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by kvathupo 4y ago
I'd argue it's well-known that income inequality is an existential threat to America. That said, I'd also argue that people _do_ care, but the SF government bureaucracy has proven woefully inept at efficiently solving housing
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by kvathupo 4y ago
This is a good argument for LLM search: have search be conversational, and let you say "hey, I actually meant this!". Then you could have different chat environments, each tailored to micropython results, CPython results, IronPyth
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by kvathupo 4y ago
That's very interesting: I'm not sure how to feel about this. On one hand, it aligns with my ethics to shut-down the operations of sanctioned companies to minimize their harm. On the other, 1. Ethics are relative 2. Should open-so
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I think this is a critical question. Most businesses, imo, would not benefit from the added uninterpretablity and computational overhead from using deep learning. Of those industries modeling stochastic or evolving processes, however, the i
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by kvathupo 4y ago
> which I accept is crappy of me and against the guidelines Just wanted to say I appreciate online commenters admitting when they were wrong/off-color. A welcome sight anywhere on the Internet!
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Definitely not pedantry: I admittedly conflated the two!
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Although I'm unfamiliar with bluetooth drivers, how would you go about making binary files portable? I'd imagine one would decompile the binaries, and modify the source code for redistribution as some portable library supporting w
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I think the battle to promote the use of quantum computers is rendered even more difficult by the fact that their raison d'être of "being faster than classical computers" requires one to further develop the existing field of
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by kvathupo 4y ago
In light of the large language models from Vaswani et al., I'm curious if anyone could chime in: 1. Does Watson incorporate any deep learning? 2. If not, why? Were disagreements based in business or theory?
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Although I'm not up to date on the most recent industry developments, I'd say to be less concerned about the number of qubits, and more concerned about the gate fidelity and qubit coherence. Certainly, you want a quantum computer
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by kvathupo 4y ago
A technique I found useful as a relatively younger person (early 20s) is to keep a text doc to enumerate work priorities, to record progress, and to record where I left off. I found the last point most salient: whenever I faced an interrupt
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Given all the idioms in C++, I don't think constraining the editor to one language is a bad idea *if* it caters to these unique constructs. E.g. I had a templated PImpl class [1] whose template parameter was the implementation. It wa
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by kvathupo 4y ago
An interesting biographical piece with a theme that, anecdotally speaking, appears to be relevant today: brilliant individuals whose potential is stymied by circumstance.
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I'd agree: there's a common misconception that math is "objective." Even if one agrees on the axioms (Axiom of Choice [1]), one must reach consensus on definitions, which seem to be consciously chosen to allow generaliza
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Although I'm no fan of the acerbity of your other comments, that's an interesting observation. Presuming you speak of the US, I think there's an interesting tension between the notion of "holding our political leaders to
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Assuming no shenanigans, there is a layer of deniability since the message was made from Hal Finney's address and private key, i.e. Finney is lying.
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Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?(martinshkreli.substack.com)
116 points by kvathupo 4y ago|138 comments
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Per the link, the signature corresponding to the address and message is valid. The address belongs to Hal Finney, and the message implies Satoshi (who sent him the initial btc) is Paul Le Roux. Any insights?
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Tangentially related: has anyone found luck with book clubs? My friends have a few, but I'm not terribly interested in science-fiction (further narrowing the pool I imagine). I'm not limiting myself to book clubs full of programme
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by kvathupo 4y ago
One of the most pernicious consequences of this fixation on race is the definition of a person by an arbitrary social construct. Although they all check the same box, they have very different experiences and cultural backgrounds: * Black de
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by kvathupo 4y ago
As someone who supported Biden at the time of his withdrawal from Afghanistan, I think it's unreasonable to equate criticism of his Afghanistan withdrawal (one area of "inaccurate information" DHS was targeting) to the promot
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Bill Gates discusses the state of tech in 1991 with BMUG [video](youtube.com)
2 points by kvathupo 4y ago|0 comments
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Looking at the Amazon blurb, I think you're right. It looks interesting. I'll check it out, thanks!
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I think many are missing the article's thesis since it's very, _very_ poorly written: "I would argue that altruism is really meant to help the altruist, not the altruee." The critical flaw of the essay is that the only e
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by kvathupo 4y ago
Click-bait title aside : ^ ), I'd agree. Neural hashes seem to be a promising advancement imo, but I question its impact on the convergence time of AI models. In the pecking order of neural network bottlenecks, I'd imagine it&#x27
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by kvathupo 4y ago
To elaborate on Noe's comment, the article is suggesting the use of LSH where the hashing function is learned by a neural network such that similar vectors correspond to similar hashes via Hamming weight (whilst enforcing some load fac
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by kvathupo 4y ago
As a recent grad, I was going to say education on hardware optimization is lacking in universities, but then again there's a lot of snake oil on sites like stackoverflow. Although users like Peter Cordes have done a good job cleaning u
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Curtis Yarvin Discusses Tech Freedom with Eron(odysee.com)
2 points by kvathupo 4y ago|1 comments
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by kvathupo 4y ago
As a gen-Z denizen, I found it interesting to hear criticisms of the web from an older person's perspective: * social media as swinging back to the decentralization of Usenets * the never-resolved tension between a social network'
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by kvathupo 4y ago
I agree, and would like to note that there isn't a need to simplify C++ imo. It's folly from a business and productivity standpoint to use one language, especially C++, to do everything from writing web apps to doing exploratory d

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