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Bethesda had been doing procedural generation since forever though: Have you played Daggerfall? It's always been part of their studio's DNA. Bethesda has always relied on top of the line technological innovation that makes us forg
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Since detecting LLMs is a silly end goal, the future of moderation probably needs LLMs too, but to evaluate text and see if it fits into blatant commercial speech. It will ruin places where some kinds of commercial speech is wanted (say, as
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This kind of works, until you have a medical issue that impairs your brain enough,an event that loses hardware keys or backups, or you care about possible inheritors when you die. Everything you do to keep keys safe from some risks weakens
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Settlers is a poor 2 player game: It's really designed for more. Then balance comes form bashing the leader mechanisms: Unfavorable trades, robber uses always hitting them and so on.
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Gemini's filters weaken what would otherwise be a very strong model. Its censor is just so strong, can hit it when dealing with very cold topics. For instance, I had issues making it look at Spain's Second Republic, because it was
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But we got here step by step, as other interesting use cases came up by using somewhat less compute. Image recognition, early forms of image generation, AlphaGo, AlphaZero for chess. All earlier forms of deep neural networks that are much m
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by hibikir 1y ago
As the last interviewer in a loop, I have caught fake candidates. This means they are getting through earlier rounds in my own employer, and makes me think I don't have a 100% success rate.
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If your position is remote, and the coat of every in person interview includes two way flights, per diem and a hotel room, it's very tempting to skip the in person step, especially if you expect to fail a lot of in person candidates. I
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What Spain's PM is saying (and is being reported by Spanish newspapers), 15 gigawatts of energy production went down all in 5 seconds. Hardening to tolerate that much of a change, that fast is a more extreme event than a grid the size
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The difficulty with the business person is identifying actual skill. I've seen way to many startups where the business side was basically floundering, and the end result was technical firings and business hires, but no acknowledgement
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Depends heavily on your topic: There are many situations where all bookstores, even Amazon, will come up short. Studying history, for instance, it's amazing how often the main branch of my local library has books even third party selle
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by hibikir 2y ago
It's not that weird a term: I was taught this as the Roman name for the Mediterranean in middle school history class in Spain, without having to take Latin. There's a boardgame and a video game with Mare Nostrum as the title. I&#x
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For something like milk, which is produced by mammals to feed young ones, there's all kinds of biological connections between a relaxed, healthy, content animal and milk production. We are humans, it's not much different for us. S
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It really depends of the stage of the startup. I recall reading someone doing analysis on this (unfortunately I don't have a link) showing that joining a company that isnt public yet, but is already large-ish and showing some real prod
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When the founders still control the board, in practice the buying company understands that what makes the acquisition work is that said founders end up happy, and that the outcomes for your typical employee can be sacrificed to the edge of
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Sierra's early catalog was basically a large collection of dead-man-walking situations. A key item for the endgame of Space Quest 1 stops being available 5 minutes into the game. Kings Quest II has a bridge that can breaks down every t
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Before Sierra's end, they had already been crushes, sales wise, by Lucasarts, which had far better game design principles. No dead man walking situations, or random deaths. Still, the genre isn't dead today, but modern adventure g
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Most forma of investing is putting the money back into circulation: After all, you are handing the money out to someone ao they use it. Just like giving out a business loan. There is "investment" that doesn't cause more activ
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This stopped being true a long time ago, as the best, fastest machines we could make were very deadly in an accident. If you know about F1, you know that Ayrton Senna, at the moment probably the best driver in the field, died on track. But
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The fact that they are so generic is what makes people misunderstand them: They focus on 1 or 2 examples, without seeing that the same concept works in all kinds of other use cases. People realize a list can be a monad, and they they imagin
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What we are seeing with students is that it's harder to get them to do work if they are demotivated, but that there's so many more tools for them to learn quickly and effectively when they are. Yes, LLMs can be used to cheat on an
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We have to remember this was a time where text was still kind of expensive, so making the story more than barely coherent required losing enemy variety and such. The advantages of the switch to CD-ROM wasn't really the pre-rendered cut
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Imagine how much fun it will be when the breakthrough in search engine quality comes from companies building a better engine to get good LLM answers. This is ultimately google's problem: They are making money from the fact that the pag
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A great game, but one that had a very poor product market fit. It might be better than most games of its genre, but it also had a much higher budget, and with that, a much higher price. People buy metroidvanias for 20 or 30, on steam. They
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let's assume you are right. Also assume that the two people in the dark room are both somewhat rational investors. Then let's imagine that they are trading at a price that is significantly different than the open price. Why are th
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A manager decides to spend their energy managing their relationships up, down or sideways. The very worst will focus solely on managing the upwards relationship, but that's precisely what makes them hard to dislodge: Every second of th
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Consider that your typical older long range model 3 had a 75 kWh battery in their first day, and one might typically charge it to 80%. So that 1kW, for one hour, is far more than a fraction of a percent of the practical battery capacity. Mi
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What is really crazy about this though is that sometimes it really is the interview setting, as people unused to interviews can, at times, emotionally collapse. I have seen people who are actually good programmers get wrecked by simple ques
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You are very fortunate: In my 20 year career, I've spent most of it surrounded by zealots, including at very well known firms. I am currently surrounded by multiple teams with extremely tight ideas of what languages they want to work i
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I've seen high performance organizations at 600-800, thanks to execs that spent quite a bit of time talking across levels: When at that size, some ICs get CEO 1:1s, you have some chances of quality control. After all some execs had bee

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