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   by fritzo 3y ago

   Gosh how many folks here believe any sort of property is "real"? I guess I see intellectual property as made up rules, just like exclusion rights on real property are made up rules. We're just riffing off mammalian instinct
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   I'm guessing the author is computing embeddings https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/embeddings
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   The scalability payoff is in personalization. E.g. I love "This week in microbiology", but I wish I could have more influence over the scientific papers discussed. What I'd love is a morning podcast that's exactly as lon
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   > 30,000 times more initial energy than any recorded events As a statistician: this is why heavy-tailed modeling matters. Schools teach the finite-variance version of the Central Limit Theorem and students believe they live in a normal w
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   general intelligence is just an ecosystem of specialized models stitched together, interacting. if laws prohibit these components, then the system can't be built legally
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   Why whenever there's generated art like this they never credit artists who generated the training data?
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   Consider following John von Neumann's advice "in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." Write down the first 100 equations involving sin, cos, tan, log. Use those equations in 100 larger d
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   Yes, that resonates. But how do people change? Through their own rude awakenings? When they contrast their own selected peer group with other teams?
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   by fritzo 4y ago

   Indecisive leadership was your reason for leaving? (just clarifying!)
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    Why doesn't Binance flex and encourage a complete withdrawal by say Jan 1? Wouldn't that kind of power move boost its reputation above all competitors?
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    Great observation! Indeed a "handful of blueberries" is a larger number of blueberries than the number of planets in "a handful of planets", or senate bills in "a handful of bills", and more than the handful o
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    This resonates. I wish it didn't. I'm experimenting with ever more delicate communications to avoid spoiling the soup.
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    Can you offer any constructive advice to us engineers, and help us move towards more value-creating contributions? I hear your "disconnected from reality", but I'm not sure what to do about it.
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    Nice, like there's a CAP theorem for finance. Pick two: - civil: transactions are just - accessible: customers can withdraw their assets - partitioned: customers can exchange assets with other customers
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    Sorry, you're right, and I'm sure there's more to the story and that the journalist took license in that introduction. Still it feels like a gratuitously tempting red herring, and the journalist could have toned down that int
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    > When his ex-wife moved to Europe with their two sons It's hard to ignore that if the gender roles had been reversed in this story, the obvious response of everyone around the bereft despondent mother would have been: "give he
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    I was hired into a super fun startup from a Who's Hiring post back in 2012. Thanks for this service!
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    ok but 'milliangstroms' immediately conveys a sense of relative error
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    I'd love to see a series of increasingly compressed images, say 8kb -> 4kb -> 2kb -> ... -> 2bits -> 1bit. This would be a great way to demonstrate the increasing fictionalization of the method's recall.
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    Gosh I find it takes a lot of mental effort to monitor the body while running. I spend a lot of mental effort balancing exertion among muscles (left-right, calf-quad-glut, legs-arms), tuning pace, "shifting gears" in terms of brea
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    There are about as many mammals as birds, maybe a few more mammals. https://reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-the...
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    I use graphical models all over the place, typically for problems that have more structure than simple statistics calculations, but don't need the huge capacity of machine learning models. For example I work with bio folks measuring
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    'pollution' is vague and politically charged. The article observes that Nitrogen Oxides reduce crop yields, whereas some "pollution" (e.g. volcanic ash) can increase crop yields.
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    by fritzo 4y ago

    Did I misread? Wouldn't you want "middle of nowhere with no easy access to the ... Internet"?
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    by fritzo 5y ago

    This reads like a 1950s ad envisioning a future filled with unimaginably many vacuum tubes.
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    by fritzo 5y ago

    Good point! This would have been a bigger issue back in the days of cvs and svn.
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    by fritzo 5y ago

    For example: while actions are down, branches can be merged without ci tests passing, even for protected branches. This just happened on one of my repos.
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    by fritzo 5y ago

    But who would accompany him to jail, a cadaver?
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    by fritzo 5y ago

    15 minutes in I was thinking "this guy can't still be alive"
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    by fritzo 5y ago

    > but decided to update everything We each make that mistake once ;)