epicureanideal

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by epicureanideal 1y ago
I’m also a fan of Tasting History. Highly recommended.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Not necessarily. If single core speed doubled but we also doubled or tripled the number of cores, doesn’t that count as keeping up with Moore?
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Finally a way we can do the Star Trek "scanning for life forms".
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Is there some way the two sides could reliably arrive at a truce on the issue of cancellation?
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
> There's a good chance that eventually reading code will become like inspecting assembly. We don’t read assembly because we read the higher level code, which deterministically is compiled to lower level code. The equivalent situati
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Or have gadgets become incredibly cheap? 99 cent iPhone apps etc?
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Agreed. If I use an LLM to generate fairly exhaustive unit tests of a trivial function just because I can, that doesn’t mean those lines are as useful as core complex business logic that it would almost certainly make subtle mistakes in.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Sounds like a huge infusion of cash to highly skilled workers, and supporting the building of skills that can be transferred between companies sounds like a good thing.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
> if they stopped research and just focused on productionizing inference use cases I think they’d be profitable For a couple of years, until someone who did keep doing research pulled ahead a bit with a similarly good UI.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
It would be great if there was a "GDP + non-transactional economy" metric. Does one exist, or is there a relatively straightforward way to construct one?
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
I completely agree. Note that according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ 200k in 2025 is equivalent to about 160k in 2020 when the pandemic began, and 160k would've been on the low end for an experienced softw
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Anyone out there feel like making an app that fixes the distortion and then fills in the missing edges of the rectangle with generative ai? I’d sure enjoy using such an app.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Why can’t the fisheye distortion be removed with software?
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
I wonder to what extent a non LLM system with access to the same original corpus of text would do, with some simple similarity search feature across the corpus?
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Competitors just need to wait for OpenAI to burn all their free money and dig themselves a debt hole they can’t easily climb out of, and then offer a similar experience at a price that barely breaks even or makes a tiny profit, and they win
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
In my opinion, there are worse ways for governments to subsidize aerospace and materials research and development, improve the connectivity between nations, generate national prestige, give people optimism for the future, and so on. 2 bill
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Even if supersonic flight were 2.4x less fuel efficient than regular flights, based on Concorde vs other aircraft, if that translated into 2.4x ticket prices, a lot of people would still pay it. $1000 vs $2400 to get to Europe in 6 hours in
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Atherosclerosis is, as I’ve read, a major cause of age related disease and death, so finding a cause and solution like this could be a major advancement in increasing healthspan. Another step toward longevity escape velocity.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Folks may not know about the jobs, or there might be other details that aren’t mentioned here that make them less interested, for example are there occasionally big chunks of being unemployed, is the work dangerous, is the work stable, etc.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
> you only ever stand to lose half your resources Not true. You can lose half your current assets easily, but possibly more. Then you likely need to pay alimony for many years, which if you add it up might be.. pretty much the other hal
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
I think this would be worth a post and a bunch of discussion all by itself. I think there are a bunch of factors influencing this. If you’re willing to share, did they ever discuss with you the reasons they weren’t interested, and do you t
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
It’s sometimes difficult to find the links through Google on short notice but I found one random site that discusses this. Of course the site is pro fathers but they do link to primary sources to verify the claims in the article. There are
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Probably depends on the state, but last time I checked it was until 18 or high school graduation, but not later than 19, in the state I’m familiar with.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
You forgot to mention child support which is for up to 18 years. Also, nothing stops the woman from having a career, especially if she cooperatively shares 50/50 custody, but often they prefer aiming for nearly 100% custody because it
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
The stats are rigged and biased by not counting the types of work men do, and if they did count it they wouldn’t reach the “right” conclusions so wouldn’t be published. This is written about quite a bit.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
How much does a robot-assisted sculpture cost versus an unassisted sculpture?
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Sounds like we’re about to become more and more valuable over time? Hmmmm
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Yes, because it’s the fare evaders who also disproportionately damage the facilities, commit crimes, and make public transit unpleasant for everyone else. Also we should compare like with like, a yearly salary vs losses per week isn’t the s
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Agreed. I think if fare evaders were kept off it would reduce the need for monitoring significantly, and rather than continuous monitoring, some other less invasive means of detecting destruction in progress could be found.
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by epicureanideal 1y ago
Technically true, but ideally it would be capturing a portion of value created by them, rather than a portion of value created by others, is my point.

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