a distinction between agricultural use and maybe some more heavy industrial uses while the water is polluted or otherwise rendered permanently unfit for other uses.
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by LPisGood 11mo ago
What does it mean to “use” water? In agriculture and in data centers my understanding is that water will go back to the sky and then rain down again. It’s not gone, so at most we’re losing the energy cost to process that water.
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by LPisGood 11mo ago
I had a professor in an additive combinatorics class that would (when appropriate) say “hint: it’s easy” and as silly as it is, it usually helped a lot.
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by LPisGood 11mo ago
I did this in highschool from some online textbook in plain Java. I recall implementing matrix multiplication myself being the hardest part. I made a UI that showed how the weights and biases changed throughout the training iterations.
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by LPisGood 11mo ago
For an ad tech company, this is both on brand and pretty cool. I’m an AI skeptic and I support this.
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by LPisGood 11mo ago
They didn’t gatekeep LLM technology; they published their results in the open.
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by LPisGood 11mo ago
> The fact that we can meaningfully influence their behavior through training hints that value learning is tractable I’m at a loss for words. I don understand how someone who seemingly understands these systems can draw such a conclusion
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The house does not always win in online sports books. I personally know some quant minded people that have been banned or backed off from a dozen or more online sports books because they are crushed by any nontrivial understanding of price&
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The problem is if you over-provision and buy 2x as many resources as you need, this looks bad from a utilization standpoint. If you buy 2x as expensive cloud solutions and “auto scale” you will have a much higher utilization for the same co
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I can’t believe the CTO wasn’t fired for that.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
More complicated? That’s ambiguous. It certainly makes it different. If you apply probabilistic methods it doesn’t remove hidden information from the problem. These are just quite literally the techniques used to deal with hidden informatio
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The Ziggurat algorithm is very important and widely used. There are some side channel vulnerabilities in differential privacy applications based on the details of this algorithm.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
> There really isn't anything special about poker in comparison to chess They are dramatically different. There is no hidden information in chess, there are only two players in chess, the number of moves you can make is far smaller
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Regarding the deterministic approximations for subgames based on LP, is there some reference you’re aware of for the state-of-the-art?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I generally find criticism of water waste misplaced. Water’s lifecycle is cyclic. The water isn’t lost unless it is being salted or otherwise poisoned. The real waste is the energy required to produce, clean, and transport the water that is
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by LPisGood 1y ago
When I’m giving examples I also aim to give three if at all practical. Language generally flows more naturally that way.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
What do you see about this comment that seems particularly LLM generated?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
>Reviews of their code often have a single "LGTM!" Unless the code is a very simple change, the code should at least have the occasional question or suggestion.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
For more examples of such problems check Jane street puzzles of the month
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Making your whole living on influence without authority sounds awful.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
All that and also without a team of engineers working with you on the same problems, and you have limited formal power to actually set priorities and assign work. That sounds miserable.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Can you explain what you find so concerning about it? Surely consulting is a part of the job description of Principal engineers
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Wow that’s quite the accusation. Any evidence?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
My favorite bit is all the contradictions > 25. To get to principal, you need to put yourself on the critical path. To be effective as a principal and go beyond it, you need to actively remove yourself from it. And > 26. If you were p
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by LPisGood 1y ago
> 19. Don’t just say the “what”; also share the “why” you think so. I can’t believe this needs to be said. Who is taking “because I said so” as a (first) reason to make an engineering decision with no justification?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
It’s possible that person was new to writing proofs; inexperienced people going in the wrong direction can tend to ramble, for lack of a better word.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Astronomy isn’t about telescopes yet astronomers spend lots of time studying and doing research regarding telescopes.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Your point is well taken and to some extent I agree, but I think you have to recognize. It’s not just student interest, career preparation, and practicality. The research done by professional academic computer scientists also reflects the b
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by LPisGood 1y ago
That’s not even getting into the fact that you could basically teach multiple graduate level distributed computing courses with k8s as a case study

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