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by baandam 4y ago
I don't know how long but we are clearly hitting an exponential curve here as improvements build on improvements that build on improvements. A deeper question is how long until hand written code has too many bugs that it is worthless c
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by baandam 4y ago
AlphaZero and Stockfish are not really thinking either when it comes to chess. I just don't understand how a thinking human can not see that this is basically irrelevant.
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by baandam 4y ago
We are going from zero interest rates to 5%. The tide is going out massively when it comes to funding and we will probably be at low tide for a long time. To me, it is like complaining about the volatility of growth stocks. The reward would
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by baandam 4y ago
We are in a ton of trouble long term. Think about how much of that 750 million is just to feed all the pigs at the trough. The USS Zumwalt is an even bigger joke if you look it up. 20+ billion and basically a mistake. Then just think about
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by baandam 4y ago
Exactly. This isn't really that difficult to figure out that untangling a giant ponzi and money laundering scheme is several orders of magnitude more complex than assault.
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by baandam 4y ago
The SEC is basically captured at this point. Who is going to vote to give the SEC more funding and power? Our leaders who are insider trading themselves? Raphael Bostic insider trading as president of the Atlanta Fed was practically a non-s
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by baandam 4y ago
It is an embarrassing mindset as an American. We will just ignore all the Indians working on letting us "google it". Just like there is a little niche in information theory that I keep up on current research and I pretty much igno
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by baandam 4y ago
The irony to me is this view of the world that has nothing to do with the real world is the bug. As if the innovation from silicon value has nothing to do with people born in India. What planet are we on again?
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by baandam 4y ago
Try learning a new language with Anki or something that you have to actually memorize. I thought my memory was going to shit too but I am pretty sure I basically took 15 years off from even attempting to memorize anything. 4 months of Anki
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by baandam 4y ago
I think it is even simpler. He was an extreme sex addict that was use to getting 3 massages with a happy ending a day and having a private chef. Once he knew he was going to spend life in prison he ended it. The dumbest thing about the cons
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by baandam 4y ago
Haha that is wonderful.
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by baandam 4y ago
It is all magical and ideological driven thinking that ignores scale. Solve one problem and pretend the solution that works at a micro scale has no issues scaling up. I am completely down to eat bugs even but eating bugs at a scale anything
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by baandam 4y ago
The crazy part is the pivot from hero to villain with Musk. I have been sick of him for years but many fan boys turned into haters over politics and almost overnight. To believe otherwise just seems out of touch with reality to me. Twitter&
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by baandam 4y ago
I think a poker analogy is the best way to frame it. At this point they are basically face saving "pot committed" to zero COVID. In a face saving culture you can't just come out tomorrow that zero COVID was a strategy that ma
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by baandam 4y ago
I agree, this is over extrapolating. There was no opportunity for them to not get to this point really unless COVID had gone away at this stage. It strikes me this is a face saving exercise at this point but they can also use it to stress t
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by baandam 4y ago
There is also little natural immunity with what they have done. I don't know if they can really just let it rip through a 1 billion people without it being a major health crisis when so many do not have previous exposure. The optics on
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by baandam 4y ago
Algorithmic composition has been around for a long time now but most has not been very good. There is also a huge difference in the quality of amateur photography vs the quality of amateur music composition. I have some of stuff on soundclo