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by enjeyw 2y ago
I suspect a lot of professionals that need decent compute find desktop PCs to sit in something of a no-man’s-land these days. Personally I find my MacBook Pro plenty powerful for most day to day activities, including testing out ideas. The
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by enjeyw 2y ago
We’re on HN; regardless of the validity of your point, there’s less inflammatory ways to word it.
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by enjeyw 2y ago
Haha yeah I was about to comment that I recall a period just after Word2Vec came out where embeddings were most definitely not underrated but rather the most hyped ML thing out there!
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by enjeyw 2y ago
I like it! Frankly, it should be something that hiring companies do anyways. Perhaps extend it to something like everyone who applies, or responds to your comment” Practically speaking, enforcement will be difficult/impossible for acti
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by enjeyw 2y ago
I think you’re getting downvoted because “yeah yeah yeah” is normally a sign that someone is sarcastically dismissing an idea, but the rest of your comment suggests you’re not at all - linerp is a great idea!
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by enjeyw 2y ago
Are you offering shares in your venture? I’d be mildly interested in investing on the expectation that I’d see returns that are slightly worse than inflation. Not that interested though, so whatever.
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I think we may be running into Poe's Law[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I have no personal insight into Confucius Institute censorship, but the reason I wrote “nation states” rather than China was because I agree, this applies in all directions.
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I dislike the use of the world “offending” in the context of nation-stakes; it conjures this air of innocence around the state is if their primary failing is one of being overly sensitive. A better albeit wordy phrasing would be “for fear o
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I understand your hesitation, but I’d really appreciate your take, given you seem to know your stuff. Personally I think the sibling comment is pretty accurate, and rust is held back by: - slow compiling of larger projects - async stuff can
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by enjeyw 3y ago
Yeah as far as I’m aware that’s the solution. Though then the market can’t use the deposit to make money for themselves, and needs to rely on other mechanisms like trading fees etc. So really it comes down to how much the market cares about
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I worked at a prediction market startup for a while. Even completely rational prediction markets generally have a structural problem with events with likelihoods close to 1.0 or 0.0. This leads to cases where conspiracy type events have muc
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by enjeyw 3y ago
It’s times like these I’m so glad we allow resubmissions. This is such cool piece of work and the HN-specificity of the audience means that the only real path to success is via a submission that makes the front page
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Bret Victor (Dynamicland) – Inventing on Principle (2012) [video](youtube.com)
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by enjeyw 3y ago
Yeah this is something I've also tried to grapple with. I think you have a point with the rats - they're clearly very intelligent creatures, which is unfortunately also makes them so valuable for this kind of research. So it comes
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by enjeyw 3y ago
If you’re willing, I’d love your insight on the “why one might want to do this”. Conceptually I understand embedding quantization, and I have some hint of why it works for things like WAV2VEC - human phonemes are (somewhat) finite so forcin
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by enjeyw 3y ago
Personally, I intersperse my running with Interval Training on an exercise bike: 2 minutes out of the saddle with the resistance turned up a bit, pushing as high as you can go, 1 minute of easy riding in the saddle with low resistance. Repe
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by enjeyw 3y ago
Cherry Ripe Bars [1] use rejected bars as a component of their filling. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Ripe_(chocolate_bar)
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by enjeyw 3y ago
Parent doesn't actually care; it's all just spin.
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by enjeyw 3y ago
In highschool I was lucky enough to join a program run by the CSIRO (Australia's Government funded scientific research body), where students would assist scientists on experiments they were conducting. I was tasked with measuring the w
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I wonder if anyone will end up employing the "human" solution of padding sentences out with filler words like 'Ummmm' or 'So like' while the generator is determining the actual next token...
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by enjeyw 3y ago
> The delicate balance of Nature was upset. Fascinating stuff. A subtle build on this that just struck me: "The delicate balance of Nature moved to a new equilibrium point that involved a lot more human deaths" I think it'
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I love this post for this exact reason: https://overreacted.io/things-i-dont-know-as-of-2018/ It's written by Dan Abramov who has been instrumental in React's development
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by enjeyw 3y ago
I’m not an expert here but it seems to me that this should force every single healthcare org in the US off Zoom, since having patient health data leaked in this way violates HIPPA?
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by enjeyw 3y ago
>Third observation was unexpectedly high visible support of Wagner by people. Many laughing at situation or agreeing with Prigozhin‘s demands, some bringing food and water to mercenaries in Rostov. All despite that PMC Wagner is a crimin
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by enjeyw 3y ago
At least for the 3D printing case you may have just been too early, or the wrong market. I work at a hardware company and these days 3D printing is invaluable for prototyping and other similar work. Maybe in a couple of years the same will
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by enjeyw 3y ago
Very cool! Animation is missing this classic from Aha: https://media.tenor.com/KAxhQIW7wTYAAAAC/aha-take-on-me.gif
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by enjeyw 3y ago
Amazing work. Of all the great projects on this thread, this is my favourite
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by enjeyw 3y ago
As someone on the list, here’s a moderating view against to the popular take of narcissists campaigning to get on the list (which definitely has some truth to it). I made no attempt to get on the list and didn’t even find out I was on the s
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by enjeyw 4y ago
I’m not convinced it is. The statement translates to: “I think that the benefit for the community that infrastructure investment provides is so much greater than rebuilding the telescope, to the point that if I had absolute control of the l

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