unusualmonkey

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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
The Bellagio in Vegas is pretty awesome.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
I find it ironic that you decided to try to justify natural diamonds... just to say that synthetic diamond purchasers always try to justify it. Pot, Kettle and all that. With probably a large helping of selection bias.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
How does a LLM compare to say .ZIP at compressing Romeo and Juliet? How does ZIP compare to a LLM at answering a prompt to write a short story about cats in the style of Romeo and Juliet?
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Because compression and generation are very different concepts.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Compression schemes take an item, reduce it in size, and return the same item (lossy or lossless) when asked. LLM's and other generative AI are not designed nor are particularly good at this. What they are good at is returning new res
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Changing from png to jpeg is a copy (albeit lossy) - which is the exact kind of thing that copyright is designed to protect against. If you took a pen and paper and traced over an image that's also a copy, even though you used a human.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
I think it's absurd to say that only say 3% of crypto transactions are criminal, if the majority of other transactions are meaningless. Surely what we actually care about is how many useful, legal, meaningful transactions there are. Fo
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
I love how you quote that, but not other lines like: "We first document that 90% of transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain is not tied to economically meaningful activities". How much of the actually meaningful use is legal?
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
So you can use it to conduct illegal cross border money transfers... of course most cryptos aren't anonymous and even those are you still need to transfer it to a local currency etc. for that functionality to be useful.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build... Why wouldn't they? They are relatively similar countries in many ways, any problem that one has could easily b
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> But our discussion is not about that. It's about the very basic thing in probabilities, which is some event is not as likely to happen as others. This is so trivially true. Except that's not a given. Any equally long random s
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> My point is that the probability of getting a proper English word is very unlikely. Most of the time, you'll get gibberish strings. Sure, but given a large enough sample both will likely exist. So the fact that one happens to be e
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> So yeah, in this context, some shapes are more likely to form (randomly) than others. Again I think you are confused. Assuming random distribution, 'We Are Coming' is just as likely as any other similarly long structure to fo
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
Yes, a large set of instances is more likely than a single instance (all things being equal). However that doesn't mean that a sphere is any more or less likely than any specific other structure. It's an small but important distin
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
HH is just as compressible as HT or TH or TT. You can easily build a compression scheme for any one of these values, but not one that encapsulates all values while using less data than the raw values themselves.
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
> If you throw 1000 dices, is it possible to get all one? Yes. Is it likely? Not at all. That's literally as likely as any other possible outcome. Let's simplfy this to a coin toss, which is more likely: HHHHHH or HHTHTT or H
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by unusualmonkey 2y ago
There is no guarantee that local processing is going to have lower latency than remote processing. Given the huge compute needs of some AI models (e.g. chat gpt) the time saved by using larger compute likely dwarfs the relatively small time
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Fantastic.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
It's losing billions of dollars. It's easy to make something people like... if you're willing to burn money.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
IIRC large portions of China's high speed rail might be a boondoggle... so not sure that's the best example.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
The other problem here is that the is very little moat here - all you need is a good screen and decent headphones, both of which are commodity. The AVP is vastly overpriced and overspecced for basic media consumption.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
> If you want a store in a mall, you have to pay higher leases and probably additional fees than you would if you operated out of your garage. An iPhone is not a mall. An iPhone is a device owned by the end user. If the end user wants to
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Why are you funding over half a million just for college?
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
So many words... so little actually said. Sci-fi is inspirational, especially for people who use STEM to change the world. However, contrary to this opinion, this isn't inherently negative or bad.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Small form factor builds are a thing - for all we know they picked up another.more expensive 4090 that fit better.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
If you truly believe this, please try to use 803.11a for daily needs. I personally appreciate faster speeds, lower latency, better support for multiple devices, less contention, better support for wifi mesh etc. Heck, I'm far more frus
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Seems strong to say .net is mostly showmanship... when your main contention is another framework has alpha support for a different GC.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
The top trim was originally announced with 500 mile range. That's changed as if yesterday with no real announcement AFAIK.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
Have you used those technologies? Asp.netbwas great, asp.net cire was a good upgrade, and minimal apis are an optional way to get an asp project up and running with less boilerplate. Not sure how that constitutes a cluster.
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by unusualmonkey 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if reflection usage starts diminishing, with source generators solving a number of use-cases while maintaining AOT.

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