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by aabhay 6y ago
Tons of UAW members see themselves as teachers. That’s essentially what a humanities PhD or post-doc have to do to attend university.
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by aabhay 6y ago
Yeah I'm imagining a mix of facial features, audio/music metadata, and some kind of collaborative filtering between viewers and creators. The vast majority of feeds use at least geography based personalization to give you content
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by aabhay 6y ago
Exactly. The real innovation here is NLP, not GPT. It will take time for the technology to become democratized, but it no doubt will. GPT will become one expensive API compared to the dozens of smaller, cheaper, and more focused APIs.
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by aabhay 6y ago
And guess how much of that goes to Nvidia/cloud? (hint, more than all of it)
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by aabhay 6y ago
Came here to say this
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by aabhay 6y ago
Hm okay, thanks for acknowledging! I guess the reason I had strong words for this was that the mental bias I observed is actually extremely pervasive among people here in the bay. In fact the first question I get about my firm is whether&#x
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by aabhay 6y ago
This article has such a strong mental bias towards the Bay Area worldview. It assumes so deeply that the two types of people in the world are VC-backed startup founders and engineers at top tier tech companies. This is so completely off. Ma
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by aabhay 6y ago
Apes bury coconuts in arctic ice for 1k years
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by aabhay 6y ago
No need to get defensive here — the point is still valid that risks are being placed on workers that would otherwise be on the company. For example accidents, sickness, etc.
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by aabhay 6y ago
Compared to Google Drive and OneDrive, Dropbox is like a zen masterpiece. I just install the Dropbox helper and I rarely if ever need to use the website or use any funky app integrations. Slack used to be simple, now it’s a mess of differen
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by aabhay 6y ago
I’m a huge fan of dropbox, partially because I’m an enterprise user of all their features (including paper and transfer!). In addition to Discord, I feel that it is one of the few companies that has kept their product simple and streamlined
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by aabhay 6y ago
Yeah volume and brightness are just a press, hold for a split second, slide. I must be in the minority, I figured it out immediately and have used the Touch Bar quite extensively. It’s especially useful for presentations. Control spotify, v
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by aabhay 6y ago
parliamentary systems have less of the US two-party brinksmanship that explains all the robocalls and takedown ads.
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by aabhay 6y ago
I see it as a "kill two birds" situation. Corporate ethics is a very different beast from human ethics. Getting any decision through a board room typically requires at least two entirely plausible value propositions.
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by aabhay 6y ago
But with a “just works” vapor!
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by aabhay 6y ago
There’s a difference between creativity and elegance! Elegance is more about the beauty of the solution rather than the value of the outcome. The power of a blunt instrument is impotent at best, destructive at worst.
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by aabhay 6y ago
I did take a look at the article before writing my comment, and I disagree with its premise as well as conclusion. The human mind has a variety of specialized functions. Our ocular cortex does a sort of convolution on a 2D field with three
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by aabhay 6y ago
In the design field, there’s an adage — constraints inspire creativity. This work seems so unconstrained in its use of computation, that is almost screams to me that they must be going about it the wrong way.
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by aabhay 6y ago
This is a silly straw man argument you’re making. Asking every American whether they want to defund the police is like asking everybody in the US if they enjoy taking the subway to work. Only a fraction of Americans live in cities that are
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by aabhay 6y ago
I want to see an actual statistical analysis of how many of Trump's "threats" on social media/Twitter have resulted in genuine legislative action. I remember a few years back now my alma mater (UC Berkeley) getting extre
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by aabhay 6y ago
They have been fact checking other people. It was precisely that they weren’t fact checking trump.
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by aabhay 6y ago
You still can. You just have to go all in on that sex toy VC investment fund. Though it might end up being a bit of a pain in the ass ;-)
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by aabhay 6y ago
That’s not the first time that slide has appeared on a Softbank deck. In fact, that deck is nowhere close to being the most insane SoftBank deck.
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by aabhay 6y ago
I mean yes, the need to reduce values, emotions, and human life down to numbers is a known and justified challenge to a utilitarian ethic. But in many instances, it is generally allowable to do so, such as in the instance of taxation.
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by aabhay 6y ago
But your flaw here is extrapolating this utility difference to its limit, that something like a cookie can become exponentially more valuable to someone versus their peers. The value of insulin is just that — life and death. But it certainl
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by aabhay 6y ago
A great deal of his fame is premised on this priming effect. It’s been taken almost as gospel for decades, to the point that a typical applied psychology paper will actually include a priming step even if unnecessary just to spruce up the
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by aabhay 6y ago
The burden of proof is on science, not me. I’m not going to follow every conjecture and hypothesis floated by a scientist. If something sounds fanciful and violates my common sense, I need a robust experiment. Accepting results without that
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by aabhay 6y ago
Yeah, now multiply 28 billion by... three cents. Also, just because an industry brings in lots of revenue doesn’t make it a good industry. I’m sure there’s trillions of dollars exchanging hands in the plastic bag market, but I’m also sure t
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by aabhay 6y ago
It runs just fine for my site, across browsers and OSes.
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by aabhay 6y ago
If you use query params, the search and render can be done server side..

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