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by agakshat 6y ago
It’s been a long time coming, but I am curious to see how OpenAI’s research output is directed and impacted by market forces.
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by agakshat 6y ago
Fair point. The ever-present tradeoff between features and simplicity... I guess for my fairly vanilla use case of talking to my friends or colleagues at work, there are just a lot of easier options. I’m glad Zoom is forcing Google Meet to
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by agakshat 6y ago
Am I the only one who finds Zoom more difficult to use than Google Meet? I am not a regular user of Zoom, and do not want to install the app on my computer, but Zoom apparently requires the meeting organizer to go into their settings and e
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by agakshat 6y ago
It’s a little interesting because they backed out of the Jedi contract earlier for ethical concerns.
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by agakshat 6y ago
I’ve always wondered, does this actually happen? People not getting fired because they are irreplaceable partly because of their own failure to document stuff?
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by agakshat 6y ago
Strongly agree with this. Utilisation of water to irrigate animal feed, deforestation of land to support growing that feed, methane expulsions from cows themselves.. it’s crazy to think about the environmental impact of beef, when eating ch
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by agakshat 6y ago
While these kind of papers are technically very exciting, I think they miss the reality that our tax (or any other) policies are the way they are because lobbying has been done to keep them that way, not because economists haven’t been able
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by agakshat 6y ago
Right, for sure, that’s a choice users have. (On the iphone too, fwiw). Sadly, outside of tech circles very few people would have the knowledge or even motivation to do this. The attitudes of the populace to online privacy are frighteningl
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by agakshat 6y ago
As another commenter pointed out, if the app is not using the contact tracing framework developed by Google and Apple, then the app can basically do whatever it wants (mandate continuous location access etc.).
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by agakshat 6y ago
I love being able to take a break while working and do something relaxing - like cooking, or strolling outside in the nice weather. I used to find it difficult to enjoy my breaks at office since others would be working and most of the rec a
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uber v waymo: levandowski pleads guilty to trade secrets theft(techcrunch.com)
3 points by agakshat 7y ago|0 comments
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by agakshat 7y ago
Assuming a very tiny 32x32 8-bit image patch, we have 256^(2^10) possible unique image patches, each needing 1024 bytes. That is more storage than available in the whole world.
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by agakshat 7y ago
Tesla needs 2500 employees to support basic minimum operations like payroll and security? That’s laughable. I’m not sure who I’m more annoyed with, the county officials for allowing this farce, or Elon for exacerbating a public health hazar
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by agakshat 7y ago
While the economy is certainly headed for a few rocky months, I think the tech sector will bear it out better than average. They are better equipped and better set up to keep working remotely, less reliant on physical supply chains which ar
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by agakshat 7y ago
This is a kneejerk reaction from Yelp that will hurt their hiring efforts in the future as they cease to be a reliable option for good candidates. It would not have been difficult for them to ask the interns to work remotely, maybe even red
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by agakshat 7y ago
1) Most governments, especially in third world countries where help is needed the most, are rife with corrupt officials and inept bureaucracy. Democracy doesn’t always give the proper incentives for government to care about (a) the long-ter
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by agakshat 7y ago
Only responding to your point about ineffective charities, it’s definitely a pervasive issue, but there are organizations like GiveWell who measure impact of charities worldwide (as best as possible, since randomized controlled trials are n