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by lz400 3y ago
I'm onboard with trusting data driven and numbers approach. This one just seems like a bad one if it doesn't account for how obvious actions would alter its results. But as some other comment said, maybe this base rate is not the
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by lz400 3y ago
Honestly, that sounds completely arbitrary, especially the one about 1/75. It also ignores anything that would alter any thinking person's probability calculations in the real world. For example, if tomorrow the Chinese premier sa
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by lz400 3y ago
Seems like it wouldn't. In the OP post, Gemini was able to reason about that codebase through the _text_. For example, comments and function names. It doesn't really understand the code. So binary code would be gibberish to it.
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by lz400 3y ago
Makes sense business wise. I dislike that is so but probably every app should have a whale tier like this, especially high upside apps like tinder.
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by lz400 3y ago
In banks and financial companies it's relatively common that some rock star trader or quant that has an exceptionally good year might make more than the CEO.
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by lz400 3y ago
I'd guess many would take issue with the list, even when sharing the devotion for Ghibli. Personally, I'd place The Wind Rises at number 1 and possibly at number 1 in my all time movie list, animation or not. I always liked this r
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by lz400 3y ago
I think part of the answer is that is because of the software, not the hardware. The hard lock in in banking/insurance industry is to things like Cobol/DB2. They happen to run in mainframes but that's not where most of the mi
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by lz400 3y ago
I think that's the kind of attitude that sometimes leads to the worst midlife crisis. Because you're holding yourself to an extremely high standard: for your life to be perfect in all aspects (by your own judgement) by ~40. Person
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by lz400 3y ago
I looked at this a few years back. I've always kept some hope that the Kurzwellian eschatology had some validity. You know, first we simulate a C.elegans and once that's done, it's only a matter of scale up before we can simu
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by lz400 3y ago
One of the things that shocked me the most about the futurist/ai/techbro sphere is that folks take people like Eliezer Yudkowski seriously. Lex Friedman asked him what's his advice for young people and Eliezer answered &quot
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by lz400 4y ago
These kind of comments have me update my priors so I downgrade them in relevance. Two days ago we were talking about AGI and Altman was letting himself be cuddled, knowing full well it was mindless hype. Now he's trolling the other way
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by lz400 4y ago
The neat part is there isn't a good way to retaliate. These players by now are gone from the corp, as is the money, so they can't do anything directly to them anymore. If they were "burner accounts" they might never know
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by lz400 4y ago
>one in 1000 chances of perforating a bowel and dying here and now that sounded impossible and googling a bit I think it's off by a couple of orders of magnitude: closer to 1 in 10000 chances of perforation, which has a single digit
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by lz400 4y ago
I found this comment inspiring and I want to thank you for writing it. This is the work ethic I want to have and keep.
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by lz400 5y ago
Do you have a source for this claim? I can buy that they don't do the fraud themselves, they delegate it. But they generally delegate it knowing full well the kind of actions that are going to be taken. Rich guys also have lawyers and
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by lz400 5y ago
The best version of Agile I've ever been part of didn't start great, started like what you describe. And everyone hated the day long retro and planning. So we iterated over it until we got people to come to those meetings with the
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by lz400 5y ago
Using confluent platform community (free) gives you a working env with Kafka/Zookeeper/SchemaRegistry/Connect immediately without having to bother with setting up clusters, etc. Beyond that, yes, it's a pain to properly
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by lz400 5y ago
Picked up too many boring jobs with messy legacy codebases as opposed to prioritizing building and specializing. Went into industries that ended up being on their way down and didn't take care of their engineers and switched to tech la
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by lz400 5y ago
I'd be curious about why the Java benchmarks are so much better than the Kotlin ones. I could buy hotspot JVM optimizations making it better than, say, Rust. But shouldn't Kotlin be leveraging the same speed ups? The explanations
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by lz400 6y ago
> The singularity fandom has always baffled me. I like it. Try to take as hard sci-fi. It's plausible enough to let your imagination run with it. Don't take it seriously enough to turn it into a religion and it's all good
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by lz400 6y ago
I think your argument is the start of a very important and stimulating discussion, and you've worded it perfectly. I think the negative aspects of the "digital revolution" definitely exist and starry-eyed Silicon Valley posit
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by lz400 6y ago
Seeing bitcoin reinvent the banking system they set themselves to destroy has a very Animal Farm-y feeling to it.
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by lz400 6y ago
I've talked to people who run restaurants and in their words uber eats is not worth it economically. They just do it, barely breaking even, as a marketing thing, hoping people will like the food and go to the real place.
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by lz400 7y ago
The coronavirus crisis seems to be an excuse for pundits to peddle all sorts of wild clickbaity speculation. I hope that after all this is over we go back and tell people look at all the silliness you wrote, look at all the opportunistic po
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by lz400 7y ago
I don't see how the consequences of the pandemic aren't going to last a year, possibly much longer.
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by lz400 7y ago
Can't imagine Woody Allen, Tarantino or Billy Wilder with no sound/dialog.
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by lz400 7y ago
Let me guess, that startup is in southern California.
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by lz400 7y ago
If you want to keep the worst drivers off the road, it might make sense for the elderly to get self driving cars. Or cars to detect your blood alcohol level and go into self driving mode then. That solved, I believe the average driver would
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by lz400 7y ago
This about it this way. Would you buy a self driving car that drives worse than you do? Even if it drives better than the average, an average brought down by drunks and the elderly? I know I wouldn't
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by lz400 8y ago
Amen about Skype business. Worst torture I've ever been submitted to.

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