gharman

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by gharman 19d ago
> My new suspicion is now that they didn’t got drastically smarter, but they got trained on the user input on the previous generations. Yes - that’s one of the ways in which they got smarter. More data more better. I presume also lessons
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by gharman 1y ago
Any (non?)digital media? I would be surprised not to see this exact dynamic on BJJ Fanatics. So easy to pick up instructionals with the constant stream of sales and discounts. Not so easy to spend the hours it takes to watch and digest one
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by gharman 2y ago
Commercial libraries = private library where you pay a membership fee? I’ve not really heard of that here outside of arguably university libraries and similar. But SF public library has a couple dozen branches or more?
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by gharman 2y ago
> (as an aside: bland food won't work well on someone who lost their sense of smell from long covid, and prison populations were heavily affected) The consistent texture of the Nutraloaf may “help” here. My spouse lost her sense of
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by gharman 3y ago
IDK when I hire, the first list (as might be directly relevant to the job) is checking a box, but the second list is what catches my attention.
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by gharman 3y ago
Agreed there is a semantic argument here. I don’t think anyone is anthropomorphizing LLMs. I’ve had to adopt “objective” with one customer instead of “task” (my preferred default term) because their industry overloads “task” with something
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by gharman 3y ago
My elderly father still uses this as his primary gateway to the internet and email. For all intents and purposes, this is the internet to him.
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by gharman 3y ago
Looks like Scholar Turbo has GPT-4 and Chatpdf is still on the waitlist. But yeah, these chat-with-your-doc webapps are popping up out of the woodwork.
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by gharman 3y ago
My long-horizon strategy has been the kinds of roles I take on. A product-focused role lets you go deep into a narrow problem area, whereas a customer-facing consulting/services role forces you to go wide, learning a new area every tim
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by gharman 3y ago
Indeed! I built a system just last year with - count em - three parsers to deal with PDF table extraction, including one built on TableTransformer. And then when GPT4 came out I just copy pasted a PDF into it as-is and darned if it didn’t d
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by gharman 3y ago
> it’s 30+ minute charge time. As great as electric is, an extra hour in the car on a road-trip with 3 kids is a tough sell. I dissent! Just did a 2-day (each way) road trip with young children and those charging breaks are pretty great
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by gharman 4y ago
IDK I’d say high school. I took a semester welding class at community college and we only spent 3 sessions on MIG (what this appears to be) before moving on to other processes. Most of the learning was around dealing with PPC, listening for
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by gharman 4y ago
You can choose to program functionally in Java or Python! I do this enough that seeing object oriented Python irritates me. I see this as more of a stylistic choice than forcing new languages.
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by gharman 4y ago
Cost differential is an interesting thing to consider if this were done at scale. That single missile cost ~$500K (plus flight time for the F22 isn't cheap). How much would each balloon be, especially if some were decoys without any r
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by gharman 4y ago
Funny thing is I’d bet the small amount trickling in to the long tail charities is more impactful to them than a larger amount to the big mega-charities. I run one of those long tails and Amazon Smile was just right to cover running costs f
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by gharman 4y ago
Make It Clear by Patrick Henry Winston has a permanent place on my bookshelf. He breaks communication down into a structured system and applies it to a variety of forms including (beyond standard prose documents) things like decks, pitches,
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by gharman 4y ago
I'll raise my hand as a data point. MIT, about 20 years out. It still seems to carry significant weight. I don't even work in the field I studied, so it's definitely not about any particular material I may have learned there.
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by gharman 5y ago
Not in the Kessel Sector.
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by gharman 5y ago
That’s a feature! That 90yo probably has rather more worth sharing than the 18yo.
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by gharman 5y ago
Like what? Serious question, not trying to be snarky. My understanding of these “nature vs nurture” discussions is that environment commonly refers to anything other than genetics - effects not “in-built” that could be caused by upbringing,
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by gharman 5y ago
Yeah my first thought was “if only...”. Sadly, it’s still working just fine for me.
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by gharman 5y ago
I did this but honestly in hindsight it didn’t tell me a lot. Two reasons come to mind: 1. Watching other peoples’ kids is a time-limited exercise. A major challenge with your own kids is that it’s constant and effectively without end. 2. T
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by gharman 6y ago
This reminds me of Snorkel (though unclear from the article if they’re using Snorkel’s trick of aggregating many weak heuristics). It can be made to work even in the real world. The rub is that coming up with these programmatic labelers is
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by gharman 6y ago
Who controls pictures of the grandkids, controls the eyeballs.
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by gharman 6y ago
It’s percent of revenue over whatever period of time you care to measure it.
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by gharman 6y ago
I founded, grew, and sold a boutique software services co. Here's the skinny: * The core revenue model is charge customers a certain amount for doing work, and to have a lower internal cost. (duh) * Typically you're looking for a