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by xdavidliu 2y ago
good point, though a great LLM answer would DWIM here and explain both interpretations as you have done here, as opposed to (what presumably happened) focus on one and ignore the other.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
who gets to withdraw that money?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
yep, the concept is more general than steroids and often goes by terms like "blackmail" or "leverage"
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
of course not. When you go through airport security, they give you trays where you put your backpack, laptop, and shoes. Happens every day with no problem.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
what's "streak"? do you mean steak?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
I know that you weren't trying to refute it, and I know that it's not an argument or attack. > with eukarya containing all multicellular organisms Single cell eukaryotes also exist My point is that your statement here looks l
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> xAI was relatively separated from X and TSLA, and wasn't having the backlashes associated with the two. I don't understand this point: why would these backlashes care about the on-paper separation? (I'm assuming by backl
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> We agree. I don't grasp your point? your original comment didn't refute the quote, but one needs to squint hard to see that you didn't refute it.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> Finally, state your main point/purpose up front. For everything, every section, every paragraph. Gets attention. Filters readers by relevance. Assists clarity & brevity. My grad school advisor said to me that "the first N
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
the most recent version has `import std;` in the very first hello world, which to my knowledge is not close to working in the vast majority of compilers.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> The second you try to measure it, the wave function collapses, and you've fundamentally altered the thing you were trying to measure. Related to Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good me
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
the former is often easier to measure than the latter, and the latter is often only measurable when superficial.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
Zuck isn't LeBron. https://www.essentiallysports.com/nba-basketball-news-refusi...
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
nit: that was a private AIM conversation with a college friend or something, that happened to get leaked, so the whistleblower is the friend who presumably leaked, not Mark himself.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> Corporations are never truly your friends and should be treated accordingly. For some reason, we once believed that tech companies were different, but in reality, it was always just a more sophisticated facade. Are those companies you
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> Tech companies were different and still are. what would be an example of a tech company (for a fair comparison, a large one would be nice), and how is it different in the sense of not exhibiting the behaviors of this book?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
this is why I don't like NSA (non-standard acronyms). It saves half a second for the typer, but causes hours if not days of confusion when summed over all the readers.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
the point is thinkpad hardware is not nearly as good as Apple Silicon hardware
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
maybe it's an industrialization thing. The poor countries in Africa don't have as many factories and smog; the rich countries also don't have as many factories, but the asian countries do.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> This seems backwards to me. Labour can leave; someone can get on a plane most labor does not individually have the means to leave like that. also, you're talking about capital moving as in already-invested capital, while I'm
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
my guess is because capital has more options than labor, and the decision makers since time immemorial are more afraid of capital leaving than labor leaving
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> At a time when we're trying to figure out how to make the internet livable for humans, without exploiting other humans in the process, AO3 (AO3, to its friends) offers something the rest of tech could learn from. > AO3 (AO3, to
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> Why shouldn't the health insurance industry be the first item on the chopping block? I don't understand this question: how can the private companies in the industry be placed on the chopping block? By outlawing them?
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
some of the phrasing is also a giveaway: > but guarded defense, caught rebounds and played the role of playmakers. nobody who has watched basketball would say "guarded defense" or "caught rebounds". I saw "throw
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
reminds me of the fraudulent Ariely and Gino papers that were exposed a year or two ago, where a very common comment was "they're dishonesty researchers, of course they are going to be dishonest".
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
I'm pretty sure Ruggiero Ricci's 1947 recording (first ever) of Paganini's 5th caprice is faster https://youtu.be/9ugLoMvfUiQ?feature=shared&t=815
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
> In the past, the team built its roster around a big name like Shaq. Most of the offense were from the center. This is the first time I've ever heard this. > they not only scored but guarded defense, caught rebounds and played t
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Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models(arxiv.org)
1 points by xdavidliu 2y ago|0 comments
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
if exchange rate in one direction is low, I think that means the rate in the other direction is high. They can't both be low at the same time.
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by xdavidliu 2y ago
related in past two days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584088 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42587259

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