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by fwlr 4y ago
With all due respect to Dean and his fantastic work on the sounding the alarm before the GFC, I think he’s wrong here. The stress test doesn’t really consider sharp changes in Federal Reserve interest rates, it uses one predicted rate for t
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by fwlr 4y ago
Don’t sell yourself short! (And you have my apologies in advance if my excited comment above has created any extra work for you)
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by fwlr 4y ago
Sort of? I completely agree with Casey’s argument that Clean Code makes for poor performance, but I’m not making that argument here, he’s made it for me. I am arguing that many developers are really bad at knowing when performance mat
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by fwlr 4y ago
Oh, so that’s where “Antipodean” to refer to Aussies comes from! Neat!
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Glad there’s a legit car company behind this, because otherwise it would sound like a weird riff on scammy NFT exchanges” Heh. You joke, but I honestly don’t know who I’d trust less to make a car: a car company that released one car model
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by fwlr 4y ago
DFAST is another part of Dodd-Frank, and one part that might have helped catch this issue, I agree - although, I do wonder what potential Federal Reserve interest rates they would have plugged into the calculations… The 2021 Report https
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yeah, I don’t know why I tried to specify what kind of person you should hire for CFO. Just hire a good one.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Oh shit, I took a closer look and you’re right. The repo was also helpfully updated with a note to this effect: “The Accelerate framework is actually currently unused since I found that for tensor shapes typical for the Decoder, there is no
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’d argue the real lesson here is that startups with VC money can’t afford to treat their bank account as a black-boxed third party API. Hire a risk-averse financial analyst as CFO early on and task them with the responsibility of making yo
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by fwlr 4y ago
The kind of mortgage-backed securities they held are still US Government securities! They are “mortgage-backed” more-or-less in the sense that the Government is willing to offer such-and-such amount of investment opportunity at so-and-so ra
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by fwlr 4y ago
While we can easily see that long-duration low-yield bonds are risky if interest rates rise, I would point out 2 things. 1. Financial analysts were not devoting much time to analyzing the risks from rapid rate increases, as rapid rate incre
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by fwlr 4y ago
The latter. Arguably, being exempt from Dodd-Frank may well have allowed SVB to be more resilient than otherwise. The general thrust of Dodd-Frank was to push banks away from high-risk investments. The Volcker Rule that’s at the heart of Do
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yeah, I’ve done a few Sydney -> SF as well, that’s been around for a while I think. I was wondering whether we’ll get to the point where we can go any airport to any other airport direct. That means figuring out what are the longest theo
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by fwlr 4y ago
Some rules of thumb I use for estimating this kind of stuff 100wpm: Max typing speed 200wpm: Max speaking speed 300wpm: Max listening speed, max reading speed with subvocalisation 900wpm: Max reading speed without subvocalisation
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by fwlr 4y ago
No, Casey’s argument is that clean code is not good for performance. The counter-argument to Casey’s argument is that when performance matters, don’t write clean. My counter-counter-argument to the counter-argument to Casey’s argument
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by fwlr 4y ago
Previously Qantas’s offerings for Europe were flights where you’d do Sydney to Dubai (15hrs) then Dubai to London (8 hours). Sometimes it was Singapore instead of Dubai. Their offerings for America were Sydney to Texas (17 hours) then Texas
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by fwlr 4y ago
Seems like most people are reacting to this SVB situation through the lens of knowledge they got from watching The Big Short. Maybe try explaining the situation using The Big Short as a metaphor. The strippers are the startups. The mortgage
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by fwlr 4y ago
Oh, it’s probably higher than four words per second, then. I assumed tokens was characters and used the standard “there are five characters in a word” rule of thumb.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I mean if you want my cynical take, it goes like this. Some BBC producer wanted to make the Wild Isles series about conservation and climate change, they couldn’t get sign-off to spend BBC money on it, but they did get charities to pay for
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by fwlr 4y ago
>What’s an example of a fast debugger? My apologies in advance if this feels like a gotcha, but… Casey ended up swapping to RemedyBG for debugging. He made a video about why. From about 0:50 onwards he talks about the speed and feature
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by fwlr 4y ago
I imagine it’s unreplyable to prevent hijacking - we all think we have something important to say, so there’s a temptation to put it as an unrelated reply to a top comment so more eyeballs see our comment. You’d want this in place regardles
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by fwlr 4y ago
It is slow, and I presume that’s because competent developers wrote it clean. It’s quite possible that it’s not clean either and was just written by developers incapable of performance or cleanliness. That possibility doesn’t detract from
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by fwlr 4y ago
The “not all parts have to be performant, so you can make those parts clean” objection never sits well with me. And it’s not just the fact that clean code is presented as universal and this claim is only introduced after you complain that c
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by fwlr 4y ago
I suspect the real reason for her making that conjecture was to nerd snipe a bunch of professors into discussing eating ass
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by fwlr 4y ago
A quick survey of the thread seems to indicate the 7b parameter LLaMA model does about 20 tokens per second (~4 words per second) on a base model M1 Pro, by taking advantage of Apple Silicon’s Neural Engine. Note that the latest model iPhon
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yes, it’s been moved to further up in the piece (less buried) and the BBC spokesperson quote has been updated to a more strident one: “In a statement provided after the story was first published, the BBC said: “This is totally inaccurate, t
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yes, physical documents attesting to identity do face this dilemma too! The ways they handle it are in fact very illustrative. Consider for example the Australian system for proving one’s identity: https://www.afp.gov.au/sit
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by fwlr 4y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about digital identity: it exists. Attempts at creating digital identity will invariably be gored by one of the two horns of the bull: either it is recoverable like a password-protected account and therefore
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by fwlr 4y ago
“A BBC spokesperson said: “Wild Isles consists of five episodes: Our Precious Isles, Woodland, Grassland, Freshwater and Ocean. Saving Our Wild Isles is a separate film inspired by the series that was commissioned by the RSPB and WWF. We’ve
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Put another way: class components have a single instance per mounted component, but function components have multiple “instances” — one per render. Hooks just further entrench that constraint. It’s the source of all your problems with them

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