LatencyKills

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by LatencyKills 11mo ago
I’ve worked with many neuroscience researchers during my career. At a minimum, I’m extremely well-read on the subject of cognition. I am not going to lie or hide my experience. The world is a fucked up place because we no longer respect “au
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by LatencyKills 11mo ago
We had no idea that there would be emergent properties. AlexNet was not designed for language translation and yet it worked. If we go with your joke, we’d never build or create anything.
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by LatencyKills 11mo ago
> Where the humans aren't omniscient it fills the blanks with nonsense As do most humans. People lie. People make things up to look smart. People fervently believe things that are easily disproved. Some people are willfully ignoran
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by LatencyKills 11mo ago
> as someone who is a sociopath completely devoid of ethics Ah yes... the hundred thousand researchers and engineers who work at MS are all evil. Many people who've made truly significant contributions to AI have either worked dir
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by LatencyKills 11mo ago
As someone who was an engineer on the original Copilot team, yes I understand how tech works. You don’t know how your own mind “understands” something. No one on the planet can even describe how human understanding works. Yes, LLMs are vast
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by LatencyKills 5y ago
I was an engineer on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft from 2002-2009. If you had told me it would eventually run in a web browser I would have thought your were crazy. Back then we had to work closely with the core Windows team (memory o
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by LatencyKills 8y ago
It's 2018 and we still can't get a decent video card in $3k-$4k+ Apple laptop? The new MBP will still be horrible at delivering a high-ish end gaming experience and I'll continue to be forced to perform all of my GPU-based ma
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by LatencyKills 9y ago
https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/
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by LatencyKills 9y ago
I'm a software developer too. I've held senior engineering roles at Microsoft, Apple, and Intel (in that order). I grew up loving Windows but soon after getting really deep into development that love vanished. Anything I do today
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by LatencyKills 11y ago
I agree with you but on the existential side of things not having that mortgage payment hanging over you every month is quite liberating.
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The Experience of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)(ectexperience.com)
1 points by LatencyKills 12y ago|0 comments
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by LatencyKills 12y ago
Seconded.
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by LatencyKills 12y ago
At Microsoft we called this "Red Time / Green Time". I had a card on my door that I could flip to either color. If the card was set to the red side people wouldn't interrupt me. If it was green it was fine to just walk i
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by LatencyKills 12y ago
In the upper-right corner of the main page there are "Download" and "App Store" links. That seems to indicate that it is an OS X app. ;-)
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Ask HN: Is an IP address sufficient cause to suspect people of CP possession?
3 points by LatencyKills 12y ago|3 comments
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by LatencyKills 12y ago
Personally, I think this is awesome. If widely adopted it might to help ferret out all the software which still can't properly handle unicode urls (which is probably why it won't be widely adopted). :)
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by LatencyKills 12y ago
As someone who has direct experience with schizophrenia I very much enjoyed the article. It is rare to read something on this topic that is anything more than fluff.
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by LatencyKills 13y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if the OP intended for the server to be unavailable (as proof of the post's title)?
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Google Nesting(medium.com)
1 points by LatencyKills 13y ago|0 comments