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by hatthew 2y ago
Only half joking, I feel like the majority of comments on the internet are garbage and not worth the time to read, and increasing friction with a nominal charge isn't necessarily a terrible thing.
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by hatthew 2y ago
My understanding is that japanese houses are fundamentally different in that they are designed to be expendable in the long term, similar to cars. You don't buy a high quality house that you maintain, you buy or build a new house and t
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by hatthew 2y ago
first time I read it I mentally pronounced it kinda like loch with an i
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by hatthew 2y ago
guys I simplified it to a single node in a flowchart, this is even simpler right? (user not DND || message DND override) && ((message in thread && user in thread && user threads_everything) || ((channel notifications
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by hatthew 2y ago
There's two factors to copyright: economic rights and moral rights. Economic rights are concerned with the author's ability to protect personal monetary gain from the use of their work. Moral rights are concerned with the author&#
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by hatthew 2y ago
Search engines tend to produce neutral garbage, not harmful garbage (i.e. small tidbits of data between an ocean of SEO fluff, rather than completely incorrect facts). LLMs tend to be inaccurate because in an absence of knowledge given by t
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by hatthew 2y ago
I'm not the guy you asked but I have a similar opinion on flat screens. Personally I'd want spherical. ~15" tall and ~25" wide is about my limit for flat screens, anything beyond that I find that the corners/edges a
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by hatthew 2y ago
this makes sense since the general consensus on HN is that any general consensus on HN is right so if the general consensus on HN that any general consensus on HN is right is wrong then any general consensus on HN could be wrong
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by hatthew 2y ago
lots of platforms optimize for engagement, but all that does is encourage ragebait
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by hatthew 2y ago
I disagree. As the other comments have stated, umami and savory are completely different words. I agree that kawaii and cute are synonyms, but I only see it being used in vaguely japanese-related contexts, where it's not necessary but
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by hatthew 2y ago
Presumably it means that two light rays that leave the same point on the planet simultaneously (but going in slightly different directions) arrive at the two telescope satellites simultaneously
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by hatthew 2y ago
Coding assessments are definitely valuable in general. What isn't valuable are the class leetcode problems, where you have to use a heap, or DP, or some random useless data structure to solve a problem in O(n) instead of O(n log n) tim
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by hatthew 2y ago
I don't see anybody arguing that it isn't useful in general, just that it's unreliable, and that we need to change or add to the fundamental architecture to make progress.
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by hatthew 2y ago
I've always wondered about how much the quality of the manufacturing matters. I've had probably a dozen pairs of jeans in as many years, and on average they fail after wearing them for 100-200 days of light usage (e.g. office, not
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by hatthew 2y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "truly novel"? Novelty exists on a spectrum, and I'm curious where you're drawing the line between "not novel" and "truly novel".
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by hatthew 2y ago
My cynical assumption is that most startups start out with a grand vision that they overpromise and underdeliver on. Especially if it's a content creator, where I assume that they started with a need to monetize their brand and then ca
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by hatthew 2y ago
These are technically emoji, but in my perception it would be accurate to call them icons.
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by hatthew 2y ago
What about computer characters in video games? They're usually controlled by a system that everyone calls AI, but there's almost never any machine learning involved. What about fitting a line to a curve, i.e. linear regression? De
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by hatthew 2y ago
OpenAI had a noticeable head start with GPT-2 in 2019. They capitalized on that head start with ChatGPT in late 2022, and relatively speaking they plateaued from that point onwards. They lost that head start 2.5 months later with the announ
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by hatthew 2y ago
I still see people saying that at least once a week
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by hatthew 2y ago
Could also be that she just got tired of the day to day responsibilities. Maybe she realized she that she hasn't been able to spend more than 5 minutes with her kids/nieces/nephews last week. Maybe she was going to murder som
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by hatthew 2y ago
Because some steps in its reasoning were wrong
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by hatthew 2y ago
The average environmentalist I am familiar with is the exact opposite except for nuclear power.
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by hatthew 2y ago
My understanding is that latency is usually a much bigger concern than raw computing power when doing audio processing. GPUs are great at doing large batches of computation, but aren't as good at doing lots of small batches with low la
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by hatthew 2y ago
Empirically, I have found that user action sequences are a good way to model user behavior since it can look at several different scales, and specific behaviors. Interest tracking can see what a user generally likes, and the last few action
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by hatthew 2y ago
https://archive.is/DeCgc
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I've posted a few "fake XYZ written by AI" on reddit over the years, and the model that got the best reactions was GPT-2. Markov chains aren't good enough to make something that is interesting for more than a sentence or
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by hatthew 2y ago
Depends how you define the job. A different interpretation is that the job of a medical professional is to improve the health of their patients as much as they can. Normally this is done by frequently having someone/something more spec
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by hatthew 2y ago
Agreed, I'm personally not a huge fan of needing to spend 3+ minutes just to figure out if I care about the article. I was tying to find the connection to physics and it turns out that the connection is literally just "rate of cha
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by hatthew 2y ago
If you listen to an audio file at 24 bit vs 64 bits (bit depth, not bitrate), you won't notice a difference. However, if you're manipulating audio in a DAW or similar, it's possible for noise to end up amplified in the final

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