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811.
by ska 3y ago
It’s not the first time we’ve been here , either, with AI although t this time it’s a bit more in the public , ie retail sphere. There are people who will confidently tell you that LLM are the next transistor level invention, and people wh
812.
by ska 3y ago
Do Nintendo keep their teams together longer? You usually can’t get a great engineering team by throwing a bunch of good engineers together, it takes time and work. I don’t know much about the game industry but from what little I have heard
813.
by ska 3y ago
Huh, interesting. I think I recall running into that one also, but not consistently. The mis-match with GP usage are deeper than re-gendering the name though. Seems to me Mary Sue/Gary Stu is fundamentally about projection/wish
814.
by ska 3y ago
> Tangential, but man time zones are just really hard That can be expanded. Time and dates is just fundamentally hard.
815.
by ska 3y ago
"A novel about an old guy fishing would be a surefire hit"
816.
by ska 3y ago
> That's an excellent summary. I’m not so sure. The summary captures some of the "facts" in the story, but not what it is actually about. Surely a summary should do that? You point out some of what’s missing, but there
817.
by ska 3y ago
I think this is an idiosyncratic use of the trope “Mary Sue”, which isn’t really gendered, or wasn’t originally. Unless the usage has drifted a lot more that I’m aware of?
818.
by ska 3y ago
>without much risk for a while. > There was some technical risk, but These statements are a bit at odds. "But it never actually occurred" is a statement of chance, not risk. I also suspect you are downplaying significant
819.
by ska 3y ago
There doesn't even have to be a scammer involved. (Although is also clearly true that the entire ecosystem is a magnet for scammers) Any of these schemes had to involve a much higher risk than conventional investing. You can wave you
820.
by ska 3y ago
These sets of transforms are known as iterated function systems (IFS), and the algorithm dubbed "the chaos game" by Barnsley. If I recall correctly the algorithm actually distributes uniformly over a probability measure supported
821.
by ska 3y ago
> "The fern leaf thus develops from the inside out and not by randomly dispersed dots that gradually fill the leaf area, as is done with chaos computer programs." That one is kind of silly, because while the chaos game is one
822.
by ska 3y ago
> maybe I'm missing something I think you are. At the very least, you can clearly break a piece off a floret to resemble a scaled version of the whole head.
823.
by ska 3y ago
fair, but I was considering that part of "decent" in "decent idea".
824.
by ska 3y ago
A decent idea and great execution is often enough.
825.
by ska 3y ago
In my experience newcomers and junior engineers don't get better by writing more bad code. They learn mostly by 3 methods. 1) finding flaws in their code the hard way (slow) 2) getting careful feedback from more experienced people
826.
by ska 3y ago
Not really. Ideas have always been cheap. They occur to everyone. Most of them aren't great, let alone good. But good ideas, even great ones, rarely mean much on their own. It's always been execution.
827.
by ska 3y ago
There is an old quote about this, I’m too lazy to find at the moment (from the 80s or 90s?). Gist was that we call the new thing AI until we really understand it, then we start calling it machine learning. Lather, rinse, repeat.
828.
by ska 4y ago
Ah, missed that somehow, thanks. It doesn't capture the main point of my comment though, which is most of the time, the young turks are also wrong :)
829.
by ska 4y ago
This is true, but misses the important part that they (the older set) are often correct. For every new idea that really changes everything there are a huge number that die on the vine or just become a ho-hum tool in a big toolbox. Most ne
830.
by ska 4y ago
That doesn't really follow from the linked research (which is interesting, though).
831.
by ska 4y ago
> The fear is from people who can extrapolate. This isn't really true. There isn't consensus among people who have the history and background, but the "it's going to change everything" and especially "we&#x
832.
by ska 4y ago
There is some good evidence that children whose first language is tonal (e.g. chinese) develop perfect pitch at much higher rates than those whose is not (e.g. english). This strongly suggests that at least if you catch it at the right d
833.
by ska 4y ago
I think it's been true for a long time that most of the spam doesn't hit your spam folder either, so this is not the signal you suggest. It could mean more false positives at a lower layer though.
834.
by ska 4y ago
After seed round anyway, a red flag was a combination of the technical hand waving and having the wrong sort of board for the product. In earliest decks you can only really look at the team anyway. I'm not sure you could reliably dis
835.
by ska 4y ago
> gmail is fairly good at blocking it This has been getting consistently worse over the last few years, in my experience. At least on the user end, i.e. far more false negatives getting through.
836.
by ska 4y ago
Part of the parents point is that is isn’t true in general. The overall efficiency isn’t much better , so service level basically comes down to how you chop up available bandwidth. So if you happen to live somewhere with oversubscribed LTE
837.
by ska 4y ago
Typically as a company you can choose your fiscal year, it does not need to align with the calendar year.
838.
by ska 4y ago
> IKEA has always fallen apart when y Some of it has. Not everything they offer is particle board, etc. though.
839.
by ska 4y ago
I think OP's contention was that in Swedish these are not diacritical marks, but different letters.
840.
by ska 4y ago
Yes, they are. Sometimes the lines become problematic. A famous example is Apple Computer and Apple Corps (the Beatles music holding company) with a long history of arguing about lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ap

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