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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Going to invoke that law on headlines and guess "no".
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
More of a press release than anything else. Could one actually train something interesting on a processor like this? I assume you'd need a pretty custom toolchain. Hard to imagine where these processors would have a competitive advan
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Makes sense. Yeah, not clear how best to track/predict large one-offs. And your original point still stands: without that 8% growth, retirement going to be a lot harder for a lot of us.
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
> savings rate is about 50% > couldn't go more than a few months without working How are you calculating your runway? Naively I'd think a 50% savings rate means 1 month off for every month worked.
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Would like to read more! I don't buy because I assumed they were a scam but haven't been able to find much hard evidence of that.
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
> Why didn't they just incrementally increase API pricing or implement policies that slowly kill off 3rd party apps one at a time? Might just be a rip-off-the-bandaid type of calculation. Maybe the response sucks now, but it'l
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Cool! I did not know about the electrified truck experiments. I have lived in cities with electrified buses that pulled from overhead lines; those worked well for local routes. I wonder: * How much highway speed complicates things * How mu
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Have there been any previous projects like this? Seems like it'd be tough to make it worthwhile (for the drivers and the citizenry paying for the maintenance). Would love to see some back-of-the-envelope math, though.
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Depression, suicidality leading to substance (ab)use also seems like a plausible direction for causality to flow. It's striking how the specific wording of the headline can cause you to make assumptions even if it is technically accur
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
It's easy to forget how unintuitive the git model is after you have used it for a long time. It is quite unintuitive. Especially because many use it in conjunction with GitHub which centralizes the decentralized model (and causes imp
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Do we? What would that look like? Edit: missed the "if". Assuming you put that there because we currently do not have this tech. Speculatively: like most society wide moral choices, it'd probably be made in such a way as to
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Questions I have: * Is there a plausible path to safe AGI regardless of who's executing on it? * Why do we believe OpenAI is the best equipped to get us there? Manhattan project is an interesting analogy. But if that's the thinki
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Stark how there were minimal excess deaths in in the under-44 age range throughout the whole of the pandemic. Pandemic communication (which is a hard problem!) definitely did not paint that picture.
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by throwaway_5753 3y ago
Two things I think about (obviously it's very context dependent): - Quick returns go inside the condition to save a level of nesting in the function; try to minimize level of nesting of the main function body - I try to return a value
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by throwaway_5753 4y ago
https://archive.is/bnXgI
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by throwaway_5753 4y ago
Any good resources you can recommend to get an overview of the current state of prompt engineering? Seems like an interesting niche created by the these text-to-X models. Are there best practices yet? Common toolchains?
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by throwaway_5753 4y ago
I like the concept of AGI-hard and the characterization of the common traps of AI productization feels accurate. One shortcoming of the analogy is that we have methods to prove when a problem is NP-hard. Are there ways to prove a problem i
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by throwaway_5753 4y ago
I just watched this while traveling in Croatia and Bosnia, and I thought it was an incredible documentary! It's also very interesting that it was made only 6 month after the Dayton Accords ended the war. It gives you a very in-the-mo
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by throwaway_5753 6y ago
An example: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/30/746800630/north-carolina-gop-...