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by smallnamespace 2y ago
I find this all much ado ablaut nothing.
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
No, they are in fact opposed definitions if you dig in a bit. Substitute goods have negatively correlated demand, while complementary ones have demand that positively correlate. A simple criterion, at least in theory. You will buy more ket
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
FYI in modern microeconomics, 'substitute' and 'complement' are precisely defined terms that have opposite meanings.
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
Tiny nitpick: complement means a good in an adjacent part of the supply chain (e.g. batteries and EVs are complements), you might have meant 'competitors'.
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
> or JSON encoding JSON needs to escape backslashes, SMTP needs to escape newline followed by period. If you're already accepted doing escaping, what's the issue?
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
This might be a dumb question, but did you ever try having it introspect into its own execution log, or perhaps a summary of its log? I also have a tendency to get side tracked and the only remedy was to force myself to occasionally pause w
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
Lenses bring parallel rays of light (alternatively, light from infinitely far away) to the focal point. They don’t bring idealized points to points. One consequence is you can’t use lenses to bring anything to a temperature higher than the
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
Have you ever heard the term NP-complete ?
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
The fume extractors in a typical American dwelling are also quite underpowered, especially in rentals. Gotta cook with wok hay .
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
A text in the original language would evoke a certain combination of feeling and understanding in the reader. A paragraph footnote might accurately convey the intended meaning but it won't evoke the same feelings. A good author or tran
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
That’s true, but many Japanese terms for describing the modern world were mass-imported into Chinese during the late Qing and Republican eras (think 1900-1930). The Chinese republicans looked towards Japan as a model for how to develop, and
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
You’re conflating the cost of chips in a completed fab with the cost of building the fab. These workers are for the latter.
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
The rice-farming areas of southern China have been economically dominant (more often than not) since around the Song dynasty, about a millennium ago.
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by smallnamespace 2y ago
> there’s no reason The reason as always is politics. For example, the Federal civil service ("general service") pay scale tops out around $160k. This really doesn't make sense and costs the government multiples of market
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
Compute as a noun may be a newer usage, but a noun sharing the same form as the verb is common in English, so it at least conforms to the patterns of the language. For example dispute/disputation or repute/reputation ("a pers
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
> pre-planned The power requirements were not drawn up with the car rental agency in mind. Maybe you can get the airport to cooperate and ask the utility to expand capacity - how many years of planning do you think that takes?
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
You pick an obvious encoding (such as binary) yourself, in the same way your computer is not outputting some platonic ideal "A" but a series of electrical impulses that your monitor plus your eyes and brain interprets as "A&q
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
The stronger result here is that any sort of conversion you can explicitly specify can be turned into a program. Since Kolmogorov Complexity is specified in terms of lengths of programs, that means the KC between two different pairs of enco
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
Yes but from the context of this discussion, we’re trying to figure out the “sweet spot” model size where it’s worth attempting fine tuning. My guess is it’s only worthwhile for matching simple tasks with small models, and any sufficiently
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
You definitely can't in the general case (for example, your 7B model is never going to be able to help much with coding, fine tuning or no). It can make sense if you have a particularly simple use case.
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
It's a good thing you're an ML researcher and not, say, a quant trader then ;)
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
I think the broader context here is that it's "fine for training" in the sense that you can successfully train a model, but it's not "fine for training" in the sense that it can only train small models due to t
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
What do you mean? Computations very naturally organize into batches of 40 cards each.
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
Ilya may have said this to Elon but the public messaging of OpenAI certainly did not paint that picture. I happen to think that open sourcing frontier models is a bad idea but OpenAI put themselves in the position where people thought they
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
The handwavey explanation in my head is that “ambient” for this emitter is not just the immediate physical environment, but also deep space, which is very very cold. This wouldn’t work if the temperature of space and the air were the same.
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
LIBOR was developed in '86. The LIBOR scandal broke in 2012, with evidence of bad conduct going back to '08 or so. The LIBOR to SOFR transition was officially kicked off around 2016. Due to the complexity, the transition took 5 ye
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
High finance even fairly recently (80s) was based on handshakes and trust. The value of contracts tied to LIBOR grew by an order of magnitude or two while the definition of LIBOR wasn’t adjusted. Why wasn’t it fixed? Because replacing it wo
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
$1bn in assets isn’t much, at the high end you can charge maybe $20mm a year (hedge fund), at the low end a few million (public equity fund). That needs to pay not just execs but accountants, etc. Put another way, a $1bn hedge fund is consi
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
This gives me strong "the people of Rome wouldn't consider them to be Romans, but why should we care what they think?" vibes.
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by smallnamespace 3y ago
The relative value of things change even in the absence of money (e.g. in a barter economy, or for one person stuck alone on an island). Therefore the fuzziness cannot be attributed all to money.

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