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by mediaman 3y ago
More on the port workers: today you'll find that skilled union port workers are extremely well-paid. Workers in the cranes that pull containers off the ship, for example, are paid >$300k. They are quite skilled, but so are many othe
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by mediaman 3y ago
The answer, of course, will be to include insults in any message as a signature of authentic humanity. This will work until non-RLHF models become good.
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by mediaman 3y ago
It does not have memory outside the context window. If you want to have a back-and-forth with it about a document, that document must be provided in the context (along with your other relevant chat history) with every request. This is why i
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by mediaman 3y ago
ChatGPT does use input as training. The OpenAI API has a policy to not use input as training data. Azure also offers the API with an agreement not to use it for training.
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by mediaman 4y ago
It is returning a series of snippets from the book, from which it cannot create a summary. That’s because of the way vectorized search works. Summarizing the book requires a different approach. Usually condensing the book, maybe processing
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by mediaman 4y ago
Sounds like it was a high pass filter, and that IQ was a necessary but insufficient condition. Or they just had too many applicants. For what it's worth, g-factor is correlated to many different cognitive abilities. A person's ind
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by mediaman 4y ago
This is laudable, and you sound like someone who is both competent and works with competent people. In those cases they should not be micromanaged because it will stunt their growth and result in worse outcomes because of the greater knowle
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by mediaman 4y ago
It's inspired from literature. It means someone who views themselves as the main character of the world's story. In some literature, the world tends to revolve around the main character. (This is not true of much of literature tha
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by mediaman 4y ago
Yeah it’s kind of a disaster. Partly because they’ve been moving so fast, and their docs don’t keep up. But for actually building stuff on it, they have a ways to go. Good for quick demos on Twitter though.
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by mediaman 4y ago
That’s like arguing against using locks on doors because they’re pickable. You’re right: they can be defeated. But they might cut it by 80-90%, and be complemented with other tools to reduce the flood to a trickle.
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by mediaman 4y ago
Alaska's population is lower than it was 7 years ago. More people have moved away than moved in every year for the past 10 years.
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by mediaman 4y ago
Yes, a view-only mode would work. Ideally it would not just be a static view, but would allow users to run some queries (perhaps constrained?) on the table, so they can get a list of their customers who ordered last quarter but not this qua
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by mediaman 4y ago
Regarding pricing: do you offer monthly subscriptions for "view-only" users? Here's my use-case. I am fine paying $50 a month for someone to make dashboards, create queries, etc. However, that's too much (and significant
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by mediaman 4y ago
I'm sorry, but that is a terrible metric. This sounds like a definition from someone who never interacts with anyone except the top 1% performance level of people, and those who have had strong levels of education. Go into a manufactur
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by mediaman 4y ago
I've been curious about the hand problem. It seems like it’s caused by the massive number of permutations possible with hands: all the joints, combined with all the angles at which they can be seen. I’ve wondered if this could be solve
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by mediaman 4y ago
It’s not always 90 days, but the American federal bankruptcy system does allow for clawbacks on payments made immediately leading up to a filing. Meaning, the bankruptcy administrator will absolutely file and get a judgment on your assets,
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by mediaman 4y ago
It's true of any large company. There are many people not doing anything. Simply because of the number of employees, and the manner in which large companies tend to stop focusing on outcomes. That doesn't mean most were not doin
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by mediaman 4y ago
My experience (not specifically with engineers) is that very, very few people read the 10K, 10Q or other public statements of the company they work for. A friend of mine used to be a management consultant for one of the big firms. On one me
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by mediaman 4y ago
Don't get me wrong - I love 3D printing! I use it myself to make enclosures for electronics projects, or to replace parts that have broken on my old sailboat, which happens often. Notably, I don't turn to my business to injection
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by mediaman 4y ago
Molds are surprisingly complicated. They weigh 1,000 pounds or more; some molds we have weigh 10,000 pounds. They're made of high grade tooling steel that must be annealed to the right hardness and ductility. At each injection, they ar
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by mediaman 4y ago
I'm a partner in a plastics manufacturing facility (injection molding, thermoforming). 3D printing has been big for us. No, we don't make money directly from it, or not very much. And it's extremely expensive per unit. But it
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by mediaman 4y ago
There's an alternative view on what some call "price gouging." The idea is that the market is providing a strong incentive for you to figure out how to get bottled water to the disaster zone. This is wildly unpopular: people
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by mediaman 4y ago
Completely agreed - I've found it vastly more powerful than other tools, and handles 100k+ rows with speed, even loaded with Python code in each cell. I've been surprised how much I can get done with it, and its ability to display
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by mediaman 4y ago
The reason for the long-tail bets being improbable is important, though! If the reason is because it takes lots of capital, or because there are network effects (e.g., AirBnB, eBay), or because it's a winner takes all market, or some
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by mediaman 4y ago
What's crazy is that all these variables were known ahead of time. What is the cost of real estate in rural upstate New York? It's really not that bad! (About $10k per acre, based on a brief search, for land about 280 miles away f
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by mediaman 4y ago
This is actually why the balance sheet is more important than the income statement. The income statement can obfuscate what's happening to cash flow. A close study of the balance sheet reveals whether working capital is consuming retai
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by mediaman 4y ago
Tim asks about why the $-19bn free cash flow for '22 is not a worry. All of this is because enormous levels of cap-ex spend: $58bn in net purchases of property and equipment over the year ($63bn gross). The other piece is $9bn in debt
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by mediaman 4y ago
It's interesting to hear people describe government-organized supply restriction cartels as some sort of utopia, whereas, in their world, eliminating the cartel is in fact creating an "oligarchy."
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by mediaman 4y ago
As someone who is a partner in a plastics manufacturing facility, this is a voice of reason. Factories are vast assemblies of atoms constantly entropically smashing and grinding themselves into dust.
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by mediaman 4y ago
Profitability and low debt. If you're making money and don't owe money, you can't go bankrupt. Of course, profitable companies can become unprofitable, especially in a negative environment, so the more profitable it is, the s

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