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by lostdog 3y ago
I program a lot of personal projects and just ignore the drama. It's a fun language to program in, and whatever dramatics the core team is engaged in, they've still managed to put out an excellent language and ecosystem.
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by lostdog 3y ago
> But only one process can be making changes to the database at any moment in time
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by lostdog 3y ago
Lecun's law: Every discussion about AI eventually results in someone catastrophizing about an evil AI taking over, despite having no argument for why an evil, omnipotent AI is likely to ever exist.
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by lostdog 3y ago
The real theme of the article was how social, outgoing, and successful this guy was, and how much this guy was liked by his friends and "friends." For some reason the WSJ wants to paint it with a patina of DRUGS.
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by lostdog 3y ago
Maybe the will follow up removing the headphone jack from the Pixel with an equally-stupid removal of the whole screen.
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by lostdog 3y ago
Fertilizer runoff is a big deal, but I'm pretty sure only human waste goes through the "waste treatment plants" the author is talking about, and that fertilizer runoff does not. That's why I consider the article to be so
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by lostdog 3y ago
This one? > But upgrading the urban wastewater-treatment facilities surrounding the bay would eliminate nutrient pollution, permitting more delta water to be directed to California’s farms and cities—a lot more water. The main reason for
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by lostdog 3y ago
The obvious bias in the article suggests that it's probably wrong. It would take a ton of research to know for sure.
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by lostdog 3y ago
There is no reasonable evidence-based argument that porn is even 1% as bad for you as vaping.
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by lostdog 3y ago
There's still a lot of data that needs to be passed between GPUs. SageMaker is "minimizing the communication," but it's still way more than nothing, and all the gradients need to be communicated roughly every iteration.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Here's one of the entrances on streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7694654,-122.4291885,3a,75y,... The SF MUNI system has light rail vehicles which do sometimes run on surface streets, similar to a trolley
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by lostdog 4y ago
Human-driven vehicles do keep trying to drive down the Muni tunnel for some reason: https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Motorist-in-Muni-tunnel... https://sfist.com/2019/08/19/once-
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by lostdog 4y ago
I see a lot of negativity about a product that isn't even clear yet, which is a shame. There are a lot of problems with AI development today, and if Modular fixes even a slice of issues, then that's pretty great. I have some skept
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by lostdog 4y ago
Everybody hates salespeople, and salespeople optimize for their own company's goals, just like an AI chatbot will have to. There's no way you will want to interact more with Walmart's chatbot than necessary.
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by lostdog 4y ago
And what about billing limits or quotas?
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by lostdog 4y ago
Sadly I've ranted enough on this account that it needs to remain anonymous.
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by lostdog 4y ago
* Build something people want and will pay for. * Figure out what the product must look like early, and keep your vision consistent for a long time. * Dive into the details of the product, and try to get quality at the lowest levels. * Hire
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by lostdog 4y ago
What are the typical policies for getting more stuff produced?
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by lostdog 4y ago
I read some of them, and I don't know what they're referring to. Could you link to the relevant "file?" Would be even better if you had a secondary source that confirms the "file's" claims.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Wow, thank you! Finally I can look through my subscriptions without needing to scan past all the Shorts junk.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Turn down interview requests and resume review requests for the next year. Clearly the company should not be hiring.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Maybe the same good solutions could apply to both unrealized gains and prop 13. Cite the asset as an illiquid, fully-contained asset, have the taxes accumulate as a debt against the asset, and then owe all the taxes at sale time.
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by lostdog 4y ago
I would support making the courts fairer and cheaper, but a secret privated pseudo-justice system that is biased in favor of companies just isn't the way to do it. If you want to argue that arbitration is fair, then please point to som
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by lostdog 4y ago
Why is the drug overdose rate so much lower on the West Coast than the East? It sure looks like drug usage is at least as bad in other states, so it doesn't really make sense that the unique West Coast housing issues are due to drugs a
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by lostdog 4y ago
Typically the 83b is only helpful when the strike price is low enough that exercising is "cheap." Once a company raises its series A, exercising crosses ~$50k, and the risk is too high for most people. Relatedly, you can spot a ba
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by lostdog 4y ago
40 miles in silicon valley is a 90+ minute commute each way.
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by lostdog 4y ago
Pretty much all of these companies have a similar LLM for internal use, but they've so far decided that releasing it externally doesn't make sense. OpenAI's main difference is making the model available for public demo, which
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by lostdog 4y ago
Really? I know it was mostly 2000s, but a lot of Paul Graham's writing was about how great Lisp is [1]. It also sounds like the C versus C++ arguments were wild too if Linus is still riled up about it. [1] http://www.paulgra
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by lostdog 4y ago
Probably a strong neural net only needs sparse connections to learn well. However, we simple humans cannot predict which sparse connections are important. Therefore, the net needs to learn which connections are important, but learning the c
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by lostdog 4y ago
Sometimes they aren't rich. Sometimes they're allowed to sell some stock during later funding rounds. Investors realized that when founders have to make all-or-nothing decisions, they're likely to sell for lower but certain a

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