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by braingenious 4y ago
I’m curious how this impacted withdrawal-related deaths. Alcohol is incredibly physically addictive and is one of a handful of commonly abused drugs that are lethally dangerous to withdraw from in an uncontrolled manner. One way of staving
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by braingenious 4y ago
Seconding this.
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by braingenious 4y ago
I agree with all of this. Further… I think this is much more akin to those silly “make an anime avatar of yourself” apps than anything remotely resembling a headshot taken by a photographer. For example, there is an example of a woman with
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by braingenious 4y ago
I’m also a bit confused by the quantization thing. Why exactly is everybody running the same program on the same file? Why not just include the quantized weights? It seems like if somebody figured out the “correct” way to quantize the 7b we
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by braingenious 4y ago
I have not found alpaca to be comparable to chatgpt, but it could be because of bugs in the version I installed through dalai. I might try reinstalling it because I suspect there might be some sort of file corruption issue or whatever. I ga
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by braingenious 4y ago
They’re sold as tank shirts or A shirts by the manufacturers. It’s always nice to compliment dudes with “nice tank top bro”
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by braingenious 4y ago
> So either way, Balaji is 100% guaranteed to lose money on this bet, no matter what happens. It’s not a risky bet; it’s a sure loser. I’ve seen versions of this take, and they all conveniently ignore the more obvious possibility: This “
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The Problem with UChicago’s Glaze(jackson.sh)
11 points by braingenious 4y ago|1 comments
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by braingenious 4y ago
“When did Chamath short Credit Suisse?” When did you answer this question in your post? If you readily admit that you are incapable of answering that, would you say that if you’d submitted this to HN with the title “Goosy Goosy on the 6.5”
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by braingenious 4y ago
>I wonder if he was short CS as soon as he learned they were offering the sweetener? Or did he have too many relations with that bank. (He is one of their private clients). Or did he miss the trade entirely? This article is clickbait tha
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by braingenious 4y ago
I’m still not following here. If somebody were to post their personal experience with chlamydia would you reply with be “It’s a hot take to not mention the very serious problem that chlamydia poses to koala bears. When I read about somethin
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by braingenious 4y ago
What exactly is a “hot take” in this context? If someone were to post “How McDonald’s makes their burgers” would it be a hot take because In-N-Out also makes burgers? https://www.businessinsider.com/i-went-to-a-mcdonalds-fac
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by braingenious 4y ago
That’s what I’m doing! I found myself amazed by the sheer terribleness of the html that Microsoft Word output. I managed to get it to write a script to clean up the files last night, but it took a surprising amount of finessing to avoid th
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by braingenious 4y ago
I am glad that you so emphatically agree with me? Assuming that one’s perspective on what constitutes “the zeitgeist” is anecdotal and personal?
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by braingenious 4y ago
I tried out gpt4 today with the task of “take some html files made by a non technical person using various versions of microsoft word over a decade ago and put the contents into a csv” and it hasn’t done great. Not terrible, but not great.
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by braingenious 4y ago
https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1636359710025629698
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by braingenious 4y ago
>I think your comment is largely anecdotal Ok, sure! Let’s see what non-anec >So, in my very personal opinion, the Best Time Ever to be in tech was in the 2010-2015 era -dotal bit of data are you going to use >We were disruptors. W
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by braingenious 4y ago
These sorts of posts are genuinely comical! >When I started Kapwing in 2017, it was cool to be a tech entrepreneur. … to you. It was cool to you to (categorically) be a tech entrepreneur. I think it is possible that “tech entrepreneur” a
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by braingenious 4y ago
It’s kind of funny. It’s like those viral tweets where the OP follows it up with an affiliate link to some aliexpress lamp after it becomes popular, but he’s trying to do it in real time with everybody’s support. It will be hilarious when t
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by braingenious 4y ago
I wonder if he ends up factoring in twitter ad revenue for this designed-to-go-viral series of posts. I’d find this much more interesting if he had taken a day or two to see how this worked out rather than doing edge-of-your-seat engagement
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Google’s Palm API and MakerSuite(9to5google.com)
2 points by braingenious 4y ago|0 comments
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by braingenious 4y ago
I find that so incredibly off-putting. Whenever I see a company intentionally hiding pricing information I move them all the way to the back of the line for serious consideration. If I don’t manage to entirely put the product out of mind I’
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by braingenious 4y ago
This looks great! I would like to know how much this costs though.
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by braingenious 4y ago
I recommend reading the book! There is considerably more substance than my single-sentence opinion about how I remember one event in it!
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by braingenious 4y ago
FWIW, the book synopsis that you quoted does not say that libertarians built a tent city, it says that freedom-loving citizens built a tent city. New Hampshire’s state motto is “live free or die”, and that value of freedom is one of the rea
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by braingenious 4y ago
>Cool, now do socialism. I didn’t “do” libertarianism? I recommended a book that I found interesting that’s related to the topic of the article that this discussion thread is in response to. Socialism has been brought up a couple times i
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by braingenious 4y ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite books from the past couple years, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear. It’s a fascinating deep dive into an attempt to create a sort of libertarian utopia in a small town called Grafton, New Hampshire. The
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by braingenious 4y ago
In case anybody missed it, I’m talking about how the dude went full Zarathustra in the agora. https://twitter.com/jason/status/1634771851514900480 It did lead me to a really interesting article about audience capt
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by braingenious 4y ago
The funniest thing about this weekend was watching Jason Calacanis descend into what appears to be some sort of religious paroxysm, speaking in tongues, screaming at the sky about the ruinous portends he read in his tea leaves, gnashing his
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by braingenious 4y ago
This sounds pretty coo— > combined with a smart thermostat —nevermind. You lost me.

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