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by gcanyon 2y ago
Are you sure that's acceptable? I do that all the time, but I think the right word for how my wife feels about it is "tolerable," not "acceptable" :-)
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Well that was an interesting chain of events: I read the first several paragraphs. Since they seem wordy and light on actual meaning, and the post is long, as I often do, I grabbed all the text and headed to ChatGPT/Claude -- in this i
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This isn't really the optimization I'm think about, but: given the weird and abstract nature of the functioning of ML in general and LLMs in particular, it seems reasonable to think that there might be algorithms that achieve the
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Ha -- I read the title and said to myself, "gotta be Maxwell, right?" The jolt of pleasure I get from being right about things like this is unreasonable.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Yikes, sorry to hear about that awful experience. I could be underestimating, but we've gone to the ER on at least... three occasions where the situation was clearly immediately life-threatening and seen the doctor immediately upon arr
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I've never gone to the ER with a just a broken bone. We're generally showing up with potentially life-threatening issues, and we still wait an hour -- and sometimes much more: I was trying to be fair to the ERs we've visited.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Summarized into 11 bullet points by Claude: Here's a summary of the key points from the document in 11 bullet points: • Health spending is primarily determined by income levels, with higher-income countries spending more on healthcare.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
N=1, or, Story Time! In 2017 my wife and I were living in Portugal for several months. When we needed to refill her prescriptions, our short-term rental host said, "Go to the ER." Backstory: we're well familiar with ERs in th
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I'm pretty close to skipping out on my cell number. I very rarely use it. But that said, I do use it every so often, and when I do I need it pretty strongly. Also, I've had the same number for something like 15 years, and that&#x2
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I wonder -- does the iPhone have to be on a service plan? Or is wifi good enough?
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I own a Concept 2 rowing machine; I have detailed stats on every workout going back 19 years, and for the last 7 years or so I have heart rate info as well.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
If it were possible to do so, I would possibly buy this as my new "phone": - I almost never hold my phone to my ear - I don't need the dual-lens features of the new iPhones - Standby battery life seems up to the ch
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by gcanyon 2y ago
The Antique Microwave Oven that's Better than Yours [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0 I owned one of these, it was indeed awesome. It really did cook food intelligently.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I had a similar trip to the blood bank once: I rode my motorcycle from Palm Springs to San Diego, straight to the blood bank, on a cold January morning. As usual, they took my temperature. It was 95-something. They said, "Are you feeli
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Nice, thanks!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
yes
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That's an awesome paper!
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by gcanyon 2y ago
One that isn't listed here, and which is critical to machine learning, is the idea of near-orthogonality. When you think of 2D or 3D space, you can only have 2 or 3 orthogonal directions, and allowing for near-orthogonality doesn'
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Nope, died fifteen years ago.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
That's amazing footage, and you're right about the perspective: from the official feed the distances seem compressed compared to what we see in this footage.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> control system also has to compensate for the fuel moving inside their rockets My stepfather worked as a programmer on the Apollo program, and the thing he always talked about as his biggest accomplishment was working on the "slos
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I've had kettlebells, and I've lifted weights. But to be clear, I never said I have a "problem" -- I have a reasonable weight, and at times I've been in the top half of the worldwide rankings on Concept 2's sit
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by gcanyon 2y ago
To anyone thinking that exercise will fix anything: I've owned a Concept 2 rowing machine since 2005. In that time I've done an average of 100 workouts per year, for a total of over 35 days of rowing. Some workouts were relatively
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I've heard this as, "If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a creditor; if you owe them $10,000,000 you have a partner."
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by gcanyon 2y ago
This is a surgery I absolutely would not have. I would not bet a few healthy months to roll the dice on a few more healthy months against immediate disability for the rest of my short life.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Only tangentially related, but I like the quote so I'll share it: a boss of mine once said, "You can't software your way out of a process problem."
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by gcanyon 2y ago
I read the article and the threads (to a point). It's hilarious that in the article you describe LLMs as being like hasty people jumping to conclusions, and the commenters on HN do exactly that thing in their comments.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Nobody defeats the patent clerk guy. I love to cite this article that argues he could credibly have been awarded anywhere from 5 to 7 Nobel prizes. https://www.quora.com/How-many-Nobel-prizes-should-Einstein-...
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by gcanyon 2y ago
> Though APL may strike some as a strange language of choice for deep learning It sure did to me, even as someone who has written (a trivial amount of) J. But the argument that follows is more than convincing.
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by gcanyon 2y ago
Enjoy it while it lasts, my friend!

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