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by borg16 2y ago
what has Samsung done better? just curious.
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by borg16 3y ago
obsidian is good for what it does, but in the last month I saw someone share heynote[1] with me that I have grown fond of as a support to my obsidian note taking [1] https://heynote.com
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by borg16 3y ago
this post of his remains relevant even today - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
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by borg16 3y ago
I tried perplexity, and it is hard to see how it does a better job than Kagi (a paid search engine) for my use cases mostly involving technical enquiries. Perplexity for the large use cases just feels like a wrapper around the web, and a no
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by borg16 3y ago
can you link some of your work? I'd like to give it a try :)
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by borg16 3y ago
has anyone done a comparison of gpt-4 vs. the gpt-4 that microsoft says is being included in most of it's products these days? I want to say they both aren't exactly the same, as I noticed through some responses to same questions
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by borg16 3y ago
this was my thought too. I use miniflux and do exactly what his proposed use case is. might have been a handy pet project, but seems to be no different from an RSS reader other than the terminal vs. browser (for rss) difference
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by borg16 3y ago
> Trying to understand gives you a whole new appreciation than being presented the formal definition refined over many years. This is so true, and which is why makes learning from certain professors way more enjoyable than others. What y
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by borg16 3y ago
what is your font of choice?
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by borg16 3y ago
can i ask did you give Obsidian a try? I am curious what are the options notesnook is providing that makes people wanna pay for it compared to free-ish options such as Obsidian/logSeq. Is it the syncing part?
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by borg16 3y ago
the most important thing for me in his videos is how he strives to explain the topic from a first principles thinking perspective. if i had someone explain linear algebra the way he does in his youtube channel, i would have enjoyed and abso
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by borg16 3y ago
it might be possible that you also lose the benefits, in which case that's a terrible customer experience
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by borg16 3y ago
this answers a different question - what is the simplest possible solution to the problem at hand. answering that requires a good understanding of the problem at hand as well as knowledge to be able to propose a simple solution that could b
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by borg16 3y ago
i had a similar experience a few months ago where I wanted to have just an RSS reader be my go to homepage. miniflux as a self hosted option worked out perfectly for me (I used pikapods to host them). It almost feels like reading newspaper,
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by borg16 3y ago
I still cannot believe they missed one of the most critical parts of this release - clear and simple instructions on how to use it. How do they even hope to get adoption without that is unclear to me.
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by borg16 3y ago
given how google has been functioning, probably as late as December :)
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by borg16 3y ago
my money is on the side that there's no team looking into those email lists actively.
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by borg16 3y ago
Reminds me of this paper[1] > An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability > Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential
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by borg16 3y ago
Title reminded me of this episode of "The Wild" podcast[1] > This past summer, I was in Alaska in a little coastal town called Seward - a gorgeous spot on the Kenai Peninsula tucked between the ocean and some giant glacier-cove
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by borg16 3y ago
amen.
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by borg16 3y ago
> Why are there so many non technical managers/directors in charge of engineering or IT in Government type jobs? due to product/program/project managers making a case for themselves to lead these teams. it might work in mo
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by borg16 3y ago
imo Ilya has his own reasons and benefits that he thought he would gain from ousting Sam. However, it caused the wildfire backfire we are all watching now insert popcorn
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by borg16 3y ago
thanks for this recommendation. have you been using this one for a while? How do you like it?
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by borg16 3y ago
> Merck wanted to use this same model to reason out a logistics issue, or apply it to some business problem at scale - you’d have to deal with hallucinations all over the place. I wouldn't think Merck would leave it all to the model
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by borg16 3y ago
> In my opinion, Sunbird Messaging are fraudsters, and Nothing was their mark. 100% agree with this. `nothing` since its inception has been nothing but a marketing gimmick.
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by borg16 3y ago
this is what I have been struggling to understand too. the accolades speak about the size and other input related capabilities of the model, but the output - not so much
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by borg16 3y ago
turning tweets into news - verbal or written, has been one of the most unfortunate trends of the past decade.
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by borg16 3y ago
> the forward pass in a deep learning model is almost certainly way faster than simulating the next step in a numerical simulation Is this the case in most of such refinements (architecture wise)?
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by borg16 3y ago
> I have some strong theories, but I must admit I don't have the work experience to be that confident in them. This has not stopped you from posting the dozen or so blog posts you have already written so far. Go ahead and post what
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by borg16 3y ago
they recently made some changes to their pricing plans. $10 plan now includes unlimited searches, and they introduced a $5 tier too.

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