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by laidoffamazon 10mo ago
It’s not difficult to hack this together with CLIP. I did this with about a tenth of my movie collection last week with a GTX 1080 - though it lacks temporal understanding so you have to do the scene analysis yourself
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
The 701 did run XP, even came pre installed with it on some models in later 2007!
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
I have a weird sense that this is a way to get his kids that are technical into a family business without having them work at a company that isn't considered prestigious
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
UIUC and Perdue are not lesser known than MIT. Big state schools are roughly as known they just don’t have the same signal for being a superhuman.
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
From one of the publishers she worked with - https://www.halfmystic.com/blog/you-are-believed
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
Also I’m 99% sure she had another job full time before this
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
It was supposed to be out years ago! She got a substantial advance but presumably delayed it due to the plagiarism scandal
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
Elaborate on this. Is it not sad when a UIUC Or Perdue grad can’t get a compiler engineer job out of undergrad? What does it mean to be cooked?
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by laidoffamazon 11mo ago
For those unaware or may find her name familar, Rona is known for her plagiarism scandal. She blocks anyone on Twitter who asks about it or the book she got a substantial advance for but didn’t publish after this scandal came to light. She
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
Not what happened, not in the same universe
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
We’ve gone from CCP control of the media spigot to pro-US regime billionaires controlling it. One step forward and another step back.
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
A shocking number of people are simply unaware (or worse, don’t care) that the current regime pardoned a thousand insurrectionists either while being nakedly corrupt to the point of taking cash in CAVA bags. The attention simply isn’t ther
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
Wait, are you saying Course 6 is still the most common major? And thus still has the most direct path to making $500k a year out of undergrad? Of course, MechE's frequently also work at these companies or in finance too...
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
> because you can't hang with the IMO kids Maybe that's true. I'm sympathetic to the fact that these people aren't even interesting enough to be around. But then I see articles like this [0] sympathizing (?) with elit
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
> I went to an elite school and have friends that make much less even than $150k. They're doing so by choice to do PhDs or go into public service. They (as in, the ones in quantitative majors and many even outside of it) _also_ had
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
This is not bragging to literally anybody that went to an Ivy+ school for CS ~10 years ago. A $15m+ net worth is their standard for success. Hell, it's their standard for _average_.
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
Yes. I live in a city with two Ivy+ institutions and graduates from many more. They're all the same, except some are better at faking it than others. And why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't they think people like me are lazy and
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
Is it? Seems like the elite schools probably should be knocked down a few pegs but the state schools shouldn't.
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
I've asked people at MIT this repeatedly. They all say they came to MIT for the peer group. Peer group = people that are not _like me_. They shut up quick when I challenge them on that point though, or ask what the difference between t
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
If you look at the resumes of anyone at top schools and who gets into YC this isn’t true, they’re simply more accomplished before college than the rest of us are after (or in my case, ever).
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
At my undergrad there were 16 4.0s in a CS graduating class of about 120. I didn’t get close - about a 3.92 because I’m a poor student too. Grade inflation isn’t just a thing at elite schools, even my undergrad with a 45-55% accept rate
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
People that go to elite undergrads think the rest of us are a lower inferior caste. I don’t know how that’s even something you can deny. You’ve clearly expended a lot of effort to segregate yourself from the likes of people like me or peopl
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
> Hadn't written a code before he switched majors in college. Went from having zero experience with programming, to being a straight A computer science student I’ve met these people before, they’re almost always undergrads from elit
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
They hate the rest of us that didn’t get into elite schools and are permanent members of the upper caste of this country. Graduate school admission is more purely meritocratic on if you can do research but even that isn’t great.
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
I didn’t realize UA was here - even UVA and UT as more egalitarian institutions are a weird set to include.
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
Not like this, no, and it has never shaken down schools like it has at Columbia or Harvard. As much as I despise these institutions and their undergrads this does nothing to punish them and everything to increase the power of this current c
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
“Might as well not exist” - what should be done of the bottom 80% of society then? I’m sure this applies to SWEs too.
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
Im sympathetic to this idea but it seems like this is a situation that most game developers don’t have because they just develop locally. Sometimes they do need to push to a console which this could help with if Microsoft or Sony built this
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
Stadia was sadly engineered in such a way that this is impossible. Speaking of which, who thought up the idea to use custom hardware for this that would _already be obsolete_ a year later? Who considered using Linux native instead of a comp
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by laidoffamazon 1y ago
As I've gotten further in my career I've started to wonder - how many engineering quarters did it take to build this for their customers? How did they manage to get this on their own roadmap? This seems like a lot of code surface

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