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by dvt 2y ago
> OK thats all fine, this kind of discrepancies/errors happens all the time in statistics. That's not what the article is tackling. Rather, it's quite literally about what types of deaths get categorized as "maternal
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by dvt 2y ago
Just to clarify, I disagree that materialism is the one true way (re: your "believe in ghosts" quip), even though I'm quite aware that Searle is not a cartesian dualist (which is why I made the comment about what our "
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by dvt 2y ago
> unless you believe in ghosts it's hard to make a case that human-like AGI shouldn't ultimately be possible The argument that any non-materialist position (panpsychism, substance dualism, monadism, etc.) must "believe in
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by dvt 2y ago
> Can you elaborate on why you believe AGI is nonsense? John Searle is much smarter than I am and he elaborated plenty on this in the 80s. (But more saliently, I think it's absurd to think our brains, or brains in general, do polyno
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by dvt 2y ago
> Do you think that AI is having a big enough impact already to generate this valuation? Is it changing your life? I'm actually quite bearish on AI on the very long term (and as a trained philosopher, I don't buy into the whole
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by dvt 2y ago
> realistically we're looking for much higher (sub 1%) cognitive ability. Weird requirement, why? Even places like RenTech don't specifically look for the top <1% cognitive ability (and they quite literally print money).
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by dvt 2y ago
> They would write code at most 20% of the time, and the job has many other nuances. You're being very nebulous and without knowing exactly what you're hiring for, it's hard for me to recommend a process.
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by dvt 2y ago
> yet were incompenent in the very subject their books are about Gonna <press X to doubt> on this one. I mean I guess anecdotes are cool, but yours goes against basically any editor/publisher due diligence, not to mention the
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by dvt 2y ago
> I don’t really have a solution to this problem, I just know it’s a problem. The solution is simple: refuse to do those interviews. I have, and I wish more engineers would. It's one of my screening questions: do you do whiteboard s
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by dvt 2y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find the scrolling effects obnoxious and floaty. Like I never quite have control over what element I'm scrolling. Just imprecise enough to make it annoying af.
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by dvt 2y ago
I wrote a blog post about this a few years ago that goes viral every now and then[1]. The issue is that these companies have been forcing an asymmetrical market (surprise surprise, that's how they make money); the irony being that marr
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by dvt 2y ago
> You can tell it to output in a JSON structure (or some other format) of your choice and it will, with high reliability. I mean, this is provably false. Have you tried to use LLMs to generate structured JSON output? Not only do all LL
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by dvt 2y ago
> I'm less sure about the customer facing value of a lot of these products. I agree, but mostly due to the fact that there are no "products" yet.
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by dvt 2y ago
It's clear that AI can be the catalyst for creating a lot of customer-facing value. (Though I still contend that the current incarnation of large language models ain't it yet.) Requiring a powerful (and power-hungry) GPU in all de
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by dvt 2y ago
> It's not wild, it's the requirement of the statute: if an agreement says an issue goes to arbitration, the courts are required to send it to arbitration; there's no discretion allowed. I'm not a lawyer, but there se
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by dvt 2y ago
> It seems one of the potential stumbling blocks is mandatory arbitration unless you thought to opt-out very early. It's actually so wild that the judge upheld arbitration[1]. I guess he's technically correct that it doesn&#x27
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by dvt 2y ago
That's an SEC investigation and not a class action lawsuit. The latter usually tends to be much more punishing (specifically, where the class is the people that literally paid for FSD/Autopilot ). The SEC will fine TSLA like $2M
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by dvt 2y ago
I'm pretty surprised that there hasn't been some large-scale class action against Tesla, given Musk and his baseless FSD claims. I mean, it's kind of become a meme at this point: it was "2 years away" in 2017, it wa
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by dvt 2y ago
> Then we'll see somewhat simpler, less general, and cheaper devices that do "AI" operations with as little excess hardware baggage as possible. Nice. Apple has already been doing this for a few years now. The NPU is total
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by dvt 2y ago
There's no free lunch™, so from what I can tell there's some pathway loss here. E.g. some Jacobi trajectories definitionally exclude higher temperature paths. Which might actually be a positive given data retrieval (but a negative
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by dvt 2y ago
Sweet demo, you should do a Show HN! This is much more interesting to me, as the visual element makes much more sense here rather than just putting entire paragraphs in nodes.
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by dvt 2y ago
I tried building an old rig (maybe ~7 years ago or so) using ECC RAM (since I was running two Xeons). It was such a pain in the butt to get it to boot and find sticks that were compatible with each other, don't really want to go down
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by dvt 2y ago
This is not true. It's quite a complicated topic that SCOTUS still has to fully adjudicate[1]. Regardless of what side you land on, the argument that "moderating user content on themselves is not an infringement of the users free
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by dvt 2y ago
> Believe it or not, it’s entirely possible to scroll past a trivial opinion or comment and move on. It's also possible to not have to broadcast your entire life publicly on social media platforms. It's sad that social media ob
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by dvt 2y ago
> can prevent LLM-generated content from destroying the key to our startup? If LLM-generated content can "destroy" your startup, you need a new startup. Programmatically-generated content and people trying to game the algorithm
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by dvt 2y ago
Ah yes, the classic HN Dropbox response :) On a more serious note, I'm not into note-taking apps as much as your average HN'er, but there's probably a business here. If anything, Obsidian has at least been wildly successful t
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by dvt 2y ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm a CTO, expert engineer, and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-te
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by dvt 2y ago
A revolution is all about subterfuge, intelligence, and trust. If you don't hone those skills, you might not be suited for one. Conversely, technology is an attack vector.
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by dvt 2y ago
I launched something very similar ~5 years ago! The site is long gone, but there's some screenshots here: https://www.producthunt.com/products/spoiled-tv Good luck! My goal was to be a sort of "Rap Genius&quo
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by dvt 2y ago
Carmack is 100% correct in his assessment that software is holding VR back way more than hardware. The software is cumbersome, difficult to use, non-intuitive, confusing for newcomers, and glitchy. This is all even though you have a device

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