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by tfehring 3y ago
A lot of MBA material is intentionally geared towards roles in senior management, so while there's some material that would be practically useful for someone like an engineering manager, that's definitely not the focus. There are
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by tfehring 3y ago
Heavier vehicles still significantly underpay if road maintenance is funded by gas taxes alone, since wear and tear increases in proportion to the fourth power of weight [0] while gas usage only increases linearly or so. Of course, higher t
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by tfehring 3y ago
I wonder what the median distance from the ocean is and how that's changed over time.
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by tfehring 3y ago
It’s completely illegal in the US too. Health insurers are extremely limited in the information they can use to price coverage, and in general they can’t outright deny coverage at all.
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by tfehring 3y ago
A lot of it is dated but the first 3 chapters are still well worth a read for an aspiring DE.
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by tfehring 3y ago
For a pure tech company this might be good advice, but lots of startups require domain expertise from very early on even if that means partnering with a nontechnical founder. E.g., my background is in insurance, I've seen lots of insur
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by tfehring 3y ago
It seems like he was comparing an in-memory columnar datastore to a disk-based row-oriented database for OLAP workloads. So it certainly falls in the "used something in a way it's not meant to be used" bucket, and maybe also
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by tfehring 3y ago
It's like the paradox of tolerance, right? You can pick the best working environment for yourself, except to the extent that your choice infringes on your coworkers' ability to pick the best working environments for themselves.
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by tfehring 3y ago
If their 3.75% mortgage was originally for $1M and has 25 years left, just the cost of giving that up is about $250k. I don't think anyone's giving out a $250k sign-on bonus for a non-executive.
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by tfehring 3y ago
I won't comment on Airbnb because I work there, but for Uber and WeWork, the fact that they're global is a feature in and of itself. It's great that I can request a ride in a city I've never been to, in my native languag
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by tfehring 3y ago
I'm using AGI here as arbitrary major improvement over the current state of the art. But given that OpenAI has the stated goal of creating AGI, I don't think it's a non-sequitur to respond to the parent comment's questio
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by tfehring 3y ago
I'd bet on a 2030 model trained on the same dataset as GPT-4 over GPT-4 trained with perfect-quality data, hands down. If data quality were that critical, practitioners could ignore the Internet and just train on books and scientific p
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by tfehring 3y ago
I don't think LLMs are over [0]. I think we're relatively close to a local optimum in terms of what can be achieved with current algorithms. But I think OpenAI is at least as likely as any other player to create the next paradigm,
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by tfehring 3y ago
I think it's unlikely that the first model to be widely considered AGI will be a transformer. Recent improvements to computational efficiency for attention mechanisms [0] seem to improve results a lot, as does RLHF, but neither is a pa
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by tfehring 3y ago
Related reading: https://dynomight.net/scaling/ In short it seems like virtually all of the improvement in future AI models will come from better algorithms, with bigger and better data a distant second, and more param
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by tfehring 3y ago
Based on preliminary BLS data, average hourly earnings are up 6.1% Y/Y in leisure and hospitality, 5.5% in utilities, 5.5% in information, 5.4% in construction, and 4.7% in mining and logging. https://www.bls.gov/news.r
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by tfehring 4y ago
Related reading: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-f...
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by tfehring 4y ago
More popular related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391433
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by tfehring 4y ago
> people in Cupertino pay lower overall taxes than people in Austin Only because most people who can afford to buy in Cupertino aren't paying for it with earned income, right? Google tells me a $2.5M mortgage has minimum payments
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by tfehring 4y ago
> Banks engage in maturity transformation, in “borrowing short and lending long.” Deposits are short-term liabilities of the bank; while time-locked deposits exist, broadly users can ask for them back on demand. Most assets of a bank, t
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by tfehring 4y ago
I didn't see any pricing information while logged out either, but as soon as I clicked the free trial button and then logged in, the next page that appeared was pricing. It's $12.99/month for an individual plan billed monthly
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by tfehring 4y ago
> No. SVB hid market to market losses by saying "these securities are held to maturity so I don't have to realize losses". THAT is the source of the problem. Not all banks did this. All major US banks - and all or virtua
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by tfehring 4y ago
The gross loss is driven by $920M in losses on firm purchase commitments. As I understand it, Rivian has entered into contracts with suppliers to buy some components needed to manufacture its vehicles at fixed prices over some future period
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by tfehring 4y ago
I don’t follow. Holding the total server load constant, why wouldn’t a read-heavy workload benefit more from caching than a more balanced read/write workload?
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by tfehring 4y ago
I agree with many of the top-level comments about the relative utility of AI applications and blockchain applications as they exist today. But I'll add another point that no one else seems to have made yet. The reason for the widesprea
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by tfehring 4y ago
Maybe, but regardless of the motivation for their definition, it only makes sense to interpret OpenAI’s claims and ambitions about AGI in the context of their own definition of AGI. If you prefer your own definition, that’s fine! Substitute
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by tfehring 4y ago
There are lots of valid definitions of "AGI" (and of "sentience" for that matter). One that Sam Altman has used in the past is, paraphrasing, a system that can complete many tasks as well as the median human. IMO that&#x
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by tfehring 4y ago
Airbnb - almost all roles are remote-first and will continue to be remote-first indefinitely. The only caveats I can think of are (1) you have to keep your primary residence in the country the role is based in, and (2) many US employees wil
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by tfehring 4y ago
Is that common in practice? The only example I can think of of a smallish town with excellent public schools is West Lafayette, IN. (It looks like Jackson, WY, and Aspen, CO, also have good schools, but I don't think those are very goo
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by tfehring 4y ago
Even outside of tech hubs, the distribution of where those workers end up is pretty different from the the distribution of where they were raised. Not many of my classmates from rural Wisconsin ended up in the Bay Area or New York, but many

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