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901.
by lumost 3y ago
I knew of one company where it was uncomfortably stuffy after 6 pm when they turned the hvac off. The office was so crowded that there literally was not enough oxygen in the building.
902.
by lumost 3y ago
Aye - this seems like a genuine problem for employers pulling people back to the office. Rents are pushing 2-3k per bedroom to be within 45 minutes of an office. This puts folks at around a 150k minimum compensation to not feel rent burdene
903.
by lumost 3y ago
A tool every person uses daily can be worth anything from hundreds of millions to trillions of dollars. The issue, as always with AI, is overselling it. Pre-Revenue startups raising at billion dollar valuations is certainly not going to end
904.
by lumost 3y ago
CPU/GPUs are general purpose, if enough workload demand exists specialized Transformer cores will be designed. Likewise, its not at all clear that current O(N^2) self-attention is the ideal setup for larger context lengths. All to say,
905.
by lumost 3y ago
We're likely way too early to call this one. Based on current hardware trends, GPT-4 will run on your phone within 6-10 years. Right now, folks are feeling out the edges of what makes sense and what doesn't make sense at extreme R
906.
by lumost 3y ago
There also may be some timing bias. The SPAC craze coincided with the apex of late stage money losing “startups”. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the private markets have done a major repricing of private firms in the last 2 years. It’s i
907.
by lumost 3y ago
Honestly, I think they could have made the foundation plot line an anthology of a rising empire while tracking the genetic dynasty as the empire fell apart. I get so annoyed when I tune into an episode and it focuses on the foundation chara
908.
by lumost 3y ago
From an American perspective, the problem seems to be of payoff timelines. Struggling and working hard for years doesn’t sound so bad if there is a great reward on the other side. But when that reward is 15-20 years away, and is a basic hou
909.
by lumost 3y ago
If only someone with access to thousands or even millions of repayment histories and income estimates could evaluate default risk on such loans. /s The problem is that the incentives for everyone are broken. Usury has been banned or ma
910.
by lumost 3y ago
It’s a blend of both. The human ear has a vastly more complex structure than a membrane and a sensor. We have complex flexible shapes to channel audio. Alongside an extremely complex set of hairs for hearing.
911.
by lumost 3y ago
How good are those sensors relative to human ears? Human ears are still freakishly effective at filtering out background noise.
912.
by lumost 3y ago
The question is how successful you'll be. Generally fine-tuning means you're going to drop 10-500k on data labeling and compute costs + 1 science type for 6 months. This means you're easily looking at a 1 Million dollar proje
913.
by lumost 3y ago
Would be interesting if the myth of Dragons breathing fire was because we used fire to kill the largest/scariest megafauna.
914.
by lumost 3y ago
This doesn’t really make sense for state institutions. If I am a state institution, why do I need to compete for students? If students have choice, then isn’t my job complete? I’d suspect that spending on premium faculty would have a better
915.
by lumost 3y ago
The divergence between small and large firms tells the story here. Small firms don't own their real estate and are cutting as fast as they can. Large firms who own are forcing their employees back to the office. We'll see in 20 ye
916.
by lumost 3y ago
I’ve been called back to the office a few days a week now. It took 4 trips back to realize the things I dealt guilty about while working remote were non issues. Saw 4 managers literally walking by their employees desks watching them work. T
917.
by lumost 3y ago
Much of the land in the US isn’t suited for residential or commercial purposes. Building in some parts will just mean expensive water infrastructure demands and/or fire risk. That being said, there’s large swaths of Vermont, New York,
918.
by lumost 3y ago
But supply is artificially constrained in most jurisdictions. Assuredly we can produce a cost effective good in 2023 which has been built for thousands of years.
919.
by lumost 3y ago
It’s quite possible to avoid learning this. A trivial way is to do all of your coding in python, and then never do anything more advanced than a todo MVC app. Do this for 3 years then get promoted to management and stop coding. When money w
920.
by lumost 3y ago
Different skills dominate in WFH vs. in-office cultures. It should ultimately be unsurprising that people prefer to work in an environment conducive to their strengths. Some folks focus on deep work, and benefit from working remote - others
921.
by lumost 3y ago
My 2 cents, companies are effectively asking to increase working hours by 5-10 hours per week for most workers assuming a 30-60 minute commute each way. Many employers will try lure workers away from the office with remote work. These firms
922.
by lumost 3y ago
Intel makes microchips, but they do not control how much memory I put in them. There are no 256 GB GPUs available today outside of multi-GPU setups. Would love to see giant NUMA GPU boards.
923.
by lumost 3y ago
Very hopeful for unified/configurable memory. Why are gpu vendors deciding how much ram the gpu gets? This feels so 1980s. GenAI workloads have radically variable memory footprints, some folks want 256GB per card so they have a spittin
924.
by lumost 3y ago
Unfortunately such bold claims can strongly effect researchers ability to work on this in the future. The original cold fusion release has had an overhang on any studies of low energy nuclear reactions. Regardless of whether they have any b
925.
by lumost 3y ago
Having worked in multiple environments with differing code quality standards, it's pretty apparent how both "minimum and yeet" and "completion or bust" fail. "Minimum and yeet" works surprisingly well if y
926.
by lumost 3y ago
why would this be the case? (not a chemist, but was trained in physics)
927.
by lumost 3y ago
The difference is in the value returned. Punching queries into a third party search engine is also risky. If that search engine knew who you worked for, it could extract what you were working on and potentially how competent you were at it.
928.
by lumost 3y ago
Because of the step change in functionality, ChatGPT is not banned. However I am prohibited from using ChatGPT outputs in certain contexts. Unfortunately, Grammarly and ChatGPT are under different application classifications.
929.
by lumost 3y ago
I kinda hate this, but it also seems like the only way to keep Grammarly in business. I've paid them for a personal account since 2016, since ChatGPT's launch - my usage has fallen precipitously. I can write utter stream of consci
930.
by lumost 3y ago
You can also further refine this. - "What's the probability that a meteor hits an object of cultural significance?" -> vastly lower than the probability that the meteor hits something of non-cultural significance. - "

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