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by moconnor 4y ago
Not my tweet, but curious if anyone here knows what happened. Seems so unlikely, but possible via geolocation? iPhone 12.
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Every photo I took of a NATO building disappeared from my camera roll(twitter.com)
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by moconnor 4y ago
Total Compensation - salary plus bonus plus options / stock Edit: lol
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by moconnor 4y ago
Helpful rule of thumb: understand at least the level below the one you’re working on in good detail - that is, how it does what it does, not just what it can do. It helps you understand the shape of what is possible, debugging becomes far
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by moconnor 4y ago
I disagree, humans don’t need another equivalent intelligence in order to feel love and friendship towards it. My favourite tongue-in-cheek example: humans will feel love and kinship toward cats who can’t talk and to all appearances often c
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by moconnor 4y ago
The test specifies the random distribution very clearly in each case, though.
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by moconnor 4y ago
You can estimate the probability distribution that generates this sequence as 0: 0, 1: 1. This is as far from 0: 0.5, 1: 0.5 (a fair coin toss) as you can get. Comparing mean and std dev can be used to estimate the distance between two dist
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by moconnor 4y ago
“Sequence looks random” is not nonsensical. The authors say your sequence should be indistinguishable from e.g. 12 coin tosses. This would have a uniform distribution. One approach would be estimate the probability distribution from the inp
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by moconnor 4y ago
I transitioned from being a tech lead to a manager. I hated it. I had an awkward conversation with my manager and we figured it was possible to switch back. Once I did that, I found I missed parts of management. I had an even more awkward c
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by moconnor 4y ago
The author wrote many technology introduction books over a period of six years. They probably have a limited lifespan. I think the comment is somewhat fair if overly snippish - “How I earn $27k per year writing books in my spare time” would
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by moconnor 4y ago
To be more precise: the author’s theory predicts that new technology moves design away from the things it makes cheap directly as a status symbol. In this case, DALL-E makes websites move away from images it can create. I contend novelty
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by moconnor 4y ago
Good read, but I can’t shake the feeling that the author ascribes too much to exactly one “vibe shift” in website design and unsplash’s role in it. Web design trends change every few years, for the same signalling reasons that fashion does.
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by moconnor 4y ago
This is not the consensus among ML researchers. Transformers are showing strong generalisation[1] and their performance continues to surprise us as they scale[2]. The Socratic paper is not about “higher intelligence”, it’s about demonstrati
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by moconnor 5y ago
Transformers are state-of-the-art for other language tasks - sentiment analysis, question and answering, document summarisation, translation etc. The shocking thing about GPT-3 was that it was close-ish to state of the art on many language
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by moconnor 5y ago
No, you do not get random crap from the GPT-3 API and you don’t have to tune the heat parameter, defaults are generally fine. You can get a unique formulation each time; this is generally seen as a feature rather than a bug, humans are typi
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by moconnor 5y ago
Add someone “in the know”, GPT-3 is more than a dictionary. I understand how language models mechanically work and have built and trained them, but the zero-shot capabilities of these large models were really unexpected. Interact with one.
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by moconnor 5y ago
Of course you can do that. You can even measure the angles and forces involved. There is no “unexplained physics” in bicycle riding. Dowsing for corpses, on the other hand, absolutely requires new physics, because the pseudo-physical explan
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by moconnor 5y ago
The paper literally describes taking this into account.
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by moconnor 5y ago
Why does pricing competitively to appear in the front page earn the label “bozo”? Should they prioritise the effects on the market ahead of their own profits or goals? It sounds like a really interesting story that’s missing a few steps due
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by moconnor 5y ago
I actually disagree, CLI is a big improvement. Vastly more developers are familiar with the command line than RStudio or IPython, including almost all of those who don’t already use some kind of ML. Two major benefits: * Approachability.
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by moconnor 5y ago
37-13 :-D And 29-21 as blue. Fun game!
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by moconnor 5y ago
30-20. My strategy tips: * first stone is weak, it’s ok to play it near a corner so their response is not in a strong place * Y-shape to kill and gain territory is much stronger than playing opposite to pincer * Always be growing passively
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by moconnor 5y ago
Suggestions: * Visually show which tiles will lock or unlock next turn * Show a total influence growth per player as a running score - useful to help beginners learn strategies
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by moconnor 5y ago
29-21 hard AI playing as green Fun and interesting game - this has a lot of potential! Great mechanic, I would pay for an iOS app in the future.
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by moconnor 5y ago
Just indicate which stones will become capturable next turn.
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by moconnor 5y ago
Probably suggesting people would start rat farms. Paying large bounties for bugs incentivises developers to introduce bugs for their “friends” to find. To some extent this dynamic must already exist, which is a troubling thought.
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by moconnor 6y ago
I’ve worked remotely for 15 years, variously in a bustling major city with a startup scene and currently do so in a small seaside town a few minutes from the beach. Quality of life depends where in life you are. City is better for meeting p
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by moconnor 6y ago
Tip: for each artist or author you recommend, put their top books under the name with the picture from amazon and link there with an affiliate account. An unfamiliar author’s name means nothing to me, but I might have heard of some of their
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by moconnor 6y ago
That enabling returns on capital entirely without labour functionally breaks capitalist democracies, probably.
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by moconnor 6y ago
Not OP but I moved to Germany as a single language speaker (well, some French from school that I was never much good at) in my mid 20s. Language classes for a few months and immersion made me pretty fluent over a year or two. Adults can lea

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