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841.
by d--b 3y ago
In a similar vein I got really hooked in school on Lychrel numbers => take a number x and reverse its digits to form y. Add x and y, repeat. Eventually this process leads to numbers that are palindromic (they are the same if you reverse
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by d--b 3y ago
http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by d--b 3y ago
This sounds really dubious. They talk about rates affecting unemployment which affects crime, but if you look at the unemployment chart, it is completely out of sync with the rates vs crime chart that they base their argument on.
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by d--b 3y ago
No escape capital has nothing to do with retirement. Retirement is: you set aside as much as you think you need between the time you stop working and the time you die. Escape capital is: the amount of money necessary so that interests >&
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by d--b 3y ago
Someone should introduce an economical concept equivalent to escape velocity in physics. If you throw an object towards space from Earth, it will always fall back to Earth, unless you throw it with enough speed (IIRC something close to 11km
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by d--b 3y ago
Just did at 40 as well. If anything I found it a lot easier (I had taken driving lessons when I was 16 and didn’t perceive speed and danger like I do now). I passed really easily, and have been driving about 50000 miles since (I moved from
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by d--b 3y ago
> A one-off mistake or a sign of copyright battles to come over Mickey Mouse? Or a stunt by a clever youtuber to make himself some free attention?
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by d--b 3y ago
It feels very strange to put "next token prediction" on the same level as "E = mc2". "next token prediction" is an experiment that's puzzling, while E=mc2 is a theory (that Einstein developed to explain th
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by d--b 3y ago
Don't overthink it. If you were diagnosed stage 4 brain cancer, you'd just leave now, and no one would be upset. People are upset for a day, and then they move on (see OpenAI?). Leave now. If the investors think the team can succe
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by d--b 3y ago
> Outdated screenshots can cause customers to lose trust in documentation accuracy. as opposed to outdated documentation without screenshots, where the user has no idea that he's reading stuff from 5 years ago?
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by d--b 3y ago
Well, a very similar case can be made about Stopping to Read Blogs...
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by d--b 3y ago
Why is everyone stating what he should have done instead? This is a perfectly legitimate lesson. In finance, we are constantly dealing with products which are somewhat alike but not quite. Equity options vs Fx options ? Sure, they're o
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by d--b 3y ago
Just thinking out loud: I think that the sense of loneliness comes from asynchronous communication. I have used IRC/discord for - oh god I am so old - 30 years. And it's a place where you _don't_ feel lonely. There is always
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by d--b 3y ago
I thought the trend in fashion could be traced back to the rise of non Western customers. Many Chinese and Middle Eastern people can read Latin characters well, but it’s still easier in a cleaner font.
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by d--b 3y ago
Came here to say this exactly. I like Mac Miller and Kendrick Lamar, but as far as hip hop goes these are the only two artists I enjoy listening to. In electronic music, I listen to Aphex Twin, which is pretty hardcord, but can’t really fat
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by d--b 3y ago
I used to listen to bbc 6 music a lot. These days I listen to fip.fr it’s a French national radio, that pans all genres, and is very well curated. There is no ads, and very few people talking.
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by d--b 3y ago
Just saying that most people don't know international traveling routes at all, and so for most people, this is a fun little game that makes total sense.
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by d--b 3y ago
Did you think that you may be the only person who thought that this was about taking realistic routes? Maybe if you had tried yesterday (Bangladesh to Yemen), you'd found it clearer.
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by d--b 3y ago
> The point of this example is that it takes very little for software development to get crippled by complexity without precise language Ah I was wondering where this was headed. It’s a bit disappointing to be honest. Such a build up for
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by d--b 3y ago
No one’s going to jail? Zhao’s worth 10bn and is asked to pay 150m? Binance pays 10bn while it is still worth 36bn? I am shocked. This clearly sends the message that if you make money fast enough, you’ll get away with anything…
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by d--b 3y ago
You make the asumption that Q* is a LLM, but I think OpenAI guys know very well that the current LLM architecture cannot achieve AGI. As the name suggests, this things is likely using some form of Q learning algorithm, which makes it closer
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by d--b 3y ago
Look, I am not your harshest critic here. It is great for you that you work with famous artists. I don’t why you’re being secret about who they are. I have a feeling that these famous artists did not enlist in your program but are advisors
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by d--b 3y ago
Honest question: Is Altman really worth it? I am surprised by the internal support.
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by d--b 3y ago
I so wanted to play SMRPG when I was a kid. I bought it in the US and it wouldn't work on my European snes with the adapter.
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by d--b 3y ago
Ok so what have we learnt: - 5 days ago, Microsoft announced it was making its own AI chips. - 3 days ago, OpenAI board fires Altman and Brockman - 2 days ago, we heard that Altman was in talks to raise funds to build an AI chip startup - y
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by d--b 3y ago
Ok, the website looks totally ridiculous, but this kind of patronship have existed since artists are a thing, so it’s not completely out of whack. It’s a bit of a mixture between an art residency program and an art gallery. Residencies usua
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by d--b 3y ago
What's not perfect about Tuxedo laptops? It's the first time I hear about these, and it seems they have a great spec/price ratio. This is definitely a brand I'd consider buying.
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by d--b 3y ago
Midomi has been doing this since 2005.
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by d--b 3y ago
I’ve been wanting something like this for a long time (voice first with laser projecion). Somehow I’d envisioned it as a tiny pet monkey robot sitting on my shoulder.
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by d--b 3y ago
Very nice, it’s one of the only image that gives some feeling about how much stuff there is in the universe.

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