mlmonkey

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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Oui!
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Microsoft has always been careless about performance. Two anecdotes: A friend of mine used to work for Microsoft (long ago). One day I was complaining to him about some package that Microsoft had put out. "It's so slow!" I sa
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
In some parts of the world, it is recommended that drinking water be stored in copper containers. I'm wondering if these communities had figured something out about the health benefits of ingesting trace amounts of copper?
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Writing unit tests used to be the bane of my existence. I used to hate them. Often times, the LoC for unit tests was 3X the LoC of the actual code. But not any more! Now I point the LLM to the code and order it to write unit tests, covering
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Just like how Elon forced FSD in Tesla to be subscription-only (he was incentivized to do so).
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
What's the point of a "confidential S-1"?? Isn't the S-1 supposed to inform potential investors?!? So ... shouldn't it _not_ be confidential??
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
I have a buddy who's a consultant. His niche area is Netsuite and Oracle (I think). He's an accountant by training and as a consultant his gig was setting up these instances for clients, charging them an arm and two legs. He'
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Being a Hypebeast leads to a rich acquisition.
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
I don't know how RSI aligns with DPI ("Data Processing Inequality", which states that, basically, unless you have an infinite supply of real data, you will suffer from model collapse). Models can't keep improving themsel
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
> Management likes having a pulse on employees, and they tolerate memegen since it's mostly fun ... A long long time ago I used to work at Yahoo. There was an internal mailing list called "devel-random@yahoo-inc.com", whic
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Is there some place where we can try it before downloading the gigabytes of weights?
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
China had a ~25 year head start. A lot of the work going on currently (rail electrification, dedicated freight corridors, highways, deep water ports, etc) will pay off in the future.
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
You mean, 1.5 SPF :-D :-D
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
How long before Anthropic buys Google ?
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
I think there is some room for AI in courts. The vast majority of cases are mundane, and an AI could be used to summarize the main points and highlight the concerned laws. India, for example, has a multi decade backlog of cases, especially
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Question: I have a dirty car and the car wash is just 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive to the carwash? Answer: . . . . So, unless you have a compelling reason not to, walk to the car wash.
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
According to the article, 303 gold bars worth about $40M.
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Gold is the "bitcoin" of yesterday, in the sense that it is untraceable, anonymous and yet high value enough to be worth it. And it can be made to disappear in a hurry, if you have to: https://www.npr.org/sections&
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
I don't think the current regime has changed their policy out of the goodness of their hearts, or for the concerns of the citizenry. If I were to hazard a guess, I'm guessing it is so their army of digital burglars can wreak havoc
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
only in Hawaii ...
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
Not if you're homeless in, say, San Francisco.
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
I tuned out when I came across this: > Science and technology, I feel, has always had a certain apathy towards the plight [of] the people at the bottom rungs. Does that apply to medical advances too? e.g. antibiotics, vaccines, etc. too?
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
It still cracks me up that 3[x] and x[3] mean the same thing in C.
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
> I currently pay $515.50 per month for property taxes. I currently pay almost $2500/mo in property taxes here in SF (about $100/mo in parcel taxes). FML.
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by mlmonkey 4mo ago
> It's long been accepted that the smoother the surface, the lower the aerodynamic drag. That turns out not always to be the case. Huh... I'd always heard that a golf ball's dimples help reduce drag?
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by mlmonkey 5mo ago
I wish it was an actual interactive map instead of a video, as it raises so many questions. Where did Christianity come from in Tibet? If I'm reading it correctly, around 1100AD there seems to be a large number of Christians near Lhasa
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by mlmonkey 5mo ago
> Google's lack of focus is astounding. As the sayinig goes, companies' products reflect their org charts. Google is too top heavy. Each leader wants to expand his/her fiefdom, aka empire building. They'll ship random
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by mlmonkey 5mo ago
But Railway has been blaming GCP for the outage. Shouldn't GCP be given an opportunity to defend itself?
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by mlmonkey 5mo ago
Google solved the spam problem (with PageRank at first, and then other techniques, finally landing on ML-based models which consume a ginormous number of signals). They know more about the reliability of web pages than just about anybody el
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by mlmonkey 5mo ago
Giving some of the taxpayers' money back as a fine is no victory. Victory would be if the Sheriff and others involved actually went to jail. Until that happens, expect other power-trippers to keep doing such things. After all, what do

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