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by johnsimer 4y ago
There’s a lot of cool infra that am engineer could have worked on, that by no means would mean they were complicit in or approving of scams: e.g polygon, starknet, testing infrastructure for the merge etc
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by johnsimer 4y ago
Thought experiment: Let's say we implemented a very large DNN with different hardware. Say, rather than with transistors and capacitors, with a bunch of mirrors and lasers (and some other creative analog equivalents for capacitors) spr
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by johnsimer 4y ago
1) How would processing all inputs and determining actions be less effective if everything was done subconsciously rather than consciously? Our hearts determine the correct speed and pressure to beat at all unconsciously and that is evoluti
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by johnsimer 4y ago
Parent might indeed mean melanin, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23477948/
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by johnsimer 4y ago
I don’t think you are doing this correctly Most of omega 3 benefits come from EPA and DHA. Not ALA. chia seeds have mainly ALA. Your body will only convert some of ALA into EPA, but not much. If you are trying to avoid fish oil, you could t
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by johnsimer 4y ago
You can make the argument that stagnant progress isn’t actually not progress, when it comes to AI progress. Kilcher and Karpathy recently had a video where they discussed how some new model (PALM or Dalle2 I forget which) showed zero progr
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by johnsimer 4y ago
A reduction in people in the economy is good for some subsegments but for the economy as a whole, no Think about the networks effects of an economy. An economy of one person has a size of zero units. An economy of two people has a size of o
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Yes I understand that, but what is wrong with that?
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Can anyone explain what’s wrong with using the royal “we” in conversations?
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by johnsimer 5y ago
He claimed on Twitter spaces a couple weeks ago that he has a large investment in Tesla as well - based on their gross margins and growth, not based on FSD
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Autopilot already does that very well and has for a few years and comes for free with each Tesla. you don’t need to pay the $12k FSD package for that
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Very similar life story and timeline here. Going from being a very motivated worker to burnt out can be psychologically challenging, and people around you often don’t seem to understand that your burn out can last for longer than a few week
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by johnsimer 5y ago
I think each person should learn what motivates them best, and the pros and cons of different motivational strategies. Pre-burnout, dark motivation strategies such as stress and having a chip on my shoulder motivated me. Now post-burnout, I
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Emailed you
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by johnsimer 5y ago
If robots replaced humans there’d be significant deflation and some UBI policy would be enough for people to afford said deflated goods Maybe. Idk really though. Sure it depends on the good
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Why use many words when few will do?
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by johnsimer 5y ago
I simply installed a browser extension to block YouTube recommendations. Haven’t surfed YouTube on my laptop since Phone is a different story tho
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Everything seems to be functioning normally for me now
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Yeah I can't log in with our external SAML SSO to our AWS dashboard to manage our us-east-2 resources. . . . Because our auth is apparently routed thru us-east-1 STS
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Would there be a way to make a Proof of Infra algorithm using zk proofs? e.g. to prove that some blockchain nodes ran a set of data through a particular infra setup (e.g. a bunch of language arbitrary Lambdas, SQS queues etc. defined in clo
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Are all stablecoins looking dodgy? Sure, centralized ones, particularly tether you could argue so. But what about decentralized stablecoins such as Dai?
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Totally agree. I don’t think they actually invalidated product market fit. The way to do that is by pitching to companies/managers/teams in person and seeing if 0% or some other unacceptable percentage of them actually sign up
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by johnsimer 5y ago
I don’t think humans evolved to be alone/work alone 8 hours a day 5 days a week. We’ve almost always worked in some sort of a community/tribe each day
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Now adding “Schrodinger’s Accountability” to my list of mental models
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Greed is only good when the greedy actions do not have negative externalities
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Interesting. Either way I only have to tap the stalk down.
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Being critical of certain regulatory bodies is not the same as "wanting socialism for yourself, rugged individualism for everyone else". Elon is a proponent of UBI, and every year for the past 20 years has worked on projects are i
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Not moving as fast as you can to greenify your cars as an automaker is unethical.
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by johnsimer 5y ago
I'm not aware of Elon ever saying he's 100% free-market > "A carbon tax is needed to correct the unpriced externality & market will do the rest. The consequences of slow action are serious. In my opinion, we need to co
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by johnsimer 5y ago
Check out Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life (And how Anyone Can Harness It. Even You.) by Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas

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