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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> It knows english at or above a level equal to most fluent speakers, and it also can produce output that is not just a likely output, but is a logical output This is not an apt description of the system that insists the doctor is the m
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> Covid and other things reduced life expectancy in the US. It reduced life expectancy for people who were alive in 2019. Those statistics say nothing about the life expectancy of people who are currently alive.
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Construction
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> I mailed a bunch of bills to my insurer, and requested reimbursement (…) Anyway, they mailed me a check This is not what I’d describe as “fighting your insurance”.
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
A very small subset of high school boys. I bet you’ve never run close to that time.
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Replace "this thing is better than Terrence Tao at maths" with "this thing is better than Garry Kasparov at chess" and your statement would sound equally reasonable in the early 90s.
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Millennium bank is Polish TIL What's up with Portuguese and Poland? (Millennium, Biedronka, what else?)
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> I've seen footballers using it a lot over the years (Neymar, Messi etc) fwiw. The word "craque" in Portuguese was borrowed from English with the "exceptional" definition and is commonly used. Given how many Bra
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> Memorization is literally how you learned arithmetic, multiplication tables and fractions I understood how to do arithmetic for numbers with multiple digits before I was taught a "procedure". Also, I am not even sure what you
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
Given the description about "sampling from an infinite" something, it's likely this was intended as a variation on reservoir sampling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> giving a foreigner a position of power (commercial or government) is basically unthinkable I mean, not totally unthinkable, thankfully. That's the only reason we have the Carlos Ghosn Hollywood-esque escape story.
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
"had their brains addled"... no need to be mean https://tomazweiss.github.io/blog/so_2023_compensation/
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by pedrosorio 2y ago
> It does, I did the math when I was offered a 100k+ position in the US. 100k+ has been close to the floor for entry level for a while now. Did you do the math on how much you'd earn over 10 years?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/databas...
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> The dude invented merge sort and it's an effin' side-note to his work. Like, WAT. Inventing merge sort is not a particularly impressive intellectual achievement.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Before Python, I believe Fortran (one of the first programming languages) was for many years a key language in scientific computing. MATLAB is a proprietary computing platform with its own language that was very widely used (and probably st
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
During Portuguese revolts to regain independence from Spain in 1640, the secretary of state was defenestrated too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Vasconcelos
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
ConvNets Match Vision Transformers at Scale (Oct 2023) https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.16764
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
This sorcery didn't start a year ago. The model being described in the article is GPT-2 which was released in early 2019.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> their API and documentation as it's written for mathematicians and not business SMEs I've never worked with any of these, but that's what I would expect as well. API documentation that describes how to solve each kind of
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> Still mad about it. Why?
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Oh, that’s right. Multivariable was Calc II for me so technically two semesters.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> People are notoriously ruthless to people who admit their mistakes Some people, yes. Not all. I would say this attitude does not correlate with intelligence/wisdom.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
The GPT-4 pre-training research lead quit on Friday.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
The basics. 1 semester course for each.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> I wanted to prove to myself that I was smart, that all the adults in my life who told me I was "dumb and stupid" because I couldn't excell at school were wrong. I was not dumb, I was not an idiot, I could do it. > And
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
Why run if you don’t care about the speed? If I don’t care about the speed and just want to cover a certain distance to enjoy myself outdoors, I’ll walk.
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> Most Leetcode Mediums (...) there's a "trick" embedded in the problem and if you don't already know the trick, you're never going to figure it out in 30 minutes I am sorry to say, this is just not true. > bu
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
> There are probably about 30 or so leetcode problems and then endless variations made for those 30 problems. The best people on leetcode practice and memorize. The comment I replied to claimed that "LLMs would do pretty well at lee
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by pedrosorio 3y ago
These interviews are not designed to require "spending your younger, healthier years grinding". They require grokking a fairly small set of concepts and being comfortable using them to problem solve under time pressure. That'

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