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by flatline 2y ago
> It’s like my whole computer is a toddler screaming “LET ME DO IT!” every time I try to create something. Every autocorrect or auto suggestion ever has felt like this to me, but the volume has been turned up to 11. The otherwise drab Ad
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by flatline 2y ago
The format is the same but not the algorithm or what people are putting on it. I’m not a tok tok user but the few times I’ve been on it they felt surprisingly different. Meta reels are less substantial in content.
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by flatline 2y ago
We are talking about delivering care, not innovative medical technology. The biggest single target for innovation in care delivery is to get rid of private insurers. I think the graph at the top of this article really says it all: https:&#
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by flatline 2y ago
“Staff engineer” varies by employer but this is generally exactly what I expect it to be. There are times I do technical work and times my entire job is putting out fires and making sure the wheels stay on the bus as we barrel full speed to
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by flatline 2y ago
Hypothesis: an LLM capable of generating a correct proof in a formal language, not through random chance but through whatever passes for “reasoning,” should also be capable of describing the proof in a way meaningful to humans. Because LLMs
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by flatline 2y ago
I like the idea of your optimization, but it will not work as stated. The largest would be something close to MAXINT, the smallest 3999. With a range of 2 billion over 32 bits, the odds of both these being within a list of a million is quit
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by flatline 2y ago
Because for things like the Putnam questions, we are trying to get the performance of a smart human. Are LLMs just stochastic parrots or are they capable of drawing new, meaningful inferences? We keep getting more and more evidence of the
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by flatline 2y ago
I got a 3.25% loan post-divorce in a part of the country I hated, and ended up selling and relocating. I do not plan on buying again soon, current prices combined with current interest rates make it unappealing. If home prices come off or s
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by flatline 2y ago
I read it as “omega-bar.”
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by flatline 2y ago
This is the comment I was looking for. He said he was going to intervene and something to the effect of “fix it.” This seems like a logical outcome of that statement.
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by flatline 2y ago
I just need flexibility and variety. Some days I work better from home. Some days it feels claustrophobic and I cannot focus. Sometimes the office helps me focus. Sometimes it facilitates communications that never would have happened remote
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by flatline 2y ago
I asked once and it just gave me “p”. I said “no more fancy like” and it produced the correct result. This is the real power of the model for narrowing search, you can interrogate the results.
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by flatline 2y ago
…because if you grant them the green card they will up and get a new job? The incentives here are so screwed up for everyone, it effectively codifies a caste system of immigrant workers.
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by flatline 2y ago
Off the top of my head, Hawking’s books talk a lot about the GUT and are still relevant, Greene’s book on string theory is an advancement of conceptual attempts to find one. It’s harder to point to now because so much of the public discours
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by flatline 2y ago
It would be no harm to the bureaucracy if they did not find the Higgs. The scientific community would have reacted with excitement and the search for the hole in the standard model would have been apace. In many ways this would have been be
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by flatline 2y ago
A little glimpse into what a lot of proprietary code bases look like - or at least did a couple decades ago.
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by flatline 2y ago
Academia is exploitative. The financial incentives are a symptom of the bigger problem. Is university career training for industry or for an academic track? It is not made clear to people entering the system, and is often murky to everyone
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by flatline 2y ago
Obligatory: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/real-3
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by flatline 2y ago
It sounds like we don’t know enough to even consider landing a probe, let alone something completely unprecedented like drilling a deep hole. This mission, if I understand the article, will attempt to determine the depth of the surface, its
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by flatline 2y ago
This is a big one - pay is livable (I’d argue $24/hr is not, generally) but not great. Doesn’t compare to other technical fields with the same educational and experiential requirements, hours are challenging, and guess what there is a
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by flatline 2y ago
When things go well nobody notices. I’ve certainly headed off and found/fixed a lot of bad decisions in my career, some of my own included. There was a lot of impact there, and it’s good when it’s invisible!
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by flatline 2y ago
Basically what we are all doing here on HN. We are social creatures by nature and the commentary and commentators are often more entertaining than the subject. My dad is an accomplished artist but never wanted to play the art scene and most
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by flatline 2y ago
I’m a huge proponent of divorce. I grew up in a dysfunctional household where my parents stayed together. Their relationship was not healthy, nor were the individuals in it. My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was di
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by flatline 2y ago
I use it as a timer and to control a couple smart lights. About 1 in 5 times I use it as a basic utility, it attempts to sell me something. I have nearly stopped using it altogether as a result of this unwanted behavior. As an added annoyan
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by flatline 2y ago
We’ve had radiocarbon dating age New World artifacts at 20,000+ years, and one in South America up to 60,000 years, but these have all been one-off occurrences that have been mostly regarded as oddities. This study is certainly compelling o
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by flatline 2y ago
Sweetness and kindness are not necessarily the same thing. Just like how “nice” can be a toxic trait. His list of points is fine. It’s mostly the servant leadership mentality, which I’m all for. But sometimes to be an effective leader you h
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by flatline 2y ago
Viagra is prn, you should not take it 3x/day. Cialis is a daily dose.
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by flatline 2y ago
That is not writing with the help of GPT 4, that is letting it write for you! I can’t imagine doing anything creative and letting a computer source material for me without having reviewed the material first hand, even if it was accurate. Cl
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by flatline 2y ago
Boost::graph feels like one of the dustier corners of the Boost libraries. I have used it, it worked, but it took a long time to wrap my head around the design and actually adapt it to my project. It is not great for getting simple things d
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by flatline 2y ago
I did not get the briefcase in my DARE education. What I did get is a cop telling me that my parents having a glass of wine with dinner or a cigarette after work was just as bad a them using cocaine, and that you could OD and die on weed. A

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