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by awongh 2y ago
I read a fair amount and I actually do research as leisure all the time, but I can’t stand these elitist and unoriginal think pieces about how much better and cooler this person’s habits are than yours. >> for the leisurely researcher
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Chrome, search/ads, youtube, consumer apps - gmail & docs etc.
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I've actually been socially pressured to check my phone at a dinner table if at a certain point everyone else at the table checks theirs (which is not even a jab at them- at least a few people probably had a legitimately urgent-enough
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by awongh 2y ago
The bot is just a symptom of the weird social dynamics at play inside a dating app, where in a heterosexual environment, the women recieve an unmanageable number of messages and the men need to send/respond to an unmanageable number of
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The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians(wired.com)
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Singapore has also solved it to a certain degree.
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> it's definitely _not_ the _monetary_ solution Does this also take into account the current price of eggs in the same product category? i.e., organic, free-range eggs? For current Erewhon prices, 8 eggs a day is $11.30 in free eggs
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The invention of the mirror by humans probably provided an interesting insight into our own existence... I wonder what it would have been like to see your own reflection for the first time as a technology. How would that change your outlook
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> There is no intelligence here, other than the perceived intelligence of predicting words intelligent people have written previously. I think this is my main point- isn't it amazing that a thing that predicts words other humans hav
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I absolutely hate the Elon hypetrain, but I also don't understand the social media hate I see for AI, like comparing every ChatGPT answer to one wasted bottle of water. Can we stop for a second and just marvel at a new piece of human i
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by awongh 2y ago
Same, when for TikTok specifically their innovation was quite minor- no one (besides Vine) had built a short content video feed that was designed for engagement vs. social qualities- the Instagram feed at the time still had social elements
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Sad that what's going on in Myanmar isn't more widely reported in international news.
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I think you mean this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx1SIEwwZrU
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I think one of the fundamental problems is that "news" fundamentally doesn't tell you very much about what's happening. A perfect example is a plane crash- you hear right away that a plane has crashed. It is reported on
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Here in the thread he says: https://x.com/jacobaustin132/status/1886844724339675340 : `5 years ago, there were many ML architectures, but today, there is (mostly) only one [transformers].` To what degree is this a
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by awongh 2y ago
It's crazy that in some ways cantonese is a dying language, or at least one that's being sidelined by the government, esp. as Hong Kong is being fully transitioned back to China. But just as many people speak cantonese as speak it
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by awongh 2y ago
2) Seems the most plausible, but how to value the moat, or, how long / how many dollars will it cost to overcome the moat? The lead that CUDA currently has suggests that it's probably a lot of money, and it's not clear what t
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The issue is assuming that your dogma of organization building is correct and that it absolves you from actually resolving inevitable issues between people and between people and the organization. If you don't take on this assumption I
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*but most people will not do that* LLMs will definitely be a technology that widens the knowledge gap at the same time that it improves access to knowledge. Just like the internet. 30 years ago people dreamed about how smart everyone would
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I think it's great that you can see the actual chain of thought behind the model, not just the censored one from OpenAI. It strikes me that it's both so far from getting it correct and also so close- I'm not an expert but it
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I'm not up to date on what people are working on, but I just mean that type stripping is probably not the final solution to a roadmap of node-typescript compatibility? That I would imagine there are other features being proposed that w
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I get why people would want to push this forward in general, but except in a case down the road, many years from now, is there a real case right now for running your typescript code without compiling it? Maybe library compatibility? My fi
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Yea, it might be naive to think the government will act in the interest of the consumer (although it has happened before)- but at least maybe it'll continue the conversation of users themselves.... THis situation is another data point
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It can still be both- in the sense that once a precedent is set using the these additional ideological and geopolitical motivations as momentum, maybe there will be an appetite for further algorithm regulations. As a tech person who already
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I mean, yes, use eminent domain to take the water… and then get TSMC to pay for it. Maybe another big player in the system would even help build momentum to get these laws changed permanently…
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Google says UHC made $370b gross revenue and $12b net revenue. Not sure what the total exec team costs but if the ceo was paid $10 million that’s 0.03% of revenue and 0.1% of profit. Not defending them but I do think that people hear $10 mi
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I was shocked to hear from an anesthesiologist friend of mine in Germany that an American salary could be 10x higher.
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I’m not an expert but I’m wary of anyone who has a simplistic view of what seems to be a complex system. This, plus looking at the profit margin of UHC paints a more nuanced picture (net profit margin is not that high. the dollar amount is
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Arizona and California have outdated water management laws that basically mean that big agriculture gets free water. Until recently Saudi Arabia was using these laws to grow alfalfa in the desert. In California, water intensive crops like a
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I remember when the plans for starlink originally came out, the two main complaints about it were 1) clogging up the atmosphere with space junk, and 2) the satellites clogging up terrestrial bandwidth. I haven't heard anyone complain a

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