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by xmprt 2y ago
My main concern with AI is that in a capitalist society, wealth is being transferred to companies training these models rather than the artists who have defined an iconic style. There's no doubt that AI is useful and can make many peop
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The problem with modern hiring practices is that they're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Hiring based on past experience is biased and often can lead to either subpar candidates (lemons) or overpaying. You're either le
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I sometimes take notes/talking points about things I want to cover in my interviews and reference those. This could arguably be considered cheating but definitely not as egregious as using ChatGPT but I worry it would almost appear the
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That's fair. My understanding is that NN and ML are similar insofar as they are both about minimizing a loss value (like negative log likelihood). And then the methods of doing that are very different and once you get even more advance
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Really good players can get lucky pretty often because of game sense so even glass walling is hard to detect for certain if a player shoots through walls and kills their invisible opponent. We see this often even in pro play for tactical sh
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I don't read it as contempt but rather the equivalent of a backend engineer saying that you can't trust user inputs and need to validate, authenticate, and authorize every request.
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The checks and balances still exists in theory. The problem is that a slim majority in congress and a slim Supreme Court majority aren't willing to use their checks and are instead ceding power to the President.
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Losing 4M is pretty significant considering that's 4M people who actively decided to uninstall something. A majority of the 16M might be dead users (installed on an old browser) or people who don't realize it's still installe
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The nice thing about reddit is that no one is forcing you to follow such broach subreddits which appeal to the common denominator. In my experience, any subreddit which has more than a few millions members is going to be pretty terrible. Fi
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The two examples you gave seem like bad examples of inverted pyramid. Inverted pyramid doesn't leave you hanging. It's not clickbait. It should be the case that within 1-2 sentences you can mostly understand what the rest of the a
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I remember hearing about Maya when I was studying in college. It's was so expensive and essentially unobtainable unless you were in the industry. Blender has democratized 3D modeling and animation so much.
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Also fair, but most of the time the other people are a few close friends. I'm not trying to keep it a secret like a diary but I'm also not trying to get incredibly popular like a content creator or famous blogger.
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If the only viewer of my blog posts is myself (and often times it is), then I'd still keep writing if only just to keep a public journal of my thought process and things that I accomplished at certain times in my life.
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My favorite OS book (less about development and more about how it works) is Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. Free in HTML and PDF form but they sell a printed book as well. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP&#x
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by xmprt 2y ago
I think you're right. I think you could say the package (as in the code) is 45% faster or that the package increases parsing rate by 90%. But mixing the two is confusing.
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Of course. But here we're talking about the opportunity cost of the founders and other employees so gross profit isn't as relevant. Context matters and the context here is that the founders and employees would probably have a much
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Working with Microsoft's customer facing tools and people is very different from working inside Microsoft. Not that you'll like one if you hate the other but just that they're different enough that you can't judge one by
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I'd change it to "A Social Media Tool called Dataminr". On its own, the name of the tool is meaningless.
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I learned about the breach a few days ago but I didn't know that you could "adopt" an emoji: https://aac.unicode.org/sponsors That's a neat tidbit.
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The mystery was never in the "how do computers calculate the probabilities of next tokens" but rather in the "why is it able to work so well" and "what does this individual neuron contribute to the whole model"
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I should have a bit more faith but at this point I feel like the median voter might see their world getting worse but still be convinced somehow that Democrats are behind it because Republicans have their messaging on point and Democrats ar
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There's a difference when everyone is walking home (so you often walk home with a few friends who live nearby) vs being alone walking home.
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If the goose is likely to live for significantly longer than 20 years and has potential to lay $15 or $20 in the future then yes I'd probably buy that goose for $250. Of course there's risk with it (eg. Google might significantly
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> locking up all content creators into exclusive deals This is the worrying part. The real content creators are people like you or me (not reddit or stackoverflow) and we aren't getting a piece of the exclusive deals. So if this is
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> Just to keep everyone one the treadmill Unironically yes. Although it's arguably a win-win. Google constantly keeps its pipeline of candidates open which means that if you're looking for a job and you clear the resume bar, yo
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As a somewhat casual discord user, what am I missing out on by not using Nitro? The only feature that's in my face is all the emojis I can't use but I also don't really use emojis that much to begin with.
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I think that's what the commenter is confused about. I am too. Discord is more usable than Slack in a lot of ways so their pure focus on gamers who are notoriously price sensitive and won't pay for a messaging platform instead of
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It will probably be another 15-20 years before we see the pendulum swing back for education unfortunately since we're still in the fuck around part of FAFO. It will take at least another generation of poor performance and educational o
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If you want to spend more time on this I think one fun idea would be an infinite bouncing DVD logo. Just sync the location of the logo every time it bounces so all devices have a consistent view and then the individual screens can compute w
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The toughest part of this wasn't setting up different videos to play on each screen but rather the "run videos simultaneously through a web browser" part. So even if you could decode and process such a large video on those Ch

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