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by zzleeper 2y ago
I'm still salty about my Pixel 8 dying out because of the "green screen" bug (basically, screen just progressively turns greener until it stops working). Very common according to reddit, and the ubreakitifixit guy acknowledge
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by zzleeper 2y ago
> Following a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004,[9] where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including
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by zzleeper 2y ago
There's no reason why someone like Richard Hanania should be in my "For You". It is as far away from anything I interact or follow that the only reason why it could be there for me is if it was being pushed intentionally for
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by zzleeper 2y ago
I'm an economist and I think just posting the paper misses a bit of context: There's a bit of an arms race between researchers to write what they hope will be influential papers about how ChatGPT will affect (the economy|inflation
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by zzleeper 3y ago
4.7 at 5km depth is still nothing for anyone not immediately above the epicenter.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I'm partly sad at the approach this and other engines take: reimplement each part (PDF parser, etc etc) in a way where they are pretty much useless except in their specific engine. If instead we had a PDF() class that did what RAGFlow
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by zzleeper 3y ago
If this data is correct, then ONE THIRD of the population was unemployed in 1995. Is this reasonable? Also, why include people with no jobs? That would include stay-at-home parents and even FIRE folks that retired early
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by zzleeper 3y ago
If the value of Reddit was its data, then it should have encouraged more people to use it, instead of e.g. cutting off almost every Android and iPhone app. My usage went completely downhill and my posts/comments as well
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Holy hell I tried it and this is terrible. If I ask them to "show me a picture of a nurse that lives in China, was born in China, and is of Han Chinese ethnicity", this has nothing to do with racism. No need to tell me all this no
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Wow you weren't joking: > Her bullshits will be on delivering bullshit products that bullshit our mission and building bullshits that bullshit momentum. Laura and I will be working closely together throughout February to ensure a bu
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by zzleeper 3y ago
As much as I would want, I wouldn't place all the blame on the police. Just here in Virginia, we are struggling with: https://www.moheblegal.com/blog/2021/08/new-va-law-prohibits... > In March 2021, a
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by zzleeper 3y ago
That's kinda why I use LanceDB. It works on all three OSes, doesn't require large installs, and is quite easy to use. The files are also just Parquet, so no need to deall with SQL.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
> The purpose of flagging is to indicate that a story does not belong on HN. Frivolous flagging—e.g. flagging a story that's clearly on-topic by the site guidelines just because one personally dislikes it—eventually gets an account&
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by zzleeper 3y ago
FYI, PhD students to most top places nowadays also have to fill their diversity statement.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Sorry but that's not how it has been over the last 5-10 years in most parts of academia. I've been explicitly told "WE WILL HIRE A XYZ BECAUSE THAT WILL IMPROVE OUR US NEWS RANKING, AND ONLY THAT. BUT DON'T SAY IT OUT LO
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by zzleeper 3y ago
It's a bit more nuanced. Before, a lot of people on a one-to-one told me how BS most of DEI is. But now, folks feel a bit more free to speak; complain against DEI even in public places or in front of others. It feels like Soviet Union
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Also, note that Gelman never does that
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by zzleeper 3y ago
That doesn't justify China for going all the way across the ocean to illegally fish on Chilean/Peruvian/Ecuador waters
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I would say Google has zero results, as it does not find https://github.com/sergiocorreia/fedplot nor https://sergiocorreia.github.io/fedplot/ ; even with the advantage of the latter being manuall
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by zzleeper 3y ago
For me the problem is not just that searching on Google is bad, but that sometimes it COMPLETELY hides exactly what I'm looking, for no good reason. For instance, I wrote an R ggplot2 package called "fedplot" (following the c
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I'm on the same boat. My neato is already a bit old (needs new battery and I had to replace a broken belt) but I've been procastinating in finding a replacement as there's just so many options, most of which suck.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Same here. No matter who you are, if you conspire to steal from so many employees and workers, you deserve prison.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Every crime category is spiking in DC. EG: petty crime: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/washington-dc-... carjacking: https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/whats-driving-d
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by zzleeper 3y ago
In that imgur plot see it ending in 2022, and crime has barely bulged after exploding in 2020-21, where there was the largest increase in the entire time series. We are basically back to 1995 homicide levels which is insane
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Maybe because in the places where most news are written (DC, NY, SF) crime has spiked drastically? EG: "D.C. Police have responded to 227 homicides so far in 2023. That's up 34% from the same time last year. It also tops 2021&#x27
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Looks great! It would be very interesting to understand a bit they why/how of some of the steps, such as the reranking and how you arrived at your chunking algo.
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by zzleeper 3y ago
If you want to get something done quickly, try llama index. If you want to learn/hack, pick an easy vectordb, get an OpenAI API account, and do a quick attempt Then you can switch to a local LLM and embedder, and it helps a bit in lear
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I was in that spot a few weeks ago. My requirements were not huge but a) I was on Windows and b), didn't want to waste too much time setting it up. Tried a few DBs that didn't work well (e.g. I think it was ChromaDB that didn&#x2
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by zzleeper 3y ago
Can you do this easily? Without paying $$ in transaction costs due to shorting (plus margin)
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by zzleeper 3y ago
I wish there would be a way to just buy sp500 minus a list of firms, so I could invest in a diversified way without going into Uber and friends (or any other firms that make profits on paper without the cash flow to back it)

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