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by alephxyz 2y ago
They spent 400M on R&D this quarter, which means more "personalisation"/ad targeting and probably cooking up some DOA chatbot/assistant product that's costing them a ton in compute
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by alephxyz 2y ago
No this is more like your juicero press having no functional parts except a pipe going to the Juicero HQ where they mix together juices from different juice providers and then pump it to your Juicero with a 5 minute delay
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by alephxyz 2y ago
well you still get the marginal benefit of having a mobile launch platform that travels at mach 1, which makes it a bit easier to avoid static air defenses if you know where they are. (assuming your adversary can't track and destroy yo
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by alephxyz 2y ago
A gaussian blur is essentially a low-pass filter so all the high frequency components are gone. The resulting image can be represented and stored using fewer DCT coefficients. This page has a few visual examples at the bottom: https:/
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by alephxyz 2y ago
>works on my machine
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by alephxyz 2y ago
"perfectly" functional? Half the pages require a refresh to display more than a spinner and tweets are shown out of chronological order of you're not logged in.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Big one right now is too use "enshittification" whenever a company does something unpleasant
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by alephxyz 2y ago
There are five "boxes" costing 185k each. The rest of the cost is to install sewage water and power lines. https://abc7ny.com/public-restroom-nyc-bathroom-subway/12892...
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by alephxyz 2y ago
There's a big difference between playing devil's advocate and repeating the same question because you don't understand the interviewee's point
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by alephxyz 2y ago
> We're trained on significantly more data than ChatGPT et al. I don't think that's true anymore. GPT-4 is rumored to have been trained on a dataset with >1 trillion tokens. An average human would take a few thousand ye
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by alephxyz 2y ago
If you have the entire video file downloaded locally they can't stop you from seeking.
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by alephxyz 2y ago
The A in LoRA stands for adapters
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by alephxyz 2y ago
As a junior at the time I found that triplebyte actually removed a lot of friction. Being able to do the screening/tech interview step once instead of for _every_ role you apply to was great. It was also good to be able to give feedbac
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by alephxyz 2y ago
The current city of Vienna was Vindobana in Roman times. The Gaul Vienna on this map is now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienne,_Is%C3%A8re
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by alephxyz 2y ago
>It would get it wrong on the first try, but with every subsequent follow up it would forget one of the constraints. Then when it was prompted to fix that one, it forgot a different one. And eventually it would cycle through all of the c
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Authentify is also valid but obviously leads to even more confusion
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by alephxyz 2y ago
The author seems to be assuming that microservices are only used to break down a single application into different services, in which case their arguments are valid. If you instead consider that a single service can in fact be used by multi
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by alephxyz 2y ago
> Wheel manufacturers have been pushing wider rims because it helps them sell another set of wheels to everyone. I think the push to wider tires and lower pressures on road setups is actually because hookless carbon rims are much easier
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Not very informative. They're selling it as the fast/cheap option but they don't benchmark inference speed or compare it with non-gemini models. According to https://ai.google.dev/pricing it's priced a b
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by alephxyz 2y ago
Entirely depends on your definition of utility. For some of us it's a simple binary function: "will it get me from home to work in less than X minutes"
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by alephxyz 2y ago
You may want to familiarize yourself with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Yikes. The lack of emotional and social maturity in the tech industry will never cease to impress me. Vlad is coming off as a big narcissist and the OP as disingenuous. If you don't want someone to email you, just block or ignore them
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Putting my tinfoil hat on, this explains why Google was okay adding a toggle to location access for apps on Android. They don't need your device to send them their location anymore, they'd only need you to be in range of an UWB or
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by alephxyz 3y ago
LLMs have been trending towards obscenely large number of parameters (314B for grok), which makes quantization crucial if you want to run them without a Meta-sized budget.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
A 3m wide fan spinning at 3000RPM for takeoff will be loud wether it's being driven by a gas turbine or an electrical motor.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Right. That factoid is only true because cities in the US tend to avoid mergers. The US had 62 statistical areas with a pop. over a million in 2020 (plus San Juan, PR).
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by alephxyz 3y ago
The article starts off by saying they all left Google. There's also an entire section narrating how google execs passed on transformers and didn't pick up until OpenAI released GPT. >The picture internally is more complicated.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
>Some 282,000 staff were employed at IBM at the end of December 2023, and their average total compensation was $65,463, 6.89 percent higher than at the end of 2022. Title is wrong. Average employee compensation is 6.89% higher than last
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by alephxyz 3y ago
I see 'Share of electricity production from renewables' going up in every region but South America
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Someone posted an explanation that lines up with their postmortem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39450978

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