alexcannan

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   by alexcannan 2y ago

   Nothing in this article is anti-tech. Anti-monopoly, yes.
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   by alexcannan 2y ago

   Computers are very good at doing these calculations
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   by alexcannan 3y ago

   Surrounding yourself with the smartest people possible, during the most formative years of your life, is always a good idea. Get into the best school you can
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   by alexcannan 3y ago

   I think any kind of decision by a university that can be framed as "social justice" will be, and then be amplified by the media without end, no matter how small. Our institutions are so much more than a handful of decisions at the
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   by alexcannan 3y ago

   I had a similar experience with Turo. The owner instructed us to leave the car unlocked in some parking lot. The following day they sent pictures of pot on the floor of the car; they charged me an extra $100 and handed me a lifetime ban. I
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   by alexcannan 3y ago

   I'm personally excited about LLMs becoming more number-fluent for regression tasks, e.g. read this paper and give it a grade 0-100
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   by alexcannan 3y ago

   Zero mention of the increasingly popular federated alternatives just seems like bad, corpocentric journalism
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   by alexcannan 3y ago

   Very cool! I'm curious--I'd imagine that some long tail podcasts have transcripts that are too long to fit within a standard context window. Do you have some strategy for handling these?