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by ummonk 4y ago
How much do you get paid as a fraction of what unionized tech workers in the US get paid?
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by ummonk 4y ago
I generally agree (and think stock buybacks are just better because they let investors time their tax realizations), but I'll point out that the way dividends are reported makes it more public when a company is not reinvesting in growt
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by ummonk 4y ago
Okay I agree with you on that. The technology will be disruptive regardless of whether we attribute true understanding to it, and as we start adding long term memory and planning to these AIs, we will start seeing significant alignment risk
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by ummonk 4y ago
One of the frustrating things about cremation being prevalent in many Indians is that it constrains our ability to extract ancient DNA of Indians. In this case if we had a sequencable skeleton it would have been really easy to determine get
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by ummonk 4y ago
“LLMs can't to my knowledge process a request into a lookup on say an actual database of facts at the moment or parse a request into API actions.” Both Bing chat and ChatGPT plugins are examples of being able to do just this. You’re ri
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by ummonk 4y ago
> might as well argue that a plane isn’t a real bird or a car isn’t a real horse. They aren’t though… They are far superior at specific things birds and horses are known for, but they can’t do everything that birds and horses can, so th
727.
by ummonk 4y ago
It’s worse because a US-based MTurker is far from the cheapest human available.
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by ummonk 4y ago
The point is that banks would incur costs from protecting themselves against a spate of runs on the banks and if it's true that banks pass on all their costs then those costs would be passed on to their customers.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Your comment seems to suggest the answer is no, and that LLMs can indeed learn sensory-grounded information, but it's just orders of magnitude less efficient to train them on text rather than on multimodal data.
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by ummonk 4y ago
I don't understand the math there. So they're selling 72 billion of assets for 55.5 billion + 500 million in stock, but out of 167 billion in assets they're only left with around 90 billion? What happened to the other 5 billi
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A Shark Discovery ‘Didn’t Look Right.’ It Might Have Been a Plastic Toy(nytimes.com)
3 points by ummonk 4y ago|0 comments
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by ummonk 4y ago
"OOM exception" is a wrong answer. If your code terminates on a space mission because lazy evaluation runs out of memory, it's disastrous.
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by ummonk 4y ago
"A memory leak means a program will never free some region of memory" The memory gets freed when the program terminates.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Don't know if Rust has this ability, but SPARK (a subset of Ada for safety-critical code) does have the ability to guarantee known space usage, as well as guarantee that a program will terminate.
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by ummonk 4y ago
I should have said "undefined". What I meant was that the space the program will use isn't defined by the language itself and can't be known at compile time. It's dependent on implementation details of the compiler
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by ummonk 4y ago
The article seems to downplay the effect that space leaks can have on correctness / reliability. If 99.9% of code you write works, but every once in a while code nondeterministically encounters space leaks, that's a bad thing for
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by ummonk 4y ago
If the violence is directly in service of their goals without relying on the spread of terror, e.g. environmentalists blocking loggers, labor strikers shutting down a factory, or separatists setting up checkpoints and attacking government s
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by ummonk 4y ago
The issue here is that you have to use text prompts (because the overwhelming bulk of training data out there available for AI is in the form of text). Ideally you should be able to sculpt and rig and paint manually via AI tools - the tweak
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by ummonk 4y ago
The FBI uses an expansive definition of "terrorism" for obvious self-serving reasons. In reality, violent criminal acts to further ideological goals aren't terrorism unless done to actually spread terror.
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by ummonk 4y ago
This is even more ridiculous than calling Amritpal Singh a terrorist. The pogroms / religious riots in 2002 weren't genocide, and Modi did not perpetrate them, though he should bear responsibility for allowing them to happen on hi
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by ummonk 4y ago
Separatist yes. I wouldn't go as far as calling him a terrorist until allegations of planned terrorist attacks are confirmed by neutral parties. While he's running an org that has voolent clashed with police, there hasn't bee
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by ummonk 4y ago
Yeah I'll happily shut off my phone (not just put it on silent) but handing it over is too much.
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by ummonk 4y ago
That would explain why GPT found the paper sarcastic…
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by ummonk 4y ago
Long term trends that aren't part of a fixed seasonal or cyclic pattern.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Not that I believe his claims about SBNY, but Barney Frank, of Dodd-Frank fame, shouldn't be treated as just some random grifter who lost equity.
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by ummonk 4y ago
And mortgage backed securities. Both highly safe. It was in managing interest rate risk that they failed.
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by ummonk 4y ago
ECS essentially uses the relational-database-like data storage. To model a tree, ideally you would have ECS but with graph-database-like data storage.
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by ummonk 4y ago
I think more accurately a normal map automatically scales with LOD. You only need as many fragment shaders as the pixels occupied on screen.
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Profiler shows 25% GPU usage when dragging around window on RTX 3090 TI(twitter.com)
2 points by ummonk 4y ago|1 comments
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by ummonk 4y ago
I use it to reduce the drudgery of writing code like this. I've found I have to do a lot of hand-holding in terms of telling it what data structures and logic it should use. I also just directly tell it what changes it needs to make to

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