mlmonkey

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by mlmonkey 1mo ago
It's good to be skeptical. But in my case, there is not much more to it.
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by mlmonkey 1mo ago
Reddit seems to have let this AI demand go to their heads. I had multiple Reddit accounts, simply because I did not want my more "professional" account linked to the other accounts (some for more controversial opinions, some for m
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by mlmonkey 1mo ago
Peppermint oil has traditionally been used in India for digestion, so you may be on to something. I remember this particular brand growing up: https://www.amazon.com/clp/B001NQ7S9G (no relation).
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by mlmonkey 1mo ago
Hacking means much more than just breaking into systems ...
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
What if the result is a counter-example? A fact that disproves the conjecture? Is that not publication-worthy?
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
The best part was you could `finger @machine` and it would list all the users currently logged on, their idle times, etc. Then you could follow that with `talk user@machine` and start chatting with them.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
You want to take a look at the "Scaling Laws" paper, so you can extrapolate from these numbers.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
I don't think adding a 0.5% surcharge to transactions over Rupees 2000 is "pound foolish". Most transactions are smaller, and someone has to pay to maintain the infrastructure. :shrug: Also: just because money is being wasted
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
> which charge a markup for loading money (3%). .... the markup being what the credit card companies charge them.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
Can anybody take a body of text and determine if it's from Claude or not? (Or if it's AI-generated or not)?
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
In the end, the only benchmark that matters is your own.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
Understatement of the year :-D
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
Google loves to kick senior execs upstairs. Whatever happened to Prabhakar Raghavan? Got kicked upstairs and we barely hear from him nowadays. It's only a matter of time before Demis leaves and joins Anthropic or OpenAI.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
They are not "asleep at the wheel"; it's just that the people in charge (the "MBA types") have no clue what to do! There's an old saying, if you judge a fish's smarts by how well it can ride a bicycle, it
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
Just FYI: the local Chipotle in Petaluma (CA) is offering a starting salary of $20/hr + tips (I just happened to notice this over the weekend), which works out to at least $40K/year, which is the bottom of the range for the Sr SWE
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
Can they not use some microbes to digest the sauce and reduce it to inert things like water and salt? I'm not a biologist, so pardon this naive take.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
That's the thing. Wny are companies like OpenAI/Anthropic/Alibaba/Kimi/Deepseek still hiring SWEs if their models have become so good?
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
Unfortunately, today's MBAs can barely see beyond the current quarter. Everything is a P&L to them, everything is a cell in a spreadsheet. This MBA culture is slowly strangling American companies and squeezing the life out of them.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
You don't have to call @dang. S/he automagically appears whenever needed, does the needful and disappears.
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
> This all is very annoying from inside the review queue. Peer review is unpaid work that we do The genie is out of the bottle. We need to figure out a way to contain it. I think a solution is to use LLMs for peer reviews also; fight fir
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
"Age verification"?? No! It's ID verification. Advertisers will pay a lot more if they have accurate demographic data associated with a cookie. In a previous job, our company licensed data from Experian, and in realtime, we c
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
How tf could he be convicted without any evidence??!?
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
So when are we recalling Trump?
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by mlmonkey 2mo ago
It's easy to criticize others when your own government basically mandates backdoors into all comm devices, thereby obviating the need for hamfisted maneuvers like blocking apps, etc.; after all, who needs to block apps when there are b
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by mlmonkey 3mo ago
You are evaluated by launches. If you have nothing of substance to launch, then launch a rebrand. It is a sign of an organization that has nothing of substance to show off. Sadly, that's where Google is now: while its competitors are b
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by mlmonkey 3mo ago
> We're in crisis. As of 2025, 40% of fourth graders are reading below basic levels How much of this crisis is due to the social engineering being attempted in school districts across America? Case in point: San Francisco schools de
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by mlmonkey 3mo ago
Where is Gemini in all this? Lately it's not even been in the running. Sir Demis asleep at the wheel? Or Google too scared to release a SOTA model? Or ... maybe Gemini 4 is too good and the NSA is using it to break into systems worldwi
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by mlmonkey 3mo ago
> Avoid generic brevity instructions: GPT-5.6 is more sensitive than GPT-5.5 to instructions such as “Be concise,” “Keep it short,” or “Use minimal text.” What about my favorite, "no yapping"?
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by mlmonkey 3mo ago
That was the honest giveaway ... :-D
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by mlmonkey 3mo ago
I speak from experience. The last few weekends I've been taking a friend to see her grandma at a Senior Facility in Sonoma County, and it is really depressing to watch them either lying in bed, listlessly, or in a wheelchair, gazing aw

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