jmalicki

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by jmalicki 4mo ago
Population growth isn't limited except through resources but AI also needs resources
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Most employers are spending a large fraction of SWE salaries on AI tokens right now. It's not unthinkable that trend continues (even if it's rationalizing at the moment), and moves over into other fields as well.
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Another way of putting this: global GDP is ~$132Trillion from what I gather. So this is saying AI products will increase global GDP by about 20%. The Federal Reserve says AI is contributing about 1% GDP growth per year to the US [0]. So may
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Five years ago it would be to serve ads. Today it will be used to power AI girlfriends.
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On a practical level, computer power and FEM etc. have changed aero/astro and the relevant physics at the level you can do engineering with, from people I know in those industries.
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Is there a shortage of B-52 airframes? They get upgraded regularly, the only reason to make more bombers is to try something different.
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The airframes still date closer in time to the Wright-Patterson Kitty Hawk flight than to today.
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"Logic is to computer science and software engineering what calculus is to ... mechanical or civil engineering" Things professionals rarely use in practice?
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It is! And it's a hard problem. What's an easier form of training is being able to see the intermediate results and train to imitate them.
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I'd rather see unit tests as documentation. The test can show intended use, show interesting corner cases, and I know it is up to date because it is constantly running and passing. I think that is a huge underrated benefit of adding a
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Heat sickness sucks, but you pull through even if the sustained temperature does not great things. Heat stroke is a life-threatening medical emergency (e.g. call 911) when they body has gotten so hot that organ systems that are capable of r
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There are plenty of other uses - knowing where to build stores to serve your target market, predicting possible pandemic vulnerabilities, etc.
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And are crazy defensive at pretending it is somehow rational!
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If you don't need the 1300 cash, or think that you could sell it in the future, you could also buy it rather than merely not selling it.
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It's called the fallacy of sunk costs.
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They're all objective, just different coordinate systems. There's nothing less objective about a different coordinate transform.
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Is there some reason significant improvement on cooling and power generation to weight generation ratios is even remotely possible?
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> That works because the auditing the rich is very expensive But it is "profitable". It is one of the very few things the government does that generates short-term "profits" - every dollar spent auditing the rich and
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There is a huge gradation of "how wild". Central park is way more wild than a playground, which is way more wild than a city street corner. The Yosemite National Park front country is way more wild than Central Park. The federally
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> In general we (humans) need to be humble about the limitations of our knowledge about how we function, it's an insanely complicated problem. We do. Which is why we shouldn't be assuming we're more than just probability e
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There is actually a ton of this. There is a huge Bay Area... not sure what to call it - public/private charity? - called the Peninsula Open Space Land Trust, that has a huge amount of donated land in the Silicon Valley, and is a very p
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Performance enhancements are huge though. If you can make the existing model faster, you can then save your inference budget to then make your model bigger, which then makes it smarter. A lot of how smart the models can be comes down to bud
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Then I will feel the same about Rust! There's nothing wrong with wanting to throw out the janky accretion every 30 years for a redesign. After 3-4 years, sure. But eventually enough has changed it's worth redoing.
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That just adds to the incoherency. It's why I've found Rust a joy - enough had happened in programming languages, that it was able to reinvent C++ with some of the best parts of the Haskell/ML/Scala family, some of the e
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by jmalicki 5mo ago
And with the help of AI, pointing at AI at this paper and saying "making a vLLM PR from this paper" tends to work surprisingly well, even if you need to nudge it a little bit along the way.
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But the hard things are things a child can do. The things like proving complicated theorems are things that are acquired by education within a lifetime, and that's why they're easy for AI. The things a child can do are acquired th
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Picking vegetables is still really tough for robots. Pick and place robots, or humanoid robots that can fold laundry, are still a lot tougher than automating knowledge workers and a lot more expensive to the point it's questionable if
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And if cheating was triggered using AI detectors, was it real? AI detectors are pretty mid in practice - they tend to have a lot of false positives for "B" students who are okay, but can still be struggled to be more coherent than
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GoodRX is always worth checking out, a ton of manufacturers will have coupons if you have insurance but they won't cover it. Ask your doctor about them, look them up in your insurance's formulary to see what's required (e.g.
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DORAs. Rather than being sedatives, they directly target receptors in your brain that make you think you should sleep. I think the oldest one came out in like 2011. It's kind of like neuroscientists found the trigger to tell your bra

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