slt2021

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by slt2021 2y ago
College wont be needed because of AI, the entirety of liberal arts is already obsolete. Engineering disciplines can be split into blue collar (like operating CNC) learned at vocational schools, and deep tech (research focused) - these reall
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by slt2021 2y ago
With AI what we going to see is unbundling of school: education separately, socialization separately. You can socialize with your ski buddies. You can study with self-selected motivated group of teens together with AI and a tutor (college g
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by slt2021 2y ago
oversaturated job market allows companies to demand this
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by slt2021 2y ago
public school is just daycare, not a school at all, due to lowering the bar and easing curriculum in the name of "equity".
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by slt2021 2y ago
wow amazing, nobody is gonna edit that code ever again...
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by slt2021 2y ago
can you list how many financiers were jailed after 2008 GFC ? can you find any? can you list how many people were jailed for engineering SARS-CoV? heck, government hasn't even acknowledge that it was engineered and still pushes fairy t
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by slt2021 2y ago
maybe they will enable to show CoT for a limited uses, like 5 prompts a day for Premium users, or for Enterprise users with agreement not to steal CoT or something like that. if OpenAI sees this - please allow users to see CoT for a few pro
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by slt2021 2y ago
I find there is an educational benefit in verbosity, it helps to teach user to think like a machine
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by slt2021 2y ago
the best practice is just use PostgREST.
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by slt2021 2y ago
this is due to increasing productivity of the market. lower tier productivity engineers are being filtered out continuously, and being replaced by higher productivity new grads with chatGPT types. same as professional atheletes (like olympi
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by slt2021 2y ago
AMA does not negotiate paying wage though. it only limits as a Cartel to limit the supply of new doctors (and keep foreign licensed doctors away from the market) - this is typical cartel behavior, not union
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by slt2021 2y ago
these are people who go to medical profession for money and prestige. same regrets exists among engineers who go to CS for money and faang jobs, and then realize how miserable they have become in the process of chasing the gold
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by slt2021 2y ago
becoming a good engineer takes a lot of years too. your average 4 year college degree does not guarantee you become an engineer, plenty of new grads are without jobs. the best engineers I know have been coding since middle school and by the
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by slt2021 2y ago
programmers are close to doctors than plumbers: high comp, high knowledge industry, constant learning Doctors have cartel though, instead of union that protects their jobs by limiting number of residency slots that limits number of new lice
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by slt2021 2y ago
this only applies to the very senior and experienced people, like staff+ engineers who are not easily replaceable + have so much knowledge that company will suffer if they leave. the rest of your average tech worker who pushes jsons from fr
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by slt2021 2y ago
they learned about jsonb support from postgres so they migrated from mongodb to postgres
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by slt2021 2y ago
Bitcoin has its value due to anonymity and global footprint. I can ransom hospitals with cyber attacks and get paid millions sitting on North Korea/rusia/Iran and dont have to stand up from my desk. I can run distributed anonymize
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by slt2021 2y ago
Process is a way to segregate resources (memory, sockets, file descriptors, etc). You kill a proc - it will release all memory and file descriptors. Thread is a way to segregate computation. You spawn a thread and it will run some code sch
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by slt2021 2y ago
the counter argument I hear is that few extra years of life you get by being 100% sober are not worth it. Think of alcohol as ancient painkiller/antidepressant that helped people to get through the challenges of their lifes and make it
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by slt2021 2y ago
bitcoin is the 21 century's diamond. Same useless string of cryptographically signed bytes, but for some reason the humanity agrees to assign some value just because of scarcity mindset.
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by slt2021 2y ago
>> They want to spend money on it. no guy ever wants to shell out $$$ for a useless rock
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by slt2021 2y ago
both glass and back frame is easily replaceable and very easy to DIY. the CPU and integrated circuit is the core of the phone and if it is intact, the phone can be refreshed to be like new with the new shell for like $30 with parts from eba
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by slt2021 2y ago
night owls are people who are sensitive to light/noise/environment and therefore more productive in the night - when they can focus and be productive for prolonged periods of time without million of distractions. when you don&#x27
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by slt2021 2y ago
great job Andrew and Sidney!
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by slt2021 2y ago
true, ChatGPT even imports libraries and configs that are 4-5 year outdated.
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by slt2021 2y ago
you are right. but even in case where you have to retract prior conclusions, it is possible to to fold accumulators to maintain global consistency. for example as you said: global_sum() = accum1.sum() + accum2.sum() global_min(): accum
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by slt2021 2y ago
it is possible to split aggregation into parts that use commutative operators. for example global AVG can be expressed as SUM()/COUNT() although AVG is not commutative, SUM() and COUNT() are commutative and can be run in scatter/g
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by slt2021 2y ago
the authors postulate that not all computations (programs) should require global coordination. if you compartmentalize data in such a way, that most of your computations are done locally on a node (with the data that can fit a single node)
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by slt2021 2y ago
America doesn't need ethnicity as a basis, it has a spirit. But European countries lost their spirit. The only thing they have is a giant pan-european bureaucracy without purpose and soul
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by slt2021 2y ago
its not only Germany, overall all major West-European countries are facing an identity crisis. None of the developed west-european countries (UK,France,Spain,Italy,Germany) do have any ideology or a civic idea, similar to the American Dream

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