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by ramraj07 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder, people say they don’t like crowds but are still not living in the wilderness and I feel that maybe many of the people claiming to feel so different are not being sincere.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
I mean at some point do People stop and think, “maybe not everyone thinks like me?” Some people like crowds. Crowds are fun. Parties are fun. Food is fun. Community is fun. Or not. It’s great we have freedom to choose.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
I said it’s something even a corrupt country was able to do that is universally loved and accepted. The fact that the US isn’t able to do it suggests it’s in someways far more corrupt than even India.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Nationalize a universal payment interface like india did. India, a very corrupt, bureaucratic place with billions of people did it. There’s no excuse but lobbying. Credit card rewards are evil. They incentivize crafty behavior to secure mil
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by ramraj07 3y ago
No tts tho. I’d rather have a conversation.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
I love my iPhone but god damn does apple suck at a number of things. It’s 2023, and they have a terabyte of storage but they won’t store more than 100 numbers in your call history. Like what.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Let me see, endless entertainment plus education vs another documentary glorifying a serial killer or the lost continent of Atlantis?
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Or maybe consider this is a somewhat necessary evil for the service provided (free HD streaming of infinite amounts of video that also rewards creators in the most sustainable fashion for any social media platform). Bandwidth, storage and m
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by ramraj07 3y ago
It is absolutely true (I use these models on other languages regularly) and is also clearly explained elsewhere here as an artifact of the tokenizer optimizing for the English heavy training corpus.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
I’ve tried using chatgpt on Tamil and it’s firstly hella slow and secondly can’t do much with it beyond a few hundred words. I figured it’s considering each letter in the sentence as a token, but originality and inventiveness wise it wasn’t
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Check out the asianometry YouTube channel.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Imagine being supposedly at the forefront of AI or engineering and being the last people (if ever) to concede simple concepts could materialize complex intelligence. Even the publicly released version of this thing is doing insane tasks, pa
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by ramraj07 3y ago
That's what they try to do in Expanse anyway. Build a generational ship to try and jet out to their own system light years away.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Standing can be detrimental too if you do it all day: > But that doesn’t mean you should stand all day, either. “Repeated, long-term exposure to standing also has been implicated in the development of serious health problems,” Chambers t
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by ramraj07 3y ago
So ever since lockdown I've pretty much spend like 18 hours a day on my bed: I sleep there and I do most of my work fromnthere, including meetings, debugging and mild coding. I only get up to eat and work out and if I'm typing a l
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by ramraj07 3y ago
They won a Pulitzer for using innovative and thorough journalistic ideas to shine light on the Chinese concentration camps.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Yeah HN is weirdly still amazing at filtering the good stuff. I have submitted things here only when I truly felt it added value and I had something to say, and never bothered to think about anything to optimize. Yet I actually got at least
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Are you saying Hyundai and Kia did this so the car is more easily modifiable? Are they known for making more repairable cars? Are they framework laptop of the car world? Or merely cheap carmakers who found the wrong corner to cut and save c
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Not alone; hard to follow, gave up half way even though I'd have preferred to know the end.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
I could publish an article saying Elon Musk is going to die. It's incontrovertible, and likely the only fact you can say about his death, given in fact that he's not yet dead and going insofar as to agree that all people will die
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by ramraj07 3y ago
I did make the SV (especially YC) VC funding distinction. Biotech has long been funded by VC money and while not perfect it worked better than what is happening now. I was particularly a fan of 3rd Rock ventures, their investments all follo
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Yes but spacex didn’t promise anything physicists said is impossible. Engineers saying impossible is different from physicists saying it. The equivalent would be if spacex said something that violated the rocket equation. They didn’t. And a
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by ramraj07 3y ago
It doesn’t seem to be improving through Silicon Valley VC money though. Name one SV funded biotech startup. Ginkgo is cool though.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
You can be optimistic when you’re just making an app to rent your room out or to find a dog walker. You can hustle and sell useless SaaS services long enough to get acquired for no real reason except managerial power plays in large companie
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by ramraj07 3y ago
I mean I won’t put MY money in to Helion. From whatever I’ve read it’s not that simple for Helion to get their reactor to work and even if they did it likely won’t produce meaningful net power. But let’s see.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
To some extent Florida did? And India too, after “winning” the first wave. As far as I can tell both paid a heavy price. Again with all the nuances of the introduction of delta, no vaccine availability etc.
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Did natural immunity work though? Pretty much every active American I know has gotten Covid not once but twice at the least. Of course even in that statement the nuance of what strains etc was lost. I’ll actually agree that by the time vacc
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Please read my post then. I explicitly said it’s not clear what level of lockdowns were the most effective. Further reading about swedens performance as a retrospective: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/30/opin
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by ramraj07 3y ago
The deaths were predominantly in the older population. I doubt the warship doubled as a retirement home. The death rates changed significantly with each strain and the bulk of the casualties happened with Delta. There was disproportionate d
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by ramraj07 3y ago
Thanks! I’ve been experimenting with this open model of blog hosting without extra charges and using some other commenting plugin - I create a new post by creating an issue (which triggers a PR and a quick Netlify deploy of the post for pre

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