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by ren_engineer 3y ago
universities have gone from having the goal of actually educating to giving credentials in return for a lot of money
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
In the US socialism/communism got tied to the state atheism of the Soviets and China which is why there is the political divide
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
just increase the tax credit for kids, even make it progressive so you get bigger tax credits for more kids so higher income families have more reason to have more kids. The welfare cliff as it currently stands will doom our country, in my
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
what's old is new, even NYC where the war against phonics was started has given up on it. I guess having Mississippi and Alabama score better than them was the final straw https://thehill.com/homenews/education&#x2
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
Snowflake and most other cloud services offer on-prem for these use cases, so it really doesn't make sense for them to roll their own data centers because it would be pretty niche. Cloud works for startups because they are there alread
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
posted a comment with context a little bit ago, seems pretty relevant to HN with regards to discussions on data privacy, tech, crypto, etc.
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
made possible through their national digital ID connected to government services, relevant because the US wants to roll this out to other countries - https://www.usaid.gov/diiaindc while you can make the case this is a valu
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Ukraine bill allows seizing assets and bank accounts freezes for draft dodgers(reuters.com)
9 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|5 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
that's kind of the point, you want to eliminate companies just doing labor cost arbitrage rather than hiring globally because they actually need a unique talent they can't find in the US. If that's the case, they will happily
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>Where is the checkpoint for taxing foreign remote employees? company payroll/tax reporting I'd assume. If payments are going to a worker in a foreign country, throw an additional tax on it to make it so there's no cost sa
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>I'll tell you that I'm getting overseas talent for roles where 10 years ago I would have hired entry level talent in the US the US is going to once again cripple one of their critical industries for short term gains, what happ
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
Eugenics was hot among progressive academics in those days, the founder of Planned Parenthood was one and so was the guy whose statistical methods are still the basis for all modern research back then being against eugenics meant you were a
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
it's just the classic: >person in tech spends 5 minutes looking into a subject and thinks they know more than the collective knowledge of every person in the industry
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
it's not about trust, they will always be indirectly controlled by the US government who could force them to leak/release your data. OpenAI is already working with the US military and removed their restrictions on allowing their A
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
The SAT was based on IQ tests used during WWI to try and find draftees with the most potential who shouldn't be wasted in the trenches. Standardized tests have always been about making things as fair as possible, and the fact that payi
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
I'm not sure I'd use GRRM to support anything regarding writing productivity
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Saudi Arabia Joins BRICS(bloomberg.com)
19 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|3 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
>people want to live in cities no, a ton of jobs outside the cities got outsourced or automated, leaving people with no choice. The number of people who left cities when remote work gave them the chance should make that obvious
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
really comes down to strong ideology of any kind that rejects or censors other opinions that go against their ideology. The Soviets rejected Mendelian genetics and modern agriculture because it came from a monk and went against communist id
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
the impact of violence vs other causes of death is similar, 9/11 killed 3K people and we went to war for 20 years and spent trillions as a result. Meanwhile 100K Americans died from opioids last year and the government does nothing
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
I'd say the main issue is why does it take ingesting the entire collective knowledge of humanity for LLMs to work if they are actually reasoning and understand things from first principles? Humans don't require that volume of trai
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How to train your own fine-tuned text embedding model(zilliz.com)
6 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|0 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
all the best teachers I had in public school were people who got into teaching after having an actual career because they had actually lived in the real world. Most of the "teaching" is just stuff mandated by the government and ta
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
makes a lot of sense in the Southwest where the land can't be used productively for much else. They should create some programs to incentivize some of the farmers in California and other states to put up solar on their land so they sto
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
should be noted this research was done at the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, which means researchers were messing around with this virus in a non BSL-4 lab. Pretty much every expert opinion I've seen online says this resear
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Research finds Covid variant with 100% mortality in ACE2-transgenic mice(biorxiv.org)
33 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|8 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
cheaper when not including externalities(losing critical manufacturing capabilities), which is why a proper government would take action. But the problem is our government is heavily lobbied to not protect critical industries in the name of
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US Secretary of State stuck in Davos after Boeing 737 breakdown(bloomberg.com)
36 points by ren_engineer 3y ago|14 comments
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
going to get an MBA without having your job pay for it or any legit plan is itself a red flag to me in terms of the quality of a candidate. Why would you hire somebody who spent 100-200k(and even more money in salary opportunity cost) for a
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by ren_engineer 3y ago
how else would you get private or recent data into an LLM without some form of RAG? The only aspect that might not be needed is the vector database

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