dave_sullivan

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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Americans have been fucking themselves for so long that they don't even care if it makes sense anymore.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
> Can someone recommend places to read or be involved in non partisan discussion about these topics? The ethereum developers mailing list or something, I'd expect? I agree with your sentiment, I find the cutoff is "programming
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I organize my life around not being interrupted. Work from home, respond to messages when I get to it. When I have an idea or thought that might interrupt, I write it down quickly on an ideas board or my notes for later and discard the thou
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
While I don't completely disagree with the sentiment here, I agree more with the GP suggesting that YC started with great intentions (let's give makers a little money and support and minimal bullshit and see what they make) and th
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Agreed. Up the dose. Dunno about the headache, never had that happen.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
The real OGs had this running on a modded original Xbox when it was still xbmc. In order to watch MST3K episodes from emule. Running CoreELEC on an odroid N2+ now, highly recommended.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
"I'm sorry, you can't access this site because we do shady stuff with your data and can't get away with it in the EU." changes VPN location to US "Ah, an American, welcome!" Everyone should be using a VP
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
People talk about the visuals a lot because that's what you can see, but the visuals are actually one of the less interesting things about the experience. For instance, why do I meet entities (nominally my self conscience) that appear
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I wonder if all these "shit happens" commenters would be saying the same thing if this happened on a plane to the guy sitting next to you.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
So I don't disagree with anything you said. Where I do disagree is in your thinking that this capability can somehow be repressed. The technology is here. This is the world we live in now. Shit is going to get really weird. OpenAI is j
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Yes, but they didn't release the model after training and you can't take your weights with you if you finetune their model. GPT Neo was trained at similar expense, and they released the weights. Use that.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I don't know why anyone is still paying attention to Open AI's offerings. Use GPT Neo. Use Huggingfaces. Use colab or bare metal or any cloud provider. Open AI's offering is bringing literally nothing to the table that doesn&
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
If bitcoin keeps dropping 50% every week for the next 5 years, it still won't be zero. And every 50% drop, someone's thinking "Now could I double my money?" I dunno, there are feedback mechanisms that could keep this thi
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
> unless they are frozen on a specific old version and have figured out an environment that works with their specific models already Mostly this I suspect
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
The HN crowd's interest response has been so deadened by constant dopamine flow that they simply cannot be entertained anymore. "Meh" is the maximum level of emotional response that can be elicited. The invention of literal t
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
This is the kind of autistic pedantry I come to HN for. I don't know what I was thinking.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
> Are we just upset we're also not uber rich for playing video games all day? It's the same with crypto, OnlyFans, and so on. It was the same in '99 with the dot coms Yes, that's literally it. This is the proper use
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I really disagree. > It excels when you have massive amounts of data to begin with, but fails catastrophically otherwise. Then what is zero shot learning and does this not represent a major advance? Sure, you need lots of data, but then
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Huh? Pretty sure you can still buy an AR-15 in a lot of states, am I missing something?
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Not really, you need to install things, know how to program, and probably pay for GPU compute. Even with Colab (which is an ok choice if you don't own a beefy GPU; the consumer Nvidia cards--if you can get them--don't have enough
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Nice, I've been looking for something like this, will play around with it.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
The blog post is pretty introductory but you might find these resources more interesting: http://chu.stanford.edu/ http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/ph94.pdf
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I did some experiments with chu spaces some years ago in trying to understand their application to physics simulation, I'd forgotten most of what I learned, cool to see this on HN.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
It was a tragedy and good example of how the government will crush what it does not understand under a boot. Things haven't gotten better.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
I don't understand how everyone thinks we'll spread out across the universe when "going inward" kind of makes more sense. We can't go faster than light, but we can simulate things and we keep getting better at that.
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
That's actually been surprising to me but makes sense: "the entire history of the stock market" is not that big in terms of data, and the dynamics change frequently enough to where things that happened in 2000 are almost usel
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Does line_profiler not work anymore? https://github.com/pyutils/line_profiler
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
If you read an article by an algorithm and then discuss it as if it were written by a human, was the turning test passed?
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Because they can make a great deal of money by making something that people want and competing with others for market share. If your business cannot survive without a state enforced monopoly, it's a business that can't support its
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by dave_sullivan 5y ago
Seems you are coming from a good place, but IMO there is no fixing the system, patents are a bad idea. They cause price distortions for consumers by creating state-sanctioned monopolies. Monopolies are a type of market failure and do a grea

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