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by Salgat 2y ago
For a new factory with a new entry into the local market it makes perfect sense to bring in experienced workers for knowledge transfer. This is more an issue if a decade later this is still how things are done.
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by Salgat 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_WOKE_Act "The Stop WOKE Act, also known as the Stop Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act and redubbed the Individual Freedom Act, is a Florida state law which prohibited schools
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by Salgat 2y ago
To clarify, aren't these standards mostly relevant where heavy bicycle traffic exists? Do they still apply in areas with little to no bicycle traffic? I'm assuming you're mostly referring to this famous manual: https:/&
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by Salgat 2y ago
Learning about systematic racism has been relabeled as Critical Race Theory, and suddenly teaching about the Tulsa Race Massacre or how banks used to discriminate against minorities for lending is considered extremism and "woke".
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by Salgat 2y ago
To some degree yes. Funny enough, llamaimperative's book suggestion goes into detail on how television is where this really started ramp up and how the Age of Reason was likely the peak of rational argument, where the focal point of tr
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by Salgat 2y ago
For people confused like me on what intensification means, it means maximizing the amount of attention and interaction that occurs. On Youtube this would be the metrics that drive engagement, including views, likes, comments, shares, and wa
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by Salgat 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC "All operations were done in floating point. On the GE-225 and GE-235, this produced a precision of about 30 bits (roughly ten digits) with a base-2 exponent range of
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by Salgat 2y ago
Does XP and pair programming actually require two people to be simultaneously working together at the same time? My understanding is that this includes one person who codes while another person looks at the results and reviews them afterwar
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by Salgat 2y ago
It's an extremely complex mixture of many factors (which can vary wildly between two different productive engineers), and trying to make that into some magical formula ends up creating a system that can be gamed to superficially appear
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by Salgat 2y ago
During China's ASAT test, almost all of the debris remained in the same LEO orbit. The amount of energy needed to climb over 1000km to reach MEO or over 35000km to reach GEO is significant, and even then, to reach a stable orbit after
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by Salgat 2y ago
Similar to a developer who copy-pastes sections of code from StackOverflow and puts their faith in it being correct. The bigger issue with LLMs is that it's easier to be tricked into thinking you actually understand the code when your
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by Salgat 2y ago
The human eyes are analog low pass filters, so beyond 60Hz is when things start to blur together, which is still desirable since that's what we see in real life. But there is a cutoff where even the blurring itself can no longer help i
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by Salgat 2y ago
The 5090's core increase (30%) is actually underwhelming compared to the 3090->4090 increase (60% more), but the real game changer is the memory improvements, both in size and bandwidth.
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by Salgat 2y ago
The leetcode grind is my biggest dread. I can do it and I do well, but I'll be damned if it isn't a lot of mindless rote memorization that immediately leaves my brain the second I land the job, never to be used again (even in my j
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by Salgat 2y ago
Consistency makes code predictable and reduces mental overhead. It doesn't mean you have to write it poorly like the rest of the codebase, but it does mean using the same general practices as the rest of the codebase. Think of it like
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by Salgat 2y ago
This is what we do. The kids don't get unlimited access to TV, but rather curated access to educational material, but we limit tv altogether on weekdays and they only get ipads at the restaurant. On the weekends they can watch a few fu
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by Salgat 2y ago
That's because China has strongly failed to follow trade agreements under WTO, including the TRIPS agreement (which is an international agreement protecting IP rights), SCM agreement (which prohibits state subsidies of certain trade go
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by Salgat 2y ago
This has nothing to do with democracy, it's about trying to keep a level playing field. The US has been trying to open trade with China since the 70s, and until China stops doing this the US has to adjust trade policy to keep things fa
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by Salgat 2y ago
If anything I'd expect performance to improve on a plane. Aside from the cabin itself, it's line of sight. What I'm really curious about is how well LTE over Starlink will work.
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by Salgat 2y ago
It is used to help train the LLMs on how to "talk" like normal people, even if the topic they're discussing isn't that useful or valuable.
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by Salgat 2y ago
There's two decades worth of countless conversations on Reddit alone that would be buried into nothingness but instead ML has revived all that activity as useful data. ML is definitely a great way to bring back utility for a lot of old
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by Salgat 2y ago
In spite of the rediculous level of precautions society had taken, over a million Americans still died to COVID. Keep in mind at the time the proper procedure to treat COVID was unknown, there was no vaccine which dramatically reduced the r
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by Salgat 2y ago
Perhaps you have better insight into this, why do you think having the primary incentive for professors/researchers being quantity of papers published is appropriate? Or are you saying that it's simply unfixable and we must accept
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by Salgat 2y ago
This sounds like a trivial thing to take advantage of. Update the game to randomize damage and add a unique seed for each instance played.
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by Salgat 2y ago
This is all due to the preverse incentives of modern academia prioritizing quantity over quantity, flooding journals with an unending churn of low effort garbage.
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by Salgat 2y ago
Retro games are highly lucrative. They don't want any competition to remasters and rereleases, which require a new purchase. Nintendo has been doing this "release the same game every 5-10 years" bs since the Wii (ironically o
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by Salgat 2y ago
What's frustrating is that a few years ago a recession was predicted, and we avoided that. But no one seems to have even mentioned it during the election. Am I just misremembering this? At least in the tech sector, lots of layoffs seem
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by Salgat 2y ago
There is a lot I want to do with LLMs locally, but it seems like we're still not quite there hardware-wise (well, within reasonable cost). For example, Llama's smaller models take upwards of 20 seconds to generate a brief response
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by Salgat 2y ago
To clarify, it's not an argument being made, it's an appreciation for the full extent of what they are doing.
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by Salgat 2y ago
I know it's morbid to discuss but the relief of financial burden on society is also significant. Not only do they die with dignity, but they are giving back to society.

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