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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
David Lynch was a giant in film directing with his unique vision and surreal style and he gave us so many great movies. But more importantly I feel that he inspired so many modern movie directors such as Ari Aster and Yorgos Lanthimos to ma
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
Start with "Eraserhead" and then go from there. Surreal is the word I associate with his movies and tv show (Twin Peaks) and I absolutely love watching such movies!
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
Like listening to “Lose Yourself” before every major interview. :)
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
Yes. Reminds me of this conversation in Shogun: Yabushige: “How does it feel to shape the wind to your will?” Toranaga: “I don’t control the wind. I only study it.”
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
Apple Maps is still not good compared to Google Maps. If I want to go somewhere for the first time I can't trust to use Apple Maps. (tried a lot, always come back to Google)
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
Siri had so many years to iterate and get refined that by now I'd assume it would have been as omnipresent assistant as in "Her" movie (without negative impact of course) but see where we are today: I am still using it for on
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
So one of the interesting comparisons between Quantum computing vs classical in the video: 5 mins vs 10^25 years. So are there any tradeoffs or specific cases in which the use cases for Quantum computing works or is this generic for "a
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
For folks who don’t read article and come to read comments directly.
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
I think they are also merging Ep1 and Ep2 together into HL2 now and have gradual progression of HL2 to E1 and then to E2. I just browsed my Steam game library and can't find separate copies of E1 and E2 there because of being merged wi
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
But even if dataset is incomplete or not accurate, do you think we could at least get directionally right insights from such datasets?
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
Anyone who is still thinking to trust Tesla AP/FSD should watch this video [1] Most of the Tesla's high stock valuation depends on them executing Robotaxi biz plan and seeing how Waymo cars are self-driving in some cities for so l
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
I feel like something is off with Elon and he is not well. Nowadays he's basically going against everything he stood for so long: freedom of speech (trying to suppress views that he does not like), climate change (now he does not have
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1] So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
so in that regards most of the Board of Directors at companies do not have a say in hiring or firing a CEO then? Because they come from a different background than what a CEO at given company spends his days on.
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
> You truly think about every move -- e.g. "Gee, I hope my insurance company doesn't misinterpret this 'hard braking event' as me being an irresponsible driver." This reminds me of the "Thought Police"
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
first Andrej and now Ilya. Talent exodus at OpenAI?
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
remember that from the Silicon Valley (HBO) episode. :)
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
Not a fan or a user of Workplace but I do not understand the reason of shutting it down to external customers if it is going to be used internally for Meta workers anyways? I mean Meta can keep it available if customers want to use it witho
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
yes. LLMs are great at giving a template or code block for specific usecase and then I use it after understanding, modifying (if needed) and testing it. I am not sure about ChatGPT but Gemini Advanced even allows modifying code and running
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
This feels like a lawsuit from US justice department waiting to be filed against the book publishers. Why does an ebook need to cost 3X to a PL compared to what I as a consumer would otherwise purchase from Amazon.
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by gordon_freeman 2y ago
For the folks new to Lynch movies don't forget to watch his possibly the strangest of movies: Eraserhead. I have watched it more than 5 times and everytime I watch it I learn something new. And btw this scene from his movie is just gol
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
I pretty much knew the exact book I'd want to find when I'm "sad" and just after hitting couple of buttons...voila, I found "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl. An essential book to read and reread
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
yes. i pay all my CC bills on time and don't incur any fees. So it's no-brainer to pay using card as I get cash-back plus perks like dispute/warranty protections etc if something goes wrong.
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
> "But you will avoid many of the annoying things that come with a job, including a boss telling you what to do." Isn't this a bit misleading and can only be true for companies that don't take VC money or never go pub
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
It may get more expensive in the future. ;)
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
i don't use Gemini for the image gen so all the negative news about it being left leaning and biased maybe true but for me does not matter that much for now. What I use it mainly for, is to learn new concepts or brush up on stuff in Py
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Ask HN: Since Google rebranded Bard to Gemini, is anybody still using ChatGPT?
1 points by gordon_freeman 3y ago|5 comments
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
i agree with your general sentiment but for Apple I do believe it makes sense to focus on AGI as they could incorporate it within their OSes and products to make them more productive for the users.
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
> I don’t think we can count out the possibility that the deal will go through. I suspect that the government could approve the deal because they hate the duopoly of Visa/Mastercard and want another player competing with those two g
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by gordon_freeman 3y ago
How would you check for the visible dip in the productivity? and in what time frame? Sometimes it is not easy to measure the impact of layoffs on the org in the short term and it may take some time to realize it.

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