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by fhe 2y ago
the article makes it as if the solution to education is "a dedicated tutor to every student". I do not think that's the case. The problem is that not every student has the motivation, and having a tutor on call 24-7 doesn&#x2
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by fhe 2y ago
> yet the real-world impacts remain modest so far. I second that. I remember when Google search first came out. Within a few days it completely changed my workflow, how I use the Internet, my reading habits. It easily 5 ~ 10x the value o
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by fhe 3y ago
I find the separation between the body of the essay and notes makes it harder to read. When I read PG's essay, I always have two tabs open, one on the essay and the other on the Notes section. When I come across a note reference, e.g.
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by fhe 3y ago
on the other hand, my 10 year old mac mini still runs fine, although it no longer supports the latest OSX and many of the more recent APP's. But as a media/entertainment device, light duty file server, and even coding the occasion
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by fhe 3y ago
here's my thought experiment: suppose one builds a generative model that predicts the next digit of pi. if a program can do this perfectly, then it's arguable that it understands what the number pi is. the question is, can such a
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by fhe 3y ago
I have always wondered to what extent GDP (price-adjusted or not) reflects standard of living. By different sources, GDP per capita for Britain is only 60% that of the US, but visiting these two countries I don't see much of a differen
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by fhe 3y ago
purely as a thought experiment, I wonder if given enough time, the NYC stray cat population would observe a genetic drift towards larger body size and start preying on the abundant local rat population? I never lived in NYC, and don't
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by fhe 3y ago
It's part of my job to have meetings with VCs. You are not wrong.
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by fhe 3y ago
Ever better weather forecast for one. I can remember that, about two decades ago, weather forecast was still rather wobbly, and could only see a couple days into the future. Now 10-day forecast is routine, and surprisingly good. Much of tha
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by fhe 3y ago
exactly. it's almost like say dictionaries are better at spelling bee hence smarter than humans, or that computers can easily beat humans in Tetris and smarter because of that.
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by fhe 4y ago
selection bias? in that the people who were let go from or decided to leave SpaceX were the worse performing ones to begin with?
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by fhe 4y ago
would you consider living in Singapore? It seems to have a lot going for it, maybe apart from the high living expense.
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by fhe 4y ago
Even if ChatGPT (and LLMs in general) is not the way to go for AGI, there is plenty of evidence so far that it will prove to be a powerful tool. Much like airplanes did little in the way of achieving bird-like flight, but is obviously a use
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by fhe 4y ago
I remember reading some where that it's one of those scenes that didn't make it to the final release of the movie.
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by fhe 4y ago
fellow nonlinear-reader here. random access to an otherwise rather linear content format is so key for me, and the responsiveness and user interface are maddening. now i can't stop marveling at paper as a medium -- it got so many thing
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by fhe 4y ago
this feels like the Cambrian Explosion, when multicellular organisms where just coming to stride, and there was an explosion of body plans, many look incredibly creative and weird compared to modern animals. It was as if evolution had no as
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by fhe 4y ago
tip to anyone following the link: you can drag the progress bar at the top, and make the playback much faster. one observation: PG does plenty of local edits (reworking over and over one sentence), but not so much changing the order of sent
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by fhe 4y ago
fellow sidewalk worm helper here. ever since i was a kid, i could never bear the sight of earthworms on the side walk, getting stepped on or baked dry when the Sun comes out. i had always thought i was alone in this behavior (none of my fri
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by fhe 5y ago
perhaps in the not so distant future, we can simply feed a movie script to the program and out comes a feature film.
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by fhe 5y ago
"Decentralized systems by nature suffer for slow adoption" I don't see why that's self-evident. Decentralized applications get fast and wide adoption all the time, e.g. Napster.
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by fhe 5y ago
the one theory i read about on the correlation between height and managerial position is that, people's confidence correlate highly with height when they were teenagers (I am assuming that people's height when they are teenagers a
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by fhe 5y ago
just to add another data point, I tried the same search too, and all results look normal and relevant.
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by fhe 5y ago
I use the M1 Mac Air for office work. It replaced my 2017 MBP, and the difference is very noticeable -- with some 3 dozen tabs open on my browser (not the best of browsing habit) the M1 can take it without breaking a sweat. Yet for entertai
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by fhe 5y ago
I'd just want to add that, I in general don't think it's a good idea to train cats to learn behaviors that are unnatural for them. One could say that, eating processed cat food and living with humans are already unnatural, wh
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by fhe 5y ago
it's actually not that much money -- a few hundred million dollars for world wide market? also it seems a fairly inelastic market, i.e. if price drops to 1/5 it's current price, demand won't go up any where near 5x, so c
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by fhe 5y ago
this is exactly that I have been looking for -- and I wonder how I missed it until now in my search for ML tutorials. Many thanks.
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by fhe 5y ago
Having an audience helps tremendously. I remember reading that children write better when they knew someone will read their stories. I imagine they are more motivated to write too (although on second thought, I can imagine it works the othe
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by fhe 5y ago
My guess is that when we were hunter-gatherers, one of the strongest motivations for us to go out of the cave was an empty stomach. I am purposefully keeping myself a little hungry during working hours. The idea is that my body will keep se
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by fhe 5y ago
I learned English as a second language. I have often found certain usages of the English language imaginative and poetic -- while such observations seem to escape my native speaker friends. for example, I found much beauty that English uses
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by fhe 5y ago
Have you seen people manage to breakout from the poverty cycle? I have lived long enough to actually see a handful of people doing just that, and I often wondered what made them different. One trait I often observed is risk-taking. The ones

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