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by netcan 2y ago
There was/is a trend of "science gyms" that do 20 minute per week personal training. The meticulous PT format and exercise selection allows them to achieve more muscle gain in 20 minutes per week than median trainees achieve
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by netcan 2y ago
The "enlightened capitalism" meme has fallen hard. HN is itself as good an example as any. Compare early HN to now... People have the same view of media, tech companies and political parties as they do of cigarette companies or ca
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by netcan 2y ago
I always thought "revealed preference" was a rhetorical stretch. Makes sense opposite "stated preference," but on its own it is just an obtuse way of saying behaviour or habits. In any case you can be both a consumer and
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by netcan 2y ago
if taken in aggregate, will have a significant impact This is a good sentiment. But, in context, it is a fallacy. A harmful one. Consumer action on transport and whatnot, assuming a massive and persistent global awareness effort... has
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by netcan 2y ago
Yeah... "elite" tends to mean different things at different levels. There are definitely "salesmen" with long term industry credibility, relationships and such. Probably reads as more of a "businessman" than sa
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by netcan 2y ago
I agree, but I also think "how people fail at X" is a biased frame, when X is a risky, high value, naivety prone goal. "Building a platform" is such an X. A high risk/reward goal where lots of failure is expected. P
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by netcan 2y ago
Isn't some of that matter/gas moving at really high speeds anyway?
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by netcan 2y ago
A lot of scandalized fainting and pearl clutching triggered by this. It's interesting what set of tactics do/don't trigger an instinctive "beyond the pale" reaction on HN. HNers seem to have a higher comparative to
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by netcan 2y ago
>Cruise was not enabled for test drives. The excuse was pretty weak, like the dealership would have to pay for the service or something. GM might have the technology but they are completely bungling the strategy Before the iPhone came ou
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by netcan 2y ago
I think it's worth recalling why that optimism, at least in part. Information wanted to be free, for the first decade of the web's existence. Projects like Linux, Wikipedia, the www itself. These open, free ways of doing things
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by netcan 2y ago
You might have to do the deed occasionally, to sell the ruse. I never said this would be easy.
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by netcan 2y ago
If Google search ad business dwindled, the remaining ad-supported tech will all be targeting based. The adtech parts of ai are going to be weird.
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by netcan 2y ago
Become a high class escort, where legal. Very high class. Accept only cash.
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by netcan 2y ago
Honestly, I think "nepotism" and "occupational persistence" are more about how we feel or judge the phenomenon, and what are prior expectations are. If sons and nephews are bad managers and a business suffers... that&#x2
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by netcan 2y ago
" examined the contribution of inherited human capital versus nepotism to occupational persistence. " Quite an interesting article. I sort of agree with its conclusions, but I don't think the methodology actually works. They
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by netcan 2y ago
I enjoyed this read. Seems to be a theme, in this generation, that the "skill building" paradigm is useful. Speed is a skill. Physical strength is a skill. Emotional stability is skill. The skill paradigm can often be abstracted a
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by netcan 2y ago
Any interesting examples of methods to make LLMs more "programmable?"
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by netcan 2y ago
Funny, yes. But... a webforum is a good place for these back-and-forths. I'm on the other side of this fence to you. I agree that the conclusion here is that "it is flaky." Disagree about what that means. As LLMs progress, 10
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by netcan 2y ago
Mystery, science and what we retrospectively see as "religion" co_existed. This didn't end in the classical. Consider the medieval European priesthood... for example. It's basically where all scholarship and literacy res
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by netcan 2y ago
The finer points of "expectation" can be the source of trouble. We form these expectations quite young, and often clouded by love at critical points. Familial, romantic and platonic. Love makes us promises that it cannot keep. Ide
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by netcan 2y ago
Why start there? I get that there's a timeline, and that following the timeline is a good way of building a base but... But... you could also add it to the middle or end of a course. I feel students would be more likely to appreciate t
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by netcan 2y ago
Yes... but maybe also no. Well measured advertising budgets are definitely part of the game. But so are poorly measured campaigns. Type B often cargo cult A. It's far from a perfect market. In any case, Adwords is at this point a very
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by netcan 2y ago
The tone of this article is a bit much, but fitting I suppose. That said... the "dead internet conversation" has been going for a while. Current versions tend to be "gpt . I kind of think LLMs may just replace a lot of intern
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by netcan 2y ago
IDK. I don't think we can actually have a discussion about education where all statements are supported by indisputable evidence. There do happen to be citations for this question but I doubt any really clears an "indisputable evi
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by netcan 2y ago
Perhaps. And you could probably test this but I would gamble that the principle still applies. IE, these weightlifters are probably also very capable (eg) shotputters because of all that weightlifting. But also... their shotput, sprinting a
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by netcan 2y ago
Another example of this approximate law is in exercise physiology. To a normal person, there are a lot of good proxy indicators of fitness. You could train sprinting. You could hop up and down. Squat. Clean and jerk.. etc. Running faster,ho
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by netcan 2y ago
This is true, these "laws" are approximations and imperfect reductions. Which one is useful or descriptive will depend on the specific example. Optimizing ML VS Optimizing a social media algorithm VS using standardized testing to
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by netcan 2y ago
To hazard a silly question... Why can't gpt pick up a non-fundamental "understanding" of letters and spelling from the data? I mean... I do think "see letters" either when speaking/hearing, but I do know how t
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by netcan 2y ago
> Doesn’t OpenAI make some substantial part of the revenue for all the AI space? I just don’t see it. So... OpenAI's business model may or may not represent a long term business model. ATT, it just the simplest commercial model, and
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by netcan 2y ago
Was open access actually expected to " put an end to the era of impact-chasing, false-positives, and unpublished truths ?" Generally speaking, I don't see how the going ons of seconds tier matter.

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