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by jebarker 1y ago
I’m excited to try this remotely with DAP
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I also remember excitedly telling my friends about derivatives when I first learned of them thinking that this really was cutting edge math
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Thanks for the suggestion. Two I’ve already read that I thought were decent were Bill Gate’s “How to avoid a climate disaster” and Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Ministry for the Future”. I have Drawdown next on my list.
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Yeah, the dissonance of day to day stresses and societal issues with mass extinction is hard to deal with. I’m currently putting together a pile of a few books that claim to have pragmatic but optimistic/hopeful views of where we go fr
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by jebarker 1y ago
I just finished reading “The Sixth Extinction” and it’s hard not to just feel sadness at many of these pictures. The economic benefits of this rapid human development are undeniable but the impact on earth as a whole is pretty horrifying.
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That seems like a pretty weak argument. I don’t think he was just filling in easy details for the next decade plus. Also, even 33 is quite a bit older than the commonly claimed early 20s needed for great mathematical work.
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Interestingly NIST also has a large campus in Boulder. Maybe Boulder is the epi-center of randomness??
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Thanks for sharing, it's much more complicated than I believed.
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My understanding is that that’s more about encouraging younger mathematicians rather than an expectation that older ones won’t produce anything worthy.
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Whenever I hear this claim about younger mathematicians I wonder if it still holds true (or really did historically). For example, Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem in his 40s and there are numerous examples of productive older math
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by jebarker 1y ago
+1 - this resonated with me. For 25 years I have been an aspiring songwriter and it’s a constant battle against perfectionism and learned/imagined standards. I believe the right path is to just write a large volume of songs at a high r
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Especially if you’re a cat. Seriously though, I don’t like hearing this - curiosity about all things is sort of what keeps me getting up each morning.
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Fake film grain maybe, but saying all film grain needs to die is like saying oil painting brush strokes need to die.
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I too would like to hear more from people with similar approaches to work, career and technology to KK. However, it seems like there’s a large amount of survivorship bias at play when people talk about just following their interests and it
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Economic Nihilism(palladiummag.com)
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Money and resources are only a partial explanation. There’s some equally and more valuable companies that aren’t having nearly as much success in applied AI.
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I don't think DM is the only lab doing high-impact AI applications research, but they really seem to punch above their weight in it. Why is that or is it just that they have better technical marketing for their work?
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My experience was similar except the top end score was also lowered, I.e. it became impossible to feel excited or motivated about anything. I believe SSRI response varies greatly between different individuals and drugs though, so this is ju
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I’m in a similar career situation and I am trying to beat my ego into submission to adopt a similar mindset
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My impression driving around Denver is that far more people are choosing to drive dangerously/poorly than are doing so because they're inherently incapable of driving. Much like the author suggests, if you ask most people specific
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Then you’d be calling a whole continent a single mountain and it wouldn’t be a continuous slope in one direction. I agree though that it’s a bit silly to measure Mauna Kea to the ocean floor.
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Also the tallest mountain on Earth!
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Ridiculous seems strong. They’re not my style but I see people making far more surprising fashion choices everyday
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> the LLM views that vagueness as a potential aspect of it's own creative liberty. I think that anthropomorphism actually clouds what’s going on here. There’s no creative choice inside an LLM. More description in the prompt just mea
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Congrats! Did you document the development at all?
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Yes, for the same reason we should design for low end HW: it makes everyone’s experience better. I wish websites and apps treated phoning home as a last resort.
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Yeah, it seems like the blog post is just meant to be an example of how to do something in Mojo and not a dunk on CUDA.
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Well put! I would add that probably nobody achieves this consistently, it's a lifetime practice. So coping strategies like I proposed her can still be useful in the chaos of daily life.
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Actually, in a rare exception this isn't my ego for once. I'm well aware my specific kids don't have any special cosmic significance or even just special significance to the human race. However, continuing humanity does seem
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ASM programming is fun. Machine code (as in what ASM encodes to) isn't scary, but it is extremely tedious to work with. I recommend the first part of Casey Muratori's Performance Aware Programming course if you want to feel that p

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