Breza

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by Breza 19d ago
I agree that they are historically important, but if you want to query old thinking in 2070, you'd probably be better off having a modern model analyze archive.org. If that ever goes down, we're sunk.
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by Breza 19d ago
In my experience as the head of data science in a corporation, everybody uses Windows on their local machines and Linux remotely.
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by Breza 19d ago
When my daughter turned five and received her final book in the mail, it came with a letter that still makes me tear up.
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by Breza 1mo ago
At work I use a tech stack written years and years ago in .Net that runs on a server we own in a colo. We use a CDN for some latency-sensitive serving, but almost everything is self-hosted. It's amazing how cheap it is for us to run a
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by Breza 1mo ago
It wouldn't necessarily lower prices. Waymo could compete on quality instead of price. If you offer a better and safer service than the competition (human and AV) why lower prices at all? There's a reason Waymo often charges more
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by Breza 1mo ago
I agree with you. Look at railroads, cars, computers, and other technologies that really did end up being world-changing. How many of the original companies are still around? Sometimes I feel like OpenAI will end up like Fairchild Semicondu
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by Breza 1mo ago
Yup, every time I'm on a city bus they have a screen that cycles through the different cameras. They really have every angle covered. And some of our buses even have traffic enforcement cameras that issue tickets to cars.
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by Breza 1mo ago
> scheduling constraint Honestly I think this is the only real advantage of a self-driving bus. Driving a bus is hard work and it doesn't pay well. Getting drivers to cover all the routes every day is an ongoing challenge. I would h
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by Breza 1mo ago
Bus drivers don't make much money, at least not here in the United States. I was shocked when I learned how low the average salary is, considering you might be tasked with navigating a massive vehicle carrying dozens of people through
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by Breza 1mo ago
Done. I grew up in suburban Michigan. I moved to Washington DC for college 20 years ago and I'm still here. When looking to buy a house, we only looked at options with public transit access. I know it's not for everyone, but if yo
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by Breza 1mo ago
I totally agree with you. Here in DC they use a public charger that's on one of my running routes, so I interact with them more often than the average Washingtonian. I feel more comfortable around them than I do around human drivers.
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by Breza 1mo ago
Waymo has done a great job of making its rollouts into new cities smooth. I have to wonder what will happen once they pivot to profitability in a few years. Will they be willing to lose revenue pulling so many cars out of service? Will they
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by Breza 1mo ago
Look at the train and bus stops outside of a transit-connected stadium after a game. Here in DC, the transit cops often make people wait outside the subway stations so they aren't overcrowded. I can't imagine the congestion nightm
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by Breza 1mo ago
GP is talking about government-subsidized housing. So it's not "their lifestyle is wrong" so much as "how should we subsidize housing costs with taxpayer money?" I just don't think building housing in the subur
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by Breza 1mo ago
The other day, I was working with Polars and decided to go old school with everything. I asked my questions on udm14.com and wrote the code in Notepad++. It was invigorating. Reminded me why I started coding in the first place.
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by Breza 1mo ago
I know this would add complexity, but I wonder if they could train a model to predict the odds of a given cart being abandoned. I'm a data scientist. I bet there are at least a few situations where you could be confident that someone w
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by Breza 1mo ago
I wonder if the human training process amplified this effect. I like to imagine there's an OpenAI RLHF trainer in Kenya whose name we'll never know who really likes this style of writing and is solely responsible for LLM voice. I
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by Breza 1mo ago
I had never heard the phrase "contrastive parallelism" before and I love it. I mean, I can't stand how often LLMs do it, but having a word for my annoyance is nice.
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by Breza 1mo ago
I agree with you. When I was a freshman, the school paper assigned me to cover a professor talking about the blogosphere. That was a year before Facebook released its newsfeed. My story did not age well. https://gwhatchet.com&#x2
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by Breza 2mo ago
I sometimes wonder about the V2, atomic bomb, bomb sight, and other massively expensive WWII research programs. It seems like they all could have been replaced with much more boring uses of the same money for much greater effect.
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by Breza 2mo ago
You are correct. If the company wanted, it could probably be profitable in the next couple of years. But that would require aggressively shedding stuff like X, xAI, and Starship. If they did that, they'd lose a lot of stock market valu
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by Breza 2mo ago
Growing up inMichigan in the nineties, solar water heaters were surprisingly common. Your comment makes me wonder how hard it would be to pipe water through the PV panels en route to the actual water heater.
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by Breza 2mo ago
Good tip. Somehow this feels more fair than the elevator example but I can't put my finger on why.
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by Breza 2mo ago
I used to work in a shiny new LEED certified government building here in DC. My office was on the second floor. I had to take a elevator every day because the only stairs were for fire use. So frustrating.
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by Breza 2mo ago
In my own experience, the brass sets the culture and expectations that encourage department heads to break the law. Certainly there are done CEOs explicitly commanding people to do crime, but it's more common to tell people to, eg, mov
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by Breza 2mo ago
Honest question, why do they need tens of thousands of GPUs? I would have thought they could run a Sol-level model on a few million dollars of hardware. Let's say it's ten million dollars, and let's also say they want to test
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by Breza 2mo ago
One of my friends from grad school got a Masters of Public Policy then decided she would rather chalk menuboards for a living, spun up an LLC, and does amazing work. I admire people who are so willing to chase their dreams. I joke with my f
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by Breza 2mo ago
I totally agree with you! I love seeing a flyer at my daughter's school that was obviously made by a student. It shows that they care enough about the thing to put real work into promoting it. Heck yes I'll buy a donut from coffee
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by Breza 2mo ago
This is incredibly well stated. I might trot out this comment the next time the bosses ask for more accurate next-year financial projections.
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by Breza 2mo ago
Now most people get their music through a paid service that streams content from a remote data center. OpenAI is trying to replicate the music industry's history.

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