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by mempko 2y ago
So they threatened to fire him. And he decided to leave.
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by mempko 2y ago
If an employee works from home too much and a manager comes to them and says "We want you to work for us, but want you in the office, so choose whether you want to work from home or still work for this company". Isn't giving
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Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025(nvidianews.nvidia.com)
181 points by mempko 2y ago|354 comments
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by mempko 2y ago
Did you read the same reception section as me? It seems to be very well regarded and even when there were some criticism, they were minor. For example, > Anthropologist Durba Chattaraj said "elisions, slippages, and too-exaggerated
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by mempko 2y ago
I mean for a split second I thought "Wow, they were charging for their service, this is nice". I guess that isn't enough anymore. You pay them and then they also get paid by selling you. What a world we live in.
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by mempko 2y ago
So wait, there will be ads in your ChatGPT conversation, you just won't know they are ads?
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by mempko 2y ago
I honestly don't know your background. Do you have an education and training in anthropology and/or archeology? Maybe you do. When I read the criticisms in the press and blogs about the work, I found it telling that most of the cr
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by mempko 2y ago
You are kidding right? Dawn of everything was a synthesis work. The amount of research it references is insane (a quarter of the book is references) How exactly would you write, an already long book, that doesn't look like cherry picki
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by mempko 2y ago
The government creates money by spending, but most money is actually created by commercial banks when people take out loans. ALL money is accounted for in these ledgers. So consequently, most money in people's deposit accounts is debt,
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by mempko 2y ago
This is a life changing book. It demystifies the biggest part of our lives, which is money (and debt) and helps you contextualize your world by looking into the past. It's the best researched book on the subject.
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by mempko 2y ago
It's strange that you would trust a fund manager like Edward Chancellor over a trained anthropologist like Graeber on historical research. The price of time looks a at a small sliver of debt through the eye of interest rates and their
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by mempko 2y ago
Here is a mind bending concept. Those that hold a lot of cash are resilient. But that cash came from someone else getting into debt. That's because money IS debt. Money gets created when people take out loans. That debt ends up as inco
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by mempko 2y ago
Exactly
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by mempko 2y ago
Not sure why you are down-voted. If you are an investor, you want a fair price when you buy. Think of going to a store, when there is a sale and prices are below value of a product, it's smart to buy. Same goes with stocks.
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by mempko 2y ago
So, more mature than Musk?
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by mempko 2y ago
What are you talking about? Tesla has been SLOW to ship innovative products after they grew. Musk focused on SCALE not new product development. That's why a 2015 Tesla, now 8 years old practically looks the same as one today. Even the
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by mempko 2y ago
No Android? Why is cross platform development still hard in 2024?
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by mempko 3y ago
Around the same time as Etak was Navteq. Navteq didn't build an in-car navigation system, but did build accurate map and the ability to provide turn by turn directions. Etak could not provide directions and just showed a map. Navteq ha
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by mempko 3y ago
I did answer it, > Those pushing things like correlation to IQ have the same problem as IQ is a non-linear relationship. Are these ideas appropriate to other problems? Yes, correlation and statistical significance are useful tools when a
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by mempko 3y ago
Tools like statistical significance and correlation. These tools were developed by a known eugenicist R.A. Fisher to compare populations which is what Levitt and Donohue use here. Their table referencing Reyes work to tease out Lead and sho
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by mempko 3y ago
That's not trying what the OP said.
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by mempko 3y ago
I would love to see support in Apache Arrow to read this format. Parquet is already supported.
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by mempko 3y ago
Think of it this way, the statistical tools they are using were invented by eugenicists to show differences between races. Seriously.
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by mempko 3y ago
They didn't try that. They also didn't engage with other literature showing link with lead and crime at a micro level. In other words, they didn't seriously counter the lead hypothesis, which is stronger than their work.
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by mempko 3y ago
Their analysis about lead relies on a single study by Reyes. Far from robust. Additionally, if lead results in more violent people, then it's no wonder that reducing the births of people in lead polluted environments would have an effe
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by mempko 3y ago
The guardian also talked to other sources.
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by mempko 3y ago
Why not both? Taking a side does not mean you are clouded in judgement on this point.
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by mempko 3y ago
You should read Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber. Goes over why capitalism creates all these bullshit jobs despite theory saying otherwise. Have you considered that LLMs may increase the efficiency of bullshitization?
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by mempko 3y ago
It's not specific to LLMs, but the point is LLMs will make things more efficient and therefore make 'a bigger straw' to drink the milkshake.
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by mempko 3y ago
I see a lot of people here are missing his "big deal" which he talks about in the end where he references the "Spaceship Earth" problem. What I believe he is getting at is people are going to use LLMs to build systems at

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