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by time_to_smile 3y ago
> Analogies are great for explaining ideas, but aren't that great as logical arguments. In this case it is hardly an analogy. With respect to Information Theory, compression and machine learning are essentially the same thing [0]. I
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
This comment reminds me of a time, many years ago, when someone wanted an the internal design team to make a big poster out of a low res image. The design team explained that they couldn't blow the image up to the size of a poster beca
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by time_to_smile 3y ago
Good product people have always been visionary, lead by a strong sense of design and understanding of how to meet the user needs. Product Managers are the modern day bureaucrats created to reduce the individual impact on product and make PM
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
You're just describing a "community" and the "shared values that define them". So I think we agree: tech people came in, attempted to displace the local community and trampled on their values (and claimed them &quot
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> Xenophobic natives This claim isn't backed up by the demographic info of SF [0], and SF has historically been a very diverse, immigrant friendly city. Percentage of US born (as well as specifically California born) residents of SF
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Anyone who spent considerable time in SF before the most recent tech boom would likely argue that it was the tech industry that caused the rot in the first place. The foundation of safe cities is vibrant local communities with historic
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Just wanted to second this experience. I'm one of those people that has perpetually wanted to use linux as my main desktop, but inevitably find myself dual booting Windows for gaming, and then just making my desktop a Windows gaming bo
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
There are plenty of bigger "human ending" concerns on the table right now than AI and we certainly aren't pausing anything for those.
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
I think this is more marketing copy than virtue signaling.
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
They don't want you to use the app because it's better for you, but because it allows them to collect much better and more fine grained information about your usage (to sell to advertisers and use the target you) and you can&#x2
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
If BNPL was the same as credit cards, then why not just use credit cards? BNPL often ignores credit check or specifically targets groups that credit cards would deem too risky. For me this doubles the problem with the BNPL space: not only a
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
What about Peter Ward's research do you find unconvincing? Of course it's absurd to treat it as a certainty, but the geological evidence of the destruction to life caused by past period of rapid CO2 escalation are at the very leas
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> would lower quality of life beyond what global warming will do. Source on this? Climate crisis could quite possibly lead to extinction of humans and most life on Earth [0]. Now I do want to emphasized the word could . Extinction event
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
You must have a smarter toaster than I do. My toaster is a completely deterministic mechanism that knows nothing about my past toasting experience, nor makes any inference about future toast. A spam filter: - Is provided historic informatio
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> AI is a feature, not a product Part of the reason for this is that very often the best applications of AI are really invisible to the user, making everything a little bit better, quietly behind the scenes. The same is true for software
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Well the real truth is they were right 60 years ago. That was probably our last realistic chance to avoid catastrophe. But we did nothing and as much as doom and gloom might sell newspapers, true despair does not. Every article since they
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> about 1 out of 100 people i interviewed actually know how computers work, we still hired about 10 out of 100 This is very reminiscent of the dotcom bubble. If you knew how to turn a computer on you could get a relatively high paying te
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> tools like GPT potentially disrupting our careers on a timescale best viewed on the scale of months. GPT is cool, and has a lot of potential uses, but don't be scared by the hype. The biggest impact GPT is going to have on most p
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
That's because this bubble is much larger than the dotcom and has impacted far more than just tech (lookup "Everything Bubble"). A major part of this is companies still have a lot of cash. When you pull up the financials
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
We have been getting warnings like this for years and for years things have been getting visibly worse. I don't know how you "have to force myself quite hard to take this seriously" when the environment around us has been deg
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Very interesting paper, thanks for the link!
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
The other major thing missing from Chat GPT is that it doesn't really "learn" outside of training. Yes you can provide it some context, but it fundamentally doesn't update and evolve its understanding of the world. Until
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Well I for one, as a person with sophisticated tastes, find the emperor's clothes to be absolutely fabulous, none finer have I ever gazed upon.
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Quantitative finance really is a fascinating field, not because it will make you rich, but because you can dive much deeper into understand exactly what the market believes about the probability of different event
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> there is no meaningful risk that these startups will not be made whole in the coming weeks. Wow, two very bold claims here: 1. they will be made whole 2. in a few weeks For 1. I think this is very unlikely to happen. Absolutely account
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
Though it is widely publicized that he was pretty aggressive at getting YC startups to move their money out yesterday. It's not altogether unlikely that other groups of startups, without an aggressive push to pull out of SVB, are in
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> Felt like a lot of dumb panic. A lesson everyone should have learned from the toilet paper scarcity crisis during the pandemic is that it doesn't matter if it's rational or smart, if you want to keep your ass clean make sure
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
When was the last time you picked a random number from an actual real number line? Try sampling random floats in your programming language of choice and see how long it takes to get an integer (you will eventually get one). Then consider th
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
It's remarkable how deeply ingrained in our worldview mind/body dualism is, even though I think on paper most people don't accept this as an axiom. If anxiety is not created by the body where does it originate from? extra t
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by time_to_smile 4y ago
> It's no good just to do meditation and calm your mind if your body and nervous system is still holding on to so much stress. I just want to point out that for nearly all of its history yoga is primarily about meditation, with th

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