textlapse

7 ms·

91.
by textlapse 2y ago
As a function of energy, it’s provably impossible for a next word predictor with a constant energy per token to come up with anything that’s not in its training. (I think Yann LeCun came up with this?) It seems to me RL was quite revolution
92.
by textlapse 2y ago
Going from C# to Typescript with type unions it always felt weird. Maybe that’s a good reason to have held off on this for this long? Know your audience and all that? It does get used to but still reading the too many A|B|undefined gets tir
93.
by textlapse 2y ago
OTOH, it's the most perfect device for our household. I have tried other devices - they all do gimmicky stuff and slow down the primary use-case because someone arbitrarily decided what I should ask (or worse, they ask for feedback a
94.
by textlapse 2y ago
Amazon seems to have been run in non-ZIRP mode during ZIRP. This may save their asses when ZIRP is firmly over. You say there isn't any innovation: May be you don't need that in a utility company that moves boxes and bits? You nee
95.
by textlapse 2y ago
Interesting. How much would one have to pay you to stop using it? Wondering what the use cases are (replace Google? Stack Overflow? etc).
96.
by textlapse 2y ago
If Amazon (and Google and Apple) couldn’t figure out how to monetize a voice/chat ‘app’ after a decade of plowing money into it, how does the whole LLM market come to fruition? Genuinely curious as I see a similar trend: there is defin
97.
by textlapse 2y ago
That’s true. In terms of humans per sqinch per unit time though….?
98.
by textlapse 2y ago
Just the sheer number of companies and the complexity of the supply chain to produce a square inch of product most of which is tamed sand… is mind boggling. I don’t think there is quite another product made by humankind that matches the she
99.
by textlapse 2y ago
I would love to hear from people who created their own esoteric programming language or a game engine with no game in sight. [It does speak to a time where people create something they truly are passionate about but may not fit into the typ
100.
by textlapse 2y ago
In fairness, this site skews super US/SV-centric, so a majority of people might read it as Washington :) Nothing against local abbreviations. The ramifications of hijacking the wifi used by frequent flyers/tech workers between Sea
101.
by textlapse 2y ago
I think SpaceX has done more to spur interest in lean/mean private companies that have collectively got 'bored, working on ads' people out doing quite spectacular work. I think there are a lot of hungry people looking for som
102.
by textlapse 2y ago
Probably a repost, but this excellent video talks about the problems with outsourcing everything (i.e. the L J Hart-Smith report) https://youtu.be/PQccNdwm8Tw?t=566 - the report itself is fairly accessible and an eye-opener