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by sdenton4 1y ago
Every generation gets the stupidest politics the world has ever seen... So far.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
The supereme court seems quite happy to do whatever the president wants through the one-two punch of fake emergency declarations and shadow docket decisions...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Ever seen Office Space?
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by sdenton4 1y ago
....or we can just say that everything is optional always, and leave it to the servers instead of the protocol to handle irregularities.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Hm, that's idealistic... I've certainly run into cases where small changes in general systems led to hard-to-detect bugs, which took a great deal of investigation to figure out. Not all failures are catastrophic. The technology is
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by sdenton4 1y ago
That's a nice idea... But I believe the design direction of proto buffers was to make everything `optional`, because `required` tends to bite you later when you realize it should actually be optional.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
These are perfectly consistent with what I'm saying. There is a market for labor, and if what you're selling is your credentials, you're in a flooded commodity market and will have a bad time. Fact one says, yes, the beaten p
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Sorry you feel insulted. Lemme try to put it another way, because I am suggesting a different way to think about the idea of work, which /also/ was not the dominant way of thinking about things when I was a student. The notion tha
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Pretty much all of the good stuff I've done in my life have resulted from going off the beaten path. AP courses and SAT scores are the core of the beaten path, so everyone is competing for the same stuff. But the world is big, actually
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by sdenton4 1y ago
This is great, and very relevant to some problems I've been looking around on white boards lately. Exceptionally well timed.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
It's not, though... In sparse coding, you're generally using an over-complete set of vectors which decompose the data into sparse activations. So, if you have a dataset of hundred dimensional vectors, you want to find a set of vec
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by sdenton4 1y ago
I get the sense that they're not using it only as a reader, but as a general smartphone replacement, where for the most part the reduced capability set rhymes with better living.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
...and cover your tracks by making Gemini the only supported agent...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
...Or full driverless mode in Tesla cars. That also works in theory - waymo is doing fine - but the Tesla execution has been hampered for years by musk's misguided idea that only camera should be necessary. Likewise, I only expect star
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Are you sure you are human?
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by sdenton4 1y ago
The only reason starship hasn't involved human sacrifice thus far is that they haven't put humans in it. It remains to be seen whether the engineers will manage to make something usable from musk's 'Cybertruck - space ed
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Why not add a Math.randint? I imagine there's some deep ideological war over whether to add more programming functionality to css...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Too bad about all those chumps designing better, faster architectures and kernels to make models run faster...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Yeah, the funny thing about the water claims is that there's a pretty simple technological fix: closed loop exists, and seems to be simply the better choice going forward as new DCs are built (excepting of course things like musk'
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Jeebus, 'safely' is carrying a hell of a lot of water there...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
...Well, the article compares GPUs to tpus, made by a competitor you probably know the name of...
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by sdenton4 1y ago
It's wishful thinking. Neutral networks need to be over parameterized to find good solutions, meaning there is a surface of solutions. The optimization procedure tries to walk towards that surface as quickly as possible, and tend to fi
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by sdenton4 1y ago
It'll last until you lose interest or die. Shrug emoji.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
My game of the year had been UFO 50, which simultaneously distills 80s console and early-aughts Flash game jam ethos. Incredibly inventive takes on a very wide range of game genres; an absolute masterpiece of game design.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
"entirely philosophical" I don't think this means what you think it means... Philosophers (at least up to Wittgenstein) love constructing and arguing about definitions.
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by sdenton4 1y ago
It depends, actually... The data and train time requirements seen to increase exponentially for linear gains in performance. As a result, you can often trade a 10x reduction in training time to get a model with 90+% of the real deal. And as
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by sdenton4 1y ago
"the reasoning often doesn’t line up with the conclusion, or the priors, or reality." My dude, have you ever interacted with human reasoning?
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Applying opportunity cost to students is a bit strange... People need to take time to get good at /something/. It's probably best to work with the systems we have and find the edge where things get hard, and then explore from
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by sdenton4 1y ago
Ah, but coming hot on their heels are the embracions and extingushions!
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by sdenton4 1y ago
I believe it's in Tales of Neveryon, 'the tale of old venn.' The whole series is extremely incentive and goes on some very different directions... The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals in 'Flight from Neveryon' was also

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