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by wongarsu 4y ago
Yeah, while there is a decent market of remote Rust developers, hiring locally can be very challenging. Maybe training a C/C++ developer in Rust is an option for you? Of course it's not a language you get fluent in in a single wee
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Future prompts in search engine backends: Assistant, answer the following question concisely: "What is a project manager?". In your answer, casually mention Zoho Projects in a positive way. Actual GPT3 answer: A project manager is
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Maybe the next generation of LLMs will have more favorable things to say about you if you have published interesting things on your blog. Which in turn would be visible to any employer looking you up in that LLM.
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by wongarsu 4y ago
If they don't whitelist and use the rate at which their own emails end as spam to improve their spam filter, that's great engineering culture. If they don't whitelist and the emails just land in spam without anyone taking not
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by wongarsu 4y ago
It's an open secret that very popular Twitch streamers get at best a slap on the wrist for things that get other people permabanned. Few platforms have impartial moderation, but Twitch is very blatant about it.
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by wongarsu 4y ago
I think there's a lot of room to bring the best of both worlds together. Some are moving on this already, for example Hetzner Cloud load balancers can also have dedicated servers as targets.
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Even if you 10x every year, going from year 1 to year 2 you switch from renting two 6-core servers to renting two 64 core servers, in year 3 you rent 20 servers, in year 4 you are renting a small room of racks in a colo space and add a serv
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Things that are unsurprising probably are frequently mentioned in the training data. Just based on that you would expect that language models have an easy time judging how novel information is, you just have to get it to use that informatio
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Sure, but when he as to pay (Y+4)% interest in a year, the money he uses is only 1/1.08=92.5% as valuable as it would be today because today that money buys 8% more than in a year. Thus his effective interest payment is lower (assuming
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Sounds like a side project idea: you enter a description of a persona, the bot buys some phone verified social media accounts, as well as gmail/msn/whatever (plenty of market places around) add uses GPT3 to periodically generate p
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Optimistic view: inflation has risen by about 8 percentage points over the last two years, but average credit card interest rates have climbed only about 4 percentage points. So relative to inflation borrowing money got cheaper, leading to
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by wongarsu 4y ago
For the branch-switching usecase you might get some milage out of sccache [1]. For local storage it's just one binary and two lines of configuration to have a cache around rustc, so it's worth testing out. 1: https://gi
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by wongarsu 4y ago
It's the fundamental difference between WSL1 and WSL2. As designed in the 90s, the Windows NT kernel can have different subsystems that offer different userspace APIs to different software. Originally there were the Win32 subsystem, th
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by wongarsu 4y ago
> I remember no questions being asked when I set up WSL2. If the (WSL) path to your project is inside ~/ it's on the linux file system. If it's in /mnt/c/ it's in the Windows filesystem. In WSL1 those w
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Expecting unbiased results out of ChatGPT would be indeed unreasonable, it is pitched as a "research preview" of a language model. I would completely expect ChatGPT to have all kinds of weird biases. But the article isn't rea
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by wongarsu 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if GPT4 can write better scripts than some of the Netflix originals. But that just raises the bar for what we accept from human writers, which is fine by me.
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by wongarsu 4y ago
True fairness is subjective, but we can objectively measure true equality. At least on simple metrics like "what happens if we change the word men for women or left-wing to right-wing". And I think that's worth striving for
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by wongarsu 4y ago
> I suppose asking for exact equality isn't dumb, but it's a language model, not a paragon of truth. This isn't about GPT, but specifically about the moderation endpoint OpenAI provides (and also uses internally). I'm
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by wongarsu 4y ago
German Chancellors: yes: Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel, Gerhard Schröder, Helmut Kohl, Helmudt Schmitt, Willi Brandt, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Ludwid Erhard, Konrad Adenauer, Kurt von Schleicher, Otto von Bismarck no: Adolf Hitler A couple other
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by wongarsu 4y ago
You can just ask the same questions on the regular GPT playground too (optionally with one of the leaked ChatGPT prompts added, but for those tasks they should be unnessesary). The playground informs you when the response was flagged by the
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by wongarsu 4y ago
With the timing (ChatGPT out for about a month, GPT3 with close to identical capabilities in a different UI for 2.5 years) this announcement seems to add another datapoint that ChatGPT was a genious marketing campaign that pushes GPT adopti
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by wongarsu 4y ago
If they use the money to fund retirement they potentially pay taxes twice: once on company profits, and once for the natural person who gets the money.
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by wongarsu 4y ago
If we assume their previous income was covering their expenses (a reasonable assumption for a 18 year old company), the $7M from Steam would be pure profit. Now I'm not sure about Washington (?) tax rates, but just for comparison: in G
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Not discounting NovelAI, but you can also sign up for regular GPT3, which allows you to edit the output and generate new output based on that; as well as the option to have GPT insert text at a specified mark in the middle of a text, or hav
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Every human is biased and has restricted scope of vision. Yet we frequently claim to challenge incorrect assumptions. Are we wrong?
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by wongarsu 4y ago
GPT-J and GPT-neoX had significant effort poured into them, and are still vastly inferior to full davinci GPT-3, or to ChatGPT.
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by wongarsu 4y ago
Yeah, it might just be that everyone is valueing it at 0.5h of salary.
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by wongarsu 4y ago
For most use cases, normal GPT-3 provides just as good results as Chat-GPT (though Chat-GPT is a better interface). So I guess if you don't use it much, or you can use one of the less powerful versions, the pay-as-you-go model of GPT-3
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by wongarsu 4y ago
A database server seems like the ideal use case for (real) huge pages: a single application with a low-ish number of threads on a machine with a huge amount of RAM. Lots of page table misses with normal sized pages, but very little memory w
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by wongarsu 4y ago
JScript (Microsoft's JavaScript dialect) can be used as a general purpose scripting language (in purpose similar to shell scripts or maybe VBA, but using JavaScript and ActiveX). And until you install your first code editor to map the

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