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by spyckie2 2y ago
https://a.co/d/63gQ3Kl I sympathize with strict regulation but the market sells the exact same “medical device” at much lower cost and my point stands - there is no option to pay market price for a breast pump instead
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by spyckie2 2y ago
My wife and I recently applied to receive a breast pump covered by insurance because why not? She is pregnant and while it is not certain she will need it, it’s better to be safe than sorry right? We got the breast pump, some Chinese produc
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by spyckie2 2y ago
So… 1) treat poor performers as bad hires and ignore them in your dataset 2) treat 10x performers as needing to be promoted and also ignore them in your data 3) treat everyone else as relatively equal …and use “Pareto distribution” and “no
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by spyckie2 2y ago
So the intel era is not Apple products? Butterfly keyboard is not an Apple invention? They have the highest product quality of any laptop manufacturer, period. But to say that all Apple products hold value well is simply not true. All quali
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by spyckie2 2y ago
Not true. Look at how little supercharged intel apples are going for in Facebook marketplace. The quality stuff retains value, not brand.
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by spyckie2 2y ago
I would be a lot more interested in the article if argued that debt at 1-6% and 7-10% is the same asset with the same risk spread but making that the assumption is more than lazy, it’s offensive.
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by spyckie2 2y ago
Yes, this is the sensible and necessary side of microservices... Now, take your auth logic and put it on a 3rd party, rewriting all of your auth to do so. Now, make your database shared across multiple distribution platforms and 12 services
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by spyckie2 2y ago
It was proposed in the sense that Ruby, or python, or whatever webserver language you used (Perl, php, even JavaScript) was slow, single core, synchronous, database blocked, or whatever else made it “unscalable” and you built this tiny serv
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by spyckie2 2y ago
As a LLM layman, does this work build off the attention is all you need paper, or is it doing something completely different?
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by spyckie2 2y ago
I love our world in data but I will say this article is wordy. > Global poverty is one of the very largest problems in the world today. Is it possible to make progress against this problem? To see where we are coming from, we must go far
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by spyckie2 2y ago
This makes absolutely no sense. Taking ideal job traits negative and positive, converting it into correlative personality traits, and guessing the personality trait of the candidate is adding unnecessary abstraction layers with no benefit.
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by spyckie2 2y ago
Let me break down how to think about it. The key question to ask - is the software revenue generating? 1) IF the software is revenue generating, then you can spend 10-40% of your annual revenue on your software team, because you're ant
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by spyckie2 2y ago
From a marketing and pitch perspective, I’m imagining the “shake up” potential of your plane being much more ala iPhone or Tesla. Hard to describe but once you experience it you get a diehard fan that won’t go back to whatever else is on th
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by spyckie2 2y ago
Policy is not always about how much tax one pays, it's about landscaping your society. The difference between a town with unique, local shops and a town with sprawling landscape of walmarts is the policies of those towns, one of the bi
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by spyckie2 2y ago
IMO, the struggles with AI in robotics exposes where the current AI bottlenecks are more clearly. Specifically, we don't have a training data corpus for any of our AI robots, enough to help them perform generalized task behaviors. So w
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by spyckie2 3y ago
It's not that the US likes suffering. No, the US likes their 7% ROI. There's a reason why the average S&P500 is still 7% year over year. Why does Coca Cola have a 3% dividend yield? Why does Google still have a 50% yoy ad reve
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by spyckie2 3y ago
This is the exact question that this research tries to portray from a data perspective. The narrative is trying to make a claim that nurture is significant. The stats of this research essentially says "slicing the data in a way that hi
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by spyckie2 3y ago
Agreed, the visualizations don't sell the story. If you actually take the percentage, it's like 30-50% more likely to have the worse outcome the worse your adverse background gets. But on the chart, it's only like an extra li
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by spyckie2 3y ago
This has to be it. Vinyl costs like 20$ per, and $8m is like 400k vinyl sales (users often buy more than 1 vinyl so it's a lot less users) which seems too low globally. At 1.2b, it is more like 60m sales which seems more reasonable.
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by spyckie2 3y ago
Just asking, this seems very similar to the attention algorithm that powers LLMs?
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by spyckie2 3y ago
Filial piety solves the problem of economic and social stability in low income societies. It's also one of the better winning strategies for group based power struggles. It stunts investment and growth in the modern era. 1) In househol
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by spyckie2 3y ago
Think of it as a time series. It cost 10s of millions to train but in 6 months gpt4 open source equivalents will cost 100$ to train. The best model is one that you can build on top of in a way that’s it’s not a black box (SD).
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by spyckie2 3y ago
The question is how long will it take for open source to become just as good as GPT 4? If it is 3 years, then yes, this is copium. But if it is 1 year or less, then how much is google really missing out on? OpenAI spent 600m to improve GPT
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by spyckie2 3y ago
They're not saying that they should absorb open-source. They're arguing towards a strategy/direction for how to approach AI models from a business perspective, laying down the facts that open-source has a superior positional
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by spyckie2 4y ago
This article has a point but takes about 6x the words to get to it, and the writing is not enjoyable enough to make up the extra time spent. ChatGPT to the rescue! https://smmry.com/https://harpers.org/archive
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by spyckie2 4y ago
"Fairness" in this definition is tied to a belief that everyone deserves a decent life. The thought is this: we are not a society of cavemen or subsistence farmers. We're the richest society in our history by far, so all peop
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by spyckie2 4y ago
Split who you know into two groups. Those who you know would enjoy hanging out with you, and those who you know wouldn’t. For those that you know would enjoy it, get a rhythm of regular correspondence, and that should turn into quality frie
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How much money do you need to make?(sustainableviews.substack.com)
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by spyckie2 4y ago
Some people are too, too risk averse. They subconsciously avoid, not just pain, but the possibility of discomfort. It's not just one or two actions - it's their filter that they see the world through. Pain avoidance is often disgu
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by spyckie2 4y ago
Honestly, all the companies listed are not at risk of default - overpriced, yes, but when they rebalance their budgets to stop growing (because they don't have any more cash to burn, so they can't continue to grow, so their valuat

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