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by bigfishrunning 3y ago
When was this ever not the case? As much as HR loves to spread this lie, an office is not a "family".
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
"Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism I can't
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
They're not trying to pass it off as real though, the YouTube description is “An AI-generated look into the country's possible future if Joe Biden is re-elected in 2024.” Basically, it says "this was cheaper then conventional
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
Or, stop withholding taxes and bill people monthly (or quarterly). Why should the government make the interest on money that should be in my account?
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
You can! https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
Neural networks make great pattern-matchers -- and all of the current implementations match patterns very well. They will produce something that matches the query, but not necessarily any correct information. What OpenAI and friends have do
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
Perhaps, but i think there's just as much hubris in saying "We've created something smarter then us" as there is in saying "We're smarter then the thing we've created". meanwhile, we've created t
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
yes, but for you all of that text is associated with ideas. The word "dog" has an associated object. For a machine like GPT-4, the word "dog" has no meaning or object, but it does have an associated likelihood for adjace
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
I suspect that gp meant that, for a lot of things, regulation is ineffective and costly.
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
Slap one of these on the end of your usb-a cables and you're good to go https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Benfei-Compatible-MacBook-Sam...
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
The big lie about "No-code" systems like this is -- you're still coding, but without text. you have to click around in some obscure, usually proprietary interface to create every object and define its interactions with every
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
10x programmers exist because the average programmer has very little productivity. A high-performing marathon runner can complete a marathon in about 2.5 hours -- if the average person ran a marathon in 25 hours, then that would be a 10x
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
Really, you'll have a much more positive effect on your bottom line by avoiding the 0.1x programmers, which are shockingly common
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
> This is a great exercise because it gets into the practicalities of engineering being a /team sport/ not a /solo sport/. The problem there is that, for many teams, there are 1 or 2 engineers holding water for a coup
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
How often does bezos sell 100B of stock, vs how often does he buy cars and boats and houses? you have to look at both sides of the scale, i'm not sure he'd end up paying less as a consumption/sales tax. I think the major ar
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
The difference is that your smartphone and iPad are hiding a ton of complexity from you, whereas an Apple ][ or a Commodore 64 hid almost nothing from you -- it did less, but was much more transparent about it.
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
The main problem with C++ is it's insistence on being an almost-superset of C. Rust has no such hang-ups
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by bigfishrunning 4y ago
Very small embedded systems tend to have a lot of short-lived items on the stack, and anything that lives longer then a function call exists in static memory at a fixed address. Memory pools are pretty common as well. Small systems tend to