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541.
by jnwatson 4y ago
What does C have to do with power of 2-bit registers? CHAR_BIT isn’t restricted and could be 7.
542.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Yes. The term of art is “perfect hash”.
543.
by jnwatson 4y ago
When I graduated as a software engineer in 1998 making $45k, I could have easily bought a house in the DFW area.
544.
by jnwatson 4y ago
I have a Deck and a first gen M1 Air, and I still pull out the Air to code. The Air is lighter, packs easier, lasts longer without charging, and has a real keyboard and a bigger screen.
545.
by jnwatson 4y ago
AI alignment is a philosophy problem, not an engineering one. For alignment to happen, we have to agree what it means. Given we have a hard enough time getting humans to “align”, I can’t imagine any successful attempt at alignment sort of
546.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Only if you get accepted to Harvard. Everything below the top Ivies you're gonna have to pay for.
547.
by jnwatson 4y ago
I'm paying more for my kid to go to a middling out-of-state university for 1 year than the total value of my own 4-year out-of-state full scholarship with stipend 29 years ago.
548.
by jnwatson 4y ago
American English traditionally uses an “and” to separate the whole from the fraction, e.g. two thousand eight and two thirds.
549.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Thank you for the context. The net increase in risk is what I was looking for.
550.
by jnwatson 4y ago
The race for bigger NNs will never stop.
551.
by jnwatson 4y ago
If you on-purpose bypass a filter to use an unapproved plugin, it is on the user at that point.
552.
by jnwatson 4y ago
This means that symmetric cryptography is safe from quantum computing. Before, folks were saying we had to double the key length.
553.
by jnwatson 4y ago
An older developer I once worked with said his manager (in the late 1970s) started hiring typists as programmers since with upcoming programming languages, the hardest part was typing it into the system.
554.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Yeah it wasn’t until I heard that the banks weren’t allowed to hedge HTM bonds that I truly appreciated the “make it up as we go along” nature of our monetary system. There could be a bank run on Chase tomorrow and they wouldn’t be able to
555.
by jnwatson 4y ago
See also the GPT-4 technical report, page 37. https://images.app.goo.gl/vRP8368Z17zW2hvC9
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by jnwatson 4y ago
GPT-4 can already produce excellent sentence diagrams: https://twitter.com/davidad/status/1636150606384582656?s=46&... If that’s a statistical parrot, well so are the rest of us.
557.
by jnwatson 4y ago
I saw a stream the other day that was just the output of an AI trained on a popular streamer’s past streams. It would select a random clip for video, respond to viewers’ comments in the voice of the streamer. It even superimposed roughly co
558.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Area 120 is almost completely dead as of the layoff.
559.
by jnwatson 4y ago
The most obvious, direct lever is they set the reserve requirement ratio. The bank isn't going to make the loan if they don't have the reserve. The next mechanism is setting the Fed funds rate and discount rate. That will very d
560.
by jnwatson 4y ago
The FDIC literally just created an emergency loan facility. I don’t see why a 20% reserve requirement isn’t viable.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It seems like a hack that really should be built into the system. It is insurance only for those in-the-know.
562.
by jnwatson 4y ago
So you’re making the argument that because you don’t personally care, it doesn’t matter?
563.
by jnwatson 4y ago
What. That’s insane. Essentially, if your deposit modeling is off just a little bit, you’re dead.
564.
by jnwatson 4y ago
That’s a rather pedantic interpretation. Yes the Fed doesn’t run the printing press, and it doesn’t set M1, but it controls the levers. That’s like saying to the police officer: “I didn’t speed, I merely pressed on this pedal that’s connec
565.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Exactly. If you have a portfolio of 100% HTM bonds, your income schedule is completely predictable, down to the cent at every moment in time. But your deposit demand is unpredictable and must be modeled. I don’t think even Taleb would have
566.
by jnwatson 4y ago
The 6-8 orders of magnitude difference in storage required?
567.
by jnwatson 4y ago
There's nothing I see at Google that I didn't see at every other corporate job. They spend perhaps an extra 60 seconds about it at large meetings.
568.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Then you really shouldn’t use Google Docs, or Photoshop Online, or host your emails in the cloud.
569.
by jnwatson 4y ago
If you’re a behaviorist, you don’t care if it thinks or the internal machinery at all.
570.
by jnwatson 4y ago
He didn't claim expertise. It is actually more interesting to me to hear someone's opinion with a medium level of expertise in the language. We've had plenty of experts and beginners already weigh in. English isn't a f

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