namaria

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871.
by namaria 2y ago
It's snakeoil. It cures all, it solves every problem. Pay the man now and he'll show it later.
872.
by namaria 2y ago
Why? What exactly have we got for the (how many hundred) billions of dollars poured into GPUs running transformers over the past 6 years?
873.
by namaria 2y ago
"I'm getting paid so I don't really care" is the most destructive instance a human can take. Why do you think we're about to disrupt the Holocene climate optimum that gave birth to modern civilization?
874.
by namaria 2y ago
I see the same way. My current strategy is what I think I should have done in the dotcom bubble: carefully avoid pigeonholing myself in the hype topics while learning the basics so I can set up well positioned teams after the dust settles.
875.
by namaria 2y ago
Lol seriously there are deterministic commands I can run that give me correct and verified boilerplate to stand up APIs. Why would I trust some probabilistic analysis of all code found online (while dissipating ungodly amounts of energy and
876.
by namaria 2y ago
> In fact one of the core reasons transformers gained so much traction is because they scale so well. > If nothing really changes in 3-5 years, then I'd call it a flop Transformers have been used for what 6 years now? Will you in
877.
by namaria 2y ago
Considering that 10 years ago Xerox copiers was already able to scramble numbers in technical drawings, I can't wait to see the mess that a printer editing documents by itself can engender.
878.
by namaria 2y ago
I just realized, that's accelerationism with less steps
879.
by namaria 2y ago
Occam's razor has never meant "let's take discourse at face value". That's not least complexity. That's least effort.
880.
by namaria 2y ago
Agile, like any other system, has become a big ball of mud. Complex systems will always accrete complexity. New elites will bulldoze a nice location and start a new, open and beautifully designed quarter for themselves. And pretty soon it w
881.
by namaria 2y ago
If you think coding is slinging strings that make the compiler do what you want, I pity the fool that has to work alongside or after you on code projects.
882.
by namaria 2y ago
I mainly use it for taking text input and doing stuff that's easy to describe but hard to script for. Feed it some articles and ask for a very specific and obscure bibliography format? Great! Change up the style or the wording? Fine. D
883.
by namaria 2y ago
It's useful to get started but I wouldn't say fantastic. It's style comes out as trite and an average of common cliches.
884.
by namaria 2y ago
Congrats on learning way less about the systems and tools you're interacting with?
885.
by namaria 2y ago
"We're using more energy to do more math and the results are increasingly better" Reasonable. "If we keep increasing the amount of energy and math, we should all be floating in bliss any day now" Selling something.
886.
by namaria 2y ago
I hope it's satire. It would be quite limiting to believe that people can only learn things from short format video
887.
by namaria 2y ago
That's immersion and an author in love with their ideas tends to ruin that for me. It starts to feel like smarts porn.
888.
by namaria 2y ago
Good. Other people, the majority of people being wrong, can be very profitable for those who are right. I'm in no crusade to make people think like me. I am on a path of leveraging my knowledge.
889.
by namaria 2y ago
It's simpler to assume several Chinese based business are pursuing profits and the consequences of this particular pursuit are seen as beneficial by bureaucrats so it's encouraged. Capitalism requires no conspiracy. People will do
890.
by namaria 2y ago
What this report is telling me is there's fierce competition for relevance in STEM field paper publication across a wide range of interests. That is very good.
891.
by namaria 2y ago
I find hard to dive into contrived realities. A good story with hints of a larger complicated world in which it happens is in my opinion much more enjoyable than painstakingly describing everything.
892.
by namaria 2y ago
Has the overbearing tone of painfully detailed world building with very little narrative power I've come to expect from Chiang. Guy has cool ideas but really likes to describe how cool his ideas are in detriment of telling a compelling
893.
by namaria 2y ago
Coming to the conclusion that cutting 90% of nursing staff is possible and desirable is an astonishingly disconnected take
894.
by namaria 2y ago
National freak out levels quantification problems notwithstanding, If a platoon of American CIA agents went around the US executing 'bad people' (definition problems notwithstanding), That would be bad.
895.
by namaria 2y ago
The cropping of the original title changes the meaning drastically and seems almost clickbaity
896.
by namaria 2y ago
Zirp drove demand of low quality code. LLMs drive supply. Bootcampers are being squeezed on both sides, and remote work adds foreign competition on all levels of competency. Zirp also drove supply of capital. Inflated cloud and now gpu farm
897.
by namaria 2y ago
Yeah it all sounds to me like the 'coders' are getting driven out by senior developers using llms. Trend should continue until big tech stops subsidizing the gpu farms, at which point bootcamp coders may become competitive again.
898.
by namaria 2y ago
I'm glad prevalent behavior is to not use ad blockers. It turns watching ads a tax on ignorance, and lets that usage fly under the radar.
899.
by namaria 2y ago
Wow questioning policing methods gets you automatically labelled as 'crook'? How is the boot tasting this morning?
900.
by namaria 2y ago
Considering the human side and impact of the systems we design and build doesn't preclude knowing the technical stuff. Claiming it will cripple engineers is quite far fetched.

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