dvainsencher

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by dvainsencher 3y ago
> 1. The AI answers many questions, some of which are potentially harmful, and generates first draft answers. ... > 4. The system repeats this process until it collects a large dataset of first draft answers, and rewritten more-ethica
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by dvainsencher 3y ago
> Factually, its first draft made a best guess (prediction) of what’s accurate. A well pre-trained LLM makes every word a good guess of what the authors of its training set would say, following the words that preceded... in a different c
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by dvainsencher 5y ago
FTFY: "they're _almost_ the same thing." Dividends lower stock price by moving cash from company to owner, buybacks increase stock prices[1] by de-diluting, so only one of those is evidence of the CEO (whose compensation is o
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by dvainsencher 5y ago
That sounds like an argument about "if one's time is worth less than minimum wage, one cannot find a job". And sure that is true for some people, but saying it benefits _only_ ... sounds like it is never good for any worker,
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by dvainsencher 8y ago
PhD in Machine Learning, on O-1 based on research. EB1B got denied (I have enough accomplishments, company accomplishments excluded for weird reasons). O-1 up for renewal next year. 1. How often are O1 extensions approved? 2. Am working f
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by dvainsencher 8y ago
Have you ever used Rust? it is not object oriented at all. It uses Traits (kinda like interfaces) for generic programming. If you don't know, please don't muddy the waters.
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by dvainsencher 10y ago
As a trading quant starting this Friday, are there any good forums on the net for reading up the soft aspects?
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by dvainsencher 10y ago
Of course the coverage by libraries, accessibility of varied example code have improved tremendously, as have version control (es. distributed). But I would say that the amount of code to put something on the screen, speed of compilation an
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by dvainsencher 11y ago
I won't argue about definitions, except to say I am following [1], and suggest you do the same (because it is a use of words that matches their general meanings, not because it is there). Unless taxation and reporting are made trivial
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by dvainsencher 11y ago
Eh... no. Most markets are for items there are many of. There are lots of apples, people see friends enjoying them, people buy one, like it, buy another, a price is established. Key facts: you get to buy it more than once, more than one per
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by dvainsencher 11y ago
It is a job of the government to counteract destabilizing influences such as the wealth concentrating effects of technology and under-competition. As a foreigner living in the US, the US government honestly sucks eggs at it. Healthcare, ban
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by dvainsencher 11y ago
Location: Princeton, US Title: ML postdoc, formerly software engineer Years Exp: >5, depends how you count Next move: Finding a job in industry (tech or finance in NYC or Bay area), solving hard problems using ML, so I can wrestle with t
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by dvainsencher 11y ago
Proof based trusted computing. seL4 and similar applications of coq proof assistant. Existing academia is funding some development of tools like coq, and also some core applications like seL4, and more accessible applications will happen as