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by kolbe 4y ago
"it's less useful as a "this person will excel" test and more useful as a "this person won't fail miserably" test." This is also an unproven statement with dubious validity. I come from the trading wo
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by kolbe 4y ago
> Can you link me to that? I can't, but really? Every major announcement from them has been top of page. And I don't disagree with that being the case. ChatGPT is THE story of 2023 tech, and their announcements are important to
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by kolbe 4y ago
This was me just testing it. I was aware of the particular SE answer ahead of time, and it followed the whole thing close enough that I had assumed it had internally mapped to it. But I suppose it didn't have to be that way.
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by kolbe 4y ago
That's a whole other topic. I was mostly commenting on how it just plagiarized a correct answer off of Stack Exchange, except it took an incorrect hard right turn at the end to make up a solution.
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by kolbe 4y ago
I've had your same experience. I've found them mostly to be an error-prone search engine, with somehow less accountability than the open internet, because it hides its sources. At least with Stack Exchange answers, we have who wro
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by kolbe 4y ago
You see the problem, right? The world is filled with people/organizations who do the right thing almost all the time, but then use that clout to do a bad thing when it really matters. I know we cannot know the contra-factual on this pa
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by kolbe 4y ago
Also maybe with give dang zero karma if they store it as an uint16!
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by kolbe 4y ago
That link doesn't really tell us. We're a very analytical bunch here, and when I see one story that should have a 10x higher rank according to the "basic algorithm" being ranked lower, that means these "other factor
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by kolbe 4y ago
Then what is the algorithm for determining where something should be ranked. I see submissions with 400 votes in two hours being ranked far below ones with 100 votes in 10 hours, and often the variable seems to be the article is critical of
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by kolbe 4y ago
I consistently wonder why posts critical of HN-affiliated companies that have stats like upvotes per hour and number of comments that would theoretically make them the top story getting pushed off the front page. Are there people whose upvo
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by kolbe 4y ago
You should submit your new baseless theory about schizophrenia and addition to the AMA. Sounds like you've solved this Nobel-worthy problem.
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by kolbe 4y ago
> providing them the help they need. Statements like this seem to be exactly why people are frustrated with SF's policies. What is the "help they need" that will be sufficient to keep them from being a problem? I've k
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by kolbe 4y ago
There are 1000's of different ways to be an expert in CS. implementing high performance functions in numerical analysis is only one.
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by kolbe 4y ago
Memory model experts: if you define the constants in the way this code has, will they be contiguous in memory? Or would it be better to allocate these in an aligned(64) array?
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by kolbe 4y ago
It is technically 12th order, but every other coefficient is zero, so it calculates a polynomial approximation in x^2 space
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by kolbe 4y ago
Why do you return x-x for inf or nan? I can't test now, but I imagine they both return nan? I run a high performance math library in C#, and I'm always looking to improve. https://github.com/matthewkolbe/LitMa
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by kolbe 4y ago
Yeah, it's anti-Harvard admissions, which is the entire point of the case, and the judge wouldn't allow it into evidence?
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by kolbe 4y ago
> If you just use grades then you are benefiting the rich to a very high degree. As the rich can pay any amount for tutors and the kids don't need to work, hence being able to use a far higher amount of their waking time for studyin
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by kolbe 4y ago
Jackson is recused, so the only only other liberal they need is Sonja, and she seemed pretty virulently in favor of Harvard in oral arguments.
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by kolbe 4y ago
At the Dorsey level, the "rule" could be something entirely different. The existing industry rule could be that human review is necessary to comply with AML laws. Dorsey thinks technology can take care of it while cutting costs, t
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by kolbe 4y ago
We still struggle on benchmarking people.
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by kolbe 4y ago
To add further, these parlor tricks are nothing new. Watson won Jeopardy in 2011, and never produced anything useful. Doing well on the SAT is just another slight-of-hand trick to distract us from the fact that it doesn't really do any
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by kolbe 4y ago
Is there a single major service from a Silicon Valley internet company that doesn't get worse by the year? They all loss lead for years and years, then try to diminish the experience for profit in late stages.
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by kolbe 4y ago
I think the classic sense is when a too many people withdraw, and even though the bank has sufficient assets to cover their liabilities, they don't have necessary cash to honor the withdrawals. SVB doesn't have enough assets, and
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by kolbe 4y ago
This is basically the opening scenes of Goodfellas. Henry Hill : [narrating] All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI can never understan
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by kolbe 4y ago
> of course shouldn't have said those words yesterday. They were going to have to say something sooner-or-later. I think the biggest part is that before they could raise capital, they needed to be honest about their books or risk se
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by kolbe 4y ago
I have no clue about the actual internals at SVB, but an example of why: say a bank has $200bn in assets that they put into mortgage backed securities yielding 1.5% for 10 years. Lets say that means they paid $86 per $100 bond. Now rates ri
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by kolbe 4y ago
> [Goodhart's Law] is descriptive; it tells you of the existence of a phenomenon, but it doesn’t tell you what to do about it or how to solve it. This is the difference between an adage and an essay. And I will say just thunking abo
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Performance of Gather/Scatter Operations(2019)(osti.gov)
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by kolbe 4y ago
I see much more affordable CPUs on that list. You can buy those instead of the best of the best.

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