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   by barrenko 3y ago

   If it's a finetuned multimodal vision transformer, it's probably multilingual.
2. 662.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   This is cool, I don't realistically know how to market a website at all, besides there being this thing called "SEO".
3. 663.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   Screens of any and all kind.
4. 664.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   I'd recommend reading Byung-Chul Han.
5. 665.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   Can it make calls?
6. 666.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   I guess the average ebook on Amazon written by a human is already pretty close to something a LLM would generate so...
7. 667.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   Fake jobs are non-obviously fake, but the bigger issue is the "real" jobs that are non-obviously fake.
8. 668.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   Global remote or US remote? :D
9. 669.▲
   by barrenko 3y ago

   he's not wrong, and yet he's not right.
10. 670.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    please elaborate, thanks.
11. 671.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    I believe Ted Chiang has a short story with a similar "device".
12. 672.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    "It's called mescaline, it's the only way to fly".
13. 673.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    (EU) Doctors are skipping visits with me.
14. 674.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    Pretty "cool" is how if you're on the wrong part of map of this empire this kind of thing happened TWICE in your lifetime, first the Austro-Hungarian and then with Yugoslavia.
15. 675.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    What does your history say?
16. 676.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    This + the sheer # of people that died in the two WW.
17. 677.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    There is no Rails for Clojure because Clojure is Rails for the right kind of software architect. Clojure is a language that beat the crap out of me but in a positive way. I don't use it, but learned a lot about what is possible.
18. 678.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    I'll be doing an Advent of Precalculus, kudos!
19. 679.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    Personally I give it the same P or timeline as quantum computing.
20. 680.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    More $$$ -> more peace of mind for open-ended content and research.
21. 681.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    Enough material here for Horowitz to write "The next hard thing about hard things".
22. 682.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    Openai board and similar are interested in value signaling, not any progress of any sorts.
23. 683.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    Oh yes, there are, anyone who says there are not is fooling others, or assuming you're a CS grad.
24. 684.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTKMiZHVd_2KJtIXOW0zFhFfB... another entirely approachable course (if you know some Python or similar language), by Sebastian Raschka.
25. 685.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    IMVHO, GANs are entirely optional. For others, https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/ will take you a decent way to understanding transformer architecture.
26. 686.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    If you remember what derivatives are and are decent with math (and some probability), you have what it takes (!), and can pick up most of this easier than say React, in the sense that the incline of the ramp is much less significant, but it
27. 687.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    Yeah, one of those Tenet style bombs.
28. 688.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    Love a spontaneous book rec. Thanks!
29. 689.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    "- Why is architecture important? - A murder on the street is not the same as a murder inside a building."
30. 690.▲
    by barrenko 3y ago

    This will raise the entire world's GDP by at least 2%.