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by sgillen 2y ago
If you think there is a business opportunity do it, but what is the opportunity? how do you make money if you are open source and not selling hardware? I think it's a ton of work to actually make something like this that's reliabl
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by sgillen 2y ago
I think people associate “using alcohol therapeutically” with “being dependent on alcohol” which in their experience usually means that person has a huge problem. Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/cripplingalcohol
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by sgillen 2y ago
To be fair the pill actually makes people eat less.
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by sgillen 2y ago
This feels like a marketing move to me, claim your model is so powerful that it’s dangerous, and people will be more interested in using it.
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by sgillen 2y ago
Honestly to me it sounds like you should read the book “how to win friends and influence people”, if you haven’t already. I suspect a lot of the feedback you are getting is not because you only talk about technical topics but because you ne
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by sgillen 3y ago
I like to joke that to make python fast you need to avoid using python. A ton of python stuff is C/C++ or Fortran wrapped in python, numpy, pandas, pytorch etc is what I have experience with but this applies in all domains. A huge part
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by sgillen 3y ago
I agree with this advice, but though I would not overly focus on what skills make a good career, but a little bit of thought was good for me. I chose robotics over a PhD in physics and I'm really glad I did. Physics has a lot of really
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by sgillen 3y ago
What makes you think GPU compute is acting like a commodity right now? AMD has comparable hardware but nowhere near the same margins or demand for their chips.
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by sgillen 3y ago
I mean apps can facilitate actual human contact though, common advice I see is to transition from text to a low stakes in person meet up as soon as possible.
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by sgillen 3y ago
Yes, I have a PhD in a mathy STEM field despite also not being that good at algebraic manipulation. Mathematica is much better at that than I am, I used a lot for my course work and research. Recommend you get a free student copy and just t
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by sgillen 3y ago
Floating point math is not associative, (x+y)+z != x+(y+z). Most of the time the difference is small, but in some cases not (I.E. x = 1e30, y = -1e30 and z = 1, it is 1 in the former case, 0 in the latter). Modern compilers will reorder ope
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by sgillen 3y ago
I clean my dishes because I like having a clean / neat household, "I am the kind of person who keeps my space in order". I find that helps!
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by sgillen 3y ago
Maybe it was put there by aliens from the future to punish earth for their sins? Sounds familiar somehow.
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by sgillen 3y ago
Just curious what do you think is bad about the user side experience of chatgpt? It seems pretty slick to me and I use it most days.
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by sgillen 3y ago
That article shows that it takes about 50x as long to train gpt-3 with intel's offering vs Nvidia. At least in the current environment, if you are training llms I think almost no amount of cost savings can justify that.
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by sgillen 3y ago
IMO co pilot has been great for writing boilerplate code much faster. But GPT4 has saved me much more time, it’s much better at generating code, debugging problems, bouncing ideas off of etc.
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by sgillen 3y ago
How did you manage to do this? This is a goal of mine. I’m curious how the pay and stress compares to faang, and what your niche is.
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by sgillen 3y ago
I’m not sure the distinction between fun friends and mutual interest friends makes sense to me. “Fun friends are noisy, carousing, extroverts; mutual-interest friends are generally rather quiet and sedentary.” It seems to me like from the
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by sgillen 3y ago
Personally it does make it hard to go back, even for non gaming use cases!
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by sgillen 3y ago
Hilbert almost beat Einstein to the punch though!
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by sgillen 3y ago
I went ahead and read the accident reports, just because I was curious. In one case the AV was stopped at a red light when it was rear ended. In the second case AV slowed down for a person pushing a shopping cart into the street. In the thi
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by sgillen 3y ago
A lot of the StarCraft guys have already left and formed their own company (frost giant). They are making a quasi spiritual successor to StarCraft called StormGate.
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by sgillen 3y ago
Tegra is best in class afaik for robotics that require any kind acceleration.
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by sgillen 3y ago
I haven’t seen this bias personally, what is the thought process behind it? If they were any good they would just have gotten a job or something?
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by sgillen 3y ago
People definitely use the word “diversify” to include things like real estate or gold, not just stocks in different industries.
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by sgillen 3y ago
People are mad that in a crisis an amount large money was given to executives who are already very well compensated and also not on the front lines, rather than to the frontline workers.
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by sgillen 3y ago
True but there would also be more public pressure to regulate if people knew just how little of their recycling actually gets recycled.
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by sgillen 4y ago
I’m the same way, I “know” bash but I’m not fluent in it, always have to look up how to do very basic things like looping. But for the simple things I need bash for ChatGPT does great as a time saver.
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by sgillen 4y ago
Not convinced that is true, if the universe can be described mathematically then maybe human intelligence can also be written down as some equation on a sufficiently big piece of paper.
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by sgillen 4y ago
Ironic that most people I see or talk to have the reverse problems (myself included).

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