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by medler 3y ago
She’s mentioned in the comments because she’s mentioned in the article, and she’s mentioned in the article because she was the #1 most streamed artist this year.
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by medler 3y ago
On my browser on iOS two columns get cut off. I thought it was a 3x3 table until I read this.
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by medler 3y ago
Enjoyed this post. It’s interesting to me that they actually refer to vacuum tubes as little brain cells as well. It’s not clear to me how far back the computer-as-brain analogy goes, but as far back as 1833 you have Babbage’s difference en
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by medler 3y ago
> That the board and Altman are in communication is a significant development because until Monday, the directors largely refused to engage with the executive they fired Friday, several people have said. Either these people are lying, or
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by medler 3y ago
I’d certainly agree you have the right to say anything to my employer you want to say, as long as it’s not defamatory. (If I posted $Y and you told them I posted $Y, then that can’t be defamatory because it’s true)
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by medler 3y ago
> The motte is "we're just criticising Musk" while the bailey is "we're systematically contacting all of his advertisers and letting them know that if they continue to support him then we will campaign against th
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by medler 3y ago
New day, new 5pm deadline. These power moves are so transparent it’s painful
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by medler 3y ago
I’m old enough to remember when all the employees who supported him were going to resign at 5 pm Saturday
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by medler 3y ago
There are no key stakeholders other than the board itself
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by medler 3y ago
Really weird phrasing in this tweet. The idea is that Altman and/or a bunch of employees were demanding the board reinstate Altman and then resign. And they’re calling it a “truce.” Oh, and there’s a deadline (5 pm), but since it’s alr
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OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO(theverge.com)
1243 points by medler 3y ago|1611 comments
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by medler 3y ago
I don’t think it’s fair to jump to that conclusion, since he apparently never raised the money, founded the company, or developed the chips. The worst we can say is that his attention was divided and his goals may not have been aligned with
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by medler 3y ago
This article appears to be their source: https://archive.ph/wQOhC > Alongside rifts over strategy, board members also contended with Altman’s entrepreneurial ambitions. Altman has been looking to raise tens of billions o
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by medler 3y ago
LLM costs and “think” time continue to increase exponentially as their capabilities increase. If ChatGPT ever does get to the level of an average SWE, a SWE-year of work could take an actual year and cost $10 million. We have a long way to
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by medler 3y ago
Some would say we’ve reached AGI when a bot can write code as well as the average software engineer. (OpenAI is nowhere close to this but let’s leave that aside for now). What you’re saying is, the bot needs to be 1 million times better at
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by medler 3y ago
> AGI—meaning a highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work On a literal reading, this definition of AGI seems impossible to meet without extensive breakthroughs in robotics. Even today, most work
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by medler 3y ago
The comment I was replying to said “I don't think there's any juicy scandal of the kind that people are expecting, both at YC or OpenAI.”
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by medler 3y ago
This is the Twitter thread: @CWBOCA: To the cowards hiding behind the anonymity of the internet and posting "Hitler was right": You got something you want to say? Why dont you say it to our faces… ————————— @breakingbaht: Okay. Je
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by medler 3y ago
The board’s letter pretty explicitly said he lied to them (he was not “consistently candid”). That’s at least a little juicy.
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by medler 3y ago
“I found myself reflecting on how smart the average person is. Maybe they don’t know calculus. Maybe they’ll never read Ulysses. Maybe they can’t code. But they definitely know how to identify bullshit when they see it.” How could anyone be
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by medler 3y ago
I remember reading an article* a few years ago about how the world’s richest men, including Gates and Bezos, all had very stable marriages. That take didn’t age too well. * this isn’t the article I read but it’s similar https://w
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This Simple Fix Could Help Anxious Kids(nytimes.com)
1 points by medler 3y ago|1 comments
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by medler 3y ago
Was he sedentary, or did he run 10 miles a day? I see no reason to believe his metabolism was unusual without more information about his physical activities.
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by medler 3y ago
Over my life I’ve been close to a small handful of perpetually skinny people who thought they had high metabolisms. In every case, when I watched them closely, I realized they barely ate anything. My ex-gf was one of these people and would
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by medler 3y ago
The only criticism I see is some nitpicking saying that the claim “was based on statistical means, ignoring the known intense drops in the energy expenditure that some individuals show during their life. For example, a clear decrease in met
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by medler 3y ago
She lived in the US for over 60 years.
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by medler 3y ago
Calling someone X-American implies that they are a citizen or permanent resident of the United States, which she was.
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by medler 3y ago
If you’re regularly working 50-60 hours a week and have two small children, I don’t see how you can possibly make time for anything else. My advice is to cut back on your working hours if you can. Also, why do you want to grind leetcode? Un
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by medler 3y ago
That’s not what I’m saying. Florida did not have them administrative capacity to conduct an accurate count. That would have been fine if the margin were thousands of votes, but in a tight election it ended up affecting the outcome.
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by medler 3y ago
I mean he did win the popular vote when he ran for president. And likely would have won the electoral college if all valid votes had been counted.

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