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by mediaman 3y ago
That lowers productivity, which is the topic in question.
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by mediaman 3y ago
In manufacturing? What do you think happens when an employee doesn’t show up to the line because of high PTO or low working hours? Magic fairies run the assembly process for free? Manufacturing does not work like software engineering. There
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by mediaman 3y ago
Not the same thing. The derivative of PC sales is increasing, from a negative number to a less negative number. It's still shrinking, but shrinking at a lower rate. The headline is as simple as it needs to be to be accurate.
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by mediaman 3y ago
I can see how a device could protect from an EMP surge created by a grid connection. Is that what they're selling? But that wouldn't work to protect electronics from magnetic pulses that would induce current within an electronic d
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by mediaman 3y ago
That’s a completely different test. You’re using the vision multimodal ability to decipher Chinese script, essentially adding an OCR step to the process, and it’s not good at OCR of Chinese script. Try feeding it actual Chinese characters.
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by mediaman 3y ago
You are right that this metric excludes things like capital gains income, and covers just hourly earnings. “Real”, however, refers to it being inflation adjusted, not an exclusion of high earners (who are excluded anyway because of the hour
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by mediaman 3y ago
No, I'm not Jakob Nielsen. I do however run a company that employs lots of blue collar, non-college-educated people, in manufacturing. And although this is in no way scientific, my experience matches this: most people are much more unc
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by mediaman 3y ago
Roughly half of people in most developed countries are not functionally articulate: meaning, they can read functionally, but struggle to articulate what they want with the written word. LLM-based chatbots can be extremely attractive to the
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by mediaman 3y ago
You'll have it within a week or so. Pretty much all new products that require significant per-user incremental workloads (e.g., in this case, significant GPU consumption per incremental user) do rollouts. It's an engineering neces
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by mediaman 3y ago
I get the impression that Unity did not do a lot of homework before rolling this out. Several aspects of the policy they’ve waffled on, and when asked about who would pay the fee for GamePass games, they said the distributor would, but it a
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by mediaman 3y ago
Pretty unlikely. Generally you don't use fine-tuning for bare documents. You use retrieval augmented generation, which usually involves vector similarity search. Fine-tuning isn't great at learning knowledge. It's good at ado
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by mediaman 3y ago
Usually it’s more structural than that. Too much competition, too few customers, too little scale to afford the type of talent that can optimize inefficiencies. There is a reason these small localized businesses tend not to produce outsized
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by mediaman 3y ago
That model is trained on synthetically AI-generated code, not internal code. It suggests that synthetic training could be the future in increasing capability of smaller models (and perhaps bigger ones too). AI will train AI.
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by mediaman 3y ago
If you use an API, but in a way the author suggests (conformed to the UI, rather than an abstraction), what's the simpler/better way to do auth than API tokens? I have depth of experience in a niche industry and I'm working t
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by mediaman 3y ago
Lease deals like this tend to be structured as an amortizing loan over 3-5 years. They also probably did not finance the entire value, but the entire value will be collateral. If they financed, say, 70%, then a couple years in the remaining
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by mediaman 3y ago
I don't know the details of this lease, but it is likely a capital lease, not an operating lease. The lessee will not have the option of returning it. It will be recognized as an asset on the lessee's balance sheet. The lessee bac
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by mediaman 3y ago
Right. As if half marathons are supposed to be something in a wholly different universe than running a mile a day? It's great exercise, and I personally wouldn't want to do more than a half marathon, since the health benefits seem
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by mediaman 3y ago
I think it's unfair to pin this on the Fed. Most of the inflation appeared to come from a mix of massive fiscal stimulus and supply chains that got blown up by the pandemic, so large increases in demand coupled with decreased capacity
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by mediaman 3y ago
Stories like this are bizarre. There are a million ways to ensure rights for a founder-owner that do not depend on 51% ownership, such as requiring supermajority votes for replacing the CEO, or right of first refusals granted to the founder
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by mediaman 3y ago
The author chooses whether to make it free or not. It’s not like medium.
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by mediaman 3y ago
Every time someone posts something like this, it’s amusing because they clearly don’t try it in GPT4 before they post. GPT4 nails your question about going east from New York in a boat, even though I think that’s a very poor test of ‘intell
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by mediaman 3y ago
I wonder why they don’t just charge for it. Release a GPT-4 beating model; charge $30/mo. That’s not aligned with their core ad model. But it’s a massive win in demonstrating to the world that they can do it, and it limits the number o
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by mediaman 3y ago
They have a training process at the beginning that learns your eyes. It asks you to ‘point’ to various points in space. I’d imagine it would be able to detect a dominant eye with that, and prefer it over a slower or non-tracking eye.
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by mediaman 3y ago
I believe there is better opportunity from focusing hard on specific niche industry verticals and developing AI assisted workflows that make their operations more efficient. Those will be good businesses, and founders will do well, though t
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by mediaman 3y ago
a16z's investment thesis completely centers around finding the next bagholder for their investments. They don't care about building enduring businesses that make them a lot of money because the businesses are actually driving that
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by mediaman 3y ago
It's a typo in the article. GPT-3.5 is 175bn parameters, not 175 million. GPT-4 does not have publicly available parameter count, but is thought to have something similar to 1tn.
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by mediaman 3y ago
You are generally right, but currently most homeowners have mortgage debt at rates far below market, so they could afford much less house than before (if they need financing).
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by mediaman 3y ago
Not understanding why this is an issue for LLMs but not humans. This is a simple commercial decision to make governed by three factors. 1. What is the cost of making an error? 2. What is the cost of the human doing the work? 3. What is the
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by mediaman 3y ago
The mistake is in believing that LLM's output should be deterministic to be useful. Human output is not deterministic. Fields with text-heavy output are already being upended by this. Being able to summarize long legal briefs, identify
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by mediaman 3y ago
I've built internal systems that do summarization based on knowledge retrieval systems for specific nonpublic corporate information. With GPT-4, I find very little hallucinating. It very rarely deviates from the source material. Every

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