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by ssivark 3y ago
Why? I’ve seen arguments (highly simplified) that cancerous cells are more resource hungry than healthy ones, and fasting might help (selectively) starve them to death — leaving only the healthiest cells surviving.
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by ssivark 3y ago
That adage is okay, but for it to work not everything can be forgiven — there actually has to be an expectation to be held responsible towards acting on good faith.
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by ssivark 3y ago
The photos showed the phone had a cover/case — so maybe that’s very important? (contra Apple’s marketing) Add in factors of hitting soft ground (grass/brush) and having enough height to rotate into a flat profile instead of hittin
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by ssivark 3y ago
You cannot add/subtract things which don’t have the same dimensions. Further, such formulae cannot forbid negative answers even though you’re trying to model strictly positive quantities. That naturally lends to multiplication. If you
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by ssivark 3y ago
> For example, your use case sounds like the ideal scenario for <XYZ> That’s till some product manager decides they want metrics to go up, and the app starts spamming you notifications multiple times a day, or tries to shove in you
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by ssivark 3y ago
How crucial is it to freeze the learning rate schedule a priori, instead of tweaking it on the fly?
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by ssivark 3y ago
It's uncommon in "regular" usage, but has a much higher likelihood in the workflow of new users trying out your app :-)
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by ssivark 3y ago
Fascinating analogy. While it might not apply to adsense, I think adverts in high-profile slots like the Super Bowl might well have signaling facets much like Veblen goods (for companies).
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by ssivark 3y ago
Loops (Eg: in C) are a much “wilder” construct — something special could happen for i=17 or successive iterations might overwrite values, etc. more restrictive “tamer” versions help programmers & computers reason about the code.
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by ssivark 3y ago
Which watch is this?
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by ssivark 3y ago
How did you use ChatGPT for this?
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by ssivark 3y ago
> more effective than labeling data. This is a BIG (and fashionable) claim, with very little by way of rigorous evidence. It's likely less work, but it's not at all clear whether this can match the necessary accuracy/robus
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by ssivark 3y ago
As a follow-up to the web of trust, I was pretty excited about Keybase and the breadth of applications they enabled, with a slick UX for web-of-trust. Pity they didn't quite succeed (got acqired/acquihired by Zoom), but it would b
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by ssivark 3y ago
Yes and no. The models themselves (with permissive licenses) might be like freeware, rather than "open source" or "free software". But they are a big enabler in allowing people to build other F/OSS on top -- eg. an
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One can never practically evaluate it on all possible inputs/prompts, so an understanding of the training data distribution is important to generate the right test queries and create guardrails for desired use cases.
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by ssivark 3y ago
Well put. To extend that — a related reason for me to read is to simply use the author’s thoughts (or a certain flavor of music) as a “prop” for priming me into a certain headspace — so I can actually think about a certain topic. A book mig
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by ssivark 3y ago
> This is a tremendously momentum-killing event. I cannot think of a single facet of their day-to-day operations, product roadmap, competitive position, etc. that would be improved by this decision. What you’re missing is that the board
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by ssivark 3y ago
It’s possible to customize algorithms in so many ways (for anything ranging from performance, or domain correctness, or flexibility) — if you understand how it works under the hood, and can bend it to what you want. Doesn’t make sense for s
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by ssivark 3y ago
So is sanity :-P
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> First off, this is obviously false. If you can serve 9req/s and you're getting 10req/s the size of the queue depth is growing at a rate of 1req/s. It's not stationary. I haven’t formally studied any queuing the
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by ssivark 3y ago
Most people aren’t against “technology” per se. But they do have a keen sense of how changes (including technology) affect the balance of power among humans. The very fact that Andreesen isn’t willing to acknowledge this aspect (speaking of
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by ssivark 3y ago
Expanding on that question — is the “Executive Director” role a paid position, and how (much) is the new recruit being compensated?
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The best way to allow multiple submissions while amortizing the review work is to make reviews (and rebuttals) public, and overlay them on submissions made public on some preprint server. This establishes priority (if credit is a concern),
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by ssivark 3y ago
Can you pleeease also enable SaaS subscription pricing, and a discord bot so I could easily query my files and folders through a chat interface?
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by ssivark 3y ago
Just to balance out your comment — OTOH, a bootstrapped might survive tough times with some tough choices, but a VC-fueled rocket might sometimes have no choice but to liquidate if they can’t carry through with the growth necessary for the
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by ssivark 3y ago
In addition to the —abort option (with merge & rebase), there’s also the option of resetting to any state you desire, using either checkout or reset — and reflog for viewing a list of the states you might want to reset to. (Or eve
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Give it some time to get there, I’d say. The strategy seems to be set start with “hyperlocal” transactions such as mobility, food/groceries, etc and onboard local businesses. If you (anyone) haven’t already tried it, I encourage you t
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by ssivark 3y ago
> Like a crown-corporation cloud services provider or a municipality-operated DoorDash. You might be interested in the "Open Network for Digital Commerce" [1] being developed in India. The idea is to lay down protocols and APIs
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Love the story about the interplay between textbook chemistry and traditional food practices :-)
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The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)(undervaluedjapan.blogspot.com)
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