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by jebarker 3y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like these DOD posts should always mention that the ideas are borne out of experience in game engine development and don't necessarily easily apply in other domains. In some general sense
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by jebarker 3y ago
Yeah, "parent tested" is good.
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by jebarker 3y ago
That's true. I am fortunate to work in an applied research team that exists to take on unsolved problems. Although I'd argue that just having the ability to press on in the face of challenges is a closely related and widely useful
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by jebarker 3y ago
Zipline's work in Rwanda is really inspiring. I love that they are doing real good in the world first and can leverage that to grow their commercial business.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I had strong convictions about the things I would be doing and achieving in my 40s. The responsibilities that I actually had in my life were in direct conflict with that though. Initially I tried to do it all and just felt like a failure on
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by jebarker 3y ago
Did you ask those people whether they have the same desires in their old age as they did when they were younger? EDIT: my question comes across as combative and snarky. I honestly hope your strategy works out. Just for me the life I now enj
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by jebarker 3y ago
But you've figured out what 20 year old and 30 year old you wanted, not necessarily what 40 year old you wants. I was shocked by the cookie cutter midlife crisis I had upon hitting 40 despite thinking I was doing all the right things b
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by jebarker 3y ago
Caring too much about external recognition.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Well that sucks.
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by jebarker 3y ago
I suspect it's the justification for many PhDs. If you don't go into academia then chances are the content isn't that relevant, but the experience of having to problem solve in uncharted territory is a great confidence booste
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by jebarker 3y ago
"Mom tested" might not be the best thing to say if you want moms to buy your product
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by jebarker 3y ago
That's what I did (~17 years ago). I was registered as MPhil then transferred to PhD after submitting a mini-thesis after about 2 years. In the end the mini-thesis actually contained all the most significant results that formed the PhD
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by jebarker 3y ago
I'm interested in how specific this PhD experience is to the US, certain subjects or recent times. My own experience doing a maths PhD in the UK in the mid-2000s was not like this at all (but had a different set of challenges for sure)
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by jebarker 3y ago
I wasn't disputing that it's feed-forward. I just meant that stacked transformer layers can be thought of as an iterative refinement of the intermediate activations. Not the same as an autoregressive process that receives previous
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by jebarker 3y ago
I was surprised he said this too. Even without the autoregressive part of GPT models you have a deep transformer with attention, so even a single forward pass can modify its own intermediate outputs.
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by jebarker 3y ago
Do you say that because you think the work required to achieve economic security is too much? I ask because it's hard to imagine an alternative that would enable more people to follow their passions without securing the essentials firs
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by jebarker 3y ago
> I don’t think that great work and financial success are necessarily related This is an important thing to know. An even broader point is that no matter what you do you can't control how the world will receive your work. You may do
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by jebarker 3y ago
Maybe we disagree on what constitutes self-made financial success, but it seems to me that most wealthy people have not done great work at all. It's entirely possible, and fairly common, to become financially independent by grinding aw
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by jebarker 3y ago
"When WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook, they had 35 engineers. They were able to do this in part because they didn't "follow playbook," and while you probably can't go that extreme..." Not my area of expertise
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by jebarker 3y ago
From my narrow viewpoint in the US mountain west I think the future will look like increase in all those green technologies you mention alongside a legacy of ICE vehicles still in use. There are numerous reasons, some more valid than others
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by jebarker 3y ago
The world isn't stopping buying ICE cars today though. It will be a gradual transition.
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by jebarker 3y ago
> Anyway, in the next 20 years, virtually all ICE vehicles need to go away. Is this actually possible? i.e. are there actually enough resources and production capacity to replace all ICE vehicles on the road in two decades. I remember he
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by jebarker 3y ago
I recently encountered this from both sides in my work. I was trying to get a particular single-threaded CPU program running in less than 1 microsecond. Light goes about 300m in that time. I remember reading around the same time that the Ei
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by jebarker 3y ago
> No idea why every single journalist kept forcing the "air remaining" theme. To keep viewers engaged in the search I'd imagine
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by jebarker 3y ago
What's the first?
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by jebarker 3y ago
The video resonated with me. Looking back I think that I studied pure math in further education because I thought that others perceived it as the hardest subject you could study and therefore would think highly of me for studying it. I thin
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by jebarker 3y ago
"We found a composition of mostly iron with some magnesium and titanium but no nickel. This composition is anomalous compared to human-made alloys, known asteroids and familiar astrophysical sources." I took that to mean it wasn&#
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by jebarker 3y ago
I haven't seen Yellowstone but I'd be amazed if it comes at all close to Blood Meridian for violence. I can't think of any movie or TV show that would. edit: American Psycho might have if they'd stayed faithful to the bo
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by jebarker 3y ago
I cannot imagine how this is going to work.
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by jebarker 3y ago
What aspects of the West didn't make sense to you?

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