Upvoter33

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by Upvoter33 2y ago
To me, it's pretty funny. It's like we're being told "hey, don't worry, this is the world's smartest guy, and he's going to, in a heartbeat, examine every dollar of spending and tell us what to cut. And oh
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
I agree about CS reviewing for conferences (esp. in systems) - pretty reasonable for the most part. Also, if things just don't work, they don't work - which is a bit different than studies in social science.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Journaling and log-structured file systems are different (but related) things
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Let's say a University has $1m in the bank. In this case, they decide to use it to "endow" a "chaired professorship" to retain some top faculty member. The reason it works - the professor stays at said University -
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Hate to tell ya, but unless you’re already pretty rich, the money won’t be coming back to you
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
I mean, I take your point and even agree with you. But, to be fair, I'm sure Sergei worked 60+ hours/week when Google was starting.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Marcus with an anti-AI post - what a non surprise
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
I love a lot about Typst. Hope it keeps growing and getting better!
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Plan9
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Love this, agree w/ all. Probably just needs to be a bigger list. Unix paper. Hinton on deep learning (pick one). Map Reduce + GFS from Google. Paxos from dist systems. PGP paper; RSA paper
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
On the one hand, sure, it's dumb. But, on the other hand, it's hard to get researchers to read your paper, esp. in fast-moving areas. Every little thing might be the difference between reading the abstract or not. Reading the abst
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Here's a ChatGPT rewrite, focusing on a different end of the political spectrum: --- The word "puritan" isn't very common now, but if you look up the definition, it might sound familiar. Google's version isn't
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
I can't tell if this comment is serious
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
The next big thing beyond deep learning being LLMs is funny
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
"If AGI ... is possible" I don't get this line of thinking. AGI already exists - it's in our heads! So then the question is: is what's in our heads magic, or can we build it? If you think it's magic, fine - no
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Agree. It's one of the best things I use all the time.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Pretty funny. One factual issue: "The university had previously announced that this player was transferring from Louisiana State to Michigan." This is not true. Underwood had committed to LSU but then switched his commitment to Mi
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
This also happens pretty commonly. However, it's not even unreasonable! Sometimes you write a paper and you don't do a good enough of a job putting in the context of your own related work.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
"Our results demonstrate that even superhuman AI systems may harbor surprising failure modes." This is true but really is an empty conclusion. The result has no meaning for future "superintelligences"; they may or may no
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
I have a Hyundai Ioniq 5, and as such, applaud this. That said, it won't affect my life much. I mostly commute, and for that, just trickle charge at home (very slow) or plug in at work when I need a faster boost. It's funny how li
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Very cool to see "outcome oriented" prizes like this -- it's another way to fund research, perhaps. Will be curious to track who does this and whether success in the prize correlates with deep innovation ...
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
I've been reading lots of hindsight-is-20/20 articles about Intel; add this one to the mix. Intel's real trouble, to me, was that x86 simply became less important in the world, and they had a hard time finding other things to
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Codenames is awesome, and this was a neat read.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Why insult teachers?
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
This is why it's so dumb to want "more" or "less" regulation; clearly, there is some regulation we want, and some we might not. We should always be arguing specifics, not generalities.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
This isn't a solution though; the driver of an uber may have a lifehammer somewhere, but the passengers don't know about it. It is simply criminal not to have an obvious way to open the door.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
There are some great books, and every book means something different to each person who reads it. K&R influenced a generation of programmers. Hennessy and Patterson influence a generation of architects. etc. etc. It's not just SICP
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
CITE YOUR CONVERSATIONS that should have been the first point. Transparency is the key.
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
Good article, neat research behind it. I think the paper's contributions really don't have anything to do with ML; it's about the new side channel with interrupts, which is a cool find. ML just gets more people to read it, wh
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by Upvoter33 2y ago
One of Church's big contributions was his students; an amazing collection of thinkers coming out of one place...

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