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by cbozeman 5y ago
Yes. Yes I do. Dr. Knuth, anyway. He's not really a programmer, so much as he is a scientist first and foremost. When I think of a "programmer", I think of John Carmack and Tim Sweeney. When I think of computer scientist, I t
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> A model of GPT-3's scale is not going to be trained or run on a laptop. LOL, yes it is... it's only a matter of time, and not much of it at that. Computing power is making enormous leaps and bounds. Look at GPUs. The leaks co
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> "Oh, we can't share this knowledge because it's too dangerous" Every time I hear someone say this, I always think, "Dangerous... to whom ?"
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Not good, because getting to the top of any enterprise is inherently competitive. Everyone wants the job, and there's only one of them to go around. This is the reason you see such similar personalities occupying extremely high positio
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by cbozeman 5y ago
I really don't know how to respond to a comment this stupid. Actually, yes I do... you think that because Jackson, Mississippi is 92% African American that I left due to the changing demographics, as opposed to the increased crime, the
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by cbozeman 5y ago
LOL, yeah I've seen what happens when your city's mayor has that attitude. I've seen it firsthand. It's called Jackson, Mississippi. It's why I live in Fort Worth, Texas.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Voters don't mean shit if they're mostly poor and can't pay enough in taxes to support the city's infrastructure. You don't have to be part of the HN bubble to know that money talks and bullshit walks.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> You can get half way there with proper diet, sleep and a few years of education. Who told you this... and why do you believe it? The literature is pretty clear... you can swing a few points with intense optimization, and that's it
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by cbozeman 5y ago
This is just an article to make average intelligence people feel okay about themselves, instead of embracing and accepting the crushing underlying reality that intelligence is real, that some people have more of it and some have less of it,
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by cbozeman 5y ago
This actually made me laugh out loud. Given how abysmal the "reporting" BuzzFeed does and it's disgusting and unabashed bias, I frankly couldn't be happier with this outcome. Since the stock has gone down another 40%, it
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by cbozeman 5y ago
I guess that body shop bought the correct amount of Google AdWords.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
All the downvote - or upvote for that matter - does for me is tell me what the prevailing opinion is for people who likely have similar backgrounds to me, have had similar experiences as me, and who have similar attitudes as me. If my comme
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> YT is too vastly big for that. No it's not, it's our society that's fucked. It's our CEOs' legal requirement of fiduciary responsibility that causes these problems. YouTube was 10.9% of Google's revenue fo
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Given Japan was a nation where a certain class could execute summarily anyone below them, for something as germaine as insulting them, and given what Japan did to Chinese civilians during World War II, you'll forgive me if I don't
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Reminds of this exchange from the movie Whiplash : Andrew Neyman: But is there a line? You know, maybe you go too far and discourage the next Charlie Parker from ever becoming Charlie Parker? Terence Fletcher: No, man, no. Because the next
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> It didn't lead to the stock market crash, but it always stuck me as the first time that the general public started to really think that the whole dot com scene was a little out of whack. That's because the general public, and
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Well you've just outlined the problem. Twitter's Board of Directors is a listing of people who've come to expect the projects with which they're involved - either directly or tangentially - or with which they invest, t
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Actually, what you just said is the equivalent of saying, "We just developed a quantum computer that allows us to solve not just every physical world question we have, but every metaphysical one as well." Since you're literal
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> the messaging that this gun carries when wielding it in a urban environment during a riot. The "messaging"?? The only thing wrong with the "messaging" was that every single citizen of Kenosha didn't show up wi
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> It might also be the result of provocation by someone open carrying around an assault rifle in public First off, there's no such thing as an "assault" rifle, there's just a "rifle". Stop using idiotic term
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> without any human review Therein lies the problem.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
I hope you - and every other HN reader - realizes that "normal people" don't realize most of the shit running this whole grand experiment we call the Internet, and especially social media, relies extensively upon automation.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
And this judge is well-known as an advocate for defendant's rights... which ironically you would expect the left to champion.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> I don't think I've seen a single hire out of a bootcamp work out in the end. Except a few cases where the person actually came from a STEM degree from a good school (and more crucially, already had some exposure to programmin
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> How do we choose who has to sacrifice? The people who want to hold the moral high ground have to also accept the suffering and sacrifice that go with it. "Doing the right thing" has a cost to it. That's exactly why I cal
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> There's no reason to think you know what the future holds. Prior behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. The world has become complacent and dependent upon cheap capital, and no one - and I mean no one - is ready or w
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by cbozeman 5y ago
I love how you're being downvoted, even though you've given the perfect explanation of what happened.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> Like I said, I haven’t followed this You obviously, by your posts, don't know the facts of this case, so why are you weighing in the first place? > Do you think Kyle was unaware of the dangerous situation he created simply by v
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by cbozeman 5y ago
It's exceptionally good advice. Jerome Powell has already made it clear through his actions that everything is now 'Too Big To Fail'. Capital is at an all-time low in terms of actual real cost to the borrower. You'd be a
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by cbozeman 5y ago
He said "Texas", not Austin, TX. Not sure why anyone would want to live there anyway... went there to help my nephew move in to his apartment at UT Austin four years ago. Went down there a few times to hang out with him, not fucki

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