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lolwut987
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lolwut987
5y ago
Yes, I often have to consider the context of the excel spreadsheets on my VMs, because you can’t know how to run a machine without knowing what it wants at a high level.
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lolwut987
5y ago
It’s wrong to say it doesn’t want anything, it’s solely motivated to minimize training error. If you align what minimizing train error means with a larger purpose, it will seemingly make magic happen. Just like you, online, trying to figure
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lolwut987
5y ago
Like the rest of engineering, you very rarely start with a novel target. You’re building things from a library of tested techniques. Vaccines aren’t drugs. They’re a method of delivering material to the immune system for it to do its thing.
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lolwut987
5y ago
That’s absurd. Yes, I still test my code. But when I write it, I do it with the lessons I’ve learned over decades, and it’s usually close to working before the first test comes into the picture. That’s where we are with vaccine production:
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lolwut987
5y ago
Except we’ve been studying this for well over a hundred years, and it’s not a medication, it’s only presenting something to the immune system so it can perform it’s singular task on. So, by this point, you’re telling me I can’t understand w