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by gerad 3y ago
For LLMs and generative AI we’re likely at the start of the curve. Things take longer than you expect in the short-term and less time than you expect in the long-term. After this hype cycle ends, things will probably bump along slowly for a
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by gerad 3y ago
I usually throw it in a garment bag with the wash. Then take it out before it goes in the dryer.
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by gerad 3y ago
Yeah, but the value they provide IMO (or promise to, it’s only promised in the readme, not shown) is the observability. Creating one of these event driven systems is somewhat trivial. Node has event emitter built in for example. Being able
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by gerad 3y ago
I run in wool socks [1] all the time. Wool is moisture wicking too [2]. 1: https://www.smartwool.com/shop/mens-running-socks 2: https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/what-does-moisture-w...
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by gerad 3y ago
I have synthetic shorts [1] and collar shirts [2] that aren’t, and don’t look like, sports clothes. They are great, you can wash them in the shower at night and have them (mostly) dry by morning. 1: https://www.billabong.com&#x2F
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by gerad 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by gerad 3y ago
First time I've seen something like this discussed so honestly. I suspect it won't be the last time. Hopefully to the benefit of consumers.
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by gerad 3y ago
Yeah school starts between 7 and 9am, but we still have the problem on the other side in the US, schools end between 1:30 and 4pm (at least here in CA). Figuring out after care is an exercise left to the reader. It’s completely ridiculous,
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by gerad 3y ago
I’ve been reading Harari’s “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” recently. The book makes the point that the history of Homo Sapiens coincides with mass extinction - humankind has been disrupting and destroying habitats since it rapidly e
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by gerad 3y ago
Round two of banks getting hammered. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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by gerad 3y ago
I just spent a week in Aalsmeer, which is a 40 minute bike ride from Amsterdam (or a 40 minute drive). Since it doesn’t have a train station it was inconvenient to get anywhere without a car. That said, if you are near a train station, pret
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by gerad 3y ago
And sometimes it’s like walking in an oven.
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by gerad 3y ago
Maybe it’s about rent control and low income housing requirements around building?
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by gerad 3y ago
What LLMs can’t do, but would be exceedingly useful, is have taste… For example, tell me what comments in HN are good, or websites are worth reading.
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by gerad 3y ago
What’s Google’s moat? Mind share and being dramatically better than the competition is indeed a moat. Trust me mind share is incredibly hard to gain in this day and age.
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by gerad 3y ago
Beware that there’s also a ton of bias when something is analyzed internally. As Upton Sinclair once said “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” In the case of this analy
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by gerad 3y ago
Your property tax is tied to the property value at purchase rather than reassessed over time. This, coupled with the enormous growth of CA property prices over the last 70 years, results in existing land owners paying way less taxes than th
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by gerad 3y ago
Go to another country where you don’t speak the language and try to communicate. You’ll do it with gestures, body language, facial expressions, grunts, tones - not words. I’m guessing that’s a lot closer to how animals communicate than spok
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by gerad 3y ago
And it was put at the front of the boat because that was downwind of everything else on a wind powered boat.
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by gerad 4y ago
Because there’s no guarantee rates will stay at 4.75% for 10 years. Getting 4.75% for 1 year and then 0% for the next 9 years is objectively far worse than getting 3.5% for 10 years.
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by gerad 4y ago
It’s bad business to tie up that much capital in an asset, so you borrow to buy it. Banks are the folks who loan you the money to do so. Works great when the asset price goes up, and/or the rent from leasing out the space can cover the
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by gerad 4y ago
I think what OP means is that the tokenization is throwing away encoded information. That is 11 should be two tokens representing 1 and 10. That way the relationship can be more easily learned. Otherwise it needs to memorize the relationshi
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by gerad 4y ago
Feature request: it might be nice to see a one sentence summary of why it matters on the front page - assuming that the results are valuable.
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by gerad 4y ago
How do they keep $1.08 for every $1 deposited? Do they have some sort of magic money printing machine? Or do I deposit a dollar and only get ~$0.92 in my account? If the latter, that seems like a pretty bad deal.
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by gerad 4y ago
Or do the obvious: move them into management. This sounds snarky, but I'm not being sarcastic. Part of management is making people feel happy and supported, and you don't need the same level of competence in management that you do
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by gerad 4y ago
> it may be the only tool the Fed has Traditionally, raising taxes or cutting government spending was another way to limit the money supply - and hence curb inflation. The Fed is doing the best it can using monetary policy because the fe
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by gerad 4y ago
A tool that makes programmers 10x more efficient does not make programmers less valuable.
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by gerad 4y ago
In other news: the sky is blue and water is wet.
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by gerad 4y ago
When you start a startup, especially a venture-funded one, you really only want to be innovative in one area: your core offering. It doesn't make sense to spend an innovation token on your bank. So you go with something tried and true,
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by gerad 4y ago
All that said, the fact that AI is catching up to 2 year olds is pretty impressive. Human's brains surpass dog's at about that age. It shows we're getting close to the realm of "human."

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