mrazomor

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by mrazomor 3y ago
From your experience, what's usually done when new projects start? What I've seen, people focus on the business requirements and only the obvious risks. That's for the regular projects. I have seen Munger's proposal in p
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by mrazomor 3y ago
I don't see it that way. Munger gives a tool to identify new (yet unknown ) risks. Seeking what needs to be addressed so that the project doesn't fail. The other thing is a tool to help us deal with the known risks (derisking t
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by mrazomor 3y ago
I don't interpret it the same way as you. My understanding of Munger's intent: find the issues and risks that you are not aware of, by looking at the project from a different perspective. What Google X (and many others) do: do the
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by mrazomor 3y ago
I lived in places where renting is unregulated/not protected, and in the places where it's well regulated. IMO, being able to do a long term and safe rent is the biggest win for the financial planning and personal finance you can
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by mrazomor 3y ago
I really liked https://blog.tartanllama.xyz/writing-a-linux-debugger-setup/ I learned a lot.
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Trends in GPU price-performance (2022)(epochai.org)
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by mrazomor 3y ago
This is exciting! BTW. if you want to know the applications of this work, have a look at this ACM SIGPLAN Keynote: https://youtu.be/JTU3JYp3JYc?si=jOZz611ATQar3Gec (helped me understand DNA more than all biology classes at
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by mrazomor 3y ago
Because Google nor any other company is rich enough to use LLMs at that scale. Consider the quality vs. cost per query & latency trade off.
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by mrazomor 3y ago
Two parts. The government & organic size issues. Both contributing xx%. Any high churn change is difficult to get out at that scale. Now add all corp-fear because you are under lense of all governments. You can't keep the startup m
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by mrazomor 3y ago
Google had LLMs before OpenAI. It also produced the core techniques for making it happen. My take is that it was taken by its own weight. The government fines & incorporation that started to fear those fines slowed down the progress. Ho
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by mrazomor 3y ago
There's something that the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland and Sweden do well when it comes to English. Almost all people I met from those countries spoke fluent English with good pronunciation. What do you believe Dutch scho
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by mrazomor 3y ago
From my experience, this makes sense (at least for the lower classes). I had English classes since my first grade. Considering the results, it was mostly waste of time. None of us had even basic proficiency even after years of attending Eng
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by mrazomor 3y ago
Probably because YouTube =! Google Search, while YouTube is still a subset of Google. So, going an extra mile for YouTube and not for others might put Google Search in anti competition issues. Then again, I also find it absurd. YouTube is o
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by mrazomor 3y ago
That's something that Microsoft research wrote two decades ago. And those results were well known in the NLP community. Example: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... (Mich
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by mrazomor 3y ago
Err... as much I'd like to have a VR headset and use it, I simply can't. I don't have time to immerse myself in the environment where I don't see the reality that surrounds me (as in, people which share my public transpo
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Typst still has a syntax that one needs to learn (or Google it). Overleaf's slowness is not a LaTeX issue. I was using LaTeX IDEs with near-instant previews more than 10y ago. Then again, why such emphasis on the preview? Both LaTeX a
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by mrazomor 4y ago
LaTeX is simple if you: - have a good template (most of the conferences & some other parts of academia provide this), - use a decent IDE (many LaTeX editors I tried in the past were great, now I'm fine with just vim), - stick with
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by mrazomor 4y ago
I agree with all said, beside the last two paragraphs. But I'd rather not debate the economical situation. How do you see IT from the other perspectives? For example, from the accounting perspective: the profitability of the companies,
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Finance: aim to be broke when you die. It changed my view at the personal finance, and made some decisions much easier. If I die at the old age, my kids will be in their 40's-60's. My savings won't make a significant impact o
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by mrazomor 4y ago
He doesn't say it's going to be a punishment or a reward :). I'd bet on the latter. Lower operational cost! Increased stock value! Beefy bonus! Sundar takes all...
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by mrazomor 4y ago
The Mathematical Experience -- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1113522.The_Mathematical... It's touching many areas. For some it explains how they were developed or the controversy around them (e.g. the d
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by mrazomor 4y ago
> They are not judged by the quality of their code, but by the results their code produces. How much are software engineers judged by the code quality? And how much by the end results (shipped features/projects)? There's a larg
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by mrazomor 4y ago
The benefit of formal education (beside easier visa, easier access to the hiring pipelines and meeting new like-minded people) are the tests . I was struck so many times thinking I understood something (either through lectures or self-lear
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by mrazomor 4y ago
What's the ChatGPT traffic volume (requests per second), and what's Assistant's? Or any of the prominent search engines? What would be cost of running ChatGPT at that traffic volume & comparable (user friendly) latency or
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by mrazomor 4y ago
My impression is that the past predictions were based on Linux desktop winning from the tech & UX side. That's unlikely to happen. I'm betting on the Windows regression. MS is making it happen. Forced reboots, lengthy updates,
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by mrazomor 4y ago
MS has a limited amount of credit. It will expire eventually. If MS makes a bad move, it might kick off an avalanche. People leaving FAANG etc., might kick start new companies that help improving support, breaking the old relations, and bui
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by mrazomor 4y ago
- Tech jobs at FAANG no longer look attractive or stable. Google hits the final nail in the coffin (not necessarily involving the layoffs) - The age of smart assistants is over - Microsoft will make a huge mistake involving Windows -> go
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by mrazomor 4y ago
Well said! Thanks for calling it out. > just because we're paid well. People might try another perspective. Does $200k a year sound good? How about $100k a year? How many say "yes" to the first, but "no" to the s
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by mrazomor 4y ago
There's "Feedback" link for both the search results and the Knowledge Panel. I doubt that a large volume of similarly targeted feedback would go unnoticed (why would they keep this feature then?).
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by mrazomor 4y ago
The ecosystem changed since then. Now updates of your binary's environment are more frequent, and often enforced. How often did you update or patch your Windows 98 or NT? Today, it's false to assume that fire and forget releasing

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