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by zoogeny 3y ago
> what else can we do other than be reactive We can be active? We can get ahead of the curve? It is such a cliche, but the Wayne Gretzky quote is appropriate: "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been" In
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm sure that there is a good reason why, but I dislike that Google Workspace accounts are often excluded from these kinds of things. I mean, I pay Google every month real money and in exchange I get less ? Add in the fact that I was
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I literally just did the exact same. I'm totally unmotivated by this game if this kind of connection isn't what it is looking for.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think my choice of words "scientific concerns" was poor. And to steel-man McGilchrist's position is difficult since he writes voluminous books that I honestly don't have the patience to read in their entirety. So I kin
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I can't put my finger on why, but even though I agree with some of this advice - I don't like this person.
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I get confused who is complaining about who. It reminds me of the two Spiderman meme where each are pointing at each other [1]. Most recently, I was watching an interview with Iain McGilchrist. His thesis in "The Master and His Emissar
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> I think it stems from the unprecedented success of such zealots in the 1980s, I would challenge this belief, that the success of Linux, or the Web technologies (TCP, HTTP, HTML, etc.) were primarily the result of the zealots from the 8
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by zoogeny 3y ago
A decent expanded explanation of why in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHO6FSioPI&ab_channel=Svelt...
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> If you're going to go NIH your replacement needs to not just be better but substantially better, and you should also show understanding of the original open spec. I just disagree with this in principle. I wonder what the tech equi
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Complex user interfaces in applications like MS Word and Photoshop are the result of many users only using a non-overlapping 10% of the program's features. Many UI redesigns focus on the features that the majority use and less common f
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by zoogeny 3y ago
40k tokens per minute is enough for most users is the next "640K ought to be enough for anybody"
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Step 1: Microsoft buys Stack Overflow Step 2: They implement GPT-4 responses to questions Step 3: The community + context provide the same feedback Step 4: GPT-5/6/7 gets progressively better
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Perhaps soon, documentation and APIs will become GPT-friendly first. I can imagine documentation becoming ChatGPT plugin aware. Like, the automatically generated stuff that comes out of Swagger and the like. Maybe a killer feature for
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by zoogeny 3y ago
McSweeney's is a complex combination of things. You are spot on with smug. It is also pretentious but in an ironic way, like they are winking at you (my chief criticism of David Foster Wallace). But I chose sardonic because it includes
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I just checked and McSweeney's has been around since 1998! From the Wikipedia article: In contrast, in 2001, the New York Times noted "The McSweeneyites may be the current emperors of cool, but they're starting to need s
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I suppose it could. I'm spoiled in that the places I have worked on micro-service architectures had either massive kubernetes clusters with 100s of services or were using ECS backed by EC2. I have an intermediate level understanding of
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've been tinkering with a project and one thing that stands out to me is cost. For example, I had a super simple architecture on AWS with 2 load balancers in front of 2 ECS services running on Fargate. Using the smallest possible inst
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Mojo looks extremely promising. Lattner has some hits and misses but in general I find myself agreeing with him on principles. A brief skim of MLIR is interesting as well and I can understand it's goals and how it fits into the LLVM ec
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Andrej Karpathy's Zero to Hero video series [1] is a good middle ground. It isn't super low-level but it also isn't super high-level. I think seeing how the pieces actually fit together in a working project is valuable to get
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by zoogeny 3y ago
One thing on my mind lately is the availability of training data. Rumor has it that a significant amount of the content OpenAI trained with was publicly available, e.g. Reddit. Some people say that by using the training data off of Reddit t
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by zoogeny 4y ago
Some poking around the authors of the paper brought me to: AUDIT: Audio Editing by Following Instructions with Latent Diffusion Models [1] with demos [2] This sparks my interest so much since the last few days I was wondering if it was poss
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by zoogeny 4y ago
Business idea for anyone who is keen: Stack overflow but a LLM responds to every question. Same upvote mechanic, same "accepted answer" mechanic. Perhaps you have known experts validate the response. Basically any Q&A forum bu
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by zoogeny 4y ago
> Perhaps unguided education is today not as accessible for everyone as it was for you, for many reasons. That is fair, I am too liberal with my hyperbole and so I'll try to be a bit more clear. It seems unlikely to me that an indiv
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by zoogeny 4y ago
I mean, pedantry aside this is such an easy question that even Google can find a result. [1] According to that link: The Darby Free Library in Darby, Pennsylvania, is “America’s oldest public library, in continuous service since 1743.” But
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by zoogeny 4y ago
Your post makes me consider what other avenues to achieve the growth of intellectual souls and exposure to depth of thought could exist other than paid-for highly-structured institutions. I think people wax poetically about their own experi
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by zoogeny 4y ago
The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation played with this concept [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(Star_Trek:...
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by zoogeny 4y ago
> What I ended up landing on was focusing on making the "original intent" small enough that I had no excuses to not complete them. This is something I am aiming for myself. It is very common for me to feel motivated and to make
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by zoogeny 4y ago
This article didn't price in opportunity cost. It isn't just a $150k/annum expense on an individual SRE salary. One should consider the HR time to source candidates and time to interview. It would include the time your tech t
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by zoogeny 4y ago
The real trick here is to use this site as a source of inspiration for legitimate blog posts.
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by zoogeny 4y ago
It reminds me of the Robustness Principle [1] which states: "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" I think this advice about the use of "just" applies. You should be liberal in accept

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