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by mhh__ 2y ago
https://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2020/04/11/moments/
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by mhh__ 2y ago
fwiw I think the BBC has become way too captured by culturally dysgenic rich kids (who else can afford to work for almost nothing in London) and is terrified of being seen as elitist (so won't really educate) It would be easy to say th
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by mhh__ 2y ago
|> is such a breath of fresh air when otherwise stuck without it, or worse being forced to do OOP style "design your abstraction before your logic".
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Unlucky as in forced to write COBOL prior to C# or whatever
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Completely right. Was basically only thinking about OpenAI versus Anthropic. Oops
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by mhh__ 2y ago
It's possible that it's only one strong personality and some money away but my guess is that OpenAI-rosoft have the best stack for doing inference "seriously" at big, big, scale e.g. moving away from hacky research pytho
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Maybe you've been unlucky but LINQ didn't really seem all that interesting to me using it. It's pretty well put together but it was very hard to work out the patterns of what it was doing underneath e.g. I could not tell you
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by mhh__ 2y ago
All these probabilities and so on are basically unknowable so the real utility of this kind of thing for a hedge fund is converting a traders view into a suggested size so they take the amount of risk that they're being paid to take.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
It would require a fairly big bet on AI models not changing structure all that much, I guess I think if the tooling and supply chain falls into place it would surprise me if meta and friends didn't make their own chips, assuming it w
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I think Microsoft have dabbled in the space already.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
But we then made houses
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I was under the impression tha they also thought this themselves but got "persuaded" with the prospect of more money if it could handle certain payloads of use for defense?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
I find that this is mainly a problem in languages that attract "practical"/"best tool for the job" Philistines. Not going to name names right now but I had never really experienced this until I started using languag
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by mhh__ 2y ago
On the reading question raised by another comment: I went to school recently enough that we had smartphones but before tiktok. You were allowed them but they'd be confiscated if seen in lessons or corridors. On balance I'd probabl
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by mhh__ 2y ago
As a non string theorist my understanding was that string theory actually makes quite a lot of empirically verifiable statements, just that those statements are only interesting at either never or extremely high energies. I think ppl are as
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by mhh__ 2y ago
This is a very cruel reading of string theory. Intentional? What?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
A large proportion of the Chinese economy is at least partly owned by the state, but the rest makes up most GDP (iirc, suspect this kidn of thing is hard for westerners to measure)
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Can you do any compile time metaprogramming in typescript?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The response of the physicists they say should get a slap is, in programming terms, basically shut up and show me the code. It's a fairly one sided debate that we're blessed with seeing in literally every thread anywhere about it
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Barely
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by mhh__ 2y ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357418662_Profile_G... What exactly do you think PGO data looks like? The main utility is knowing that (say) your error handling code is cold and your loops are hot, which compi
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by mhh__ 2y ago
If you mean LTCM then the story is far more dull (i.e. too much leverage, fund goes boom) Ed Thorpe did originally want to setup an options fund (he was the first to trade the model) that he later estimated would've blown up due to v
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The real purpose of models is risk anyway e.g. implied vol is handy, delta is essential.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
There are some projects (not sure if available to use in anger) to generate PGO data use using AI.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Yes, but I'm not talking about BOLT
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by mhh__ 2y ago
You might be surprised how much speedup you can get from (say) just running a test suite as PGO samples. If I had to guess this is probably because compilers spend a lot of time optimising cold paths which they otherwise would have no infor
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by mhh__ 2y ago
The idea that serious evil is necessarily illegal in the first place is probably hilariously naive to begin with.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
So just as considerate of the chagossians as the population of the Falklands then?
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by mhh__ 2y ago
Another: Ed Thorpe is similarly old and still going strong, last time I saw.
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by mhh__ 2y ago
> Presently, the UK lacks an entrenched written constitution. Hence, any court decision can be overturned by an ordinary Act of the UK Parliament, passed by a simple majority This is something that our America obsessed cultural elite hav

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