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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
I feel like there's some hidden complexity there. For any finite flat surface there's a point where not all the spaghetti will fit on it simultaneously. So you have to do O(N) compression steps to find the bundle with the long str
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
"Childhood amnesia" its called. Around 3 is usually when people start to be able to remember anything at all, and then 4.5-5 years your memory becomes more normal. I definitely have at least one memory verifiable from before 4, po
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
I would guess that when you are training you are still doing activities that are not as safe as just traveling from point A to B: flying low, pointing the nose at the ground, landing a helicopter in a less than ideal spot (it seems like hal
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
It's usually not that different from just amount * marginal market value, such that its not generally worth worrying about the distinction. The main reasons you can't dump 1 trillion dollars of stock at once is it would be difficu
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
I think it was a pretty common pre-modern (not by any means extinct today) academic view that the arc of history was generally towards the decline of civilizations. Like our ancestors were great and amazing and we're just kindof pale i
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
In particular: *all the knowledge that AI has of nuclear weapons is freely available on the internet*. It's not superhuman, and there's no secret sauce data. If you just study the same PDFs and blog posts it has, you will acquire
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Yeah I'm less sympathetic when you are bothering other humans by spamming them and asking them to do legwork for you.
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Yeah they can probably be almost entirely depreciated within 2-3 years, and pretty substantially front-loaded within that. Like, the expensive part of being a CPU company is making new ones, but Intel can't exactly just rest on their l
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Wow, the parks police, the secret service, and the national guard. They must have consulted with the department of government efficiency on how to cost effectively investigate dead grass.
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
You realize that the library is not like a portal right? It's just a building that happens to be on the invisible line. If you wanted to cross the border you could just travel to any point along the countless miles of uninhabited wilde
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Part of it is just expectations btw. If the value of money is jumping up and down rapidly it is bad for business. Like if I'm going to sell you a 30 year fixed rate mortgage we require an accurate expectation of future inflation for on
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
The dollars going into your account are worth less than before. The ultimate destiny of all money is to be spent on goods/services eventually, and the amount of goods/services your salary can purchase is net (5-3)% less than the y
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Letter dated Feb 28th 2000, NASDAQ would hit the peak of the bubble March 10th.
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Yeah, suppose a self-driving car is say twice as likely to crash as the average human (which could already be considered unfair since that includes like drunk humans and people who should've already lost their license). That means to m
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Even if you limit yourself to the 48 states, it's hard to believe there's 0 counties happy to take you. Just about anywhere terrestrial is cheaper to transport to than riding a giant bottle of explosives at $1500/kg. Politici
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How the Fight Against Ebola Tested a Culture's Traditions (2015)(nationalgeographic.com)
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
I don't think you will achieve much that way. Suppose you pair me with a plumber, an area I know almost nothing about. The plumber is not able to finish anything 'trickier' because they have an ignoramus looking over their sh
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Many times I have seen people's answers to this question be a factor in which projects they are targeted for by the way. Not every question is necessarily a 'filter' per se. That said I think in truth a lot of this genre of q
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
My Intel MBP would noticeably raise the whole room's temperature, while the fans ran so loud. We had some corporate security software that would occasionally go haywire and lock up 100% of a core until you rebooted. If you got that at
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
> Karsnitz dismissed the lawsuit from Delaware’s Superior Court, citing “the principle of one person/entity/one vote.” What? The principle is "one person, one vote". I'd like to cite the principle of "one pe
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Smart home seems to suffer from the old-school AI curse in that it stops getting the name as soon as it works. Roomba, thermostat automation and remote control, casting content between devices, the video door bells, siri (to say nothing of
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Ah, but "who uses the most tokens" is a number, a number generated by a computer no less. Questions like who delivers lots of high quality work require you to do research and make judgements, which is work.
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
While looking into "sewer service" I found an extremely foul supreme court case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotkiske_v._Klemm Knowingly serve somebody at the wrong address, acquire default judgement, statu
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
I always thought it was a perfectly fine service for lookup. Asking a question though required a very specific confluence of circumstances to actually be a useful thing to do, so I only did that like 1-2 times in many years of reading it fr
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by recursivecaveat 5mo ago
How good do you think you are at verbalizing while interviewing? Even if you can't get question X actually finished/correct, you can get a lot of credit by having an easy-to-follow thought process that shows some directional corre
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by recursivecaveat 5mo ago
I think it's as simple as people generally believe that electricity is good for the world, and AI is bad for it. In the former case you're kindof taking-one-for-the-team. Even places that have nasty nasty stuff like tailings ponds
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by recursivecaveat 5mo ago
If it saves time that you would otherwise spend deliberately exercising the comparison can be quite favorable really. +45m of commute but 120m of exercise 'saved'.
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by recursivecaveat 5mo ago
The most common interview types to prepare for are the leetcode, systems design, and behavioural. Sounds like you're already working on the 1st, but at least a little time rehearsing the latter 2 will improve your performance there a l
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by recursivecaveat 5mo ago
This is all premised on his windows user account name being identifying no? I have a hard time believing that to be the case for someone who was clearly extremely painstaking about privacy. Even I set mine to some nonsense because I know I&
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by recursivecaveat 5mo ago
Everything in space is so big, spaceships have to be so fast to get anywhere in a TV-friendly amount of time. I feel like spending an appreciable amount of time inside visual range would be like 2 enemy fighter jets pulling up next to each

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