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by cs702 2y ago
Yes, he's quite an interesting character, definitely not afraid to say what he thinks even if his opinions are unpopular / contradict the conventional wisdom. While I don't agree with everything he says on this video (in part
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Sandy Munro's highly opinionated take on the Tesla layoffs [video](youtube.com)
3 points by cs702 2y ago|3 comments
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by cs702 2y ago
Thanks. I updated my comment.
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by cs702 2y ago
UPDATE: As Onawa points out in his comment below, the OP is showing benchmarks. --- I couldn't find any mention of model performance on standard benchmarks, nor any mention of model scale (number of parameters, MoE setup, etc.). How co
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by cs702 2y ago
Thanks. That makes sense.
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by cs702 2y ago
Potentially > 2x greater battery life for the same amount of compute! That is pretty crazy. Or am I missing something?
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by cs702 2y ago
Charlie Munger was an advocate of residential buildings that have virtual windows (letting in "artificially created sunlight") instead of actual windows. Before his death he proposed such a residential building for UCSB: https:&#
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by cs702 2y ago
> The YouTuber even tried it with a stick first, which broke in half. It's not enough to qualify for a Darwin Award, but with more, ahem, effort this YouTuber could win one. I'm certain of it.
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How enterprise software is like baby clothing(twitter.com)
84 points by cs702 2y ago|66 comments
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by cs702 2y ago
The grandparent comment and my comment are about Palestinians, not Hamas.
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by cs702 2y ago
Wow, I did not know until now that 90% (!!!) of Palestinians "believe that Hamas did not commit any atrocities against Israel civilians during its October the 7th offensive," and "only one in five Palestinians has seen videos
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by cs702 2y ago
Dammit, you made me spit my coffee out of laughter!
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by cs702 2y ago
> Every HR professional and hiring manager I spoke with — whose lives are supposedly made easier by Workday — described Workday with a sense of cosmic exasperation. "It's like constantly being botsmacked by bureaucracy incarna
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by cs702 2y ago
I've seen this firsthand: > A common point raised by ML reviewers is that a method is too simple or is made of existing parts. And this is self-evidently true: > ...simplicity is a strength, not a weakness. People are much mo
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by cs702 2y ago
Maybe, but I'd be cautious about singing victory too soon. Since the pandemic, so many macroeconomic forecasts have been proven wrong (from "the sky is falling!" to "everything is great!") that I've become very
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by cs702 2y ago
Wait, what? Has this "power user" ever heard of, you know, bookmarking ? More seriously, this sounds a lot like hoarding disorder, but in the digital realm.[a] --- [a] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditi
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by cs702 2y ago
Tesla has been trying to avoid the Osborne Effect with the Model Y! The company sent the following internal email to its delivery advisors about three months ago: > We heard your feedback that some customers are waiting to place their M
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by cs702 2y ago
> Deflation in the 1930s happened because the Fed went the other way, refusing to create money. Exactly: In periods like the 1930's, central must lend to banks at lower rates and buy fixed-income securities with newly created mone
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Deflationary Loop(stlouisfed.org)
1 points by cs702 2y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 2y ago
When deflation becomes a self-reinforcing deflationary loop, as in the 1930's in the US, it's horrible : https://www.stlouisfed.org/-/media/project/frbstl/stlouisfed... That's why Japan h
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by cs702 2y ago
> never make it to HN unless there's special circumstances Yes, I agree. The two most common patterns I've noticed in research that does show up on HN are: 1) It outright improves, or has the potential to improve, applications
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by cs702 2y ago
Including DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing, market share is now 14.7%. Assuming the OP's stats are accurate.
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by cs702 2y ago
It's so refreshing to come across new AI research different from the usual "we modified a transformer in this and that way and got slightly better results on this and that benchmark." All those new papers proposing incremen
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by cs702 2y ago
Could be. Even if few of Musk's decisions make sense to me, he has proven a lot of people wrong in the past, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. The jury is out.
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by cs702 2y ago
> You're literally commenting on an article where the ENTIRE supercharging team was just fired, presumably to save money at Tesla. Oh I'm in shock about that. As I wrote above, "WTF?" Whatever it is Musk is trying to
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by cs702 2y ago
Reading about all the stuff happening at Tesla, I feel like I'm watching a movie made by people who were high on crack cocaine, working off a deranged script authored by hallucinatory LLMs that were secretly running amok in Tesla vehic
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Tesla's Biggest Problem: Cars(ft.com)
2 points by cs702 2y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 2y ago
No. As I wrote in the top comment of this thread[a] and just repeated, the jury is out. That phrase has a precise meaning: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20jury%20is%2... -- [a] https://new
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by cs702 2y ago
> but I think it is only in the last few years - basically, as his social media involvement has increasingly become a distraction - that he seems (to me) to have lost the plot with respect to managing his companies day to day. Hmm... Tha
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by cs702 2y ago
Thank you. I find your comment insightful... but I don't think it gives him proper credit for a lot of "boring day-to-day decisions" he's made at Tesla and SpaceX, particularly in operations and manufacturing, over th

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