xwolfi

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by xwolfi 2y ago
Since I've started working in finance, I find all those conspiracies about banks and "wall street" a bit cringe: HSBC is actually a nice bank, they helped me a lot, hedge funds do lose as much money as they make in aggregate
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by xwolfi 2y ago
It's like crypto: you wouldnt attract anyone paying nearly enough if you had to invest to solve current problems without any idea if you even could. Might as well re-solve inefficiently past problems and you might catch a few passer by
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Or as I tell my colleagues who try to push for more abstract syntax: do you want your brain to do compilation each time your read something, or just have verbose text giving hints at each line ? It s weird people prefer reading implicit tex
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by xwolfi 2y ago
And you wonder sometimes if the products being advertised, themselves, couldn't matter more than the targets reading them. We've learned to recognize crappy offering and AI can try to make me read more and more ads relevant to wha
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Build it in France and Italy and come back tell me about capital management :)
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by xwolfi 2y ago
But then if I write a Pulitzer prize article called "No snark intended: How the web became such a toxic place", where your comment, and all other of ur comments for good measure, figure prominently while I ridicule you and this ha
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Yeah they probably were still working on the last buzzword
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But what is it exactly?
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by xwolfi 2y ago
But arte is clearly not good because of music. They do some,but what we watch it for are their mindblowing and regular documentaries they either produce or purchase. As well as their debate shows (I can spend a month watching their daily de
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by xwolfi 2y ago
And you ignore the fact that maybe you are more to credit for his success than he was. Engineers aren't fungible, aren't all the same, arent all compatible with each other and the manager. Your conclusion is the right one but can
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Well I think in that case that'd be like your dog biting a naughty child in a park. It's not exactly entirely your fault, it's not the dog's fault, the kid is not entirely always innocent either. Put down the dog, fine t
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by xwolfi 2y ago
It's impossible to get it right: it's not search anymore, it's editorialising. And for computers to do it while adding value will take time, and probably more than applied statistics. Like maybe they should experience it them
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Bah, we just have to wait for the next batch of GPU they get so that giant datacenters can be equipped to give us 0.2% more accurate results about how to eat rocks.. Cant wait for the next-gen ads !
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Yup, your response makes me think they should just use a calculator, like everyone.
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The answer is simple: the single most valuable asset at OpenAI appears to be Altman bullshitting about science fiction AI, and nothing else. When he disappear, value plumetted, partners evaporated, clients stopped paying, competitors rushed
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Sir, let me introduce you to Elon Musk, whose board chairman talk of like a little child you need to please with candies so he can bullshit well at earnings to pump the stock. Joke aside, the CEO can be a promoter of hype with no particular
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Obscure to me too !
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by xwolfi 2y ago
I don't know if that was as asinine, all-pervasive and exhausting as the AI one. Altman bought millions of dollars of video game cards to make a website that can invent sentences by parsing hundreds of years of human work to guesstimat
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by xwolfi 2y ago
And Altman is a disgusting guru, it's so painfully obvious but somehow he gets the same amount of pushback as Enron "Electric Jesus" Musk, but for half the accomplishment: at least Enron built cars, lots of cars. Shitty cars,
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by xwolfi 2y ago
To be fair to LinkedIn, everyone knows it's not expected to be real stories... it's just fun and silly to post random corporate drone bullshit and see people jokingly reply "you inspired me today to thank my boss" or som
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by xwolfi 2y ago
On your opposite side, they think if Biden wins babies will die horrible deaths. American politics are full of superlatives, and very devoid of any real actions. Once the hero or the devil gets elected, nothing happens much.
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by xwolfi 2y ago
You did well: there is never a rule against one-off contract. I can assure you the CEO has a one-off contract, and that lawyer has a one-off contract, at the very least :D
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by xwolfi 2y ago
But we didn't ask the bank for any of this. They can just check my fingerprint each time I go to an ATM and provide no card, and I'll survive. They built these systems, we can't do without them anymore, and on top of it I hav
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Imagine a million elements. How big must your hashtable be ? The article explains it very well, did you miss it ? It's a way to save memory. But to be honest I implemented it, ran it on Hamlet, and it's very wrong, it's barel
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Yes, let's take very seriously every joke random people do online. Dude come on, been 300 years, you should have discovered humor by now.
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Monkeys who've trained since birth to use sign language, and can reply incredible questions, have the same issue. The researchers noticed they never once asked a question like "why is the sky blue?" or "why do you dress
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by xwolfi 2y ago
I was also surprised when I noticed all my dreamcast backups were completely rotten - I thought discs were meant to last forever... Instead now I have an active 50TB NAS with disk swapping once in a while... but it's not at all "d
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by xwolfi 2y ago
I have one on my passport number. I still dont know which it is so I alternate. Hasn't been a problem to anyone yet when registering for planes and crossing borders: the picture is clear, it can be both lol
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by xwolfi 2y ago
Terrify ? I'm French and live in China: nobody in France is terrified by the US or China being better at chips. We're better at other things and import chips by giving them euros, and the fools take the trade, so we continue. And
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But they paid for said misdeeds, it's not that important that they pay forever, is it ? I mean it sounds annoying to allow an embezzler to be an accountant again, but I mean, he did his time, he's supposed to have reformed, what a

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