sk11001

10 ms·

91.
by sk11001 2y ago
> Let's say analysing customes paperwork to schedule some shipments from overseas and it fails to let a shipment in because it misclassified or worse, lets it it but being it on the shores under certain conditions leads to heavy fin
92.
by sk11001 2y ago
I have limited time and need to careful about how I spend it. If I need to prepare for an interview, I'll solve interview problems. I don't need to be able to come up with original solutions which took exceptionally smart people a
93.
by sk11001 2y ago
Overpopulation is not a problem. Global population will peak in the second half of this century and then decrease. In many countries it's already decreasing quite rapidly.
94.
by sk11001 2y ago
It's the top search engine by a large margin and generates tens of billions of revenue. You can't declare something dead just because you notice a decline in it.
95.
by sk11001 2y ago
> but IMO this is a bearish signal for Apple--they're sitting on a ton of cash and can't catch up to OpenAI? Nobody has caught up to OpenAI, it's absurd to expect Apple to have done it simply because they have the cash.
96.
by sk11001 2y ago
But they're doing it voluntarily. optional 4-day week with lower pay for the employees that want it = ok employer-enforced 4-day week with pay equivalent to current 5-day week = ok employer-enforced 4-day week with lower pay = not ok
97.
by sk11001 2y ago
> Seems you think that a 4 day work week is paid as 5 is currently. It should be. Most people won't accept less pay even if it comes with reduced hours.
98.
by sk11001 2y ago
Let's say that you eat n calories of junk food every day (maybe that's all you eat or a part of your diet). Replace those with n calories of healthy foods. Great - you've probably made a good change for your health long term.
99.
by sk11001 2y ago
Technically correct about the balance, but practically people overestimate the amount you can burn with extra activity. The main reason to exercise while losing weight is that if you do resistance training, you preserve more of your muscle
100.
by sk11001 2y ago
The main mechanism is [eat less] --> [lose weight]. Some people find it difficult to eat less, hence the drugs to suppress appetite.
101.
by sk11001 2y ago
And if you ever have to choose between the two, you can choose what you value more. But I disagree with the premise that they're mutually exclusive. For the most part your career and financial success is orthogonal to your personal rel
102.
by sk11001 2y ago
I don't see the quackery, man liked smoking so he kept smoking. I think you're assuming some stronger claim about smoking or genetics which nobody has made.
103.
by sk11001 2y ago
Not being able to block posts or comments by some users.
104.
by sk11001 2y ago
> Everything is hallucinated, some word combinations coincide with reality but that’s a random occurrence. This isn't accurate, these models are trained and tuned to be correct, it's not a random occurrence.
105.
by sk11001 2y ago
> Really like it but if you follow the tutorial 1:1 you'll most likely get frustrated I went through it and hated it. It's very tedious and I felt like I learned nothing from following along.
106.
by sk11001 2y ago
Zero2prod doesn't really teach Rust, it's more about setting up an API for people who already know Rust.
107.
by sk11001 2y ago
> I don't even think Google Search is a critical portion of AdSense revenue at this point. This is wrong. But it explains why you think that Google are crushing it if you have no idea about the company.
108.
by sk11001 2y ago
OpenAI are smaller and more focused. Google don’t have good vision and anything new they do has to be checked against their existing products (how will this impact search, advertising, Google Assistant). OpenAI don’t have the same baggage,
109.
by sk11001 2y ago
You need to think about OpenAI specifically - Ilya basically attempted a coup last year and failed, stayed in the company for months afterwards, according to rumours had limited contributions to the breakthroughs in research and was assigne
110.
by sk11001 2y ago
This might not be bad from the perspective of the remaining employees, it might be that the annoying people are leaving the room.
111.
by sk11001 2y ago
> They have the next iteration of GPT Sutskever helped to finalize How do you know that they have the next GPT? How do you know what Sutskever contributed? (There was talk that the most valuable contributions came from the less well know
112.
by sk11001 2y ago
> This whole movement of simply increasing compute or throwing in more data to hopefully attain AI results is just a dead end. There's no way for you or for anyone else to know that it's a dead end. Also, it's not "si
113.
by sk11001 2y ago
Tech layoffs happened the most where tech job were the most, it's not about moving from California to Texas like the chart headline suggests.
114.
by sk11001 2y ago
> a large number of good software developers treat their profession as an engineering discipline and have earned the title of "Engineer" It's just a word, this one is on you for thinking the word is special. And I don&#x27
115.
by sk11001 2y ago
I think too many people confuse the base model (which can be called a next token predictor) with the fine-tuned chat model which is specifically modified to carry a conversation, be helpful and be as factually correct as possible.
116.
by sk11001 2y ago
The point is to build things that are useful, not to attempt to replicate science fiction literature.
117.
by sk11001 2y ago
Reddit will be 19 years old next month, it’s not flavor of the month.
118.
by sk11001 2y ago
> These days, everybody is talking about Devin and its threats to developers. If by these days you mean the two days after it came out several weeks ago, and by everyone you mean a handful of people on social media, sure.
119.
by sk11001 2y ago
Tokenization. The tokens ChatGPT uses are longer than a single character. You're asking it to play the piano wearing oven mitts.
120.
by sk11001 2y ago
Obama pretending to drink from a glass of water by barely touching it to his lips and saying "this is not a stunt" is easily his lowest point as president.

More ›