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by andy99 1y ago
And in my experience (not surprisingly) they have all developed a good sense of what alarms can be ignored, so like a pump beeping because it's done delivering some medicine doesn't matter so they ignore it and let it beep, but it
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by andy99 1y ago
I have a background selling projects with long sales cycles, and I think partly from that, I have no problem putting in lots of work for a company that I think is making a good faith effort to get to know me, for an appropriate job that wil
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by andy99 1y ago
> Now that's dedication to research! Sounds like a gimmick. Doesn't mean he isn't a legit researcher, doesn't mean he is, but personally it feels more like something you'd see on history channel than actual scien
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by andy99 1y ago
Also in Montreal.
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The myth of work–life balance is dead, and employers aren't afraid to say it(financialpost.com)
3 points by andy99 1y ago|1 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
> Police ended up finding the child without receiving help from Uber, about an hour and a half after the driver left with her, Viscomi said. This is the logical end game for the kind of "support" these companies provides, a maz
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Uber says emergency policies changed after driver left with child in backseat(cbc.ca)
3 points by andy99 1y ago|4 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
Is there more than one bitter lesson?
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by andy99 1y ago
The comment is The details of the bike geometry and how it has a deep understanding of how the pelican would accurately use it is actually mind boggling, not sure society is ready for this It's pretty clearly making fun of peopl
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by andy99 1y ago
The website is great! > I built a basic CNN trained against penises After seeing it in action, my second thought (first was just watching my fish) was that I was amazed at the good behavior of the users because I would have expected a lo
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by andy99 1y ago
The example question is sum all the even numbers in a list. This is something that someone familiar with a language should be able to do as naturally as answering "tell me about yourself" or some other non-coding question. (Person
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by andy99 1y ago
Impossible to be objective on what that means. I can see having a "baggage" field that lists non performance-related concerns for each.
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by andy99 1y ago
My realization about work is that 90% of all one's job is crap (give or take). You'll always have to do ton of really shitty stuff, so trying to minimize that is a lost cause. Focus on what the good parts are. You have to do crapp
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by andy99 1y ago
> Imagine you're the one running a business where you keep repeatedly trying to shove some feature down your user's throat. > What's that called in business school? Pretty sure it's called inflating metrics. Things
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by andy99 1y ago
That's true for photosynthesis but don't they still have oxygen respiration (i.e. oxidizing sugar for energy?)
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by andy99 1y ago
Didn't think of that, that would be an extremely interesting finding. However in that paper the transfer only happens for fine tunes of the same architecture, so it would be a whole new thing for it to happen in this case.
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by andy99 1y ago
While true, it's hard to believe they forgot to s/claude/glm/g? Also, I don't believe LLMs identify themselves that often, even less so in a training corpus they've been used to produce. OTOH, I see no other ex
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by andy99 1y ago
It's an extremely poor analogy, the original point is its an information virus telling people what to think (or thinking for them). It's the exact opposite of the allowing people to think for themselves that came with the enlighte
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by andy99 1y ago
Didn't YC have this, and it turned out to literally be the Theranos of gut testing. MyBiome or something? Will look. Found: (the company is uBiome) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBiome In 2021, the Securities an
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by andy99 1y ago
I think it is an information virus, but differently - it's homogenized everything, and made people dumber and lazier. It's poisoned public and professional discourse by reducing writing and thinking from the richness of humanity t
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by andy99 1y ago
Yeah I stopped reading when I saw that, I don't care what GPT thinks and am completely allergic to the idiosyncrasies of LLM writing. Plus, yeah the whole idea they couldn't be bothered to write it, or as a corollary to think it
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by andy99 1y ago
Wouldn't those still be modern humans? Have we undergone significant evolution since then? I would think the earliest relevant comparison would be much earlier.
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Door-to-door salespeople are finding success amid skepticism of online scams(cbc.ca)
4 points by andy99 1y ago|1 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
Interesting point, I agree that things change so fast that experience from a few months ago is out of date. I'm sceptical there has been a real step change (especially based on the snippets I see claude 4 writing in answer to questions
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by andy99 1y ago
> I did a lot of AI assisted coding this week Are you new to it? There's a pretty standard arc that starts with how great it is and ends with all the "giving up on AI" blog posts you see. I went through it to. I still use
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by andy99 1y ago
Yes - equity should be an incentive to contribute the the company's success, and partial compensation for the risk of going to a startup. One should value it at precisely $0 in terms of life planning. This becomes truer and truer the
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by andy99 1y ago
> Regultors should be figuring how to let a aervice be offered, nit propping up entrenched junk Welcome to Canada!
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by andy99 1y ago
They also have more frequencies. E.g. Porter flies once a day YYZ-SFO. Air Canada has ~5 flights on the same route, plus various options via YVR or YUL. As bad as they are, it's good to have options for cancelled flights or changes of
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by andy99 1y ago
Gate check in this context means you pick it up at the baggage carousel (and risk them losing it). If it's just the cart that comes out when you deplane (a) your bag really won't fit on board and (b) no it's not a big deal.
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by andy99 1y ago
The worst part is that they forced her to gate-check this bag that would have fit in the overhead. I have seen them get really aggressive with this recently, including watching a gate agent approach an old couple who needed pre-boarding ass

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