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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Your CEO likewise subjectively feels all of their employees using AI will be helpful, and has the market power to insist that their employees use them. When engineers demand evidence that AI is productive, but not that having laptops and mo
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
There are no randomized controlled trials that parachutes save lives. This is repeatedly used as an example in the medical community about the limits of randomized controlled trials. This isn't some impression - your impression that s
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Honestly post 2005 things did slow down dramatically for typical single core workloads. In the late 90s and early 2000s the mantra was "why waste time optimizing your software? By the time you're done the next gen of CPUs will hav
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
They don't normally go that fast from what I understand. That is their top speed in reserve they can use for evasive maneuvers, they don't want to go faster than their support fleet or deal with the high maintenance running at th
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Commercial airliners are sub mach1. The Charles de Gaulle is reported to go at least 27 knots at top speed. 27*16=432, a 777 goes 510-520 knots. So maybe more like 18-19x. For the carriers it is at least as the true top speed is classified
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
You should be able to just develop software on your cellphone, right? Do you have an empirical study to support that your employer should buy you a laptop and possibly a monitor or two to help your productivity? If there's no study, wh
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Perhaps if we truly run out of steam on the process node front?
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
There was research a few years back that tried doing something like this with an FPGA, and they found that their algorithm actually exploited defects in the particular chip (not the model, the actual single specific chip) they were using to
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
He was talking about the drinking water that comes from the faucet, not the sewage. The untreated NYC water has tiny crustaceans in it, which make it not Kosher, which is why thee bagels from a Jewish deli in NYC are so good. Go figure. h
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Kmeans++ is just a seed, this is the inner loop. Also analogous to flash attention, a linear speedup in big O sense based on the typical algorithmoc complexity computing model can be a polynomial speedup in measured wall clock time due to m
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
I've also never seen an optional tool become a step change like this Even moving from assembly language to compiled languages was not as much of a step change.
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
I wonder if Waymo gets a cut. I also wonder if riding in a Waymo at the time signals that you're in a demographic that can afford a Waymo and thus get more expensive ads.
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Waymo has published a ton about the imitation learning they've been using since 2018. They're not imitating random cars but their drivers who are paid to drive around and follow traffic laws. It's not enough so they use heav
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Unlike the traffic cops directing traffic that would likely require special programming, "proceed if the other car flashes its lights at you" is completely the kind of thing that could just accidentally fall out of a neural networ
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
There is at least an effect that chatbots have become the primary line and support, and even if you are not prevented from talking to a human, the managers of the humans you would talk to have decided that since the chatbot is there, it i
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Or for that matter even from later versions of the same solvers that were in its training data!
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Curious why it should be on HackerNews to enforce restrictions on content they only license from you? If it's owned by you and only licensed by HN shouldn't you be the one enforcing it?
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by jmalicki 7mo ago
Why would they want different container formats? No point in having multiple different metadata specs.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
(Another small note.... 1.25 * 0.1 is not representable because 0.1 is not representable, so that doesn't divide by 10) 1.25 = 2^0 + 2^-2, so is representable. 0.125 = 2^-3, so is representable 1.25 / 10.0 = 0.125 so is representa
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1b592gp/...
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
I've actually found that well-written well-documented non-spaghetti code is even more important now that we have LLMs. Why? Because LLMs can get easily confused, so they need well written code they can understand if the LLM is going
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
> Are you saying that my students should memorize which numbers are actual floats and which are not? Yes.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
\infty is an actual number not in R
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
.125 + .375 == .5 You should be using == for floats when they're actually equal. 0.1 just isn't an actual number.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Content moderation was an ad-buyer-facing feature. I really see no evidence Musk actually understood that. When he took it away he was all like surprised Pikachu face that advertisers left.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Totally fair! I think my point might be this is more malice than incompetence.
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
You can see it happen in reverse with X/Twitter. Did reducing waste affect the user experience or uptime of Twitter? Not really. But advertising revenues plummeted, because those extra employees were mostly not about the user experien
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
When doubling the number of employees can triple your revenue, you do it. Keeping a website running with high uptime is not the goal. Maximizing revenue and profit is. The extra people aren't waste, they're what drive the increme
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
Meta has 80k employees to run the world's most massive engine of commerce through advertising and matching consumers to products. They build generative AI tools so people can make ads more easily. They have some of the most sophisticat
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by jmalicki 8mo ago
What does this typically look like? Who is the intermediary here between the bank and corporate borrowers - are these buy side created SPVs?

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