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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Nassim Taleb is not really Pinker’s intellectual equal. As someone who has read “Better Angels”, I don’t think it’s even up for debate that the world is dramatically less violent today than it’s ever been (the main premise of the book). To
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Like Google StatusOr<>?
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
One thing you’re missing once again is that the development of nukes has so far been a net positive. MAD pretty much excludes the possibility that major powers will ever be at war with each other again. Potentially hundreds of millions of p
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Two reasons why startups amass huge numbers of people: 1. CEO is a shithead who doesn’t know what to do, so hiring is a futile attempt to do everything at once 2. Huge number of employees looks better when coming up with valuation for a rou
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Google officially doesn’t care about opportunities less than $1B in size. I very much doubt this is anywhere near a billion dollar opportunity. My educated guess: they’re trying to sell cloud to government and need a good use case. Cloud de
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
You know, there’s this recent tendency to call people Nazis for no reason that I really dislike. Fact is, you don’t know the details of what they have signed up to do, and therefore you can’t make a determination as to the moral standing of
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
This will go over well on Memegen for sure.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
When you turn a few million dollars into $4.5B you can come here and talk about “abysmal” records and stuff. With very few exceptions, any businessman would give their first born to have an abysmal record of this kind, and _then_ top it off
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
That’s because google rewards launching and doesn’t reward improvement. People launched, got their brownie points, and now things are staffed by two kinds of folks: a). Those who don’t yet know they’ll get nothing for their effort, and b).
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
0.001% of the country can multiply it hundred fold over the course of a few years. I have a million just sitting around in equities. I don’t know how to do it.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Dude turned that million dollar loan into $140M though. People tend to omit that part for some reason.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Excuses, excuses. Meanwhile iOS API for the same thing requires 1/10th the amount of code, is easy to use, and has great documentation.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Let me assure you, this was possible in spite of, not thanks to this API. Words fail to describe how horrible and unusable it is.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Curious: what are some of the things they see as negatives? Growing stock market? Repatriation of hundreds of billions in corporate profits, so they can be invested here or distributed to shareholders? Lower corporate tax and more favorable
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Try to use their camera2 api to see what I mean about sloppily put together. I’m with you on iTunes. Thankfully I haven’t had to use it in years.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
I doubt there’s “a lot” of European software people who would turn down life changing compensation, tbh. There are some, but probably not a lot. As you mentioned yourself, political situations in western democracies tend to change over time
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
European software people get paid about 1/3rd of their US counterparts’ compensation. I will let you fill in the blanks on how likely a European company is to attract top software talent, and how likely their success is without such ta
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
As a rule, performance of flagship Android phones lags iPhone by 2 years or so. Been that way as long as I can remember. Worse, floating point perf lags by about a factor of 3. I don’t know why Qualcomm and Samsung keep doing this to themse
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Only sounds wonderful until your toilet clogs up.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
On the positive side with PyTorch you don’t need nearly as much documentation as you would with TF. TF in general feels like it’s fighting you every step of the way. There’s a lot of cognitive overhead. Not so with PyTorch. Everything is st
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Unless you have already invested a lot of time into learning (and building on top of) TF, I would advise to pick up PyTorch. It’s much easier to learn and use (imperative!), and has higher performance on common workloads.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Sure. I’m just saying that null pointer deref and read is not generally a fatal operation. Most programmers expect the program to die in this case. When it doesn’t, they are surprised.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Ones I worked with did nothing on when reading from 0x0. I mentioned this because for someone who spends all their time well above bare metal this is not intuitive at all. And null is de-facto 0 on all C compilers, even though it’s not requ
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Null pointer is actually perfectly fine on bare metal. There’s no memory protection, so it just points to address 0x0, and if you deref it nothing bad will happen.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Blaze (Bazel’s internal counterpart) could build Haskell for close to a decade. In fact it built the Haskell _compiler_ as an indirect tool dependency of a lot of build targets.
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by throwaway84742 9y ago
Pretty much why I left as well. Wasted years on improving existing stuff rather than building new stuff. Google doesn’t value improvements, even very significant and quantifiable ones, except if you’re improving CTR or relevance. Promotion-