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by fwlr 3y ago
I haven’t read the article, but one multi-billion-dollar company “refusing to pay its bill” to another multi-billion-dollar company is simply part of the contract re-negotiation process, no? (In the case where one company refuses to re-neg
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by fwlr 3y ago
Probably, yeah. Game development is a bit of an exception to many “rules” of the software business, since creative and artistic expression are significant motivating factors substituting in for a portion of the usual profit motive, in a way
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by fwlr 3y ago
Coase’s Theorem (not technically a theorem) provides the basis for putting numbers on things, it’s not arbitrary. The specific numbers criticized (1.3%, 7%) decided on by economists are indeed arbitrary, though.
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by fwlr 3y ago
The rule isn’t “never use an API”. If you’re a search company you shouldn’t build your business on the Google search API, if you’re a compute provider you shouldn’t build your business on the AWS API, if you’re a payment provider you should
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by fwlr 3y ago
If you have good reasons to build on a third party API and you do it responsibly (not over-leveraging yourself, not annoying the API provider) then it’s fine, sure. Perhaps the real value of that rule is that it makes you conscious of the r
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by fwlr 3y ago
The rule that you shouldn’t build your business on someone else’s API obviously applies here and in the end Reddit is of course justified in choosing to shut out third party apps. But I must say it is simply hilarious that their exorbitant
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by fwlr 3y ago
(Note this article is from the middle of May, almost a month ago. It has already had its “outrage cycle”, so to speak.) In his response to this article, Carmack identifies the original reason he found himself in these circles - “I like hard
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by fwlr 3y ago
Barely a day later and it turns out they actually did do this, haha
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by fwlr 3y ago
That would be awesome! Obviously it’s hard to imagine what that would look like (since a necessary part of it is “the AI comes up with something we couldn’t imagine”), but here’s one potential idea, based on these DeepMind discoveries being
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by fwlr 3y ago
I'm not sure there is a new algorithmic approach to sorting like you're thinking of. From a high level you can divide sorting algorithms into roughly two camps, "those that use divide-and-conquer", and "those that d
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by fwlr 3y ago
Some very cool improvements found in already highly optimized algorithms. They found that in a sorting network handling 3 inputs, the AI found a way to save an instruction by reducing a "min(A, B, C)" operation to just "min(A
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by fwlr 3y ago
If you are okay with cutting the spine off, you don’t need a big hydraulic cutter to do it (even though it is objectively the coolest way). Clamping a straightedge to the book and running a knife along that edge will cut a handful of pages
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by fwlr 3y ago
I’m glad someone’s seriously working on this, and the CodeWeaver team are absolute guns who could pull it off better than almost anyone, but I’m still a little sad about this news since Apple work fairly closely with CodeWeaver - this indic
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by fwlr 3y ago
It’s tempting to think this, and I’ve thought this way before, but I don’t think it’s true. All of the cultures mentioned in my comment are manufacturing powerhouses - by most measures, each has (at different points) been literally the best
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by fwlr 3y ago
Another important difference in business cultures is handling difficult or unachievable requirements. Say you send a work order that needs very tight tolerance in a certain set of holes or a high degree of flatness on a particular surface,
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by fwlr 3y ago
I originally had “radar/LIDAR” everywhere you see “LIDAR” in that comment but it got really unwieldy halfway through. I think what I said generalizes from the specific example of LIDAR to other forms of sensing pretty well anyway, so y
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by fwlr 3y ago
I am sympathetic to this view (I would really love to see just how safe it’s possible to get), but I think the Musk/Karpathy-style argument for vision-only self-driving is quite strong, and it only seems flawed because it has been inco
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by fwlr 3y ago
I was hoping for an alternative to lambda calculus, but alas. It seems that the field of data science has coined the term “Lambda Architecture” to refer to a common approach to handling data analytics in near-real-time where an incoming dat
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by fwlr 3y ago
The most meritorious argument in the bunch is the argument from actual AI, for sure. It’s essentially an empirical argument (“we don’t see recursive self-improvement pretty much anywhere in AI, and that’s a necessary component in hard takeo
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by fwlr 3y ago
I agree, was just explaining what (I think) the author was going for.
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by fwlr 3y ago
Nature doesn’t come with identifiers; that is why Apollo gave us UUIDs. And always remember, the goal of a database is not to model the domain - it is to model your knowledge of the domain.
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by fwlr 3y ago
I deeply appreciate that the author went to the effort of faithfully and charitably summarizing the superintelligence claim before arguing against worrying about it. You only really need the first four premises (proof of concept, no quantum
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by fwlr 3y ago
Few things have been tortured more than “Moore’s Law”, which originally meant an empirical observation that number of transistors on a single integrated chip of fixed size seemed to double every two years, but was broadly understood to mean
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by fwlr 3y ago
Source filtering can definitely be done more cost-effectively, quite dramatically so. https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/19427 has a lot of details and citations on various processes that achieve this. Just to give an idea
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by fwlr 3y ago
Color can definitely aid in understanding when it’s used with consistency. When it’s inconsistent, it becomes an impediment to understanding. The terminal is a place where you have lots of different small tools that you are using in conjunc
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by fwlr 3y ago
I noticed this when I was writing it and tried to use names rather than pronouns as much as possible. I actually use “their” all the time for everyone, I wasn’t aware that JT requests it in their Twitter profile. About fifteen years ago, wh
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by fwlr 3y ago
Their subscription page is currently offering a rate of about $1.35 USD per kg of CO2 removed, and they promise to complete your order within 6 years. It’s nice to have some hard numbers on end-stage or “gold standard” CO2 offset (no doubt
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by fwlr 3y ago
“40 of the 96 students” caught cheating. No comment on the rest of the article but damn, that is an unbelievable number. If that is a representative amount of cheating for college, then it’s completely unrecognizable academic landscape from
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by fwlr 3y ago
>totally worth it Exactly. That was sort of the point of my original comment, although unfortunately I think I only confused things by mentioning herd immunity. Another way of making my point might be to say, there’s a “personal standard
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by fwlr 3y ago
The article is definitely not saying “it’s a myth that chess masters have great chess memory”. Anand is pushing back on a common layman perception, that the chess master’s excellent memory for chess positions is just an instance of their ex

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