elliotto

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by elliotto 2y ago
I think the poster is applying your statement about leaving money on the table. Structural requirements to not leave money on the table is a Moloch results that leads to the deterioration of the system into being just stealing as much shit
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by elliotto 2y ago
I have picked up the cursor tool which allows me to throw in relevant files with a drop down menu. Previously I was copy pasting files into the chatgpt browser page, but now I point cursor to o1 and do it within the ide. One of my favourite
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by elliotto 2y ago
> Its possible to be be precise at an higher level of abstraction as long as your prompts are consistent with a coherent model of the code. This is a fantastic quote and I will use this. I describe the future of coding as natural languag
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by elliotto 2y ago
If you show up to my 140 km multi day trip in jeans you get left at the car and not permitted to come to another one. If it's a long day hike you get left at the car but a second chance. If it's a short day hike (but still worthy
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by elliotto 2y ago
I would argue that knowing what is necessary and what isn't is the fundamental claim of engineering and isn't reducible to a pithy aphorism.
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by elliotto 2y ago
As someone who has led many high hazard outdoor trips for beginners, poor clothing choices from participants often ruin the day. The guide isn't trying to be elitist, he has likely experienced all of the following: 1) It starts to rain
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by elliotto 2y ago
The classic rich guy to Himalayas pipeline. He went to the poorest country in Asia and was dragged up island peak and lobuche east by people making $1000/yr while he has $60m in his pocket and can't come up with anything worthwhil
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by elliotto 2y ago
Asking anonymous people on a forum would be much better.
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by elliotto 2y ago
Could you share the exact chat you used for when it failed? There is a share chat button on openai. It's very difficult to be an AI bull when the goalposts are moving so quickly that ai answering core correctly across multiple models i
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by elliotto 2y ago
There's a great lesswrong article that provides a libertarian critique of phone based sports betting as well as some good attempts to quantify the damage that it does. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tHiB8jLocbPLag
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by elliotto 2y ago
I'm a big fan of your blog simonw, and it's interesting to see how a few of the people you've responded to here aren't receptive at all to your responses. I have become somewhat convinced that the 'ai doesn't h
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by elliotto 2y ago
Hi, I'm Australian and have applied a few times for us based tech roles and ticked 'require sponsorship'. I never really got far with my research - are you saying that the e3 is an automated process and I can get away with ti
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by elliotto 2y ago
I describe the test in natural language and AI writes the boilerplate. A typical workflow for adding a simple new backend endpoint to my company's web application will be: 1) Send a chat gpt request with the existing router code and de
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by elliotto 2y ago
His point is a criticism of the role of religion as a community accessible to everyone; what if you don't believe in it? What if you can't? This makes the idea that everyone should just join their local church group a non starter.
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by elliotto 2y ago
I'm curious to hear your perspective on the validity of psychology / psychiatry / sociology as someone adjacent to the field. I am a hard science maths / data science guy, but unlike a lot of my peers I have a great inte
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by elliotto 2y ago
Who cares lol
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by elliotto 2y ago
Are you using the paid gpt-4? It is a world of difference of improvement over the free tier. Like the author I am now writing 80% + of my code in chatgpt. Every now and then something pops up that it doesn't quite understand and I have
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by elliotto 2y ago
Do you think that killing swathes of civilians and children from helicopter is 'the nature of the world'?
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by elliotto 2y ago
Did you really watch the helicopter video and think 'wow the US military is definitely in the right!'. I was young when the video was released, and it was a huge step in my journey to becoming critical of imperial powers.
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by elliotto 2y ago
you're moving goalpoasts.
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by elliotto 2y ago
People seem to have noticed that chatgpt has good days and bad days. we don't really know what openai is doing in the background, so it could be that some days you get assigned a really bad B in an A/B model deployment test, or ma
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by elliotto 2y ago
A fun fact I learned while visiting the Globe Museum in Vienna, is that they used to make globes in pairs; one would be a globe of the Earth, and the other would be a Celestial Globe which is a projection of the sky onto a sphere. What you&
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by elliotto 2y ago
uhh not sure what constitues a real job if not an author, consultant and teacher (on top of being a successful academic). Have you read his book? It's quite good.
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by elliotto 2y ago
This is wild to disagree with Pikettys magnum opus with a reference to a yahoo finance news article
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by elliotto 2y ago
I think you're right it's probably nvidias fault rather than xorg - but my problems were solved by Wayland so it got me out of trouble. I had a similar problem to what the sibling comment mentioned - scaling was causing me perform
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by elliotto 2y ago
I had a nightmare trying to get a 4 x 4k monitor setup using Xorg. When I switched to Wayland, basically all my problems were solved and it worked out of the box. The Xorg multiple monitor support is really bad and barely works if you are t
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by elliotto 2y ago
All these demo style ads/videos are super jarring and uncanny valley-esque to watch as an Australian. The US corporate cultural norms are super bizarre to the rest of the world, and the California based holy omega of tech companies rea
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by elliotto 2y ago
Hi, I work at a startup where we train / fine tune / inference models on a gcp kubernetes cluster on some a100s. There isn't really that much information about how to do this properly because everyone is working it out and it
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by elliotto 3y ago
It feels like there's a lack of imagination here. Could you conceive of a world that was successful in its research of drugs, but was propped up by an economic model other than pharma venture capitalism?
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by elliotto 3y ago
Land is different. Land rights are defined and protected by a government. A better example is if I gave you a tractor, then a few years later said actually I need that tractor back and gave you the value of what it's worth.

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