ctchocula

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by ctchocula 2y ago
I like how you describe vo2 max as similar to an xp bar, because I've felt something similar. Zone 2 is what got me into running, because it made running not hurt and almost pleasurable. It's much more sustainable than Zone 4 (sup
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by ctchocula 2y ago
Reminds me of "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people".
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by ctchocula 2y ago
Can you share the name of the app for others who might be interested in trying it out?
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by ctchocula 2y ago
There's a similar scene in "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway.
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by ctchocula 2y ago
The truth will come out eventually, but this article suggests Rogan stiffed her on purpose. https://newrepublic.com/post/187601/fox-news-joe-rogan-donal...
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by ctchocula 2y ago
Idk about Theo Von, but Rogan put his thumb on the scale when he refused to interview Harris even though he interviewed Trump.
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by ctchocula 2y ago
You have to understand American politics behind the rise of Trump. Since the 1980s and Reagan, Democrats had broken with their New Deal era coalition composed of union workers. Instead, Democrats have aligned with middle class knowledge wor
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by ctchocula 2y ago
Most likely they were in the form of UberEats or Doordash credits, which can be used to purchase retail items like the ones described in the article.
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by ctchocula 2y ago
> There was an understanding of natural selection even back to antiquity. How could there not be? Did people not tame the animals and plants? These are experiments, and they saw the results. No, people did not know natural selection befo
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by ctchocula 2y ago
You might be stretching Dan Luu's essay a bit far. It's been a while since I read it, but my recollection of it was him saying the 95th percentile in an arbitrary hobby, say amateurs playing competitive esports (e.g. Overwatch), a
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by ctchocula 2y ago
The worst part of Apple Maps is it doesn't have "always point north" mode. That makes it unuseable for those of us that can't use non-North turn-by-turn maps. It's been a feature request for many years now and Apple
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by ctchocula 2y ago
The most anti-consumer part of this company is each overpriced covid test has an expiry date. For a cheap $5 test you can find in a grocery store, even if it's past expiry you can still use the test and the ones I've tried have be
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by ctchocula 2y ago
> I once heard a coach claim that given a student with the heart of a champion, they'd podium after having been taught but two actions. Out of curiosity, for which sport?
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by ctchocula 2y ago
It's a fun anime if the slapstick comedy resonates with you and don't take everything seriously. If slapstick isn't your cup of tea, then no point forcing yourself to watch it.
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by ctchocula 2y ago
> I kind of like that we’re thrown headfirst into this world without a ton of exposition around motivations and whatnot. It feels _a lot_ like Blade Runner that way (my favorite film) — sort of confounding and urgent. I really like this
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by ctchocula 2y ago
> 2. It doesn't appear to work with rain Waymos do drive in the rain. See [1]. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/126kznl/wa...
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by ctchocula 3y ago
People don't use the metaphor literally because it doesn't make sense from a 2nd Law of Thermodynamics perspective. If the Matrix was created by AGI for thr sake of producing energy, it would make no sense at all to keep humans ar
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by ctchocula 3y ago
This idea that everyone is at the top of a different status ladders appears to be the same basic thesis as the essay "Melancholy of Subculture Society" written by Gwern [1], which fleshes out the idea further and presents this as
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by ctchocula 3y ago
If you're interested in this topic, you might also be interested in the idea that there is a Brown Dwarf hidden near our solar system that causes periodic extinctions on Earth, because it periodically messes up the comet shield provide
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by ctchocula 3y ago
+1 I've also been bitten by this. The low production volume of the Volt meant that the 1st generation Volts suffered from a poorly designed regulator on all windows, so the power window stops working. Those need to get replaced 5-8 yea
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by ctchocula 3y ago
+1 to this. A fair and balanced take is that Prop 13 is a massive redistribution program from renters to the landowning class in California. In an ironic twist, the people without property are subsidizing the people with property. This is e
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by ctchocula 3y ago
"director" is probably a reference to Woody Allen quoting Groucho Marx in Annie Hall [1]. It's a great movie btw. Comes highly recommended from Roger Ebert [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejnp589JuL0
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by ctchocula 3y ago
My experience as well. HN is one of the few places I heard people talking about the commingling problem. I wonder how Amazon is able to keep this information from being known by so few people.
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by ctchocula 3y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" seems apt here regarding both Karpathy and Elon. You can call me skeptical, but when there are millions and billions of do
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by ctchocula 3y ago
Sure, but that doesn't apply here. If you watch the video, the defender passes back to the goalkeeper. Backpasses by the defending team that are intercepted by the attacking player (even if they are in an offside position) are not cons
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by ctchocula 3y ago
Waymo also operates in SF, except during the daytime unlike Cruise.
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by ctchocula 3y ago
Nitpick: MCTS is a heuristic search algorithm as well (just like minimax) that doesn't necessarily need a neural network to operate and the MCTS algorithm existed way before AlphaZero, coming from Reinforcement Learning literature. Dee
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by ctchocula 4y ago
As of now, Apple's version is uncompetitive for training. It is decent for inference, which is good but doesn't cover the training usecase which is the main usecase for TPUv4 and Nvidia GPUs like A100. A100 provides 312 TFlops, bu
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by ctchocula 4y ago
FPS games are entertaining as well. The downside is you need to know: (1) the game (e.g. csgo), (2) roughly know the map (e.g. de_dust2), and (3) have a commentator that breaks down the mindgames both teams are using. If you have all 3 ele
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by ctchocula 4y ago
If you've checked the author's previous post [1], you'll see that he admits to being 1200 Elo on chess.com, which is beginner / early-intermediate level. So him losing to GPT-4 may not mean much. Maybe that explains the

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