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by jerkstate 7mo ago
I write a lot of tech docs with AI so I can add some substance here. First of all, you do tell it what you’re writing about - you can give it reams of documentation on related systems, terminology, and source code. Stuff that would take you
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by jerkstate 7mo ago
That’s a felony everywhere though
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by jerkstate 7mo ago
My recollection is that this website says that a 50% score is bad when the expected value of random chance of picking the correct option among 3 is 1/3. A 50% average score means there is some signal there. If it was impossible to gues
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by jerkstate 7mo ago
I think you need to look at the data before making assertions like this. > People don't buy American cars 53% of cars sold in the US are assembled in the US versus 18% assembled in Mexico. > things get more and more expensive. An
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
Pre-maga republicans also used to be pro open borders! A lot has realigned in the past decade or so.
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
Honestly, having spent a lot of time in Korea (which famously grew so much rice that visitors from Japan and China from the 16th century were astounded by their bounty of food), I disagree with the premise.. Queueing discipline is non-exist
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
Why? What makes an expensive murder machine manufactured in Brazil or Sweden more morally acceptable than a murder machine manufactured in the USA?
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
Canada is buying F-35s too...
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
Is there a way an American can vote to not buy F-35s?
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
The ad campaign was super campy, there were print ads in comic books, I remember making fun of it before the movie came out - this can’t be any good, they are going to misrepresent computer geeks, it’s going to be stupid. Of course as a tee
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
If $20/mo Claude is not enough for you but 5x Claude at $100/mo is, the $20 chatgpt plus subscription might give you enough codex for your usage
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
people are sleeping on openai right now but codex 5.2 xhigh is at least as good as opus and you get a TON more usage out of the OpenAI $20/mo plan than Claude's $20/mo plan. I'm always hitting the 5 hour quota with Opus
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
Subsidies also lead to surpluses that can help buffer price shocks during supply crises; here is a recent example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01638-7
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
There's a big difference between "I tried it and it produced crap" and "it will replace developers entirely any day now" People who use this stuff everyday know that people who are still saying "I tried it and
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by jerkstate 8mo ago
Approximately 40-45% of _all_ US residents, natural-born or immigrant, receive more public benefits than they pay in taxes. Consider if an immigrant making a below-average wage could actually fit into both categories. I'm not against i
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FDA: Use of Bayesian Methodology in Clinical Trials(fda.gov)
1 points by jerkstate 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
I'm very sorry, I should have phrased my original post in a kinder, less dismissive way, and kudos to you for not reacting badly to my rudeness. It is a cool repo and a great accomplishment. Implementing autograd is great as a learning
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
Karpathy’s micrograd did it first (and better); start here: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
Wait until these people find out what “scum” (as in scumbag) is a slang term for
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
I did it cheap - I just ran extension cables from my car (previously from a generator). I have a manual transfer switch at my furnace to safely switch between utility power and extension cable power, and just replugged appliances. I think e
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
my area lost power for about 3 days last week and I ran all of my house's critical systems from my EV. it was great - silent, unlike the old generator, and not counting the sunk cost of the car, extremely cheap. Cost maybe $5 in electr
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
I got into audiobooks this year and so have “read” a lot more than usual. Here are some of the most memorable: Outlive by Attia - wouldn’t take everything he says as gospel but he helped me focus on what is really important in health and fi
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
What about PVs and power electronics? My understanding is that TOPCon PVs use substantially more silver per watt than previous generations. China decided to stop exporting silver and there is currently a substantial premium for physical del
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
Unfortunately, LEGO has decided that they want to make mostly high-margin co-branded sets with Nintendo, Pokémon, Minecraft, Star Wars, Monster Jam, F1, etc rather than cool engineering sets with a lot of flexible pieces that can be built i
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
Anything that makes noise; squeaky toys, fart sound generators, lazer guns, etc
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by jerkstate 9mo ago
We have some magnet tiles that have tubes and ramps for building marble mazes with - they are probably the most popular toy in the house. The thing about magnet tiles is there are several brands but they’re incompatible so it’s best to buy
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by jerkstate 10mo ago
surprisingly not listed: writing blog posts
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by jerkstate 10mo ago
I sure hope my tax dollars paid for this garbage
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by jerkstate 11mo ago
mathacademy.com is pretty awesome IMO. one hint: don't take notes/allow yourself to refer to notes during quizzes and reviews, the point is to be able to recall using just your brain, even if your progress is much slower that way,
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by jerkstate 11mo ago
seconded, Scratch is a wonderful learning environment. I would pair it with ChatGPT and supervision, LLMs will really help flesh out ideas and figure out how to implement them for kids who won't know how to start, and since you can&#x2

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