johbjo

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by johbjo 6y ago
Board game AI works by searching through the state space, and evaluating each state with the neural network, then picking the move with best expectation. So it needs to load the comparatively tiny game state (chess board) into the GPU for e
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I remembered this quote from Grady Booch, at 13:00 in this video: https://youtu.be/adiVOdztQ34 "These software artifacts we produce, are perhaps some of the most complex humans have ever created."
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One thing that might make software fundamentally different from other stuff, is that before being able to make a meaningful contribution a person needs to invest X hours just to understand. In most other creative fields, this can be hand-wa
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The idea behind the article is incorrect. The entire ecosystem of languages, libraries, and operating systems now is a far greater accomplishment. And agile everywhere.
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> things like batch norm. We don't know why it's important It is pretty well understood.
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His examples are CNN image applications, and it is true that these were spectacular new results 10 years ago. Since then, the tedious engineering has improved and recreating the results now are indeed just a few lines of python. The reason
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There are various implicit contracts involved. Using your software is lending you reputation, power, and influence. In high profile projects, this mindshare is more valuable. If your software would be unreliable, the trust and reputation wo
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In that case, everything is a battery. Just radiate heat into space and call the night sky "a battery".
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No. Careful partitioning is the solution to this problem. Monitor the growth of your partitions and make sure nothing on rootfs or other sensitive partitions grow significantly.
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The bicycle quip appears in so many videos from around that time. Interpret Jobs videos as case studies in a type of marketing. He's framing Apple marketing as "it's so exciting that we can help people so much", but it&#
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Similar to immersion when learning a language, you need to to do the exercises from the ground up until the proofs seem self-evident. If there are uncertainties about the exact meaning of notation and operations, you will probably fool your
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Many basic resources are now almost free in the sense that the market price barely covers cost of production/collecting. Vegetables and certain farm products are examples of this. Slightly out-of-date electronics. Many more things are
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Copyright and licensing is complicated, in the sense that a track has many different copyright holders, and the record companies usually make sure to own distribution rights by contract. The composers and artists might be powerless, even th
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The three or four major media companies/rights holders correspond to roughly 75% of streams on Spotify, and probably the entire catalogue of music pre 2010. This gives them the bargaining power to influence playlists, recommendations,
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by johbjo 6y ago
I would do this: Let i = ((n % 3) == 0) | ((n % 5) == 0) << 1 Then map output as { n, 'Fizz', 'Buzz', 'FizzBuzz' }
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by johbjo 6y ago
The look/feel/interaction in media apps today is essentially a "cultural good" in the same way the design of a TV-franchise is a cultural good. It needs to be updated every few months to feel fresh, and the time horizon
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by johbjo 6y ago
It's a technical concern. Publishing will only cause fear and doubt. In any case, it's a matter of weighing risks. Even if there's a 10⁻⁶ probability of complications, giving the vaccine and stopping serious illness/deat
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by johbjo 6y ago
Learn things regardless whether you receive short-term rewards for them. People saying "learn by doing" or "learn just-in-time" are essentially saying; only learn easy things that you receive immediate rewards. This resu
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by johbjo 6y ago
> I think my grasp of “the big picture,” or a high established baseline, is a big reason for the fast uptake. This is a valid argument and true also in my experience. The counter argument is that "software building" is to media
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by johbjo 6y ago
An economic asset is valued based on expected future cash flow. In the last decades however, real estate and some stocks are mainly valued based on expected appreciation. Real estate even generates negative cash flow for most home owners, a
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by johbjo 6y ago
I have a theory that fashion (set design, clothes, makeup, UX) progresses as fast as the audio/video media begins to show age. Pictures are clearly dated by the media itself, which means the contents of the pictures are also inevitably
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by johbjo 6y ago
> So how do the economics of this work out? Can anyone explain to me? Idk, but maybe the engineers don't fully trust it, so they outsource the liability of running it with some contractual guarantees. And at the moment, this probabl
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by johbjo 6y ago
If the customer relationship is sticky and product/technology improves over time, it is more important to be quick than "mature" or "feature complete". When the technology matures (roughly simultaneously for all com
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One intuition about the large GPT-models is that they are learning "facts" like they are learning grammar rules. It's just that their capacity is so immensely large as to learn facts as part of the language model.
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> Less than 10 years later, a general-purpose open-sourced technology without the massive mainframe or cooling fans can compete on the same level. First, are GPT-3 models generally available? Secondly, GPT-3 is many orders of magnitude l
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by johbjo 6y ago
The type of coding that can be self-taught in a few months/years is exactly the type of coding that guys age<30 will be more cost-effective at. A disciplined engineer/mathematician can learn to code applications quickly and pos
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Overall production/consumption has probably decreased. This means that food has has higher relative share of consumption. Therefore food prices shift right?
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Possibly biggest difference: government deficit spending and negative trade balance. Should contribute to GDP through spending that would otherwise not happen. This is not afforded to anyone without reserve currency status. EU governments a
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The same reason single independent videographers can post videos with higher production value than TV-networks just 15 years ago. The reason is that design, photography, image/video editing, and printing became basic capabilities avail
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Unless it had a strategy to counteract piracy and other illegal content, it would become a target for law enforcement as soon as it grew big enough to be relevant. For example, one attack could be to start legal processes against key people

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