patrick451

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by patrick451 9mo ago
Apple not adopting these kinds of user hostile designs is why a lot of us were happy to a premium for their products. I guess Cook is just too stupid to understand that.
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by patrick451 9mo ago
"We don't build enough houses" does not explain the massive spike in prices we have seen in the last 5 years.
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by patrick451 9mo ago
I would call it it POR-15
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by patrick451 10mo ago
Until AVs can deal with OOD scenarios, they should not be on the road.
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by patrick451 10mo ago
Most of humanity is mediocre. Very few people are excellent. You're response of "touch luck, just be better" to a population with a mean IQ of 100 will lead to pitchforks in the streets.
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by patrick451 10mo ago
In 2010 I paid 3k for a 10 year old truck with 100k miles. That same truck today costs easily 15k. Same story for rent. Same story for groceries. Same story for health insurance. Who gives a shit how much trinkets costs if you can't af
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by patrick451 10mo ago
Housing, vehicles, groceries, and health insurance are all up massively. Who gives a shit how much a game costs if you can't afford groceries and rent?
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by patrick451 10mo ago
> Could you give some specific examples of AI regulations that you think would be good? AI companies need to be held liable for the outputs of their models. Giving bad medical advice, buggy code etc should be something they can be sued f
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by patrick451 10mo ago
Imagine if the only way to build a skyscraper was to start with a dollhouse and keep tacking extensions and pieces onto it until. Imagine if the only way to build a bridge across San Francisco bay was to start with pop sickle sticks.
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by patrick451 11mo ago
Jumping straight to the new release because it fixed one security bug has always struck me as a round about way of trying to achieve security through obscurity, especially when the releases include tons of other changes. Yes, this release f
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by patrick451 11mo ago
I wonder how much of this is "I'm saving it for a rainy day" vs "I was conditioned that eating the last one of a treat leads to conflict".
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by patrick451 11mo ago
> But field access does not compose easily if you have a nested hierarchy of objects. Your natural choice in the "OOP style" is to write a lot of boiler plate to point to each different field you want to get/set. This is a
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by patrick451 11mo ago
The conflicts of interest in a lot of AI research is pretty staggering.
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by patrick451 11mo ago
Until it goes down because because aws STILL hasn't made themselves completely multi-region or can't figure our their DNS.
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by patrick451 1y ago
Wikipedia says > A brick (or bricked device) is an electronic device, specially consumer electronics (such as a mobile device, game console, computer, etc.) that is no longer functional. These jeeps are no longer functional.
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by patrick451 1y ago
> My suspicion is that this was either a CAN saturation issue (ie - infotainment started sending a high priority message which could reach powertrain CAN) or a state management issue (ie - infotainment sent a “put modules to sleep” or “w
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by patrick451 1y ago
The reliability of software is so bad this is an absurd comparison.
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by patrick451 1y ago
> Genuinely curious what the solution here is. One obvious solution is to ditch drone delivery entirely. It's not a foregone conclusion that we must deliver trinkets by drone.
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by patrick451 1y ago
Seems like a bad decision. Grafana is awful compared to a bespoke solution.
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by patrick451 1y ago
> Either way, I can get arbitrarily good approximations of arbitrary nonlinear differential/difference equations using only linear probabilistic evolution at the cost of a (much) larger state space. This is impossible. When driven b
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by patrick451 1y ago
The problem with the LPs is they are all contradictory. You can make an argument for anything you want using LPs. Want to refactor something? Insist on the highest standards. Don't want to refactor something? Deliver results. It's
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by patrick451 1y ago
We have a lot of unemployed American tech workers. There is no reason hire people on visas other than suppressing wages and getting what amounts to an indentured servant.
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by patrick451 1y ago
AI makes so many mistakes, I cannot trust it with telling me the truth about how a large codebase works.
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by patrick451 1y ago
What I have noticed is that often, what sleep or rest gives me isn't so much a new insight but just the gumption to make a decision or grind through what I know needs to be done.
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by patrick451 1y ago
> The key advantage of doing batched inference at a huge scale is that once you maximize parallelism and sharding, your model parameters and the memory bandwidth associated with them are essentially free (since at any given moment they&#
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by patrick451 1y ago
There are two many obvious exceptions to even start taking this seriously. If we all followed this advice, we would never even multiply matrices.
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by patrick451 1y ago
This has consistently been my experience with every LLM I have tried. Everybody says "Oh, you tried it one the model from two months ago? Doesn't count, the new ones are sooo much better". So I try the new one and it still ha
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by patrick451 1y ago
> What if you really do need "unsafe" division? Well, that is possible, with unchecked_div. Most people do not need unchecked_div. If you think you do but you haven't benchmarked yet, you do not. It doesn't get any si
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by patrick451 1y ago
The optimal control framework Casadi has had the ability to compute sparse jacobians and hessians for a long time (maybe a decade?), which come up all the time in trajectory optimization.This not only provides massive speed ups in both the
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by patrick451 1y ago
This only works if you don't need real time performance. For anything that does need to run in realtime, you have to be damn sure that whatever your initial approach is can be optimized to run at the required sample rate. Otherwise, yo

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