aenis

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by aenis 3y ago
My guess is most people into AI don't even remember that they are paying a $20/month for this. We do a lot of experiments involving gpt3.5, 4, claude-v2, titan-large, and palm2, and for what it's worth, on our real production
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by aenis 3y ago
Yeah maybe, but maybe its helpful to think what the holders of commercial real estate debt do to avoid the catastrophe? Surely, they are not just sitting and waiting. The offices are empty. The companies are doing just fine. There need to b
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by aenis 3y ago
I'd like to point out that humans, too, are not trustworthy in high risk situations. For this we have procedures, deterministic automation and so on. I like to think of capable LLMs as pf gifted interns. I can expect decent results if
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by aenis 3y ago
In case anyone is wondering, gpt4 provides the same solution. It takes some prodding though, and you get treated with a lecture of how inefficient it is before it provides the solution. "Apologies for any confusion before, and I unders
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by aenis 3y ago
...and for some lighter reading, anything by James Mahaffey, in particular the "Atomic Accidents". Both insightful - and bizzarely entertaining to read.
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by aenis 3y ago
In the NL, energy prices are settled a day earlier - at 3pm, if memory serves. That floating smelter needs to be quick.
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by aenis 3y ago
The batteries are not cost efficient, and take up lots of space. Not great for the Northern Europe - expensive land, strict zoning laws, etc.
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by aenis 3y ago
A bit of a challenge in the Netherlands :-)
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by aenis 3y ago
Check the prices. At the current prices, they won't pay for themselves. I did the math on a 100kWH and a 10kWh battery assuming 60 days of negative energy prices (5 hours per each such day) and even assuming you can charge them fully w
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by aenis 3y ago
It's happening in the Netherlands over the last two weeks as well. Many days where there are a few hours during which energy is either free or you get paid to consume it. (Taxation still makes it hard to turn profit - each consumed kWh
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by aenis 3y ago
Get a new job. Join a large multinational company with known reputation for developing management skills. Management skills can be learned, and not all companies are created equal - some value good management, some only focus on short term
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by aenis 3y ago
Progress happens iteratively. We figure out how to get there first, we'll - or future generations will - figure out how to live there comfortably. Dead cats and birds, well, small price to pay for getting us off this rock.
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by aenis 4y ago
Ebikes also tend to change the equation. I live 37km from where I work. By bike its 1hr20 when its not too windy. By ebike its 1hr flat (ok, its a speed pedalec, requires a license). By car its 45 min. By train its 1hr10. Despite having the
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by aenis 4y ago
Sadly, doing things in house is not inherently safer. Same type of people designing same type of processes. But yeah, how can you run mission critical if most cloud services have SLAs two or three nines weaker than needed?
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by aenis 4y ago
A new AI model will emerge and offer people a cure for loneliness, remembering, (seemingly) caring, filling the void. This will disrupt the social networks big time. AI generated interactive porn grows expotentially. AI generated Content-on
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by aenis 4y ago
It stands to reason they do. How else we'd have very intelligent but otherwise unattractive people in every generation. I know I am one (ok, maybe not "very" :-)) Min/maxed characters have a chance. And it applies to all
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by aenis 4y ago
Does not work for me, a mere 14 mins later. I wonder if they have some 2nd pass filter that scans the output in a much more straightforward and thus hard to cheat way, and tweaks the main model to prevent "abuse".
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by aenis 4y ago
What gpt-3 creates usually looks 'competent'. Junior human devs usually leave a visible mess in the code, and errors are easy to spot. With the gpt-3 solutions to complex-ish problems, not so much, one needs to read line by line t
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by aenis 4y ago
Indeed. Its a language model, not a knowledge model. But.. I would assume our brains too use language models to provide immediate, lazy responses - and resort to higher level models only when needed :-)
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by aenis 4y ago
Just ask it what day it is. No detailed scrutiny needed.
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by aenis 4y ago
Indeed. I asked it to implement quicksort in x86 assembly, but increment each element by 5. It made a mistake: instead of incrementing by 5, it replaced it with a 5 (mov insted of add). I pointed it out, it agreed with me, elaborated on wha
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by aenis 4y ago
Interesting in how it resembles the situation in traditional retail. FMCG companies typically pay a lot of money in so called trade funds to the likes of Walmart, Tesco, and others. One company I worked for spent Approx 20pct of its topline
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by aenis 4y ago
Usually in the morning the next day. Rarely I do two day fasts-and-long rides, but I mainly did that to see how my body would reapond. I live in the Netherlands. I ride all year long. I think it takes weeks to get used to fasted cardio, tho
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by aenis 4y ago
Interesting. Anecdotally, I do feel way sharper, eloquent and wittier when I am on low-carb, fasting-often-and-long diet I practice between September and March. I tend to feel sleepy and bloated on a high carb diet I do most of the summer (
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by aenis 4y ago
Lots of very same tricks that were used on 8bit computers - changing screen border offsets per scanline to generate smooth sinus-scroll like effects without moving any pixels in the memory, altering color palettes mid-refresh, faking graphi
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by aenis 4y ago
How much longer its gonna take?!
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by aenis 4y ago
Also, easy to understand. When I learn a new language I usually start with Vonnegut's book to pick up the vocabulary and grammar - since his prose is so easy to read. And lovely, of course.
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by aenis 4y ago
Right. The real point is of course to make sure what gets built is good for the brand. That revealing how something works won't make people mad, disgusted, less likely to use its services, do business with it, etc. Of course hardly any
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by aenis 4y ago
Exactly. There are better examples. Take for instance booking.com. They unceremoniously dumped lots of their employees at the beginning of the pandemic despite being flush with cash. Then they tried hiring people back. Guess what, lots of p
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by aenis 4y ago
For sure, as far as LBOs go, this is probably one of the worst ever. Normally the raider pays a bit of a premium over the assets, then divides them, props them up a bit, and collects a profit. I can't imagine this being possible with T

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