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by hintymad 3y ago
I thought LeCun once said he was not the head of the research and he didn't manage people. Nonetheless, I'm sure he has enormous influence in Meta.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Exactly. A simple data point: the first version of RoboRock had SLAM-like technology to map out the area to vacuum. There is simply no excuse for iRobot to not have that capacity for so many years.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Same here. I'm not sure if it's psychological. When reading my Kindle, I have to constantly fight my urge to do something else, maybe except for reading a page-turner novel.
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by hintymad 3y ago
> But that’s not how you find business opportunities in the real world. You can’t just say I’m going to pivot, and suddenly a good opportunity lands on your lap from heaven. You get good ideas by embracing randomness for a long time, unt
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by hintymad 3y ago
I wonder why the cost of running on the cloud, engineering cost included, is not a concern to companies. Per DHH, even a modest app like 37Sigal's would cost millions more than they liked ( https://world.hey.com/dhh&#x2F
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by hintymad 3y ago
I never got why one needed its TV to be online. The smart apps on TV are slow, have lousy UIs, and most likely badly implemented. A device like game console or AppleTV is much better alternative.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Algebra is the simple part. I’d say it’s more about math maturity. At least 1/3rd of my classmates had a hard time grasping the epsilon-delta definition of limit, let alone the deeper definitions like Cauchy sequence or those used in t
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by hintymad 3y ago
In recent years the left labels anyone who opposes them nazis. Oh, ANTIFAS are like SS but they are anti-facists. So, I’m not sure that anti-nazis argument holds water
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by hintymad 3y ago
I thought many people used VPNs so that they could connect to a host in Canada or Mexico to use BitTorrent to download videos in the US.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Paul Krugman. Damn…
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by hintymad 3y ago
Honest question: Paul Graham said that inflation was over if we exclude food, rent, gas, and used cars. Was this his intellectually honest thinking about economy or him being partisan?
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by hintymad 3y ago
We can't just make the tests hard enough so preparations will have diminishing returns? When I look at the exams in elite universities like Tokyo University, JEEs, and etc, I'm not sure how preparation can help the students in dif
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by hintymad 3y ago
Isn't your personal experience just anecdotal, which could be the opposite of statistical evidence.
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by hintymad 3y ago
The simpler a rule is, the less likely it gets gamed. Simple as that. As for the standard tests, it baffles me why the US won't take a more rigorous approach like other countries do. At least add word problems, proofs, or in general pr
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by hintymad 3y ago
Either people are stupid to know or too evil to pretend not to know that the more complex a rule is, the easier it is to game it. So it is much easier for the wealthy to game the essay writing or whatever that "holistic admission"
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by hintymad 3y ago
Either people are stupid to know or too evil to pretend not to know that the more complex a rule is, the easier it is to game it. So it is much easier for the wealthy to game the essay writing or whatever that "holistic admission"
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by hintymad 3y ago
> The real differentiation lies in your data you feed into your models. It's more than data. Steven Jobs used to tell the founders of the Segway that their secret technologies would leak sooner or later, even if they set up their fa
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by hintymad 3y ago
I guess an interesting question would be whether Nvidia is SGI in the late 90s or Intel of 80s.
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by hintymad 3y ago
I remember Clayton Christensen mentioned that Andy Grove invited him to Intel to talk about how to deal with the dilemma, and interrupted Christensen while he was talking and said something like "I know the problem, and I need you to t
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by hintymad 3y ago
From what I read, it looks it was not really social engineering per se but the good old way of earning trust, just like any ordinary engineer: the intruder joined the project three years ago and started to contributed patches. He also made
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by hintymad 3y ago
The formatting and layout of MS Word hurts my eyes.
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by hintymad 3y ago
> a) absolutely damning! SBF's lack of empathy, his notion that (given that everyone else is stupid) Wow, I can’t fathom how one could believe everyone else is stupid. Yeah, SBF went to MIT, but really the best students in each desc
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by hintymad 3y ago
I guess the nuance is that SBF can get paroles if he behaved well. That is, this 25 years can be punitive, but he will also has a chance to earn some trust and reduce the punishment.
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by hintymad 3y ago
Just curious, how good is Jo Boaler at math? I guess she can do SAT, but can she go beyond that? BTW, her central thesis that kids can learn math by doing exploratory group projects is insane. Besides, why would I waste time "rediscove
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by hintymad 3y ago
> Demonstrating you can do it yourself shows a level of investment and commitment to AI in your platform that integrating LLAMA does not. I buy this argument. It looks that's not what AWS does, though, yet they don't have probl
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by hintymad 3y ago
Thanks! Why do they not focus on hosting other open models then? I suspect other models will soon catch up with their advantages in faster inference and better benchmark results. That said, maybe the advantage is aligned interests: they wan
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by hintymad 3y ago
Just curious, what business benefit will Databricks get by spending potentially millions of dollars on an open LLM?
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by hintymad 3y ago
Realistically speaking, would it be the return of piracy streaming or VPN + BitTorrent?
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> AWS of course is the single biggest reason why projects are flocking to more restrictive licenses Should be general competition, including AWS, right? AWS does not host a Terraform service, yet HashiCorp feels the pressure from quite a
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by hintymad 3y ago
What does dual license mean here? Does that mean that Redis is subject to one of the two licenses, or to both of them?

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