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by acoustics 1y ago
You've made me realize that I probably have a subconscious bias against science and engineering. My view of the ideal math curriculum is very humanistic, focusing on the broad civic and intellectual value of formal reasoning, statistic
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by acoustics 1y ago
This is why I'm so glad that I work in a closed monorepo now. There is no package management, only build tooling. I find myself nodding along to many of the technical and organizational arguments. But I get lost in the licensing discus
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by acoustics 1y ago
What do you propose to remove? Personally, I'd say that geometry and trigonometry seemed the least useful out of the high school math sequence. Trigonometry seemed like "Algebra 3: this time with identities to memorize" and g
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by acoustics 1y ago
There are plenty of options on the market with fixed bandwidth and predictable pricing. But for various reasons, these businesses prefer the highly scalable cloud services. They signed up for this
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by acoustics 1y ago
The assignment of blame for misconfigured cloud infra or DOS attacks is so interesting to me. There don't seem to be many principles at play, it's all fluid and contingent. Customers demand frictionless tools for automatically spi
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by acoustics 1y ago
The number of tokens trained on is separate from the model size. Gemma 3 270M was trained on 6 trillion tokens but can be loaded into a few hundred million bytes of memory. But yeah GPT-4 is certainly way bigger than 45GB.
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by acoustics 1y ago
> Do they recognize the existence of Taiwan as an independent nation? <0.5% of humanity lives in a country that recognizes Taiwan, I'm not sure what answer you expect from a chatbot.
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by acoustics 1y ago
Interestingly, a lot of the engineers I know are hoping for the exact opposite. They're hoping that AI will humble the business, management, product types. The way they see it, AI can easily shit out a hundred product concepts, market
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by acoustics 1y ago
Big tech companies use open-source software primarily because it is free and unencumbered. If an author uses a license that makes big tech pay, they will not pay. They will just not use the software. We already see a similar dynamic with AG
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by acoustics 1y ago
Is support not time-bombed on some other commercial OS? Can't recall any vendor that promises perpetual support.
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by acoustics 1y ago
I don't know how they actually do it, but I would imagine that an obvious placeholder citation could be treated less severely than a hallucinated citation. In one, every reader is immediately alerted to the error, similar to a typograp
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by acoustics 1y ago
There is no statute authorizing the Justices to pluck an un-appealed district-court judgment out of the system on their own initiative.
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by acoustics 1y ago
> And if they never win, then the issue is more about legal resources than anything else, no? Right. If the government wants to take a very broad action, it is happy to eat some individual losses here and there. Most people won't be
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by acoustics 1y ago
The OP said that the courts were preventing the president from exercising his power under the constitution, I replied that he does not have this power under the constitution. That's all. There's a right way and a wrong way to go a
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by acoustics 1y ago
In this case, the president does not have the authority under the constitution to purport to invalidate the citizenship of natural-born citizens. It is the executive that broke the proper functioning of the government.
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by acoustics 1y ago
The majority seems too trusting that the government will appeal its losses. Strategically, the government could enact a policy affecting a million people, be sued, lose, provide relief to the named plaintiffs, and then not appeal the decisi
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by acoustics 1y ago
In that case there seemed to be bipartisan consensus—the liberals and civil rights fanatics seemed to largely agree with President Trump's shutdown policies.
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by acoustics 1y ago
Comparatively, how vulnerable is America to an executive gone wild compared to its peer countries? The US has a three-tiered judiciary that moves slowly, Congress has a very high threshold for impeachment and removal (and a slow process), a
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by acoustics 1y ago
Antitrust is the zeitgeist, but it seems that among tech companies, OpenAI is the least interested in competing on the merits. First they said it was in everyone's interest for them to be released from their nonprofit obligations. Then
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by acoustics 1y ago
Go's performance is in a totally different class than node.
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by acoustics 1y ago
So are DDoS scripts
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by acoustics 1y ago
Bazel is an incredibly productive tool at the right scale. I could not imagine working on a giant monorepo without it. If a startup is killed by Bazel, it probably wasn't the right tech choice for their scale, and it would be more accu
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by acoustics 2y ago
Common core math has its issues, especially with teacher training, textbooks, and bad assessments. But I wouldn't lump it in with three-cueing, which sits squarely in opposition to decades of research. For example, I don't think t
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by acoustics 4y ago
> Lately, it seems, it is not conservatives are not the ones calling for boycots, bans, deplatforming and demonetization. Without getting too far into the weeds of partisan politics, I’m not sure how you got this impression. Ask your loc
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“Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized”(twitter.com)
199 points by acoustics 4y ago|392 comments
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by acoustics 4y ago
It is fair to call Elon Musk a grifter. I’d invite you to take a look at the what he has promised with Hyperloop. Just from an engineering perspective, his plans are completely infeasible. He sold the public (including governments) on fancy
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by acoustics 4y ago
It seems like people have a totally different thought process when it comes to Elon Musk and Twitter and I can’t pin down why. Whenever a layoff announcement is posted on HN, many people closely scrutinize the wording of the announcement an
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by acoustics 4y ago
I’ve noticed that people tend to disapprove of AI trained on their profession’s data, but are usually indifferent or positive about other applications of AI. For example, I know artists who are vehemently against DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, e
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by acoustics 4y ago
This kind of knee-jerk reaction is exactly what many people don’t like about institutions like Oberlin. You’re not going to hire somebody because other people who went to the same school said dumb things on Twitter? Even the most hyper-PC l
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by acoustics 5y ago
> Saying "that's not open source" is just like a chocolate snob telling their friend that their Hershey's bar is "totally not real chocolate" I don't think this is a great comparison. Open source has a

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