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by Taek 11mo ago
It's also worth pointing out that comparing a fine-tune to a base model is not apples-to-apples. For example, I have to imagine that the codex finetune of 5.1 is measurably worse at non-coding tasks than the 5.1 base model. This chart
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by Taek 11mo ago
I feel the same way in America, I think there should be stricter regulations on how bright a car's headlights are allowed to be for it to be street legal. Wouldn't mind having a cap on blue-light levels in addition.
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by Taek 11mo ago
The introduction of GPT 4o probably gives you a much simpler path to identifying the location of pigeons right? Is that something you have looked into?
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by Taek 11mo ago
White/clear is just a matter of picking filament, I'm not sure LEDs would be easy to incorporate into the build
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by Taek 11mo ago
Sad to see it go, at the same time I never used it and it seems that the rationale is highly pragmatic, so you certainly won't find me protesting the decision. Privacy is an uphill battle, we should use our efforts where they make the
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by Taek 11mo ago
I was actually like 30 years old when I realized "EU" meant "European Union" and wasn't a 2 letter abbreviation for the continent of Europe. In the US, we call states by their two letter abbreviations (IL, NY, CA, e
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by Taek 11mo ago
You can tell it who's style to copy, it's actually decent at following instructions like that.
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by Taek 11mo ago
HIV meds have a slew unpleasant but tolerable (certainly far superior to HIV itself) side effects, imo the battle isn't "won" until the treatment is entirely inconsequential. That said, the progress has indeed been miraculous
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by Taek 11mo ago
His policies around being soft on crime (do you know what NYC was like in the 90's? It's not some distant history), the free bus fare, the city owned grocery stores, the rent control, are all policies that many feel threaten the e
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by Taek 11mo ago
Based on what I saw in the debates, I'm sure there are lots of people in NYC more capable than anyone on the ballet. But yes, someone with connections is going to be more operationally effective than someone without them. If the leader
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by Taek 11mo ago
It's a tradeoff between new ideas and operational effectiveness. Yes, there are benefits to rotating out a dynasty, but there are also benefits to keeping one. A dynasty is only undemocratic if people aren't voting for them. If th
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by Taek 11mo ago
It's not clear to me why a multigenerational dynasty specifically is a bad thing? Presumably the kids can learn from the parents, get connected, etc. Also, Mamdani's policies are incredibly controversial, that's why it's
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by Taek 1y ago
Like anything, there are lower and higher quality implementations of Montessori programs. What you are saying here does not reflect the Montessori program I went through myself, and I think I can credit the Montessori program with a great d
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by Taek 1y ago
If you are going to play that game, "engineering" used to mean that you worked with engines. Words evolve over time because existing words get adapted in ways to help people understand new concepts.
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by Taek 1y ago
I hate micro tutorials so much, I really don't like when things have an invisible language that you have to just know to be able to use them. If you have to have an invisible language, put it in a man page somewhere or something. I rea
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by Taek 1y ago
I'm not sure how long you've been using Google, but Google also used to be genuinely useful. The more that ads became a priority, the less Google was able to be genuinely useful to me.
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by Taek 1y ago
No I believe its reasonably well established that being lonely itself takes a toll on your health. Stress goes up etc. The problem is that this article is overstating the effect on mortality because its not controlling for confounding facto
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by Taek 1y ago
This is one of the big ways that LLMs are going to change the game for UX. Your operating system is going to have some sort of 'butler', which knows all of your preferences, and the butler will go through the APIs and man files an
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by Taek 1y ago
That type of community may not be your cup of tea or what you are looking for but that doesn't mean GP shouldn't be proud of building it. The world is plenty big enough for all types of communities. Its okay for people to be proud
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by Taek 1y ago
Some freedom? My house is my safe space, it's the place I go when I'm exhausted, when I'm sick, when the rest of the world sucks. I should have a very high degree of freedom over who is allowed to share that space with me and
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by Taek 1y ago
You could also just use the last place they lived in before prison.
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by Taek 1y ago
Especially if he went through a period of being suicidal or otherwise deeply struggling with his situation, those words do seem more genuine and forward-looking than saying something like "yeah I'd do more crime if I could".
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by Taek 1y ago
I'm a bit surprised to see how much snark there is in the comment sections of this video. The requests for "let's see an independent chef use this knife to do real kitchen work" make total sense, but the moralizing aroun
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by Taek 1y ago
It frustrates me greatly how little people, and especially regulators, value attention in modern society. Your behaviors as a human are largely driven by the things you pay attention to, and advertising is a form of driving your behaviors b
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by Taek 1y ago
Yes it does!
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by Taek 1y ago
Most people have the wrong idea about hydrogen fuel cells because the media almost exclusively talks about them in the context of cars. When your fuel cell can be stationary and heavy and large, you can hit efficiencies above 50% without co
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by Taek 1y ago
Well, in some cases it's scam, but its genuinely the case that power at different times of the day has different value, and most NEM agreements completely ignore the cost of transmission, which itself is quite hefty. So it is plenty re
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by Taek 1y ago
Look up "net metering" or NEM, this is already a thing in many jurisdictions.
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by Taek 1y ago
In the category of doing obnoxious things for shock value, why stop at merely making sure you have enough batteries to keep you covered during the *average* year? Why not make sure that your home is going to be fully self sufficient in 99.9
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by Taek 1y ago
Well, solar salesmen can be pretty slimy, hiding costs left and right. That said, the monopoly utility grids have a chokehold on power, and escaping that monopoly is often worth the 2-5x premium you are going to have to pay vs a utility sca

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