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by peterlk 4y ago
Yep. A ton of companies raised a boatload of money in 21/22 to “ride out the storm”, and I think many of them are zombie firms who will collapse when they run out of the excessive runway that they have. I keep wondering whether this wi
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by peterlk 4y ago
And it comes with a 3mm headphone jack! Hallelujah!! I’m so, so glad someone is stepping up to fill this niche. My only complaint, and it’s kind if a big one, is that the screen is too damn big. I’m tired of phone manufacturers forcing me t
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by peterlk 4y ago
AI continues to advance (there is mich more beneath the surface if the endless ChatGPT nonsense), the fediverse is gaining more traction, biotech continues to advance. There continues to be immense opportunity. But you have to skill up and
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by peterlk 4y ago
No it isn’t. “Tech” is only slowing down for a very narrow definition of tech. Perhaps we forget that rather recently the world created a vaccine for a novel virus using cutting edge techniques, that genome sequencing costs continue to fall
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by peterlk 4y ago
Something that often gets overlooked in systems like this what happens when there are bugs. Mechanical control systems are often designed to be durable, and this gives rise to simplicity. Why add all this complexity? What happens when a bug
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by peterlk 4y ago
I do love the irony that these decentralized systems often end up with the problems they were trying to solve. A trusted third party is the opposite of a decentralized system, and this service could be provided by any FAANG.
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by peterlk 4y ago
Ok…. So I’m going to try to rephrase what I just learned from this comment. Can someone tell me how far off I am? The universe is not 100% empty, so the index of refraction is not 1. This could be explained by lots of phenomena like dust pa
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by peterlk 4y ago
Side note about MITs marketing... The original paper [0] was published by 5 authors. 3 from Stanford, 1 from MIT, and 1 from Autodesk. I find MITs aggressive marketing pretty off-putting. Any discovery related to MIT _always_ has MIT in the
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by peterlk 4y ago
Wikipedia actually seems like a good replacement for personal "websites" in the social media era. I'd love to see the wikimedia social network
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by peterlk 4y ago
> not structural or risky behavior from investment banks in 2007 I don't see it that way at all. Over the last couple years, we've seen an explosion in private capital investments, NFT and crypto fads (questionable, but I would
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by peterlk 4y ago
I thought you all just had one number for everything! 0118 999 881 999 119 7253 https://youtu.be/ab8GtuPdrUQ
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by peterlk 4y ago
I absolutely love foley in music. I haven't updated it in a while, but I have a playlist of music that contains foley that I like: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/41uMIYCFV2XXaFtPWSNo9V?si=... I find that adding
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by peterlk 4y ago
This is really neat. But I remain skeptical > In both instances, a catalytic reaction drives the nanoparticles to produce antimicrobials that kill harmful oral bacteria on site. So, what happens if I swallow this stuff that I'm putt
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by peterlk 4y ago
Has anyone solved the data problem? I have taken many stabs at this over the last 10 years, and the primary problem is that music is _extremely_ subtle. Even something as seemingly simple as chord progressions are very difficult to annotate
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by peterlk 4y ago
Ah yes, of course. Thanks for the clarification!
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by peterlk 4y ago
> The scientists say their model of inner core movement also explains the variation in the length of day, which has been shown to oscillate persistently for the past several decades. How do we measure persistent changes to the length of
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by peterlk 4y ago
A family member started getting pretty deep in the crypto game, and went to one crypto conference. Afterwards, we hung out and he was really deflated. He just said, "none of these people understand what's going on. I asked what wo
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Ask HN: Where did all the meetups go?
35 points by peterlk 4y ago|32 comments
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NLP: How did we get here? Where do large language models fit?(mantiumai.com)
31 points by peterlk 4y ago|3 comments
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by peterlk 4y ago
I have no involvement in either of these companies, but I'll mention that this seems like a beta version of uberduck. Personally, I think uberdurk is awesome, and probably worth a look
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by peterlk 4y ago
I think you're out of touch with the realities of being poor. Are you familiar with the ghetto tax? Let me tell you the situation of an old friend. He was working his ass off to put himself through college even with scholarships becaus
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by peterlk 4y ago
There are already so many comments here, but I would pay $150 for rocksmith built for piano
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by peterlk 4y ago
If this phone allowed for 2 SIM cards, I would pay a silly amount of money for it
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by peterlk 4y ago
My friend once ordered a hot tub with 2 day shipping on Amazon Prime, and has often wondered about the economics of that purchase.
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by peterlk 5y ago
This is a rational argument, and I see it a lot, but it does not probe deep enough. GPT-3 use cases "fall apart at the lightest real world case" because our expectations are wrong. For the vast majority of computing history, compu
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by peterlk 5y ago
I'm not quite sure I follow your question, but I have to keep rediscovering that min-maxing life is not a great strategy. Trying to squeeze every bit of advantage out of what I read, how i work, where I travel, etc. is not the optimal
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by peterlk 5y ago
> For me it's too much of a coincidence that the two most generally intelligent systems (ANNs and BNNs) are both "linear networks of activation functions". I am unconvinced that "linear network" appropriately def
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by peterlk 5y ago
This is not wrong, but also not entirely right. There is a model called T0pp (T0 plus plus) which was fine tuned on simple logic problems, and it is capable of solving novel logic problems. This implies to me that there is more here than we
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by peterlk 5y ago
This is why we've built security policies at Mantium. You can run the input and output through an offensive speech detector, and halt replies the prompt if "badness" is detected. This is, of course, an imperfect system becaus
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by peterlk 5y ago
UPDATE: These got a fair amount of traction, and I removed them out of an abundance of caution around deployment regulations that OpenAI enforces. Also cost considerations. I don't want to hijack the thread away from OpenAI, but you ca

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