twelfthnight

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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I wonder if it's actually easier to get a hold of a free copy of Windows than pick and install a Distro? :p
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I feel like Windows is the bud light of operating systems. It's corporate, a worse experience than alternatives, increasingly focused on advertising and is only popular because it's the only beer on tap at your favorite bar (video
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Linux desktop has issues, but at least it doesn't have ads on the lock screen, tracking, upsells to one drive and forced updates. Also it's free.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I think the issue is that business surplus concentrates power to a greater degree than consumer surplus. Concentrated power, be it a business, a government, etc is typically bad because it can be used to distort the market in its favor (i.e
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Mentioned elsewhere, but the Hag Capisco is a great chair. Sadly it has risen in price and isn't a particularly good value anymore, but is a cool piece of furniture nonetheless.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I think the biggest issue with AI generated art is that it allows corporate folks (marketers, etc) the ability to create exactly what they want without any involvement/pushback from artists. Often the agenda of artists is do create som
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I like to think that the generous money I get from Tech is as much a responsibility as it is a luxury. I try to avoid mega retailers like Alibaba, Temu, Amazon and Walmart. In my mind, it's less to do with getting better costumer servi
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
If there ever used to be "Senior Engineers", I wonder if it was because before there were so many fewer engineers and those who were engineers were the folks who were most interested in computers. Nowadays the field is lucrative a
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Not sure about all of the details, but this is an interesting idea focusing on how auto-regressive models can be thought of as learning how to split a difficult task into a series of simpler tasks. Makes me wonder if that's the magic i
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Is this astroturfing? I'm not trying to be provocative, but this line was buried in the article: > Its licensing switch and the fact that it isn't yet profitable shows there is still work to be done. My understanding is that Ha
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Ah, those are interesting considerations. I don't have a horse in that race, I just had to implement a similarity search algorithm a few years ago and it was surprisingly difficult to find a consensus on what ANN algo to use!
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Are folks typically using HNSW for vector search these days? I thought maybe ScaNN has proven to be better? Especially since it's available in FAISS [2]. [1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/07/announcing-scann-
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I don't like that tips are a trick to make you think things are less expensive than they are. However, I see it as my duty since I'm lucky to be paid a lot for my job to share that prosperity with the people in my community. I wou
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Replogle Globes followed this exact trajectory. Four employees bought the company when the conglomerate was planning to liquidate the company.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Strongly agree with this. IIRC, in RMarkdown state is treated as a separate cache stored outside the notebook and loaded as needed. You could use something like dvc or gitlfs to manage those cache files, and since the Markdown file is pla
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
It's interesting that you could use the first amendment to argue the exact opposite in this ruling. For example, by this logic social media is perfectly in their right to block posts from political positions they disagree with, which m
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
SPOILER ALERT :p Its more surprising nowadays if an article about AI doesn't have a "twist" that what you read/heard/saw was AI.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Who would develop the automated moderation? Reddit? They would do so in a way that optimizes their profits, not your interests. There's no perfect solution. If you suggest "let users vote/democracy", then you'll sta
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Issue is that's it's not guaranteed, unlike this new openai feature. Personally, Ive found Vertex AI's json output to be not so great, it often uses single quotes in my experience. But maybe you have figured out the right pro
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
I've been demoing it and have found it struggles to reliably output structured JSON at the moment. I'm curious if folks have had different experiences and if so what their prompts were.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Have recently been working with it as well and come to the same conclusion. Would be nice to use it since my company is already a GCP shop, but the json parsing is super frustrating. I have noticed using Python's ast.literal_eval help
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Agree with your points. That said, I think people work from home because they value their personal happiness more than helping Google make more money. They probably see that Google isn't doing much to help anyone except Google, particu
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
lolinder is exactly right on what I meant to say (including what they said in the sibling post to this comment). But I hear your point, too, Klonoar. It's definitely worth pointing out that people can have good reasons for "going
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Agree with you that in the case of entrenched rot there's not much that "stay and fix things from the inside" can do to help. I just don't think that the Rust community/leadership has gotten to that point. OP'
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Wish we had more role models these days who were willing to disagree with decisions and work to fix them rather than loudly resign or point fingers. Feels like there is a lot of pressure these days that if you are part of a "bad"
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
This is actually a real thing. I worked at a consulting company partnered with McDonald's and they asked if we could help them optimize the number of sesame seeds on their burger buns.
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by twelfthnight 3y ago
Flip side is when Google left China in 2010 it opened the door for Baidu, which is completely state controlled and gave the CCP more power. Is that better? I think what we're finding is that the world is interconnected and authoritari
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by twelfthnight 4y ago
I don't think I've ever looked back and wished I spent more time working and less time learning. That said, since I was in school tuitions have increased as well as (exploitative) adjunct professor hiring, so students spending mor
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by twelfthnight 4y ago
I think there are ways in which LLMs will be very important, especially if we are able to get access to raw models /embeddings. That will let the models be extended to create new models and use cases. For example, personally I want to
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by twelfthnight 4y ago
I'm with you. CDs are crazy undervalued right now. I'm not sure they will have quite the hipster boom as vinyl in the future, but I wonder if used CD prices will start rising eventually after some time passes and nostalgia increas

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