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by blueboo 3y ago
The status quo is a miserable mess, but consider “assessment and grades” is the best apparent evidence of ultimate-goal-“learning”. Is that not reasonable for people who pay for education to ask for? If it is reasonable, then the problem is
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by blueboo 3y ago
Morris Chang is a notable comparison. 36 years steering TSMC, a formidable person and leader
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by blueboo 3y ago
Crucially, after it tip goes into the complexity of global diplomacy and consensus building, a special black ops team of super eco-terrorists effect the change that really needs to happen. It’s right at home with right-wing military fantasy
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by blueboo 3y ago
Is the gameplay of Wipeout actually any good? Always admired the aesthetics, and I love F-Zero GX, but… The bonking against sides, the short view distance induced by excessively-curved tracks makes it feel like the NES game RC Pro-Am, but i
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by blueboo 3y ago
> If person A believes tasks like vacuuming need to occur weekly, and person B believes they need to occur bi-weekly then person B will either suffer an emotional tax for not having their expectations met or an EFT managing their preferr
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by blueboo 3y ago
It also forgot to discuss Cyberdog, aside from mentioning its name. What is it? I kept rereading the first paragraphs thinking I’d missed it.
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by blueboo 3y ago
I’m sympathetic to the issue in OP, but the reality is that we all deal with their work (indirectly) every day and not being poisoned is going great for hundreds of millions of people. Meanwhile the audible complaints from people dealing wi
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by blueboo 3y ago
have a hard time believing that selling (tens of?) thousands of programming reference books brought in 10-20x salaries or that entire teams would be following a pied piper leading to such a hellaciously complicated design, contrived to indu
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by blueboo 3y ago
You’re conflating the doomers, with their apocalyptic forecasts, with the more prosaic concerns of measuring and controlling the behaviour of the models outputs. It’s reasonable to measure and control tendencies to counsel people into hurti
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by blueboo 3y ago
It’s scale, too, isn’t it? At Apple scale you get better materials, better engineering at every level, and better testing processes—for the same or less money. I admire Framework for achieving what they’ve done, modest though the success is
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by blueboo 3y ago
Groups were advantaged over groups. Your line of reasoning itself draws a boundary--in history--and thereby quite conveniently sidesteps the issue. And yes, a pair of Ethiopian immigrants, even in 2023, face structural racism over and above
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by blueboo 3y ago
They do but it’s a matter of time constraints. Pace. Deal flow. Take too long to scrutinise a good thing and it’ll be snapped up from under you. The group that poached might have even less time to do proper due diligence. VCs tap expertise
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by blueboo 3y ago
To that end, I wonder if there are benchmarks or standard methods that also measure “deep” utilisation — not just keeping cores “busy” but actually saturating their processing capacity.
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by blueboo 3y ago
Perhaps we need an alternative to “died”. Digg is still alive. The Yellow Pages is still a profitable business. And yet their cultural impact has been nullified.
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by blueboo 3y ago
StackOverflow is notoriously unpleasant for non-power users. A selection of miserable anecdata over the years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16934942 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20859332 ht
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by blueboo 3y ago
Yep, this is a problem in tech. Anyway I'm just going to pop out to the A&P after stopping by Borders and Sears while wearing my Lehman Bros fleece
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by blueboo 3y ago
There are indications to the opposite. What you have pointed out is that he has hired two female executives across the dozens of individuals in his portfolio. Better than zero, I suppose. Meanwhile: https://www.cnbc.com/amp&
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by blueboo 3y ago
The future is using the best possible tool to drive your work. Won’t local models be systematically inferior to bigger commercial offerings for the next few years at least?
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by blueboo 3y ago
Not only are they uncool but paid-checks should be (and often are) blocked on sight if you want a much improved Twitter experience. Sorry if you convinced yourself your good-faith self-promotion could use a boost. (@BlockTheBlue had twice t
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by blueboo 4y ago
I feel like this could characterise anything by from COBOL to Java depending on how wry your smile was when you wrote it…
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by blueboo 4y ago
To programmer_dude’s point, compute center GPUs don’t have hardware for the rasterisation stage, which is a particularly inflexible bit of the graphics pipeline. Omitting it and emphasising the geometry (matrix multiplication) capabilties i
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by blueboo 4y ago
The art of doing science and engineering. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30 Richard Hamming coaches you on an R&D career and life
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by blueboo 4y ago
they're waiting for the overton window to shift wrt acceptance of imperfect LLM responses... ...it's shifting...
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by blueboo 4y ago
Napster was shut down in 2001 by litigation Spotify launched in 2006
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by blueboo 4y ago
Plus you can prompt it to take those results and make them more unusual, evocative, creative. Basically use the same kind of creative pumps that human artists do.
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by blueboo 4y ago
Ironically, this celebration of originality itself recycles a now-familiar, incorrect meme—that generative AI just interpolates/remixes/collages between existing work. It does a lot more than that. It is capable of novelty and str
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by blueboo 4y ago
I wonder: What’s the cap, and how does it imply behaviour that differs from that of a for-profit?…
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by blueboo 4y ago
Tests are a concession to a single teacher’s inability to scale personalised evaluation. AI-facilitated one to one education is even now revolutionising education. The Primer’s in sight.
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by blueboo 4y ago
That’ll just be retro gaming in 20 years. (Also, see Chiang’s “Lifecycle”)
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by blueboo 4y ago
The answer to (1) is plainly yes. Copyright is a human process. Things you think shouldn’t be copyrighted get copyright and vice versa. Lawyers will consider how experts make decisions that affects and shapes the (sometimes far-) downstream

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