natdempk

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by natdempk 2y ago
> See the pattern? The biggest tech successes of our era didn’t win through superior technology or innovation. - PayPal won by creating technology that makes it easier / possible than any alternative to send and receive money via th
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by natdempk 2y ago
Yeah my mind also immediately jumped to fingerprinting. Somewhat required for anti-fraud to some extent, but also obviously used for more than that.
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by natdempk 2y ago
I don’t think anyone is really suggesting they stole COT or that it is leaked, but rather that the final o1 outputs were used to train the base model and reasoning components more easily.
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by natdempk 2y ago
> It seems all the folks who “have it on good authority” that this is a dangerous propaganda tool, can’t share what “it” is. No need to speculate too hard here, there are plenty of examples of censorship on TikTok: https://en.
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by natdempk 2y ago
Does anyone know how well the JIT/cache on the browser works eg. how useful it is to profile JIT'd vs non-JIT'd and what those different scenarios might represent in practice? For example is it just JIT-ing as the page loads&
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by natdempk 2y ago
The Slime Mold Time Mold article is maybe an interesting starting point, but really not great analysis... see this thorough rebuttal around the Lithium stuff that has not been responded to: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts&#x
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by natdempk 2y ago
Anyone know if there is a particularly great app/website out there for learning Korean? Ideally opinionated, low/no "figure out what to learn yourself", Anki + AI-powered for maximum gain/seamless review/ease
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by natdempk 2y ago
Cool, thanks!
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by natdempk 2y ago
But why is it called a Vampire Number in the first place?
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by natdempk 2y ago
The current community notes I see on these tweets just basically say: the Internet Archive is not part of the US government.
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by natdempk 2y ago
Well, the problem you run into is that you kind of want different datastores for different use-cases. For example search vs. specific page loads, and you want to try and make both of those consistent, but you don't have a single DB tha
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by natdempk 2y ago
You have a distributed system on your hands at that point so you need idempotent processes + reconciliation/eventual consistency. Basically thinking a lot about failure, resyncing data/state, patterns like transactional outboxes,
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by natdempk 2y ago
Pretty great advice! I think the one thing you can run into that is hard is once you want to support different datasets that fall outside the scope of a transaction (think events/search/derived-data, anything that needs to read&#x
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by natdempk 2y ago
You mean he talks more like a normal person talking about a product rather than a Youtuber going over the top with everything? The fact that he is genuine is a big part of his appeal.
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by natdempk 2y ago
Good to know, for some reason my sort sets to `Date modified (newest first)` which seems bad also and I'm certain I never set it this way intentionally, but I guess that explains the issue and I was wrong that they have entirely let th
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by natdempk 2y ago
This is basically a product failure... I understand the distinction, and yet a negatively voted accepted answer shows up first above a highly-voted non-accepted answer. What is the point of the accepted answer in this scenario? Why rank it
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by natdempk 2y ago
Yeah, the moderation is truly broken, along with the "accepted answer" framework, and in general the approach to knowledge curation. Kind of amazing to me that the founders/staff of the site didn't try to turn this aroun
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by natdempk 2y ago
Similarly companies like Pave also do data collection and sharing to create “benchmarks” around salary and report out salary ranges for comparable companies and locations. I was wondering where the line is drawn between something like this
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by natdempk 2y ago
Well, it's important to differentiate what actually matters in cases like this otherwise we just get into a weird luddite place of complaining about things that don't actually matter. Here it is the listening medium and environmen
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by natdempk 2y ago
> Uncompressed audio is radically different and richer than low fi digital compression, but almost everything we hear everywhere is coming through streaming services. Out of curiosity, have you blind A/B tested yourself with the var
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by natdempk 2y ago
You gotta provide platform + examples for something like this.
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by natdempk 2y ago
If you are unhappy with Plex on Apple TV, check out Infuse. You have a pay a little yearly for it, but it does a much better job of supporting higher-end/advanced media features and the app is nicer than Plex. It can seamlessly connect
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by natdempk 2y ago
Most enterprises these days also run stuff like Crowdstrike (or literally Crowdstrike) on their macOS deployments. Similarly Windows these days is bundled with OS-level antivirus which is sufficient for non-enterprise users. Not in the secu
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by natdempk 2y ago
I would encourage you to read more about the two cases and the differences between them and the rulings. Stratechery has some good articles though some are paywalled.
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by natdempk 2y ago
It's a rebrand + censorship then? I'm not sure the distinction you're trying to make exactly, it's not like Douyin is a completely different thing from Tiktok, so I think "completely separate platforms" is also
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by natdempk 2y ago
Ha, coming full circle :) that guy has lots of cool stuff.
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by natdempk 2y ago
If you want to go even further: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SthcxWPXG_E
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by natdempk 3y ago
When I learned about passive voice, scientific writing was often mentioned as an explicit exception. What you say makes sense when you are abstractly describing something that happened, but also I'd argue that "We added 30 grams o
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by natdempk 3y ago
Actually I did read the whole thing before posting... There are different CGM models where some require scanning and some report continuously. My reading was that the author's model seemed to only support scanning thus the need for the
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by natdempk 3y ago
Not sure exactly what you mean by "getting data" but recent versions of both Libre and Dexcom have apps where you can view graphs of data on your phone with no tapping step.

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