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by richardw 3y ago
Those are beliefs, not bases for guarantee. You need to engineer in the guarantee and the only people beginning to do that are the ones being accused of believing ridiculous things. Intuition from previous events isn’t useful because those
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by richardw 3y ago
The AI can run an A/B test, no? It doesn't need to predict perfectly, it needs a goal and the ability to test and measure, and adapt as things change. Generative AI creating text/audio/video with a goal and a testing&#x2
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by richardw 3y ago
They don't have to perfectly predict the future, they just have to run faster than we do, unconstrained by a brain that needs to fit in a birth canal or neurons that need chemicals. We had a natural limit to intelligence, for anything
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by richardw 3y ago
I think the two sides have such different perspectives. Some are optimistic builders and see only opportunity. Others are "safety oriented engineers" whose job and mindset is to build guarantees into systems, or secure countries f
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by richardw 3y ago
I’d guess the intersection of both tech has low training content so it starts dreaming. If you break up the question into “AppleTV API” (or whatever the primary terms are), then use that context for C# it might work better? Isolate the Appl
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by richardw 3y ago
I have premium and asked now. Got Jan 22 for training data. Might be different regions rolling out.
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by richardw 3y ago
So if someone includes images in their project they need to tell you every brush stroke that led to the final image? All sorts of intangibles end up in open source projects. This isn’t a science experiment that needs replication. They’re no
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by richardw 3y ago
I think where it helps with scaling is that they’re very involved in all the pain points. None are hidden by client silence. Then they can build this learning into the product. Simplify, fix UI, add, remove. That digs you out of the daily e
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by richardw 3y ago
To grow the cow you need to have it murder a lot of grass over its lifetime. The grass suffering is endless. So eat one plant to save the suffering of many more. Wait, what are we optimising for here?
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by richardw 3y ago
Herman Miller Embody, had it for over the 12 year warranty and it’s still going strong. Got another for work and my wife has used it since WFH. It’s super comfortable. I do need to wash the red fabric. Black one is still perfect. I used a c
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by richardw 3y ago
It doesn't take long to charge, so you can top up before bed. When I've forgotten to take mine off it usually lasts all night anyway. One exception: exercise hammers the battery. It'll work but it's not as good as my Gar
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by richardw 3y ago
Nice idea. Might not need multiple pics given Google’s image dataset and ability to recognise what you’re looking at. Give that a couple generations. “You were at location X and didn’t take a pic. We generated you some selfies, choose one t
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Improving li-ion cells by replacing polyethylene terephthalate jellyroll tape(nature.com)
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by richardw 3y ago
I once added a speedometer for production rate compared to avg over previous X weeks, as a widget demo. It ended up on every exec’s dashboard and on a big screen. I’m not sure what they were trying to manage, but it was purdy and looked das
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by richardw 3y ago
I've moved from a paid-off house in South Africa to Sydney, where most things are so ludicrously expensive that I've reset my finances back 20 years. Worth it for my kid, but man there is no retirement in my near future!
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by richardw 3y ago
Spend some time around Rob’s universe: https://robwalling.com/ There are a lot of people like you. You don’t need to move and you don’t need to hire anyone unless you want to. You need product market fit and the ability to
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by richardw 3y ago
I assume you have no bad habits? Can you instantly get back to sleep? You never snap at anyone? Diet is 100% what you want it to be? Exercise on time daily? Read HN only as much as you know it benefits you? Marine you’re the 0.0001% who has
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by richardw 3y ago
The worry is that in your analogy, we’re the SLR. ChatGPT is a 1MP digital camera.
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by richardw 3y ago
…except when the uncle is your brother.
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by richardw 3y ago
Keen to try it. I would worry that over time, poor people wouldn’t get access as they do with ad-supported services. Maybe search credit donations could be pooled somehow, so I could do $5 for me, $2.50 for students/emerging economies.
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by richardw 3y ago
You need to inherit to create anything that is a class. But the focus is on composition. You inherit from useful classes so you can build the solution using composition. I don’t like modern Java because there’s too much non-Java magic code.
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by richardw 3y ago
Patio11 has some excellent old articles on working with very little time available. Can’t help you with leetcode but can with side projects: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/03/20/running-a-software-busi... ht
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by richardw 3y ago
Australia is in the same boat. I think this is a similar graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/QAUR628BIS This place is wild for property. It’s a mania and I feel the country has reinvented the landed gentry of the
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by richardw 3y ago
Two things can be true at the same time: 1 only one person can own all variations 2 that person can choose to have all other variations except the selected one, blocked. Make it a checkbox. Done.
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by richardw 3y ago
No, I want all mail that doesn’t use the email address I chose, which is “fred.flintstone@gmail” to be blocked as it would be on any other mail platform. I want gmail to act like any other mail provider, no dot innovation because I don’t wa
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by richardw 3y ago
If they forgot a dot and received a "no such mailbox", they'd check and fix it. Some data, sans opinion: I checked my trash this morning after clearing it out. Total messages in trash: 47. Trashed messages linked to the &qu
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by richardw 3y ago
Firstly, thank you for engaging on it. The problems: 1) people who are sending important emails are ending up with the wrong person and they don’t know. Fixing that takes effort on my part, I have to tell individuals or a group mail I’m the
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by richardw 3y ago
I did, here. Was it not enough info? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37339688 Rewritten: For various reasons, people mistype emails and they usually end up with a no-dotted address. Mine, as the catch-all, gets that ma
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by richardw 3y ago
Yup, downside is people who have had others make mistakes, never see their mail.
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by richardw 3y ago
Please look at my example up thread. It’s the combination of mistakes amplified by the dots. The dots make it worse by far. I just searched for my name with no dots in my gmail. Man. It’s a dumpster fire. I have to put up with hundreds and

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