PheonixPharts

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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> It also didn't help that there was no clear leader The public narrative is that DEI was being pushed by some outside, socially progressive force, but when you look into the details it was almost always investors that were pushin
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
It's actually primarily from the AMOC which is bringing warm water up to the Northern Atlantic from the gulf [0]. Fun fact: a possible consequence of climate change is the near term collapse of the AMOC which would cause drastic coolin
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Powell's technical books was amazing! Sadly there's very few technical book stores left in the US. The only two I can think of are: - Ada books in Seattle, WA - MIT Press bookstore in Cambridge, MA Are there any others that still
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
This is precisely the paranoid logic I'm talking about. These people don't have an insane control over your life, they're largely just academics, trying to have a career, concerned about the world. If anyone listens to them
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
What has happened to people that even on HN a good number of the comments here are sympathetic towards harassing academics because they say something you don't agree with? Even in cases where scientists might be making a controversial
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Functional programming is not orthogonal to object oriented programming, they are paradigms that can be used together and the popular object system developed in Java is not close to the only way to do OOP. R, like Common Lisp, uses an O
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
I left a another career to get into software in my 30s, but since you mention age, one thing worth recognizing is that very few careers are as age biased as tech. I worked in an industry were 40 was considered "young" and ever sin
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Curious if you've closed out your position yet? The tricky thing about the market is both entering and exiting at the correct time. I have strong knowledge of this is space and don't invest in it exactly for that reason. LLMs ar
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Once you have vector representations the "similarity" scores are just basic linear algebra. It's fundamentally no different than any other IR/recsys task. A good overview is chapter 6 of the Stanford NLP group's IR
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
There's another name [0] for the "business cycle" and it doesn't rely on superstition either. Unfortunate that theory predicts those crises will trend getting worse and worse until the eventual breakdown of the system. 0
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> but fiscal policy prevented that. That fiscal policy prevented collapse in 2008 by creating an unimaginably large asset bubble we're still living in. > We're still feeling ripple effects from 2008, but things aren't n
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> pan out for the better then the worse While I'm sure this is a typo, I also expect this is exactly how it will play out. For the better initially, then, for the worse a short time later.
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> Fahrenheit is not an absolute scale So if someone showed body temperature measured in Kelvin you would argue that it should start at 0 ? That seems even more ridiculous. > Why shouldn't they? Because for the vast majority of
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
This is not a good practice at all. Do you think atmospheric CO2 charts should show 0? How about daily temperature reading for human body temperature? Should daily stock tickers all start at 0? Why is 0 magical? Adding 0 to the vast majorit
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> This is probably the first time it feels natural Really? I found this demo painful to watch and literally felt that "cringe" feeling. I showed it to my partner and she couldn't even stand to hear more than a sentence of
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
There's tons of optimization work left, but by it's nature optimization tends to push the limits of what we currently have, and rarely allows for substantial improvements. There are some major limitations to LLMs that aren&#x2
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
From a ecology standpoint, you're correct, it would be better for the species if birthrates flatten out. However from an economics standpoint increasing numbers declining birthrates across the globe is disastrous. Capitalism works by c
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Again, the case (and I) am arguing in agreement with you. The point being debated is not about saying homeless can do as they please. It's very specifically arguing you need to give the homeless some place where they can camp out or
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Yes, per the case itself: cities are responsible for creating public spaces that where homelessness is allow. It can be shelters or spaces where tent cities are legally allowed. The case is not arguing that homeless people should be able to
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
> there could be some public space where it is legal to be homeless. Of course! And that's precisely what this case is about. It's not saying that city governments should never remove people from public spaces. It's sayi
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
So can you be clear: you believe prison is a superior solution? Because that's the solution you are proposing. I just want you to say clearly that you believe homelessness is a crime and homeless populations should be housed in priso
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
That's exactly the issue being debated, or have have you not read the first paragraph?: > the Supreme Court will decide whether it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment to fine, ticket, or jail someone for sleeping outside on
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
Nobody wants to live in that world, including the homeless people in that picture. But the homeless populations are symptoms of larger problem in the society. Simply making homelessness illegal is a far worse world. Those people in the pi
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by PheonixPharts 2y ago
But where do homeless people go if removed from public spaces? If homeless can be removed from any public space, and, obviously, can't legally occupy private spaces then that implies being homeless is a criminal activity since there
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
I'm always surprised how cheap software engineers can be when purchasing products created by other software engineers, specifically designed around their needs. No matter where you live on earth, if you're a software engineer $10&
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
It's wild to me how little people understand how many systems they rely on just to survive. It's only hard to for you to believe the impact because things have been running smoothly so you haven't had not notice the energy in
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> get decent performance The issue is that in Computer Science "real-time" doesn't just mean "pretty fast", it's a very specific definition of performance[0]. Doing "real-time" computing is general
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
> Interest rates and vehicle prices too high, must come down I'm still a bit surprised how many people, even professionals in the lending space, hold this view that "interest rates must fall!" We're still relatively
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
Comments like this make be curious how many people understand the carbon cycle and it's relationship to global warming. CO2 isn't just a byproduct of combustion like sulfur or the particles in smoke, it's an essential part of
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by PheonixPharts 3y ago
The severity of the rains brought by El Niño is related to climate change, and the rains themselves are the causal reason for the increase in black pod disease. We've had plenty of El Niño in the past, but no such extreme spikes. Onc

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