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by SR2Z 5mo ago
The probability of tokens is unfortunately a poor proxy for confidence because it is entirely possible for "mixing glue" to appear in a sentence about making pizza depending on context. It might even be likely if the user has aske
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by SR2Z 5mo ago
The beauty of capitalism is that both parties can benefit from trade.
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by SR2Z 5mo ago
Who is "we?" The cost to develop self driving cars is not exactly being felt by society at large. It certainly isn't stopping anyone from improving public transit, but it seems like you believe it's this and not any one
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by SR2Z 5mo ago
To be fair if you take Elon Musk at his word the Cybertruck is supposed to have hermetically sealed powertrain components and be capable of exactly this.
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by SR2Z 5mo ago
The reason is to create domestic demand for Chinese AI chips so they can eventually be free of NVIDIA.
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by SR2Z 5mo ago
I think you are being ridiculous. Tampering with an LLMs pretraining is a difficult undertaking. There is plenty of evidence that training a model to walk the party line leaves it less capable than if it weren't. It's not very sub
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by SR2Z 5mo ago
There is still no hard requirement that you go through their servers. The printers support a mode where they can only be accessed from the local network.
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by SR2Z 5mo ago
These days, pretty much the only thing that makes sense is a mini PC. AMD laptop chips generally trade blows with Apple stuff on power efficiency when you thrash them, and you get a surprisingly capable machine for not very much money. It&#
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Human communication moves ever closer to its final form: bullet pointed lists of lower case text and emoji
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Google has been continuously laying people off for a few years now
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
They put the hardware on performant cars because it would be stupid to choose gas for stop-and-go city driving. Electric cars are fast; a new Honda Civic does 0-60 in 6 seconds! No, this is not a "works in a textbook" take. The p
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
> But for things that are relevant to civilians, like the reactors, engines, etc.., I am sure that what's in subs is relatively simple, and probably dated. It seems like submarine propeller designs are all classified past 1960, even
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
> You can buy a TSMC lithography machine, and it‘ll be delivered to you in much the same way as other equipment. Each one of these machines costs half a billion dollars and is protected by some of the most stringent export controls on th
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
When it comes to controlling the wheels to prevent sliding and slipping, the AV control system is unbeatable. The ABS and traction control on a regular car has to cope with whatever control inputs the driver has made; on an AV, the computer
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
I don't sit down and decide "here's how much I'm going to pay the plumber." I call a plumber and get a quote. I can keep going until it feels worth it. My enlightenment comes from talking to a bunch of plumbers and
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Improving transit and allowing Google to blow $100B on making cars drive themselves are not mutually exclusive. In the US, in particular, last mile transportation is mostly done by car. Transit cannot economically serve low-density suburbs.
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Yes, this is how markets work. You don't need perfect information to have a market. The price of risk is factored in.
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
In AUS/NZ you're not going to earn even close to the same amount as you would in the US. Every time I've changed jobs, it was for an extra 100k+ per year. The rec room/pool table can't compete with that. My current
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Ok, great. Now list something what that's actually held its value. A nice, mostly-even 3% a year is spectacular. Gold can't do that. Bitcoin can't do that. Only a central bank can do that.
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
No, it's the human driver vs the Waymo. I'm not going to entertain fantasies where all the cars magically disappear from the road; there's no political will for that and no politician is dumb enough to try. To be perfectly cl
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
The main reason is that employees will quit. It's not illegal in the US, but it still almost never happens. Companies would rather lay off than risk alienating employees like that.
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
> The chat interface is all that there is and their behavior in chat is not deterministic or bounded enough to be useful in most applications. Their behavior in chat is not deterministic, it's stochastic . That is the point - the
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
How is it childish? Not all plumbers cost the same or do the same work. If you wanna hire a good plumber, you'll have to pay them more. Likewise, if people on your team get better at their jobs and you don't want them to leave, y
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
> and the employer can hire a new senior engineer at below market rates to accommodate the specific learning they have to do It sounds like what you're saying is actually that the last engineer was being paid above-market, because t
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Being around a Waymo makes me feel WAY safer than being around a human driver. If more cars were replaced, I would probably bike even more. Seriously, Waymos follow at a respectful distance and overtake me safely. They stop at stop signs.
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
...I don't know why you think that a majority of drivers respect bike lanes. They don't. Nearly every driver has parked a car in a bike lane at some point. At least in the US it's uncontroversial - the bike lanes tend to be
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Go to any city with driverless service and ask cyclists how they feel about Waymo vs humans. Or just keep hating on AI. Why let the truth stop you from having a good time?
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
That needs to be trained away by physically separating bike lanes from car lanes. Drivers (at least human ones) cannot safely coexist with cyclists or pedestrians unless there are actual physical obstacles between moving traffic and everyo
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Despite that, USD seems to hold its value pretty well. Certainly a lot better than many other "stores of value."
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by SR2Z 6mo ago
Luckily for us, whole fortunes can be made by filling in the blanks between what we know and what we realize .

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