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by dvt 3y ago
Great write-up, though the expression is "whet your appetite," not "wet."
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by dvt 3y ago
Effective Altruism is nth degree utilitarianism which even a college freshman can tell you has very unsatisfying answers to all kinds of fairly trivial ethical puzzles. Not even remotely surprising that a sociopathic fraudster subscribed to
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by dvt 3y ago
> By that argument, conjunction is also called "addition". Perhaps there's a different reason? A chain of (arbitrary) conjunctions is not necessarily implied by the first proposition, so we have the much less interesting:
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by dvt 3y ago
It's called logical addition which is different than arithmetic addition, so it's best to not conflate the two. It's called "addition" because you "add" another propostion, creating a disjunction. And by
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by dvt 3y ago
I understand building something novel (even if it's crazy), but this is just yet another framework using observables + redux pattern. It's been done to death, and imo I don't even think it's that good of a paradigm, in s
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by dvt 3y ago
Early Alameda strategy was BTC arbitrage in Asian markets (which is very above-board). They were definitely successful. Once that well dried up (arbitrage is usually an "early bird gets the worm" game), they started gambling on sh
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by dvt 3y ago
To be fair, FTX had decent traction and Alameda had been successful in the past. I think it's easy to say "pass" on SBF now that we know he's a crook, but there are genuine legitimate exchanges out there that are worth
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by dvt 3y ago
> But you will not lose capital as an employee, since you did not put in capital to lose. The conversation is a lot more complicated because there's an opportunity cost, you lose time (your time is finite, company time is infinite),
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by dvt 3y ago
> On the other hand, employees aren't liable for the company's losses and debts, so it works out in the end. How can anyone seriously type this? If you fuck up bigly enough, you will 100%—without fault—get sacked. Again, not ev
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by dvt 3y ago
I think I'd also prefer the infinitesimal version of calculus, but the idea of limits is applicable to many other areas of math, not just calculus (evaluating infinite series, for example). So learning limits is probably a better pathw
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by dvt 3y ago
Fundamentally disagree with this. In fact, most of human technology has worked without on-call rotations. From the complicated movements of mechanical watches, to the still-ticking heartbeats of the Voyager probes. Most software engineers j
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by dvt 3y ago
> "A lack of planning on your behalf, does not constitute an emergency upon mine." Agreed. Imo, having "on call" rotations is a clear red flag and bad software practice that has somehow made it in the mainstream. I un
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by dvt 3y ago
Typical Sequoia "think piece" meant to bring in tier-2 and tier-3 VCs onto the AI hype train, further bolstering their own position. I don't even think Sequoia believes in AI per se , they're just chasing the next shiny
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by dvt 3y ago
Introversion/extroversion is very surface-level. If you look at the study, you see that "value-oriented" traits (views on politics/religion/children/education/family etc.) tend to have higher correlation w
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by dvt 3y ago
Weird top post considering the context of the article here is Rotten Tomatoes reviews literally being bought . Might need to include bribery in your formula.
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by dvt 3y ago
> If I were an executive sponsor of software initiatives, for example, I’d want to take some of the lessons from the VC world. I’d expect, and plan for, projects to just “not work.” I’d bake that into expectations all the way up. In any
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by dvt 3y ago
> It's probably impossible to control for something like that, but it's interesting to think about. Not impossible at all, SEC has already started charging crypto influencers for peddling pump-and-dump schemes. Most shitcoins y
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by dvt 3y ago
> I think there's a world of difference between "someone misunderstood something and published an incorrect article" and "someone deliberately wrote misleading headline". There's a difference, but I don&#x27
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by dvt 3y ago
I don't understand your point. It follows that if they don't have the expertise, than maybe they should not have published the article, no?
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by dvt 3y ago
> a single axis on which an ML system underperforms a frigging doctor You do realize the salience of the fact that this isn't some arbitrary axis, right? It just so happens to be the axis that involves the doctor making the correct
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by dvt 3y ago
> There is enormous potential for this new wave of tech to impact humanity. For example, Google’s MedPaLM2 model outperforms human physicians to such a strong degree that having medical experts RLHF the model makes it worse (!). Wow, wha
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by dvt 3y ago
> And I gave up and deleted my account. Same. Yet another "AI product" that has zero product-market fit and zero usefulness. What sucks is that even if you do get a consensus, it's not even tractable (e.g. does not prope
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by dvt 3y ago
> Sigh. No. They do not. Technically, GP is right that they (mathematically) swap, but yeah, it has a meaningless physical effect (the geodesic is always smooth). It's akin to describing the rotation of a kicked ball with imaginary
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by dvt 3y ago
This is a bad counter-argument. What do you think is the overwhelming product of ranting and raving of anime-picture "scientists" on Twitter: scientific muddying of waters that confuse laypeople and promulgate disinformation, or a
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by dvt 3y ago
I really wish less people would give pseudo-anon accounts this much credence. Literally no good science has (ever?) been done on Twitter/X, it's mostly just stupid equivocating. Much thanks goes out to the actual scientists out th
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by dvt 3y ago
Ah gotcha, I actually 100% agree here. I think both the parser (and my brain) would probably be better served by space on both sides of a variable : type (or type : variable) declaration.
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by dvt 3y ago
Pretty sure it's standard practice to always do "t[space]:[space]T" with equidistant spaces between the colon. In spite of Type Theory generally being an inconsistent mess, this is a rare case where everyone seems to be fairl
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by dvt 3y ago
> Generally the existing legal system is a very difficult path. Yeah, it's a difficult path because of pesky things like evidentiary rules, burden of proof, and presumption of innocence. False accusations happen, especially in mega-
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by dvt 3y ago
It's actually a bit weird how your name gets auto-tagged (even without your consent!) on Amazon. First noticed this when my name showed up[1] (not fraudulently, in this case); but very strange for an author link/page (especially a
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by dvt 3y ago
> Yes, Kirkhorn "will continue to serve Tesla through the end of the year to support a seamless transition", but this reads as a rush notice. I don't own any $TSLA (or one of their cars), but this is like the opposite of

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