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by paulluuk 7mo ago
This is great, and it also feels like a great way to answer the question "Where should I buy a house if I want to be close to the center but not in the expensive area?". > Let’s play a guessing game. How much more valuable is l
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by paulluuk 7mo ago
I've tried, but I've been to so many thrift stores and never found anything I liked or which fit well. I'm a tall guy and the men's section of thrift stores is just filled with what I assume is the clothes that widows do
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by paulluuk 7mo ago
> One meeting did in his promo. Although true, I feel it's worth adding here that the problem is that PM. While looking stupid by asking questions can "do you in" when working with incompetent managers like that, I'd
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by paulluuk 7mo ago
I bought a 200 dollar jacket and it had holes in it within months, just from regular use. I have an old 3 dollar shirt I bought years ago and it's only now beginning to show wear. One problem this shows, is that as a consumer I have no
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by paulluuk 7mo ago
I understand your sentiment. I personally would never use a textbook for anything code related, if there's no proper documentation online then I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole, haha. However, even though I've never wo
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by paulluuk 8mo ago
Don't we already harvest more food than humans could ever eat, and have a huge pharmaceutical industry? I get what you're saying but these two examples seem counterproductive imho. Which begs the question: what would actually be a
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I feel like this is very much a personal preference thing. They even called out Horizon Zero Dawn for looking very bad, and Zelda for looking very good.. while in my opinion the exact opposite is true.
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by paulluuk 1y ago
The question is: is AI breaking the system, or was it always broken and does AI merely show what is broken about it? I'm not a scientist/researcher myself, but from what I hear from friends who are, the whole "industry"
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by paulluuk 1y ago
21 lbs -> 9.5 kg For those not working for the empire ;)
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I work in R&D, and although I haven't signed an NDA, I think it's best if I don't elaborate too much. But basically we have a large dataset of shows and movies for which we already know how well they did with specific aud
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I know this is just a casual comment, but this is a genuine concern I have every day. However, I've been working for 10 years now and working in music/video streaming has been the most "societal value" I've had thus
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by paulluuk 1y ago
It really depends on the use-case. I currently work in the video streaming industry, and my team has been building production-quality code for 2 years now. Here are some things that are going really well: * Determine what is happening in a
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by paulluuk 1y ago
Interesting, I also just installed Firefox because of OPs comment, and I'm amazed at how much faster it is then Chrome.
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I don't understand what you feel is "protectionist" about this? I would say that the US pressuring the EU on behalf of big corporations is arguably "protectionist", but I don't think that's what you mean.
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I was replying specifically to the statement that writing verbosely is a form of "skilled writing", which I don't agree with. Simply being verbose does not make your writing any better.
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by paulluuk 1y ago
> "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Blaise Pascal It takes much more skill to write concise than verbose.
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by paulluuk 1y ago
It's really a choice: do you want to waste compute or do you want to waste potential? While prioritizing higher scorers for selecting progenitors will initially mitigate some of the problems, you will eventually end up with hundreds of
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I'm not sure if it's ridiculous if you factor in something like copilot. Heck, even just your IDE's built-in autocomplete (which only finishes the current variable name) can get close to being responsible for 20% of your code
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by paulluuk 1y ago
Me laughing as a human non-frontend dev having to do anything related to CSS The number of times that my manager or coworkers have rejected proposals for technical solutions because I can't make a webpage look halfway decent is too d
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by paulluuk 1y ago
Maybe this is a very european sentiment, but I "trust" an italian or german pharma lab just as much as a dutch or american one.
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I work on AI solutions for a major video streaming company, and the problem with VEO3 is that it doesn't have any consistency between prompts. E.g. I can not upload a reference image of what a character looks like, and if I say in one
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I order plenty of things online (From other countries) and other than having to wait a week, it's trivially easy. Is it that much different when it's medicinal products?
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by paulluuk 1y ago
You've seen good managers promoted to engineers? ;) I have seen this happening, usually the engineers with the best technical AND people skills are first made lead developer, and eventually "team lead". After team lead they c
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by paulluuk 1y ago
On a side note, I do worry about the energy consumption of AI. I'll admit that, like the silicon valley tech bros, there is a part of me that hopes that AI will allow researchers to invent a solution to that -- something like fusion or
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by paulluuk 1y ago
Around the time when bitcoin started to get serious public attention, late 2017, I remember feeling super hyped about it and yet everyone told me that money spent on bitcoin was wasted money. I really believed that bitcoin, or at least cryp
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by paulluuk 1y ago
Yeah, I've had teachers like that, who tell you that you're a "waste of life" and "what are you doing here?" and "you're dumb", so motivational. I guess this "tough love" attitude helps
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by paulluuk 1y ago
> They try, write bad flashcards, don't see results, and give up. But if that's the case, then wouldn't a program that takes a long text (like a book) and creates GOOD flashcards, be way superior over someone making their
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by paulluuk 1y ago
Indeed, I would be very curious to see how their robots would actually build that sofa. Although the robots aren't really part of the model of course, they're just a little extra.
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by paulluuk 1y ago
If you put it like that, I absolutely agree with you, except that I suppose I don't really consider this an exchange of knowledge but more like the release of an open-source project: the only thing they need to publish are instructions
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by paulluuk 1y ago
I assume they mean "Reinforcement Learning", and it's been a decade since I studied AI in university, but isn't it perfectly valid to just say "RL"? What kind of specificity are you looking for, whether they us

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