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by belval 4y ago
> S-team listened to employees, watched how our teams performed, talked to leaders at other companies, and got together on several occasions to discuss if and how we should adjust our approach. > I’m also optimistic that this shift wi
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by belval 4y ago
People saying this is no big deal are missing the point, without proper limits what happens if Bing decides that you are a bad person and sends you to bad hotel or give you any kind of purposefully bad information. There are a lot of ways w
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by belval 4y ago
I don't think he is an innovator, but he definitely has a better vision than Sundar. All of Microsoft's acquisitions (LinkedIn, GitHub, Mojang) so far were well executed and leveraged properly to help tie together the company&#x27
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by belval 4y ago
Windows Phone had a market share so low (~3%) it just didn't make sense to keep pouring money into it when cheap Chinese Android phones were coming in troves and Apple/Samsung dominated the high-end segments. The Xbox only true co
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> all 40 employees Hopefully that saves the click for someone.
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The Paris catacombs, while lacking the Catholic aspect really resonated with me. There is something so incredibly humbling in looking at literally million of skulls and realizing that we are ultimately as insignificant as they were.
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The Economist is British so it's possible the person writing this has never been to the Bay Area and just made a wordplay based on "Mountain View".
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Have you ever maintained a popular-ish open-source project? People will send you questions every day, you need to fix actual issues, you get a random email from Deloitte consultants because someone somewhere is using your code and they wa
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by belval 4y ago
Why do people always feel entitled to tell people what to do? The guy said he doesn't care and to remove it from FDroid if needed. The guy can be a dick, the guy can be as distasteful as humanly possible. It's "okay". Th
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The only place I ever worked at that "celebrated failure" (their own words) was an overgrown startup with no customers that was unable to ship a single product. Now I find the expression almost repulsive. Failure is part of work,
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As someone with money invested in Intel, yes they are back on top of some benchmarks for consumer products and have been doing reasonably well overall. The issue is with the entreprise segment that is getting eaten away by AMD products that
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by belval 4y ago
Indeed, I was looking at the list of features and frankly it makes you want to use Edge + Bing as it removes the friction from going to the ChatGPT website entirely. You can ask it to write your LinkedIn posts, define itineraries, translate
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by belval 4y ago
And yet strangely you wrote this: > white, male scientist from an affluent background Instead of "white people can get high dei scores". Anyway this discussion always end with a Motte-and-bailey fallacy. You say something obvio
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> A low DEI score might not tank your application if you're in a field where everyone else has a low DEI score, or if you are absolutely outstanding in your field but have middling DEI because you're a white, male scientist fro
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by belval 4y ago
> I think we can all agree that artistic depictions of Mohammad [...] are something that are of poor taste because they trigger the sensibilities I disagree, because the slippery slope is VERY slippery here. Eating meat triggers the sens
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by belval 4y ago
Tangential, but seeing friend and family adopt dogs and basically pampering them as much as they would a child I've been wondering if in 2023 a lot of people aren't using dogs as a cheaper stand-in for kids in areas where the cost
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by belval 4y ago
IANAL, but there is a big chance that this is just a boilerplate cease and desist used for every project that comes up when you google "scraping linkedin". I would not over think it. Lawyer/legal time is costly, they probably
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by belval 4y ago
Not a lawyer but: > Cease and desist developing, offering, or using software or programs with features developed, marketed, or intended for automating activity on LinkedIn’s website or app, scraping LinkedIn member data, or otherwise vio
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by belval 4y ago
I guess you haven't been here long. It's a staple of HN to be pedantic and obsess on details, that being said it's also how sometimes you end up with very interesting threads on tangential topics.
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You can find solace in knowing what's wrong with you and track studies for your particular gene that's off. It's not a given that your autoimmune disease wasn't at least studied at one point, knowing what the markers are
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> The not-so-bad news: Dividend and self-driving What's the saddest part about that headline is the dividend is not supported by earnings which is the equivalent of saying "we have money but no plan" and self-driving is th
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> authorize the Governor in Council and the Minister of Industry to direct telecommunications service providers to do anything, or refrain from doing anything, that is necessary to secure the Canadian telecommunications system. I don&#x2
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Respectfully I don't think you read my comment. GPT3 != ChatGPT. ChatGPT is built on GPT-3 and is not breaking new ground. GPT3 is 3 years old and was breaking new ground in 2020 but Meta/Google/DeepMind all have LLM of their
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> OpenAI's really interesting approach to GPT That's the issue though, Yann LeCun is specifically referring to ChatGPT as the standalone model, not the GPT family since a lot of models at Meta, Google, DeepMind are based on a s
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It's not an expectation that a book will be a masterpiece of storytelling. Take the very hungry caterpillar, it has the simplest premise: -> Caterpillar eats food -> Caterpillar eats more food -> Caterpillar eats even more foo
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I clicked on the link agreeing with you and came back disagreeing. Maybe I wouldn't have thought "an LLM made this", but the story is disjointed in a way that makes no sense for a children's book. The structure is all wr
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To clarify, you have to have at least ONE of those: > Age: outside the range of 30-50 years > Gender: does not identify as male > Sexual orientation: does not identify as heterosexual > Geographical: not located in North America
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> There is no reason to think that these people are not at the top of their fields. I'd flip that statement around though, people are at the top of their fields when they outperform competitors. If Google's sales team is paid 6
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Same goes for French, seems like it's mostly doing word-per-word translation. > Quelque chose de peu parlé dans les médias à propos de ChatGPT est qu'il est multilingue. Quelque chose => Something de peu => little parlé =
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by belval 4y ago
It's likely due to the corpus though. It's multilingual, but the dataset they trained on is representative of "the Internet" so the latin languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, etc...) are overly represent

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