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by mgfist 4y ago
Exploding on the launch pad would've been a failure.
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by mgfist 4y ago
I don't think SpaceX cares about your uninformed opinion
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by mgfist 4y ago
> significant parts that were planned to be tested could not be tested I don't think "planned" is the right word - the right word is "hoped".
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by mgfist 4y ago
> You can actually see this in SpaceX. In development when stakes are relatively low (e.g., no payload or passengers), the risk threshold is high. But they start taking a more measured approach when that risk starts to ratchet up. The da
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by mgfist 4y ago
> agreed, you can have reference fields to other collections and filter by them or query related data. Yes it has that, but that's an anti-pattern. What I'm referring to is schema design. In Mongo you denormalize and store rela
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by mgfist 4y ago
SVB was a bank, not a VC.
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by mgfist 4y ago
It may also mean poor schema design. You can absolutely model relational data in MongoDB without relying on joins. If you want to normalize your data don't pick Mongo.
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by mgfist 4y ago
> Kodak saw a train coming, did a study that told them that they had to do something, but then sat on the tracks. Replace "Kodak" with "Google" and that's the exact impression I get from friends who work there
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by mgfist 4y ago
The added cost of the extra insulation likely outweighs the cost of you heating the apartment when you're not there.
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by mgfist 4y ago
I'm not the person you responded to, but that's an old paper. LLMs have come a long way since. Nothing conclusive but GPT4 does show some signs of something deeper. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
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by mgfist 4y ago
> Reminder that these models have no concept of truth, no abstract reasoning abilities This has positive potential too - bias prevention. Give it an ultrasound and it'll do its work regardless of the patient. None of this is guarant
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by mgfist 4y ago
Crypto is not an equity, but it trades like one (specifically like a tech meme stock) as of late. It peeked in Nov 2021 just like tech stocks, and has come down roughly a similar amount.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Have you seen the GPT4 demo? A few interesting things that make it seem much more than an occasional text editor replacement. One was having it write an entire program. It needed a few prompts to fix some bugs it had, but it worked. The pro
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by mgfist 4y ago
> something comes out that kills GPT. Can't even assume the LLM providers will be the big winners. LLMs can be replicated: https://pub.towardsai.net/meet-alpaca-stanford-universitys-i... for much cheaper than they c
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by mgfist 4y ago
So you mean "Software" not "tech".
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by mgfist 4y ago
How do we define "understanding" though? Because you can add to your prompt: "Do it step by step, showing how you come up with the solution" and it will simplify the original complex problem into multiple smaller pieces.
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by mgfist 4y ago
> They're paraphrasing machines, they have no problem contradicting themselves, they can't define adjectives really, they'll give you synonyms. Again, it's all they have, why should they produce anything else? It can
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by mgfist 4y ago
I don't think this is strictly true, though it's rare. The easiest example is the semiconductor industry. ASML's high end lithography machines are basically alien and cannot be reproduced by anyone else. China has spent billi
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by mgfist 4y ago
> They do, if their assets get acquired by other banks who also invest in long term bonds, says at a discount? "Hi it's me, rival bank. I'll buy those bonds of yours, buuut my best offer is 70 cents on the dollar".
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by mgfist 4y ago
> Good. Investors like Ackman and Cuban seem so concerned about payroll for tech workers. ? The truth is that the vast majority of this cash was dry powder for acquisitions, staying liquid for new new investments, fresh VC money for adve
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by mgfist 4y ago
I think what they meant to say is they were solvent, till the run.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Why not? The link here is demonstrating just that
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by mgfist 4y ago
You don't address any actual points or provide counter-evidence, only that "I know people who don't like EVs". I know people that don't like cars, and still have them. It's not a very compelling point. You know
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by mgfist 4y ago
For me it's always more effective to be doing something physical in the second phase. Walking, chores, showering. It helps the focus.
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by mgfist 4y ago
I doubt that any of the reasons had to do with it being an EV. I would bet money on that. The reasons are probably things along the lines of: 1) charging infrastructure is not great for many people. 2) EV cars (tesla in particular) have a r
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by mgfist 4y ago
There's no "if". And the when is just a matter of time required to bring up mineral/battery supply chains. EVs are already (in most cases) cheaper than equivalent ICE vehicles over the lifetime of a vehicle. Soon they wi
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by mgfist 4y ago
Solving air travel emissions will come from decarbonizing air travel, not from prohibition. Even if all flights were to be cut in half tomorrow it would have a rounding error effect on global emissions.
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In the not too distant future EV will be better than ICE for 99.9% of use-cases. And for passenger vehicles that'll be more like 99.999%.
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I always thought the Turing test was kind of silly because most humans would tell the interviewer to bugger off.
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by mgfist 4y ago
Millions of EVs are now sold per year. It's still a small percent of total car but increasing rapidly and while all other manufacturers are spending time and money building up expertise and infrastructure Toyota is ignoring it. Switchi

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