skohan

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by skohan 2y ago
I love the air form factor. I do serious work on it as well. I have used a pro, but the air does everything I need without breaking a sweat, and it's super convenient to throw in a bag and carry around the house.
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by skohan 2y ago
> a dedicated Nvidia rig I am honestly shocked Nvidia has been allowed to maintain their moat with cuda. It seems like AMD would have a ton to gain just spending a couple million a year to implement all the relevant ML libraries with a
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by skohan 2y ago
I use Zed as a daily driver, and I haven't once used the collaborative features
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by skohan 2y ago
In fact they probably care that it's not easily portable
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by skohan 2y ago
Molten VK is amazing. When I started working with it, I was expecting a lot of caveats and compromises, but it's shockingly similar to just using Vulkan that you can easily forget that there's a compatibility tool in play. Probab
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by skohan 2y ago
> It’s become “grind leetcode” which is clearly a failure mode. I have no insider knowledge, but I always wondered if those kinds of cultures had a hazing / blind-leading-the-blind aspect to them. I.e. the people who got hired were
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by skohan 2y ago
Unfortunately I think "they share all the same apps" will not include a terminal with root access, which is what would really be needed to make iPad a general purpose computer for development It's a shame, because it's d
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by skohan 3y ago
This is no doubt a milestone we should celebrate. At the same time, the Brazilian beef industry is the driving force behind slash-and-burn expansion of agricultural land into the rainforest, so Brazil is still a massive contributor to clim
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by skohan 3y ago
I guess the reason it strikes me as strange is, on linux the usage of `sudo` helps you understand which operations might be dangerous in a fine-grained way So like if you are executing a series of commands, the one requiring admin privilege
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by skohan 3y ago
Yes terrible move which will lead to much confusion and consternation in the future. But honestly I'm most amazed by the fact that there wasn't previously a way to run commands with elevated permissions in Windows. How did people
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by skohan 3y ago
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
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by skohan 3y ago
Imo it should give you the answer, and make you aware of the risks. Some people won't follow the advice, but that's what code review and static analysis tools are for.
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by skohan 3y ago
God I hope we don't end up in a world where LLM's are required to take an ideological stance on things like software architecture or testing paradigms
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by skohan 3y ago
I don't live in the US anymore, so it's hard for me to speak to the US healthcare system, but as an outsider it seems to me that the problems with the system stem from the incentive structure, and won't be fixed by any techno
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by skohan 3y ago
Yes I understand that, but the problem is there's no structure to enforce decisions at the level of human civilization. So even if something is agreed and enforced by 99% of jurisdictions, that doesn't mean it won't happen
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by skohan 3y ago
The problem is who is "we"? If the capability exists, someone will pursue it. Maybe the G20 will pass a resolution to put safety measures in place, but whoever decides to flaunt those safety measures stands to gain an asymmetrica
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by skohan 3y ago
But you don't need AGI to be dangerous right? > all signs seem to be pointing toward a longer timeframe rather than a short one. Not saying we are closer, but isn't the risk being described that we could pass an inflection poin
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by skohan 3y ago
Yes both of which could be helped by augmenting the healthcare system with AI to relieve practitioners from repetitive, menial tasks
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by skohan 3y ago
> due to lack of training sometimes they miss things that an MD would have caught. It goes the other way as well. My aunt is an RN and she loves to tell the story about the time that a doctor was in such a rush one time she had to call
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by skohan 3y ago
So for example, a treatment plan might look like this: 1. Go to a GP and explain symptoms 2. GP orders some tests based on symptoms 3. GP refers you to a specialist based on test results 4. Specialist orders more tests 5. Specialist analyze
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by skohan 3y ago
Presumably you would structure such a medical system such that lower level practitioners would know enough to know when to escalate to an MD. 90% of medicine is stuff like people going to the doctor with the flu to get a sick note to stay h
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by skohan 3y ago
Not all of medicine is dealing with the full complexity of the human body. A lot of it is applying wrote knowledge to essentially follow a flow-chart to map a set of symptoms and details about the patient to a diagnostic / treatment p
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by skohan 3y ago
Exactly - it just shows how terrible the rest of the world is doing if Cuba of all places puts their medical system to shame, simply by training more doctors
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by skohan 3y ago
Yes and no. No doubt the medical profession requires talent and rigor, but I think to some extent the hurdles which are placed in front of students who want to become doctors are artificially high to help justify the small number of gradua
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by skohan 3y ago
The US is not the only country with healthcare needs. There are plenty of developed nations with public health care systems which primarily suffer from scarcity rather than cost to patient, and AI could help with that.
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by skohan 3y ago
Nurses might not get paid what they are worth in all cases, but they have amazing job security. Ironically it's probably easier to replace a lot of what doctors do with AI than what nurses do.
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by skohan 3y ago
That's the problem with healthcare. Due to inelastic demand, it doesn't succumb to market forces the way as other markets. Also in many places you have issues with provider collusion, monopoly, and regulatory capture keeping pri
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by skohan 3y ago
The problem is that "skilled healthcare" is essentially a cartel which uses artificial scarcity to increase the price. You can see the counter-example in Cuba, which has an incredibly high number of MD's per capita compared
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by skohan 3y ago
Yes and no - sometimes you need tailored complex care from a professional. Sometimes you need routine treatment, but it's going to take 3 months to get an appointment with the given specialist, or maybe in the case of rural areas ther
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by skohan 3y ago
I think that's one interpretation, but the perverse interpretation is: "If I am an effective altruist, and I will use my resources to produce the most possible good, then it's a moral imperative to acquire as much money and p

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