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by nfiedel 4y ago
Lines or amount of code written is a terrible, and easily gamed metric. Some of the very best engineers write the fewest lines of code, often making fewer yet better abstractions that fulfill more business use cases more simply. They might
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by nfiedel 4y ago
Am surprised to see the pushback asserting this will cause prices to rise. This speed was practical on comcast's cable system back in 2007 (when we got it) and probably earlier. There is a wealth of evidence that higher bandwidth has m
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by nfiedel 6y ago
The tax is based on the fraction of time spent in CA, both days and years. The intent (for years) is likely to avoid people striking it rich in startups/movies/etc, and then immediately leaving the state to avoid a tax on the wind
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by nfiedel 6y ago
The tax is proportional to the number of days in California, and is only on wealth above $30M (married) or $15M (single). How many people do you think have $30M and spend >= 60 days a year in California, that do not benefit from business
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by nfiedel 6y ago
We moved about three years ago and replaced 50+ bulbs with 2 1/2 brands of LEDs. Phillips - around 40 regular socket, BR30 recessed, and 4x hue bulbs. Not a single failure or flicker. Am particularly a fan of the warm glow for nicer di
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by nfiedel 7y ago
OpenAI trained a large (1.5B parameter) Transformer model called GPT-2 on a diverse set of pages from the web. From their paper, GPT-2 "achieves state of the art results on 7 out of 8 tested language modeling datasets in a zero-shot se
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by nfiedel 7y ago
Skimmed a bit and found some snippets, from which I can't take this paper seriously as it dismisses unsupervised learning / language models over large datasets. Yes, sec 4.3.4 briefly discusses recent work in this area, but only b