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by cornel_io 3y ago
When Europeans quit their jobs, they're often required to stay on for 1-3 months, as well, and many if not most employers actually hold employees to that when they get new jobs. In the US you can leave same day, and it's considere
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by cornel_io 3y ago
No, the higher the count goes the closer it becomes to the single removed ball not mattering at all, so the only thing that matters is the information you got about which urn you're selecting from.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Re: building again... For some people, they don't have the same drive once they've done it once and were successful. I've got friends who were incredible operators for their first N companies, because they were hungry, but th
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by cornel_io 3y ago
The much more likely outcome: 4. A ruling comes down that enshrines what all the big companies have been doing (with the blessings of their armies of expensive, talented, and conservative legal teams) as legitimate fair use
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by cornel_io 3y ago
This isn't a story about software engineering, it's a story about a shitty governmental department in a mediocre country not fixing something that everyone knows is broken, and threatening people with jail time instead. Show me a
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by cornel_io 3y ago
A modern computer can be cast as a seq-to-seq model, too, so their "arguments" apply to those as well, just with larger n and k. Any finite machine suffers from this.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
No, pretty much every piece of all three sentences you write is completely, utterly, and without any reservation wrong. In fact they are so ridiculously wrong and go against every piece of actual data that has ever been produced by reputabl
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by cornel_io 3y ago
If they could find a single person who in natural use (e.g. not as they were trying to gather data for this lawsuit) has ever actually used ChatGPT as a direct substitution for a NYT subscription, I'd support this lawsuit. But nobody
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by cornel_io 3y ago
There was a very recent time when passing some version of the Turing Test would have been a fairly commonly accepted goalpost. Many experts thought that was 20+ years away, and were perfectly comfortable saying that it was their "bar&q
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by cornel_io 3y ago
...you do realize that a year or two into the earliest investigations into nuclear reactions what you would have measured was less energy emission than a match being lit, right? The question is, "Can you create a chain reaction that gr
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Yeah, I spend a small fraction of that and have found GCP support through our account rep to be extremely good, at least on par with what AWS provides. Maybe the particular rep makes a big difference?
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by cornel_io 3y ago
If that was even close to true then I would have had to fire far fewer people over the years.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
It's one of a very small number of substances that is proven to reduce heart attack risk, the primary use nowadays. The low dose seems to be a decent balance between that and the increased risk of stomach issues, though only a clear be
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by cornel_io 3y ago
It's rare, and that makes it a spectacular leg up when you have a person who is great at it.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/sp500.35?country... is up by less than the S&P over the last few years. I'm not saying the healthcare system is great or anything (I generally agree with "
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by cornel_io 3y ago
They're likely going to be the ones who manage the OpenAI relationship...what better way to fuck the people who fucked them than by becoming the ones who literally control the resources that they need?
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Smart people like Ilya really are worried about extinction, not piddling near-term stuff like job loss or some chat app saying some stuff that will hurt someone's feelings. The worry is not necessarily that the systems become "ali
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by cornel_io 3y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, that means Ilya must have voted against Sam + Greg, right?
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Yes - I don't hate it. ...which is literally the highest praise I have ever given and probably ever will to issue-management software. They correctly realize that we mainly want to not notice the software, which is something that every
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Specifically, the "universal function approximate" thing means no more and no less than the relatively trivial fact that if you draw a bunch of straight line segments you can approximate any (1D, suitably well-behaved) function as
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by cornel_io 3y ago
None of that seems upsetting to me at all. Even if it's advertising, even if it's about stuff that's political, even if it's aimed at causes I dislike.
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Two years ago we were quite a ways out from having LLMs that could competently respond to commands without getting into garbage loops and repeating random nonsense over and over. Now nobody even talks about the Turing test anymore because i
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Google generally approves almost any open source work. They're also really generous about approving even for-profit side projects as long as there are no conflicts and you're willing to wait for approval. I was cleared to work on
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by cornel_io 3y ago
In 2016 I worked on a project with a client who still mandated that all code was written to the Java 1.1 language specification - no generics, no enums, no annotations, etc., not to even mention all the stuff that's come since 1.5 (o
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by cornel_io 3y ago
She's trying to enforce laws that don't exist but that she would prefer did. That's not going to go well, and the real solution is to get new laws passed, not to try to force tortured interpretations of the existing and relat
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Here's the fundamental problem with Wolfram's approach: he 1) came up with a model of physics (which is fine), 2) noticed that it reproduced many of the normal things that are necessary in a viable theory of everything, like the b
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by cornel_io 3y ago
I guess it comes down to your definition of "exploitation", whether that's bad, and whether you consider employment to be a mutually exploitative arrangement (which I could get behind, though I think it's not a bad thing
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by cornel_io 3y ago
Unless a very major rewrite happened in the last few years, Defold absolutely does not power Candy Crush, in fact to my knowledge King has never shipped anything in Defold and it's fallen almost entirely out of favor internally. All th
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by cornel_io 3y ago
It has a simple and sane IDE, drawing API and overall environment (including builds and plugina) that's pared down to be cruft-free but very full-featured. Their flavor of Java is preprocessed to be easier to work with, e.g. no classes
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by cornel_io 3y ago
You're routinely successful at arguing down C-level execs who have already rejected your pushback multiple times? Seems like a risky strategy...

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