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by rsanek 3y ago
most student loans in the US have very low required minimum payments. that's part of why these loans can stick around for decades.
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by rsanek 3y ago
I'm not sure this is necessarily the case, especially considering techniques like RLHF that can improve a model's performance.
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by rsanek 3y ago
The timing is surprising if this was the main motivation. Rates have been flat for nearly a half year and are projected to come down later in 2024 -- https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch...
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by rsanek 3y ago
"processed" is a term that exists on a spectrum, it's rare to find any food item outside of vegetables or nuts that is truly "unprocessed." In general, meat and dairy are not considered heavily processed. Most sourc
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by rsanek 3y ago
Important to note there's a big difference in leeching between hot and cold items being put into contact with plastics.
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by rsanek 3y ago
Looks like they do use affiliate links though, which means they have an incentive to recommend items sold on sites that will give them higher affiliate commissions.
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by rsanek 3y ago
The submission title is inaccurate, as per article > sales of EVs keep going up — a record 300,000 cars sold in the US in the third quarter of 2023 were electric
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by rsanek 3y ago
They have an email right? Many services automatically detect suspicious logins and asks for additional verification even if the user hasn't specifically turned on MFA.
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by rsanek 3y ago
> Academics seem to be pretty skeptical of using any sort of flashcarding to learn vocabulary ... the empirical evidence doesn't actually seem to support it What does this refer to? Generally I've referenced the Improving Stud
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by rsanek 3y ago
https://librivox.org/
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by rsanek 3y ago
I think Twitter provides a case study here. The site is still working fine despite being staffed by only 20% of the employees it had just over a year ago.
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by rsanek 3y ago
I don't mean to come off as aggressive but shouldn't you have enough savings not to care about this? Generally specialized skillsets mean high enough pay to have a significant portion that is discretionary savings / spending.
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by rsanek 3y ago
This might have to do with scale. At my employer (~7k employees) we started down this path a few years ago as well, and while it has taken longer for remote to be better than local, it now definitively is and has unlocked all kinds of other
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by rsanek 3y ago
this hasn't been my experience. streaming sites tend to rank much lower than IMDb, RT, Wikipedia, etc. If you already intend to pirate, wouldn't any non-pirate site be irrelevant?
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by rsanek 3y ago
do you have a reference to how this might be accomplished? how do you avoid high read / write latencies if you put everything into a single table / key-value pair per user?
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by rsanek 3y ago
You could ask the same thing -- why does everyone use WhatsApp?
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by rsanek 3y ago
this might be a discoverability problem. my wiki readers went way up when I linked to it from code as well as relevant internal admin surfaces.
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by rsanek 3y ago
I don't think that we should dogmatically stick to one specific definition for such a generic term like "disruptive technology," especially considering that's not even the first usage of the term -- https://en
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by rsanek 3y ago
Looks very cool. Happy to see some innovation in a space where I feel some people are oddly resistant to change (as we see in a few cases in this thread). The concept of workspaces makes alot of sense to me, and I love the UI for "you&
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by rsanek 3y ago
i feel like this is a pretty hard thing to assess without access to internal metrics
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by rsanek 3y ago
In the latest version, Anki has started experimenting with a new algorithm to replace SM-2, called FSRS. More info in the manual https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#fsrs
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by rsanek 3y ago
> recognizing musical instruments or musical pieces by listening I've been wanting to create such a deck for myself. Do you have a reference to what source material you used / a shared deck?
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by rsanek 3y ago
So the claim is that it's impossible because it's too expensive energy wise? Kind of an insane take, how would this be different than claiming renewables aren't a solution 50 years ago because they're too expensive? Thin
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by rsanek 3y ago
my guess is that it's so high, it would change the scale so much and dwarf all the other data
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by rsanek 3y ago
It sounds like he did stick to his guns though right? He still gets to do whatever he wants with the people he picked.
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by rsanek 3y ago
People are reading way too much into this, some people just prefer the look of all-lowercase. It's not like this is some super-unique choice to Sam / OAI, it's all over the internet.
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by rsanek 3y ago
http://paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
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by rsanek 3y ago
> Last I heard Apple was at 100% compliance Do you have a source for this? At other tech companies I'm aware of, the numbers are still much lower than 100%, even after threats of performance impact.
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by rsanek 3y ago
Looks like double to triple of what the same level at MSFT fetches https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Microsoft,OpenAI&track=Softw...
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by rsanek 3y ago
The length of paid leave is at the discretion of the company, of course.

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