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by endymi0n 3y ago
How many German LLMs do you need to change a lightbulb? One. They're efficient and don't have humor.
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by endymi0n 3y ago
Long but not unheard of here. The dirty secret is that it mostly works in your favor: Nobody can really force you to work at full motivation and capacity, so most of the time you just cut a mutually beneficial deal when leaving and do it
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by endymi0n 3y ago
As to the best of my understanding, Fortran still offers some "fringe", but very important low-level optimization potential, specifically in the areas of pointers and aliases that are important to linear algorithm packages, which
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by endymi0n 3y ago
In other words: "Objects with less surface area and lower albedo are less reliably picked up by visual deep neural nets. We haven't benchmarked this against human drivers."
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by endymi0n 3y ago
It took me some time to realize that Cloud Solution Architects are also just slightly more technical sales people in disguise whose only mission is upselling you onto more dependency. Same thing about their PR, every CxO these days says the
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by endymi0n 3y ago
Looking at recent supreme court rulings in the US, I can‘t even see a lid on the can anymore, and I‘m honestly not even sure there‘s any piece of can left. If the political right does not give a damn about neutral and impartial courts, I gu
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by endymi0n 3y ago
Granted, I'm just massively struggling with the idea of excluding a whole radically diverse community (with some of the most civilized and self-moderating discourse on the internet) in the name of inclusiveness. To me, it's as iro
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by endymi0n 3y ago
My experience has been that it still has paid off to stay consistent. My youngest one is also extremely stubborn with a rage issue (I wouldn‘t dare to say 1% but at least 5%), and I can‘t count the time outs I‘ve had to distribute. All of t
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by endymi0n 3y ago
Playing devil‘s advocate, all kinds of linting, vetting or security scanning with any degree of smartness beyond a regex would probably fall into my definition of non-human eyes too. Slippery slope, yes, but in reality there is a legal fram
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by endymi0n 3y ago
Here‘s my hack: Surround yourself with equally capable finishers. Once I figured out that there were lots of people out there who had great finishing, endurance and project management skills, but lacking the knowledge and the creativity in
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30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web(web30.web.cern.ch)
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by endymi0n 4y ago
People need to be carbon literate about as little as they need to be nicotine literate when buying cigarettes. Just like with cigarettes, the only thing we need as a society is to finally freaking price in the negative externalities of rele
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Sounds exactly like my own feeling of superiority after my first hacks as a teenager. Dragon, as a greybeard who used to do equally dumb and great stuff like you… don’t let how people judge you ever stop you from hacking. Rock on!
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Let‘s do the napkin math: - Biggest EV batteries are about a ton - Let‘s even assume they’re all lithium - Lithium from seawater can be produced everywhere worldwide at about 5$ per kilo [1] - That‘s 5k for a powerful battery lasting a deca
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Interestingly, that's my main gripe about scientists. Rarely does any of them actually dare to find anything out and settle a case. You can bet your aunt that the conclusion ends with "further research is warranted"... how be
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Came to say that nothing really beats the bottom-up approach you mention, but there WERE some top-down tools over my career that really helped me too: - Understanding the circle of fifths (and just doing the exercise of playing a simple mel
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by endymi0n 4y ago
The future of AI isn‘t training data, it‘s logic and adversarial training on reasoning by first principles. You already see the first flowers of that in the InstructGPT paper and we‘re about to see much more. If you port the idea of GANs to
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Having delivered projects with about a dozen different relational and "schemaless" databases over the course of 15 years, I'm proud to say I'm siding 100% with this article by now: https://orangematter.solarwi
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Llama is neither instruction finetuned nor human reinforcement learning ranked. It‘s a base model like the original GPT3 that needs much more careful prompting and few-shot reasoning to produce similar results.
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VALL-E X: Speak Foreign Languages with Your Own Voice(vallex-demo.github.io)
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by endymi0n 4y ago
If you want a cautionary tale, here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3134322 The coffeeshop fallacy (2011) It‘s easy to get blinded by how incredibly privileged the tech bubble is and have had a better experience
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Sounds a little bit like the standard recipe of any functional programming enthusiast: Just use pure functions! Except that they‘re colliding all the time with that tiny problem that the world isn‘t pure... People expect the same page at th
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by endymi0n 4y ago
I like it, will steal some. I followed the same strategy and always added relevant content to this doc, then forcing myself to read it every day. It‘s a non-attributed mashup of several sources. because it‘s from my personal notes: —- Core
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by endymi0n 4y ago
I can relate a lot, since I have always been a sports hater myself. after lots of research, I came to the conclusion that the best bang for the buck would be found in strength training. it works best in a lot of dimensions: back pain, looki
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Assuming you’re a cis-hetero male, as you talk about both love and a lasting relationship, I can vouch for https://www.amazon.com/Married-Man-Life-Primer-2011-ebook/dp... from years of happy marriage - even if you‘re n
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by endymi0n 4y ago
„If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should“ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17840275
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by endymi0n 4y ago
This wasn‘t the market crash. The real one is still to come.
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by endymi0n 4y ago
* literally everybody else _per continent_ please, also CCS is an abomination of a charging port. If you would let the CCS consortium design a megawatt charger like Tesla‘s V4, mere mortals would probably not even able to lift it.
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Here‘s how I did it (pretty much accidentally), but found out it‘s a great platform to start from: I stumbled into an ill-defined semi-technical role in a growing company with a great boss. I was a technical ad creative support specialist,
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Tell HN: Apple, please just replace your dictation with Whisper
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