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ausbah
5y ago
that's kinda how most successful businesses work? you succeed in one area, move into another related area, repeat ad infinitum
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ausbah
5y ago
all that processing power so we can type judgemental comments on a nerd forum
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ausbah
5y ago
care to explain more? "because my preferred choice of suoernstjentity says so" hasn't held up well as a scientific argument
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ausbah
5y ago
like others have said about other commentes, the point isn't so much on consuming podcasts, audio books, or whatever faster - it's about how if that's the only thing you do, you won't end up actually learning anything
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ausbah
5y ago
>It does seem >you seem to have also ironic :) but really I'm expressing the uncertainty I have in my statements :)
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ausbah
5y ago
it is referenced in the first paragraph >In texts, both fictional and non-fictional and in English and Spanish, thinking words relating to technology and social organization (experiment, gravity, weigh, cost, contract) become more common
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ausbah
5y ago
>A more plausible explanation is more female writers and the closely related feminization of culture. so what is the point of this piece? is he blaming the slowdown of scientific advancement in the past 40-50 years on "femininity&qu
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ausbah
5y ago
I'll go against the tide here and say Reddit I still think Reddit is great! sure I don't think the big subs, greater emphasis on monitization, and some of the other big changes they've made over the past few years are great -
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ausbah
5y ago
maybe it's referring to how the rate of change of population growth is decreasing?
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ausbah
5y ago
it may be done to death but it certainly doesn't seem like a solved problem?
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ausbah
5y ago
this level of rigor always makes me snicker at the engineering in "software engineering"
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ausbah
5y ago
IIRC multi-agent domains are in their own category specifically because a single agent posing as "multiple agents" usually can't solve such environments, you need multiple agents with varying degrees of dependence
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ausbah
5y ago
that's what OpenAI did a couple yewrs ago with Dota 2 https://openai.com/five/
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ausbah
5y ago
modeling every task as a game seems like a big hurdle, or even just getting a working "environment"
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ausbah
5y ago
maybe it isn't so crazy, if you look at the increases in average lifespans over the fast couple centuries - prolonging lifespans is something humans seem to have a good track record with (at least at a high level) "solving aging&q
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ausbah
5y ago
except it's not? the UN has like zero real authority over anything, and even since the pandemic started there have been hordes of people resisting the most basic of government asks like wearing a mask in public places - I don't th
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ausbah
5y ago
what about the costs to global economic catastrophes outside of money? the livelihoods of millions are ruined, families slip into needless poverty, and people die. if those are the costs, I don't think just letting things "work th
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ausbah
5y ago
I would bet the explosion in cryptocurrency values over the past 5 years has been more from "everyday people" who care less about the philosophical underpinnings of cryptocurrencies and more about investing the best performing ass
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ausbah
5y ago
next step will to be to put it on a blockchain
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ausbah
5y ago
only because tech is one of the few industries where demand is greater than supply
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ausbah
5y ago
direct listings? or any of the other ways to go public with an investment bank?
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ausbah
5y ago
which would be...?
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ausbah
5y ago
what do you think is the more likely precedent?
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ausbah
5y ago
this is another instance of the phenomenon in tech and startup culture where someone claims to solve an already solved problem with a needlessly overly complicated technical "solution"
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ausbah
5y ago
>CNBC lists bitcoin price next to the S&P. It's up infinity percent. There are regulated financial products. If asked at the time he would have unequivocally said those things would not have happened because bitcoin was going to
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ausbah
5y ago
trying to quantify the value of a life, much less the life of an unborn infant, because it's "too expensive" reeks
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My Experience with New Grad Hiring
(natejh.com)
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ausbah
5y ago
smells more like a PR stunt for crypto
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ausbah
5y ago
the fact that most of Co-Pilot's usefulness comes from repeating common snippets of code makes me think there has to be a much simpler way to reduce the boilerplate of "common tasks"
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ausbah
5y ago
there are some "healthy competitors" that just have a jam filling around a while wheat breading(?)
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