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by huijzer 3y ago
Based on reading Taleb, I have a theory and love to hear counterarguments if there are any: Products are as good as the worst part. Apple‘s complete integration allows them to more easily fix the worst part since they have control over almo
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by huijzer 3y ago
But that wouldn’t explain why men generally tend to go hard or die trying whereas women are, if you ask me, more clever on average and collaborate with other people. My current theory it’s related to the dating statistics. Dating is a power
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by huijzer 3y ago
I‘ve gone through a ton of comments below and see a lot of contradicting evidence to your thoughtful suggestion. Also my girlfriend and I are both from north Europe and I notice a similar difference. Maybe the difference is mostly > she
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by huijzer 3y ago
I've started with the banking one and love it so far. I never thought about what would be needed to start a bank, but now I know. A bunch of people, some of which having some banking experience, all putting down about 200k and convinci
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by huijzer 3y ago
Counterexample: Pets.com cost of goods sold would go quicker than their revenue. Similarly, many companies inflate their revenue in all kinds of ways including excessive marketing spending.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Why is this being upvoted? All journals are predatory journals including Nature. To make YOUR work, open access, for example, you have to pay Nature. And does Nature already pay reviewers for their work? They didn’t for a long time. Give a
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by huijzer 3y ago
Isn’t prompt engineering basically writing tests around a prompt and fiddling with it till you have as many passing tests as possible? It’s basically software engineering around a black box.
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by huijzer 3y ago
> ChatGPT has the habit of throwing new knowledge back at you. Google does that too, but this feels 10x of Google. Sometimes it is overwhelming. Good thing is we learn a lot, bad thing is that if often slows down our decision making. I a
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by huijzer 3y ago
I still don’t get why he wouldn’t just wait for the crash and then buy the index. Shorting has 100% upside at most and infinite downside. Going long has infinite upside and at most 100% downside. Buffett has gotten pretty rich by buying dur
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by huijzer 3y ago
There are infinite ways to "hack" any system, this includes social engineering, timing attacks etc etc, so I don’t think so.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Counterexamples: body tells you to eat more when stressed or depressed. A bit of stress is healthy for the body. Your body doesn’t really tell you to go to the gym.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Working with Nvidia (vendor lock-in) always fills me with fear.
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by huijzer 3y ago
I think the main benefit of joining two dies together via some advanced interconnect is the latency. Memory lookups are much quicker on Apple Silicon which, in turn, avoids many wasted clock ticks waiting for data.
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by huijzer 3y ago
> We should always put off significant complexity increases as long as possible. Reminds me of the mantra that I’ve read here to easily go for reversible things and very careful when going for irreversible things.
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by huijzer 3y ago
A bit of both, but it does certainly generalize. Just look into the sentiment neuron from OpenAI in 2017 or come up with an unique question to ChatGPT.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Power laws and how many there are once you start to recognise them.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Because life is full of power laws and some of the people flying private jets have outsized effect on the economy. (I’m not saying I think it’s fair or something. It’s a value free observation.)
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by huijzer 3y ago
I think Jensen Huang (or his sales team) came up with this quote first: "While some worry that AI may take their jobs, someone who is an expert with AI will." He said this at the NTU Commencement Speech in May 2023.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Yes, exactly. And getting approvals from three layers of management. You know, science. I'm pushing back against academia because I think the system is pretty much a mess. Academics believe that we got all the nice technological innova
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by huijzer 3y ago
Okay still stuck in peer review then
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by huijzer 3y ago
> not a single big academic lab has managed to complete any sort of replication to date! They are still busy getting approvals from three layers of management and one group of lawyers.
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by huijzer 3y ago
How about we tune the definition to: burnout occurs when you feel that your life is not going where it should be going and your attempt to change that don’t work out?
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by huijzer 3y ago
I think this makes sense. I've seen many situations of large software projects where some bug is just open for months or even years and actually very easy to fix. In hindsight then, it was then a lot of missed value if the bug just lin
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by huijzer 3y ago
Yet another example of misinformation being most likely backed by traditional OEMs or oil companies. I don’t agree with all of Elon’s choices but this kind of crap makes things more understandable.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Can we start calling "evangelism" "sales" again, by the way? Someone who calls themselves an "evangelist" is a salesperson, or someone who studied theology.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Yes but the problem is that engineering projects tend to consist of two halves. There is the first 90% of the work and there is the second 90% of the work.
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Prediction Market on LK-99(manifold.markets)
19 points by huijzer 3y ago|5 comments
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by huijzer 3y ago
> 1) it takes a undergrad to make and measure a superconductor by a Nobel laureate to explain it. Another example of Taleb’s idea that experimentation comes first and theories second. Universities pretend that it’s the other way around b
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by huijzer 3y ago
Yes I have the same, but I’ve had a few times that Bing couldn’t find what Google could, so I switched mostly back. Also the fact that you can accidentally scroll too far and end up in the Bing Chat and the Bing homepage news (read: crap) d
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by huijzer 3y ago
Yes and with Bing too. I own some stock so have incentive to root for them, but the products are frankly just meh. Bing Chat is cool but worse than ChatGPT. Edge is cool but worse than Firefox. And Bing is cool but worse than Google.

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