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by kredd 2y ago
Technicalities make things harder to understand for general masses. “The Data That Powers LLMs” means little to nothing to an average user. My 70 year old parents use ChatGPT, and they have no idea what LLM is, but call it AI.
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by kredd 2y ago
People who are more familiar with Bell Labs — what was the compensation and life was like when one worked there? Were there any extremely alluring alternatives like FAANG of the day, where even a bottom line individual contributor can save
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by kredd 2y ago
Great points, that could happen as well! I'm curious what would Chinese companies get from partnerships with German companies at this point though, as my knowledge is pretty limited in that sphere.
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by kredd 2y ago
I completely agree! I should've worded my comment a bit better - "should I pay $40k/year for a school that won't open up doors for me in the future?" was the question that I was trying to answer back in the days. If
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by kredd 2y ago
Consumers are willing to go into huge debts to buy the car they want. Anecdotal, but my closest friend works for a car dealership and the stories he tells every week are heartbreaking. From Ford/GM perspective, I’m assuming they’ve cru
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by kredd 2y ago
Outside of global top 50, ROI decreases to the point where you start considering where it is actually worth it. That was at least my thought process back in the days when I was applying to universities.
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by kredd 2y ago
They used to in 2020-2022 cycle. I don’t think they can right now, but the social contract of employees staying at the company for a long time has been completely broken. So now everyone just expects short retentions, and market forces driv
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by kredd 2y ago
Yeah fair, I could see why it’s good for us who has a decent chunk of experience. Kinda makes sense from managerial perspective as well - lay off bunch of under-performers/juniors, hire back other seniors from other companies that got
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by kredd 2y ago
As much bad rep as schools get nowadays, if you get into a good university (think of top 50 in the world), it will open up a lot of doors for you. Very anecdotal, but I have open offers from people whom I know from uni years. Connections ma
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by kredd 2y ago
It really sucks right now, but recent grads and juniors are suffering the most right now, to my understanding. There's an over-production of CS grads, as the industry looked very lucrative, so a lot of people decided to go software eng
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by kredd 2y ago
Knowing my girl friends, if you said the same thing to them, they would probably laugh at you and continue enjoying their lives. Like it’s really not that bad out there. There are ups and downs, but we live in decent cities, have fun, find
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by kredd 2y ago
It might be sad for the social/economical future, but it’s really not sad for people who are not having kids in their 20s. They might regret it in the future, but as of now, their decisions are pretty solid and logical, if you think ab
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by kredd 2y ago
After all these "I would pay for Firefox if I could" comments, it would be fun for Mozilla to start a Gofundme like page, where if it hits $300M (or whatever amount they're getting from Google per year) they'll make it a
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by kredd 2y ago
After Equifax debacle, I don’t think anyone cares. It’ll only be a big deal if there’s a huge B2B leak and business-critical data gets exposed, other than the usual name, address and phone number.
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by kredd 2y ago
Nope, no health data is being sent to me. The only time your location gets recorded is when you use it to generate a challenge based on your current location. For just mapping and visualizing your walks, everything is local. But yeah, obvio
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by kredd 2y ago
Yeah, totally fair point. I should probably add a simple guest access. Had to lock it behind auth as I keep adding features for myself that require some backend action, and was too lazy to write different code paths depended on authenticati
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by kredd 2y ago
Made a simple app to put all my Apple Watch walks on the same map, so I can walk every street in my city. Surprisingly there wasn't anything available that was free or straightforward, despite it being an easy app to develop. Honestly,
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by kredd 2y ago
Although I was a bit too young, but the haydays of ICQ and Yahoo Group chats were mesmerizing. It was kinda remarkable how I never thought “a comment has a financial motive behind it” like I do while scrolling through Twitter or Reddit. Or
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by kredd 2y ago
Japan’s government is also pushing towards cashless society right now. Younger generations are accepting it as well. My friends at PayPay and similar companies are pretty set on increasing their userbases YoY. I live in Canada, and honestly
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by kredd 2y ago
I'm not in the game, so pardon my ignorance, but is there any company that released the dataset the model was trained on for LLMs? To my understanding, it will lead to never-ending lawsuits due to grey areas as soon as they're rel
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by kredd 2y ago
How cheap Waymos have to get to actually make a dent on the amount of people who drive or use public transport on a daily basis? It’s definitely an upgrade over hailing an Uber though, hope it ramps up and we eventually see it up here in Ca
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by kredd 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what about the Chinese market? It’s Apple’s third biggest market, and my assumption is since ChatGPT is banned there, they’ll need to work with some local AI companies to deliver the announced features.
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by kredd 2y ago
You have a point, but my guess is it's simply a numbers game. I remember everyone in middle school sharing explicit, gore, "rough" LiveLeak vides in our school-wide MSN group chats. Probably a percentage of people suffered be
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by kredd 2y ago
Mostly because Snapchat can't be easily used as a "funnel through discovery algorithms". On the other side of it, it's probably the app where everyone sends their explicit photos to each other, especially within the youn
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by kredd 2y ago
FB/IG/Threads openly downrank any political content for good reasons nowadays. There was a thread from one of the execs that I saw a few months ago. I actually like that. Not everything has to be "rage bait of the day sprinkl
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by kredd 2y ago
My naive prediction is there will be an extreme swing back into “reality” once everyone starts assuming the whole internet is just LLMs interacting with each other. Just like how there’s a shift towards private group chats, with trusted mem
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by kredd 2y ago
I’m not the OP, and I genuinely don’t like how we’re slowly entering the “no text in internet is real” realm, but I’ll take a stab at your question. If you made an LLM to pretend to have a specific personality (e.g. assume you are a religio
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by kredd 2y ago
Manufacturing capability and infrastructure would be my guess. I guess if the trend continues and factories keep moving to India and Mexico, it might be a different game in 10 years.
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by kredd 2y ago
Again, this argument ignores the existence of OS-agnostic apps like WhatsApp. Who uses MMS? I might be extremely wrong, as I couldn’t find numbers online. But just from personal experience as well, outside of US, WhatsApp and its alternativ
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by kredd 2y ago
As a person who has friends with Androids, I have no idea about the video quality through MMS. We just use WhatsApp, and although it affects the quality, it’s generally good enough. My point isn’t that this upgrade isn’t useful. I meant, wh

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