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by skizm 2y ago
This might sound dumb, and I'm not sure how to phrase this, but is there a way to measure the raw model output quality without all the more "traditional" engineering work (mountain of `if` statements I assume) done on top of
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by skizm 2y ago
I always wonder, how do sites like this get their list of books and book metadata? Do publishers have an API? What about Amazon?
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by skizm 2y ago
Instagram and WhatsApp (pre-acquisition) were both pretty legendary for how small their teams were vs how many users their apps had. Instagram had 13 employees, and WhatsApp had 55 employees at the times of their sales.
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by skizm 2y ago
Could someone make a new company with the sole purpose of buying Chrome, then just sell Google back the same data they were already collecting?
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by skizm 2y ago
Apparently they have totaled ~$1.7B in funding according to Bloomberg: > Lore’s startup also raised $250 million in equity investment, bringing the total amount of capital it’s secured to $1.7 billion
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by skizm 2y ago
Neat idea. I actually optimize the opposite. I want the most 3-day weekends I can have per year, as evenly spaced across the year as possible.
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by skizm 2y ago
Is there anything similar to 8sleep that doesn’t have all the bells and whistles and doesn’t require an app? I don’t care about any of the tracking or alarms or whatever else besides the temp control.
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by skizm 2y ago
As a counter strike player, I definitely shy away from the invasive anti cheat stuff… but I’d let valve inject it into my veins if it meant I could actually play and not suspect everyone of cheating all the time. Mostly because Valve has ea
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by skizm 2y ago
Agreed, but unrelated to if Meta/Zuck are right or successful, thinking of the metaverse as just a VR play is wrong and also underestimates the scope of the project.
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by skizm 2y ago
I think another mistake is people thinking metaverse = VR. Metaverse is a catch all term for the post-smartphone internet. Things like the RayBan glasses, Orion, that EMG wristband they showed at connect, etc. are all part of that.
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by skizm 2y ago
This was insanely cool to watch. And on the first try! As a complete lay person with little to no physics knowledge: what stops the use of something dumb like a parachute, or even wings and landing gear, to "land" the booster? I a
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by skizm 2y ago
Cool, thanks for the info! Definitely feels like they should just tax any asset sales needed to pay debts before the step-up happens, but I’m sure there’s a lot of push back against that idea.
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by skizm 2y ago
So if I take a company public, and now own $10B in shares in a liquid stock (that I paid $0 for), take out a $1B loan, spend it all, and then die. What taxes need to be paid by the estate in that scenario?
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by skizm 2y ago
I was under the impression that the estate has to pay the debts before the assets are disbursed, and the step-up basis occurs, thus collecting all appropriate taxes, just deferred until after death. This reddit post says the opposite is tru
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by skizm 2y ago
My brain has a switch. I either want to try-hard or I want to relax. Try hard mode means I'm playing competitive multiplayer (cs2 is my current poison). Relax mode means I'm playing something single-player and easy. Unfortunately,
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by skizm 2y ago
> Don't think of it as "less optimal" For the purposes of extracting true knowledge (instead of human sounding output) it is directly less optimal if we assume the humans writing the input material are correct most of the
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by skizm 2y ago
General LLM question: a lot of people ask specific knowledge based questions to LLMs. Isn't one of the defining features of modern NPL (and therefore LLMs) that it is designed to be non-deterministic? Meaning that it will intentionally
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by skizm 2y ago
$10B? Closer to $50B now. They're spending about $3-4B per quarter at the moment, and their guidance last earnings call was spending in RL would only tick up in the coming quarters.
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by skizm 2y ago
Yea agree that it exists, but work ethic is one variable in the cost of labor equation.
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by skizm 2y ago
I am not sure framing it as work ethic is right. It is simply the cost of labor. Some people might argue American's are more or less productive the hours they are working, which means just because someone from Taiwan is willing to be o
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by skizm 2y ago
I feel like I've read a few articles on Bloomberg and/or NYT (drawing a blank on the exact source) that a very large portion of the workforce was taken directly from Taiwan and the American workers were having a hard time adopting
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by skizm 2y ago
I'm drawing a blank on the paper and can't find it casually Googling, but there are fairly well understood mathematical models for how neurotransmitters cause neurons to fire or not fire. It is just probabilities when you zoom out
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by skizm 2y ago
I'm guessing it is something like, you can't be fired specifically for not answering outside of working hours. Nothing stopping companies from firing you for not fitting company culture (the unspoken part being company culture is
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by skizm 2y ago
Is everything hourly there? Would this work with salaried employees that don't log hours? Or maybe everyone does? A running joke in my first company out of school was "can't wait to see that overtime check!" whenever we
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by skizm 2y ago
This seems extremely good for late employees and extremely bad for early employees / founders? Late employees have no risk and the same reward.
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by skizm 2y ago
Shareholders have the power to not buy the stock.
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by skizm 2y ago
> The better solution is often live admins “Admin! He’s doing it sideways!”
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by skizm 2y ago
This is the reason I always play the lottery. I won't miss $2 a week or whatever, but I will notice if I win an 8+ figure payout.
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by skizm 2y ago
This seems like a borderline tautology or at least very obvious? People rarely switch jobs for less money.
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by skizm 2y ago
Do you have a link to the article where wsj suggests not eating breakfast? I'm actually curious to read it now.

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