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by ipnon 2y ago
I like how Tao can just write a few quick candid thoughts and post them online for everyone.
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by ipnon 2y ago
Isn’t this a priori a good thing to know? Is the universe where we can’t accurately determine these numbers a better place to live?
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Monads are like burritos (2009)(blog.plover.com)
110 points by ipnon 2y ago|136 comments
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by ipnon 2y ago
Young people choosing not to matriculate because universities are too expensive, too ideological, too useless… will do more to fix the universities than an infinite stream of think pieces, congressional appropriations or rubber stamping by
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by ipnon 2y ago
perplexity.ai does exactly this very well. It's the best way to quickly find references for a problem you're thinking about.
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by ipnon 2y ago
Yes, I think it all hinges on whether LLMs ultimately converge towards intelligently cutting through the blogspam dead Internet or diverge towards a Web where all content is fake and going online is mostly an exercise in feeling uncertainty
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by ipnon 2y ago
What does it mean when a company's core competencies are degrading but the valuation of their company on the public market is higher than ever?
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by ipnon 2y ago
The fastest way to learn is always to go after a difficult problem you find fascinating. Learning by the books is the second fastest, and is suitable for those without the experience to have a fascinating problem to motivate them. This appl
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by ipnon 2y ago
Does Silicon Valley have a relative advantage in creating billionaires rather than millionaires? Is that long-term optimal for Silicon Valley?
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by ipnon 2y ago
The free tier is just to get more training data.
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by ipnon 2y ago
Half of all businesses fail after 5 years anyway according to Bureau of Labor Statistics. Might as well make a stake in something you can call your own, right? I often think of the pg essay where he claims none of the founders in the firs
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by ipnon 2y ago
The first university, the University of Bologna, always seems like the ideal to me. It was a guild, or what we might today call a trade union, of local tutors, who colluded together to regulate prices and amount of time spent teaching for t
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What's Inside the Most Exclusive Club? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ipnon 2y ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 2y ago
It's interesting to me how the mainstream news organizations are supposed to be synthesizing a constant stream of the latest and most important information, and yet breaking news happens faster on social media and the think pieces, suc
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by ipnon 2y ago
I'd rather hate Elon Musk on Mars than love Boeing on Earth.
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by ipnon 2y ago
The whole country had a mission, and the overwhelming feeling was that the US along with the Allies were in a conflict for survival, that without winning the war the existence of the US would not be possible. On December 6th 1941 public opi
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by ipnon 2y ago
Medium is not the best place to host your writing. I didn't even read the article because more than half of my screen was taken up by the Medium call-to-action and the Google account modal. Does anyone remember when a webpage just load
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by ipnon 2y ago
The US hasn’t fought a war since 1945. The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 made war illegal. This pact was the basis for the war crimes tribunals after WWII, because Germany and Japan were signatories they were deemed to have violated the treat
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by ipnon 2y ago
Small claims court is slow and laborious for all parties. Airlines have realized it’s better for their bottom line to just settle immediately out of court once they receive a small claims summons.
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by ipnon 2y ago
It’s a shame someone as insightful as you has to make a throwaway just to post criticism of megacorps in general.
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by ipnon 2y ago
What do you think the best way forward is now? How can programmers such as yourself best be supported?
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by ipnon 2y ago
They divided from the same oocyte, they have identical genomes.
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"Can I change my taxi's battery? It's on the way, takes 10 mins?"(twitter.com)
3 points by ipnon 3y ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 3y ago
I like to think this vindicates Heinlein’s conveyor belt solar panel roads, just in the opposite direction of energy transfer.
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by ipnon 3y ago
There is a lot to learn but it's all well-organized here: https://a16z.com/tag/the-canons/ It would take even a bright student a year or two to go through all of this so pick and choose as you see fit. a16z h
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Gender Differences in Personality Across the Ten Aspects of the Big Five (2011)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by ipnon 3y ago|0 comments
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by ipnon 3y ago
I propose the Bankman-Fried number: how many people you personally know who got rekt in the crypto crash of November 2022.
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by ipnon 3y ago
In some cases there are easily treatable factors. For example the patient may have a vitamin deficiency. In this case they could feasibly halt their progression towards dementia by taking an inexpensive pill today. Human factors are always
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by ipnon 3y ago
I have a simple method that worked well for me in my last job, where I switched industries completely and was definitely underwater. First I became friends with everyone I could. Then identified the most mature teammate with the most tenure
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by ipnon 3y ago
If we invite a few more economists to this cocktail party there is a reasonable case to be made that the cost of manual labor will drop precipitously. Dangerous jobs like construction and mining could be done by androids instead of humans.

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