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by dlkf 4y ago
I’m going to guess you don’t live in Europe? Plenty of cars here.
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by dlkf 4y ago
As is usually the case with concept art, there are a lot of vague nods to what the point of this might be: “exploring deeper time scales from various angles”, “foster longer term thinking”, etc. But you will never get a better explanation
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by dlkf 4y ago
> His approach to remote-vs-in-office work is less that of a data-informed futurist and more that of an autocrat. We don’t have the data to determine the long term viability of work from home. Maybe we never will - causation is not corre
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by dlkf 4y ago
> Once you have drive-by-wire and a sensor array, self-driving is a pure software problem. This argument proves a little too much. Even if we assume that the sensors are equivalent to whatever input stream humans are working with, reduct
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by dlkf 4y ago
> If you're testing for the very rare day, so that your employee has the right answer in their front pocket On the hard days, the answer has never been seen before, and therefore can’t be in anyone’s pocket. You need to know that yo
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by dlkf 4y ago
Lo and behold, they still do coding interviews. Who would have guessed that people who answer difficult questions correctly would outperform people who don’t. In all seriousness, thank you for bringing this up - it’s an interesting story an
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by dlkf 4y ago
> You're also maximizing the odds they will get bored and feel baited. I like this point. This is an especially big problem in my area (data science), in which people think they are being hired to do deep representation learning, an
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by dlkf 4y ago
If anyone actually believed this they wouldn’t complain about it on HackerNews. If it were true that Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc don’t know how to hire programmers effectively, this would be an incredibly powerful observation which you wo
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by dlkf 4y ago
> For such a bold claim, one would expect evidence to be readily available. The only way to provide this evidence would be to to conduct an RCT in which you hire some percentage of people who fail the test as a control group. The nascent
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by dlkf 4y ago
> But the adversarial puzzles and whiteboard programming are not "the job". This is true. They are closer to ”the rare, most intellectually difficult parts of the job.” A hockey player typically spends 70% of each game sitting
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by dlkf 4y ago
> Do coding interviews work in the actual world in which we live in?" No, fundamentally not. I look forward to seeing you disrupt every major tech company in the world via your superior hiring strategy. > EVEN IF THE CANDIDATE CA
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by dlkf 4y ago
> 3 weeks of using large doses of the benzos every night Is this literally what the doctor prescribed?
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by dlkf 4y ago
"The six o’clock news is all about space, all about emptiness: some bald men plays with little toys to show the docking and undocking maneuvers, and then a panel talks about the significance of this for the next five hundred years. The
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by dlkf 4y ago
> It's not obvious to me how blood pressure affects happiness People are typically pretty unhappy following a heart attack.
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by dlkf 4y ago
> If you want to know how people feel, I’m afraid self-reports are the gold standard "How people feel" can't directly be measured scientifically, but it is a function of many things, some of which can be measured reliably
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by dlkf 4y ago
Most of the studies in the linked APA article have all the hallmarks of the replication crisis: - Small sample sizes (O(100)) - Low correlation coefficients - Everybody is predisposed to believe the conclusion (what kind of monster doesn&#x
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by dlkf 4y ago
> Imagine if Musk had tried to buy a big three automaker in order to make electric cars happen. Bad analogy. Social media platforms are natural monopolies. The utility of a car doesn't grow with how many other people own that model.
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by dlkf 4y ago
How many times are life scientists going to rediscover the first law of thermodynamics before we can stop having this conversation?
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by dlkf 5y ago
"Man does not aspire to happiness; only the Englishman does that."
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by dlkf 5y ago
Socrates stumbles upon Hacker News
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by dlkf 5y ago
> To be honest I am seriously considering a move to say South America. Even if we don't end up in a hot war, the persepectives for freedom in Europe are very bleak. Good example of cheap talk / revealed preferences. Don't
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by dlkf 5y ago
The nod to culture war bs is pretty funny, but this is also a deep and interesting problem. In this talk Hinton relates it to conv nets (and their shortcomings). The shoe example is also great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by dlkf 5y ago
If you find a problem that you are obsessed with, you will learn lots, whether you want to or not.
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by dlkf 5y ago
> there are many expressions equivalent to that expression in the dataset What do you mean by this?
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by dlkf 5y ago
I'll preface this by saying that I am 100% in the camp that thinks these language models are neither intelligent nor a promising avenue towards understanding intelligence. But your conclusion here is entirely wrong: the model clearly
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by dlkf 5y ago
I use AWS for personal projects - simple CRUD apps and chrome extension backends. I'm not sure if it would be appropriate for something more complex. Which is not to say that it wouldn't be - just that I have no experience. I also
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by dlkf 5y ago
AWS Serverless: lambda, api-gateway, dynamodb, amplify, cognito
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by dlkf 5y ago
> Utility isn't the same as happiness. In theory no, but in practice it is the concrete instantiation of utility most commonly proposed. Moreover, I think any definition of utility we invoke will be susceptible to a similar critique
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by dlkf 5y ago
It's not a-priori obvious that this is true. You could adapt the author's style to that case (maybe each vertical column would have a post-lunch grey zone) and then argue the pros/cons. Even if it turns out this method doesn&
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by dlkf 5y ago
> This seems to assume that the 10 strangers are not someone else’s children. It does not make that assumption.

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