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by ip26 2y ago
Imagine there was a team that can take ordinary levels of talent and produce extraordinary results. If it could exist, this would be a great engineering organization, no?
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by ip26 2y ago
People disagree on what it looks like. If you think it’s an engineer who types 10x more lines of code, or makes 10x less bugs, there is someone ready to argue that person doesn’t exist or is actually a boat anchor. Once you define it as an
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by ip26 2y ago
It’s been described before that this mythical unicorn is instead 10% more efficient- as well as works 10% harder, does 10% more of the right things (e.g. less waste), understands everything 10% better… the multipliers stack. You get the ide
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by ip26 2y ago
… and you are watching it because the HackerNews algorithm put this link on the top of its feed.
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by ip26 2y ago
I would have thought directional drilling could work to bridge the two boreholes
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by ip26 2y ago
It seems more analogous to the Soviets infiltrating your small business. Which no small business owner is prepared to screen for, and which happened.
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by ip26 2y ago
Their first CPU was launched in 2010, and development likely began in 2006-2007. The M1 launched to much fanfare in 2020.
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by ip26 2y ago
Simulators are the bridge. Just like AI could operate calc.exe to cross check math, it could use a circuit simulator to prove a circuit topology. Perhaps our future overlord will thank you :)
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by ip26 2y ago
I’m not demanding it discover new science before it can be called intelligent. It’s a thought experiment.
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by ip26 2y ago
Can an LLM discover a new theory of natural law, such as prove or disprove string theory? This is what I ponder. The creation or discovery of something new that it can’t just copy, that would have to be discovered via human thought otherwis
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by ip26 2y ago
Not sure if I believe it’s bearish, but the PC made computers cheaper and demand exploded, yet wasn’t very good for IBM.
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by ip26 2y ago
That feels like a tilted assessment. The technical solutions can break down enormous walls, and very quickly. There are just some walls they can't - political, social, etc - and once the other walls have been leveled, we tend to get fo
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by ip26 2y ago
The people selling models are actually just selling compute Yes, fully agreed. Anything AI is discovering in your dataset could have been found by humans, and it could have been done by a more efficient program. But that would require hum
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by ip26 2y ago
The "good old boys" network is a problem. But given how hard we all agree it is to interview effectively and determine who is a great fit for the role in a matter of a few hours, there's a lot of good sense in hiring people a
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by ip26 2y ago
The mountains are loaded with metaphor, seem nearly insurmountable, filled with danger and excitement… Turns out, of course, that they are less dangerous than in the past, money goes a long way, and the human body is pretty good at walking
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by ip26 2y ago
One did a lot of reasonable little stuff but never did anything with much impact again This always stymies me. If I were to make it big, I’d want to go on to do other very useful things. But so commonly that doesn’t happen. Is it because
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by ip26 2y ago
As a founder, the people relying on him would have been the employees at Loom. But now that’s done. Far from the first story about a founder feeling unmoored after a buyout.
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by ip26 2y ago
artificially produced gaps in ancient texts Someone deleted part of a known text. This does require the AI hasn’t been trained on the test text previously..
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by ip26 2y ago
It does seem like an improvement. Six or twelve months ago, I recall a lot of crashes and even more basic problems. “If you tune it right, it’s awesome” is a big step forward compared to that.
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by ip26 2y ago
people just want to travel, party, and drink instead of having kids That’s something of a self-correcting problem, don’t you think?
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by ip26 2y ago
Wait, are you suggesting they SEO'd the article on how to remove SEO filler? I'm sure that can't be true.
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by ip26 2y ago
I see it more like, there are a lot of relationships balanced by conflict, such as Adsense advertiser and target audience. The advertiser wants you to buy product, the target audience wants to get free content. Both sides will exploit every
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by ip26 2y ago
Why? The explanation I've heard before is that when you need anything from a thoroughly corrupt government, as simple as a building permit or a visa for a foreign employee involved in a project, officials will simply not process yo
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by ip26 2y ago
The clearing price probably actually rises with improved color and shape, and the overhead declines with greater shelf stability. It’s not until years later that consumers slowly realize the texture and taste have gone downhill (as result o
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by ip26 2y ago
Is CUDA not more analogous to using MKL, rather than AVX?
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by ip26 2y ago
You can apply a filter to top 10% talent and get a perfectly well supplied collection of driven, high output people who are motivated by high TC. It’s a subset, of course. And while visionary genius may not be motivated by TC, nobody said N
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by ip26 2y ago
If IQ is a good predictor of employee performance, then it does follow that employee performance would be Gaussian. It doesn’t matter that IQ was “made” to be Gaussian.
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by ip26 2y ago
There’s a “marriage problem” element not covered here. The marginal value of an employee is higher if the team they join is small. Eventually, the team reaches a size where more employees add little value. Most people understand this. Howev
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by ip26 2y ago
The actual value is complex. The only reason an engineer’s presence at the company generates $X in revenue is because the company already has sales, marketing, finance, legal, and all the other necessary functions covered. On their own, tha
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by ip26 2y ago
He goes far deeper than I remember Anandtech going.

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