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by chongli 1y ago
No it’s using the common usage of the word irrelevant rather than the ad industry term of art. In common usage, almost all ads are irrelevant unless they simply help you find what you were already looking for (like a search ad leading to th
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by chongli 1y ago
Yeah the problem for YouTube is that they bundle a bunch of other services with the premium package. They occasionally conduct surveys to gauge user awareness of these features. I myself don’t use any of them, just the ad-free experience. T
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by chongli 1y ago
We already know how oral cultures work: they use technologies such as rhyme, meter, music, stock characters, memory palaces, and more. If you want a good example of how powerful this stuff is, think about the last time you had a song stuck
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by chongli 1y ago
Sure, though the marketing around LLMs is aimed at general purpose use. It’s up to the user to decide if it’s actually useful for their use case. Unfortunately, many use cases in business can’t tolerate high error rates.
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by chongli 1y ago
Not to mention terracotta is a very common material for potted houseplants and container gardening. Terracotta is low-fired, non-vitreous and porous to water, giving it nice breathability and water absorption characteristics. There are also
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by chongli 1y ago
Board exams are fine. You can sit thousands of candidates for those. The issue is residency slots which are the main bottleneck. Why should a surgeon with 20 years of experience working in Mumbai be forced to become a resident alongside fre
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by chongli 1y ago
The main issue with the shortage is the lack of funding for residencies No, that’s the proximate issue. The main issue is the requirement of residencies for all doctors in the first place. In particular, I’m referring to doctors from othe
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by chongli 1y ago
I work in a mail room sending hard copy letters to customers. If I got my job right only 70% of the time then I’d be causing massive privacy breaches daily by sending the wrong personal information to the wrong customers. Would you trust an
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by chongli 1y ago
It is divine intervention if you believe human minds are the product of a divine creator. Most of the attribution of miraculous reasoning ability on the part of LLMs I would attribute to pareidolia on the part of their human evaluators. I d
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by chongli 1y ago
We need more doctors. Yes, unfortunately we've made doctors the gatekeepers and they don't want more doctors because that will eat into their income. This happens with every single licensed occupation where the license body is r
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by chongli 1y ago
It's especially weird argument considering that LLMs are already ahead of humans in Tower of Hanoi No one cares about Towers of Hanoi. Nor do they care about any other logic puzzles like this. People want AIs that solve novel problem
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by chongli 1y ago
The question doesn’t ask for an answer, it asks for a proof. You can’t just write a bunch of algebra and call it a day. You have to justify all of your arguments.
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by chongli 1y ago
And the idea of a formal power series. And integer compositions. And combinatorial enumeration (counting sets in different ways for a proof). And a bit of set theory (cardinality of sets). There is a whole lot of background stuff here that
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by chongli 1y ago
Here’s a sample problem from discrete math when I took it in university: For any integer n ≥ 0, let Cn be the set of all integer compositions of n with odd number of parts, and each part is congruent to 1 modulo 3. Prove that: |Cn| =
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by chongli 1y ago
Unless you’re talking about an elite private school where 5 student class sizes are the norm, no, a discrete math course is not appropriate for high school students. I took an intro discrete math course in second year of university (at a sc
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by chongli 1y ago
Then you calculate the decimal expansion to the desired number of decimal places. This avoids accumulation of roundoff errors in intermediate results. Note that writing sqrt(2) as 1.41 or 1.41421 or any other decimal expansion you might wan
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by chongli 1y ago
Nobody needs access to a git repo directly via Google. I agree with this. The repo page should just have static HTML pages with information for people new to the project. Dynamic information and especially expensive computations such as g
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by chongli 1y ago
The issue here is with publicly hosted git repositories for open source projects. Everyone is authorized, including anonymous users arriving from Google.
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by chongli 1y ago
How does that allow authorized users to get access? Note that they want regular people to be able to find the project from a SERP and start browsing without creating an account or authenticating in any way.
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by chongli 1y ago
What I mean by scale is scale of production (units per year). Solar wasn’t even close to economical when the first nuclear reactors were coming online. Solar became viable over many decades of production, technological improvement, and supp
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by chongli 1y ago
Small, modular reactors [1] have been the dream of nuclear energy for a long time. The technology was proven a long time ago with nuclear submarines which have an outstanding safety track record. What’s stopping them from entering full scal
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by chongli 1y ago
Tomorrow's interns will be accustomed to using AI, will need less hand-holding, will be able to leverage AI to deliver more. Maybe tomorrow's interns will be "AI experts" who need less hand-holding, but the day after t
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by chongli 1y ago
Mac OS hasn't had that from the start. Sure, many apps are installed simply by drag-and-drop to the Applications folder. However, plenty of apps have installers you need to run which usually request administrator credentials to install
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by chongli 1y ago
Imaginary numbers are not relevant at all. There’s nothing whatsoever to do with the everyday use of the word imaginary. They could just as easily have been called “vertical numbers” and real numbers called “horizontal numbers” in order to
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by chongli 1y ago
What even are most programmers at Amazon doing? It seems like all the interesting bits (the MVP of Amazon's major products) was developed long ago. All the low-hanging fruit is gone so the task is now focused on squeezing the few remai
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by chongli 1y ago
Your invocation of Strong AI (in the linked paper) seems like a restatement of the Sufficiently Smart Compiler [1] fallacy that’s been around forever in programming language debates. It’s hypothetical, not practical, so it doesn’t repre
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by chongli 1y ago
Unionization only works if the union has the power to exclude replacement labour from the jobsite. “Exploiting” labour is a meaningless value judgement. There’s no scientific definition of what is exploitation and what isn’t. Back in the la
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by chongli 1y ago
Construction sites need unskilled labour to haul things around, clean up the jobsite, hold heavy objects in place until they’re fastened, and the like. There aren’t any construction site robots that I know of which can replace all the jobs
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There is a big inefficiency in construction markets but it's not in materials, it's in labour. Immigration laws starve construction companies of workers. With unfettered immigration it would be much easier to build simply due to a
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I started learning Mandarin on Duolingo while dating a Chinese woman. After we broke up I continued with it just because I found it fun. Now I have several Chinese friends and I'm learning Chinese cooking. I'm motivated to continu

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