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by jmugan 2y ago
So you are saying that the pie is not grown by paying more, it's just that the workers are getting a bigger slice. Could be. That didn't seem to be the main point of the article, but that could also be true. I haven't looked
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by jmugan 2y ago
The thesis seems to be that businesses would pay more if they were smart enough to realize it was in their interests. Since they aren't, raising minimum wage seems to force them to pay more, which actually lowers labor costs because th
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by jmugan 2y ago
I want something that can take my ugly line drawing and make it a cool looking line drawing without distorting the main idea
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by jmugan 2y ago
As far as I can tell, Google VertexAI prompt optimizer does similar things. I find their documentation more comprehensible. https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/...
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by jmugan 2y ago
I've gone down this rabbit hole a few times, and I always return pissed off and a dozen hours poorer. Maybe someday I'll get it.
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by jmugan 2y ago
I remember visiting California in the 1990s and was amazed to see my California friends waiting patiently at the light, looking at me like I was uncivilized because I just crossed the street whenever it was safe.
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by jmugan 2y ago
Could be. Or maybe drivers will get used to people popping up everywhere and will therefore drive with more concentration. I'm not sure, like you say, it will be interesting to see the data.
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by jmugan 2y ago
I still can't control my iPhone with my voice in the car. Siri doesn't work well for me. Maybe there is another way I have missed, but I'm amazed this functionality is still lacking.
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by jmugan 2y ago
My daughter was accused of turning in an essay written by AI because the school software at her online school said so. Her mom watched her write the essay. I thought it was common knowledge that it was impossible to tell whether text was ge
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by jmugan 2y ago
Agreed on the individual events, but the trend is pretty scary. My daughter went to pick out a pumpkin yesterday in Austin and it was 100 degrees. Christ.
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by jmugan 2y ago
I just made a podcast episode about my company where I work by giving it the website. It was surprisingly realistic. It also made me realize how empty many podcasts actually are. I sent it to my colleagues telling them I "had it produc
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by jmugan 2y ago
When MS Flight Simulator 2020 came out, I wrote a blog post about how these kinds of virtual worlds will be used to train our robot helpers. I'm looking forward to playing this new one. https://medium.com/@jmugan/m
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by jmugan 2y ago
Hybrids just seem like double the complexity. Maybe there are synergies that I don't know about. I wish we had higher gas taxes (we could lower other taxes to compensate).
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by jmugan 2y ago
He doesn't address the real question of how an LLM predicting the next token could exceed what humans have done. They mostly interpolate, so if the answer isn't to be found in an interpolation, the LLM can't generate somethin
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Books to expand the capabilities of AI: a biased reading list(lesswrong.com)
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by jmugan 2y ago
I just watched Dark Waters on Netflix last night. Really good movie about DuPont and teflon. In the movie, people near the plant suffer disproportionally.
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by jmugan 2y ago
This is written for someone with a higher reading level than me. I skimmed the first few paragraphs and have no idea what it is about beyond the title.
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by jmugan 2y ago
Organizations seem to create new lists faster than I can unsubscribe.
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by jmugan 2y ago
In the US, I've been noticing that Montana has been really hot the last few summers. You wouldn't think that 100 degrees would be common way up there.
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by jmugan 2y ago
Sounds bad for the planet too, all that wasted momentum.
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by jmugan 2y ago
Love the title!
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by jmugan 2y ago
My worry is the noise pollution. I'm always surprised at how loud it is when a small airplane flies over.
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by jmugan 2y ago
If you compare this with the recent Apple add of crushing everything into a thin tablet, I can at least see the reasoning and the benefit. They should have seen it from other perspectives and changed it, but there is something smart there.
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by jmugan 2y ago
Yeah, ugh, what were they thinking? The whole point of a fan letter is the personal connection, telling that person you admire who you are and why they inspire you.
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by jmugan 2y ago
That's a cool comment, but I don't think the idea of nested simulations makes anything silly. It just means we have a lot of levels to climb and therefore a lot of potentially beautiful things to explore.
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by jmugan 2y ago
It's funny. When you first do work, you want the experiment to satisfy your hypothesis. When you are building on work, you also want the replication to succeed. But when it is a famous result like this, you actually want it to fail so
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by jmugan 2y ago
It seems too loud just about everywhere.
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by jmugan 2y ago
Uncontrollable noise is really stressful. I'm surprised that as a society we don't regulate noise better.
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by jmugan 2y ago
I was stuck overnight in Atlanta last week (before all of this) because they couldn't find a pilot. They had everyone sitting at the gate until 2am, when they finally gave up and rescheduled the flight for the next day.
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by jmugan 2y ago
You don't have to see the world in such stark terms. There is plenty of silliness everywhere.

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