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by ivalm 4y ago
I assure you alphabet isn’t looking for a buyer.
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by ivalm 4y ago
Vast majority of stock market cap does not contribute to company capitalization. Primary equity offerings on the market are rare and use only a fraction of total equity. Most trades are secondary and don’t capitalize the company. The entire
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by ivalm 4y ago
Yeah, where it seems very good for me is just writing flask or fast api boilerplate, esp if I have a good function sig + doc string. I kind of hoped that it would propose good tsx for my components (react+mui) but instead it’s basically use
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by ivalm 4y ago
I pay for github co-pilot. It seems surprisingly bad for typescript and excellent for python.
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by ivalm 4y ago
To be fair they do have layer 2 to roll up more transactions, it’s just I think even with that it’s not a lot.
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by ivalm 4y ago
Equity based growth (eg startups) is much much smaller in $ amounts. There are like $140B in equity investment vs trillions in debt financing.
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by ivalm 4y ago
Being able to do things on credit is good, that’s where most of growth comes from and is a feature, not a bug.
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by ivalm 4y ago
How much volume is there today in bitcoin for payment processing? Afaik extremely little. So bitcoin fails this usecase too.
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by ivalm 4y ago
Could one train an interpolation layer (eg take a bunch of 16k audio, down sample to 8k, train 8k->16k upsampler)? Or better yet (but more expensive), take whisper, freeze it, and train the upsampler on whisper’s loss.
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by ivalm 4y ago
> If AGI has even a 1% chance of happening this century and those donations reduce the risk of it going wrong and killing everyone by 1% that's still money very well spent. Sure, but there is no reason to think these numbers are tru
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by ivalm 4y ago
It’s about capex vs opex and they have legal definitions.
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by ivalm 4y ago
I am dumb but now it makes sense. His power is indeed over 9k.
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by ivalm 4y ago
“Almost 9k stars” is actually 7.3k stars… But otherwise very cool project :)
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by ivalm 4y ago
It will affect atmospheric chemistry. It will produce a ton of NO2 and make atmosphere unbreathable without equipment.
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by ivalm 4y ago
The issue is the moral weight of action vs inaction. WFO advocate for action from people who don’t want to do this. WFH do not advocate for an action. WFO do suffer from inaction of WFH, but in almost every moral system suffering caused by
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by ivalm 4y ago
Things like code comments are clearly expressive and not utilitarian (you don’t need comments to compile code and you can express the ideas of these comments with different verbiage without loss of efficiency).
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by ivalm 4y ago
It’s not about the amount of measurement points, uncertainties in dollar amounts tend to scale as sqrt. When you error propagate that you see that inflation uncertainty scales with inflation. Very simple model Inflation=v1/v2 D(inflati
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by ivalm 4y ago
Can they do dft+u/strong-ish correlations?
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by ivalm 4y ago
Errors in counting generally go as square root of the count. So yes, as number goes up so does the deviation.
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by ivalm 4y ago
From 2007, did not age well.
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by ivalm 4y ago
Ok, this is an interesting and nuanced post, thank you for the explanation, I edited my post!
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by ivalm 4y ago
No, Russians are buying Iranian drones that are surprisingly capable. Also funny that Russians are so behind the times that they need to buy advanced military tech from Iran. Edit: apparently Russians have advanced but uneconomical drones,
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by ivalm 4y ago
Not everyone choses the language they code in and boilerplate amount is not the only consideration when selecting a language...
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by ivalm 4y ago
The only other tech giant that is a trillion dollar company is Amazon, and they own a lot of platforms. Beyond those 4 there are no other trillion dollar tech cos. The cutoff is pretty clear and the field is small.
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by ivalm 4y ago
Yeah, and fb is bigger than them. The question is more about what it takes to be a trillion dollar co.
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by ivalm 4y ago
That’s how you get 3 years because everyone is new.
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by ivalm 4y ago
“why it is important to you that X is true?” implies subjectivism in the belief system. While I think belief systems are largely subjective some people think of them as objective and take offense on suggestions that their beliefs are “just”
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by ivalm 4y ago
(3) doesn’t come from (2), but (2) doesn’t negate (3) either. There are people in (1) who are desperate, when (2) occurs those desperate people freely choose this opportunity. Whether this opportunity is exploitative needs to be argued outs
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by ivalm 4y ago
Because we live in a society and ethnicity has massive effect on culture. At the same time, blind testing only tests what is on a test. If the test makers aren’t diverse then the test won’t test diversity. Ethnicity is an incredibly easy pr
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I’m not saying it should be proportional, often times it is impossible to do so. What you can do is check which of functionally equivalent metrics has better non-functional characteristics (eg diversity).

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