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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> your sense of sweetness adjusts to it Speaking of this, what has always been puzzling to me is that the US bakery has so much sugar in it, to the point that even the smell of the bakery screams too much sweetness. In contrast, European
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
In addition to what people clarified in this thread, you probably will be interested in this: Neural network was not a popular research area before 2005. In fact, the AI nuclear winter in the 90s left such a bitter taste that most people th
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Writing an essay for someone else is cheating. It's still wrong. Just not as punishable as a crime. BTW, cheating in Keju (Chinese imperial examination) is a capitol crime, as it undermined the fairness of the system and the quality of
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> If there was other global knowledge work available to Kenyans I’m sure they’d take it. I'm not sure the logic stands. Following the same logic, I can also argue that of course looting should not exist, but it does. Looter could&#x
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> I kept reading news about Google's AI programs Technology is not a product. A product that uses technology to solve a number of clearly defined real problems is a product. When Google was saying AI this AI that, I had yet to see a
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> Mao or Stalin might have been able to rid their countries of pathological cultural factors Mao did rid of the meritocracy-based education system, replacing it with an identity-based system. That is, if you were born with the right iden
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
They answer to voters? If so, nothing will unless the voters think otherwise.
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> "Families with resources turn to fee-required online algebra 1 courses in eighth grade, outside the public school system, or enroll their kids in private schools," Isn't this obvious result? The Russian School of Mathema
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
A key question is what emboldened the politicians to propose such bill? It seems the constituents of the law makers have been getting more and more complacent when it comes to giving the government unchecked power, as long as there is a &qu
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Ah, you are right. Gmail is amazing. I somehow thought it was released before 2003.
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
I don't deny that it can be hyperbolic to many people. As for the comments about people's wild dreams, I truly mean it. I used to tap into building NLP applications for enterprise customers: NERs, relation extractions, multi-round
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Nothing particular. I just don't remember major successful and speedy product launches from Google after 2003. In that year, Google launched Google Maps, shocking the IT world for how effective AJAX can be, even though the tech itself
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
OpenAI is like Google before 2003, dazzling the world with amazing products backed by astonishing technologies that went beyond wild dreams of millions of people. And most importantly, OpenAI kept releasing new features at blazing speed wit
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
The github repo has 5 million lines of C++ code (headers included), 1.6 million lines of C code, and even nearly 1 million lines of Scala + Java code. We'd need some serious docs to adopt this technology. The most interesting part of Y
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
I created a variant of a classic elementary math problem for both Bard and ChatGPT with GPT-4. The problem and the answers are below, and the differences are: - Bard does not understand Chinese but ChatGPT does. - Both can solve the problem
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> My whole life, my whole personality is architected around making things by hand for other people. Not sure if there's a conflict here. We still use compilers, right? Unless we write in machine instructions, there's always som
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
The paper does not offer enough details on how GPT-4 is implemented. And the paper also says in its Section 2 that "We plan to make further technical details available to additional third parties who can advise us on how to weigh the c
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field > Thinking about this question, I wrote down a list of twenty names—von Neumann, Tolstoy, Curie, Pascal, etc So the author advocates that we l
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Instead of focusing on scalability, focus on productivity. Scaling is optimization, and optimization needs to be guided by profiling or generally instrumentation in production. Having good culture and a productive infrastructure, a company
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> > where the student is being asked to produce bullshit It depends on which subject? I have only good things to say about my college days. They are life changing. The rigorous training in computer science and maths has been paying di
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
The structure is different, right? "Me gusta algo" does mean something is pleasing to me, but it's not the way how one would think in Chinese or English.
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
My mother tongue is Chinese and I find that English is the easiest second language to learn. English has more or less the same grammatical structure as Chinese, so I didn't have to learn structures like object -> subject -> verb
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Do we know the largest size of data that these object stores have handled? People seem have been moving away from HDFS, yet companies could host exabytes of data on HDFS and serve TBs of scans per second with a single team of fewer than 15
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
I also find that writing by hand led to better retention and understanding when I learned a new language, compared to writing with a keyboard. My guess is that it's because handwriting is slower, which somehow creates a better focus wi
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
I wish companies could go lean. I had tremendous growth when working for Netflix partly because engineers there got to build meaningful systems with huge ownership and very small teams. Case in point, my coworker and I owned four or five hi
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Is there any theory on why Amazon decided to spread the cut over months of time instead of planning sufficiently and then having a decisive cut?
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
This is amazing. So another exchange committed bank fraud, and BlockFi's answer is to block withdraw. Does it smell something very fishy or just me?
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> My current company spends 4 out of 8 hours every day in meetings. When I was in Netflix and Uber, my teams had no status meeting, at all. We came up with a context and a big enough ownership, and just let the team loose. It's some
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
> Terraform to create the IAM policies: 4 weeks In Netflix more than 10 years ago, it's more like this: a single engineer builds a deployment/management tool: 1 - 2 months. Every other engineer creates a new and fully configure
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by g9yuayon 4y ago
Nostalgia time! When I graduated years ago, Knuth's books were still all the rage because the central themes in the CS departments in universities were fundamentals: algorithms, compiler theory, operating systems and what not. We refer

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