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by alpark3 4y ago
Everyone loves to hate on OpenAI and talk about how they're really ClosedAI and an evil corporation vying for power, but the opposite way is also interesting to think about. I think it's fair to say that majority of scientists at
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by alpark3 4y ago
I believe his underlying assumption is that the API is so cheap that there's no way they're making money off of it. Yes it's paid, but doesn't matter if they're losing money on every API call.
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by alpark3 4y ago
> Data submitted through the API is no longer used for service improvements (including model training) unless the organization opts in I don't think the pricing is largely driven by intention to scrape API requests for data.
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by alpark3 4y ago
> Dedicated instances can make economic sense for developers running beyond ~450M tokens per day. 450M tokens * $0.002/1K tokens = $900 per day. I wonder what the exact pricing structure is. (edited for math)
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by alpark3 4y ago
Really? I thought Docker was pretty widely used at companies for deployment, etc. At least it was at my company ~1 year ago. I wasn't aware that Docker was on life support in any sense.
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by alpark3 4y ago
I'm sure loading spinners will be used to some aesthetic purpose in the future
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by alpark3 4y ago
Just dancing is fine, and there certainly are many Tiktoks, perhaps even the majority, where dancing is the primary focus. It's fun, and the movements look cool and make for good content. But some trends lead to Tiktoks that clearly fo
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by alpark3 4y ago
People also forget the thirst traps on Tiktok. The Tiktok dance trends encourage attractive young women to post borderline softcore porn, and Tiktok is much more lenient about this type of content than any other platform. The average For Yo
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by alpark3 4y ago
If Binance is insolvent(which looks like the popular sentiment here), could it be possible that they're playing an angle to "fix" the solvency given enough time delay? Or does their insolvency practically guarantee that they
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by alpark3 4y ago
Does walking on a treadmill replicate the effects? Or is the slowly changing scenery and physical sensation of moving through/to somewhere a major part in the positive effects?
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by alpark3 4y ago
Doesn't matter if the other side enters into the transaction willingly, imo.
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by alpark3 4y ago
I think he was joking
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by alpark3 4y ago
I'm assuming the rationale is that for someone who's doing complex system-level stuff on unix/linux they should be able to change things deep in the weeds instead of pulling the entire code out to IntelliJ or an IDE.
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by alpark3 4y ago
I feel like it's a losing game to try to force yourself into a "productivity" mindset, as if you're some type of black box that needs to be optimized for certain behavior. Structure is good and habit is key, but don&#x27
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by alpark3 4y ago
Studying for quant interviews lol
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by alpark3 4y ago
Which part? All looks circular to me.
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by alpark3 4y ago
Berkeley uses Logisim for its computer architectures class. One of the projects was to create a basic cpu within Logisim. Really the first time that I saw how we go from code to hardware.
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by alpark3 4y ago
What happened in 2012 to bump the hard drive prices?
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by alpark3 4y ago
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Glossary_of_poker_terms helped for me. gto means game theory optimal, basically an attempt at a mathematically optimal way of playing poker. plo is pot limit omaha, nlo is no limit omaha. B
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by alpark3 4y ago
I'm currently an undergraduate, and I can't shake the feeling that I desperately want to go into academia. I think I truly want to, but just can't convince myself that the relative financial situation and difficulty is worth
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by alpark3 4y ago
Easier to trade, no issues with tax&bank issues, and a lot of crypto exchanges charge to convert from crypto -> cash, whereas crypto -> crypto(stablecoin) is usually just exchange fees, less than the USD charge.
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by alpark3 4y ago
What do you think about it? Is it worth the price?
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by alpark3 4y ago
I'm confused about the dividend puzzle. I thought that dividends were really the only thing giving the stocks of high-performing companies concrete value. Wouldn't you naturally value high-dividend paying stocks more highly?