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by anon7725 3y ago
> Is there even a maintained Pascal compiler anymore? Of course https://www.freepascal.org/
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by anon7725 3y ago
> They're a historical check on the State. This one is intertwined with it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_attended... https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/24598&#x2
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by anon7725 3y ago
In Canada, the “brain drain” of Canadian-trained doctors to the US is very well known. It’s comparatively easy for Canadian doctors to start practicing in the US (much easier than the opposite).
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by anon7725 3y ago
This was one of the most enjoyable HN comments I’ve ever read - you should write more about this on your blog.
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by anon7725 3y ago
There’s a big difference between doing basic shit in your pajamas from the home office and doing it in a remote location while contending with all of the accompanying complications.
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by anon7725 3y ago
This is probably being downvoted for tone or (presumed) politics, but I find it to be true. GPT4 sans safety tuning is much more powerful than GPT4 for public consumption. I disagree with the last paragraph, though. The Chinese regime will
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by anon7725 3y ago
Reality != whatever gets mentioned the most on the internet
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by anon7725 3y ago
I’ve yet to see any serious discussion about what will be done if generative AI starts eliminating middle class white collar jobs. Everyone’s deeply up their own asses about AGI, existential risks, this will solve climate change, bias, etc
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by anon7725 3y ago
OpenAI may be dead but OpenAI 2 at MS is not guaranteed to live. Building OpenAI at Microsoft from scratch is a tall order.
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by anon7725 3y ago
> Everyone goes through rough periods in life. Both of her incidents happened within a 2 month time span a decade ago so it's safe to assume it's just one serious low point in her life. FTA: > The judge was arrested twice in
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by anon7725 3y ago
Light at night to work was a major achievement for humanity and there are still many lacking it reliably today. It would continue to be useful post collapse. Portable solar panels + lithium battery banks would be quite useful indeed.
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by anon7725 3y ago
You don’t need to train anything if you just need embeddings. The data is text. You apply the pretrained model to your text and it returns the embedding. You save it in a vector database if you’re fancy, or a big numpy array if you’re like
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by anon7725 3y ago
> A malevolent AGI can whisper in ears, it can display mean messages, perhaps it can even twitch whatever physical components happen to be hooked up to old Windows 95 computers... not that scary. It can found a cult - imagine something l
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by anon7725 3y ago
> terminally online “interest groups.” In my view, terminally online interest groups are responsible for the current protests against Reddit. Several of the smaller low traffic area-specific subs that I frequent have been taken offline (
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by anon7725 3y ago
I think they mean hitches that people leave on their vehicles when not towing. I agree that people should stow their hitches if not actively towing for a variety of reasons.
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by anon7725 3y ago
> Cardio exercise is absolutely dreadful. Indoor cardio, sure. Walking/hiking/running/biking outdoors is great.
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by anon7725 3y ago
> if Jesus rose from the dead next week, I'd find it pretty thought-provoking. If he were merely crucified but stayed dead, I'd cross Christianity of my list of plausible world views. In today’s environment, how would you evalu
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by anon7725 3y ago
> Serious question, who funds their research? And do any of them ever plan to work or consult in industry? Many of the academics at the top of this list are quite wealthy from direct employment, investing and consulting for big tech and
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by anon7725 4y ago
Can confirm. People are scrambling to remain relevant.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Didn’t know him, but saw his name all over Google’s core Java libraries. Rest in peace.
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by anon7725 4y ago
The “true experts” barely know more than we do. They are using black-box techniques to evaluate GPT-4. They have no theory as to why things are working as they appear to.
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by anon7725 4y ago
GPT doesn’t change some fundamental things that we know about the theory of computation as well as complexity. It’s a wonderful tool that we’re just beginning to learn about, but it’s not a get out of jail free card for the halting problem
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by anon7725 4y ago
I’ve sat in classrooms where coding was discussed but that wasn’t where I learned how to do it.
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by anon7725 4y ago
Sometimes your strategic advantage is having an organization that is not dysfunctional and is primed to execute. Google’s problems with follow-through are legendary and they have just come off a round of morale-sapping layoffs. The organiza
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by anon7725 4y ago
Why on the sidebar? It will just be integrated into the response: “sure, I can give you some suggestions for easy, nutritious meals for the working professional, but first I’d like to mention Athletic Greens(tm). Athletic Greens is one of t
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by anon7725 4y ago
We have numerous examples that have worked this way throughout the history of computing. It would be shocking if it plateaued this early.
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by anon7725 4y ago
> 1. Currently, these things work best (really need) an operator experienced in the craft. I guess the question is: how long does the intermediate state of super-powered developers last?
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by anon7725 4y ago
The benefits of openness compound irrespective of the motivations of creators.
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by anon7725 4y ago
> "Soft skill" jobs like executives and managers are definitely on the chopping block first. Wouldn’t that be some delicious irony? Never gonna happen but it would be quite funny if it did.
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by anon7725 4y ago
> If you have thoughts on how to use our SWE experience to navigate this exciting but uncertain landscape while maintaining a sense of self-preservation and helping others as much as possible, I'd be interested in hearing your ideas

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