GavinB

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by GavinB 2y ago
I've just published my first novel for adults, The Dark Sorcerer's Intern , my bid to bring back fun and comedy to a fantasy genre that has spent years in a grimdark rut. The relevance to hackers is that unlike most fantasy where
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by GavinB 3y ago
This is a compelling theory, especially the implication that humans are early. I do wonder whether we should see the evidence of spheres of growing alien influence out in the stars, but instead we see a highly uniform universe in all direct
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by GavinB 3y ago
Is this in comparison to some other evaluation function which is perfect? I agree that all positions should have a certainty of win, draw, or lose with perfect play, but no engine is close to that level of evaluation function. I do suspect
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by GavinB 3y ago
I got downvotes for not showing the calculation, fair enough, my mistake. I understand the frustration there. And yeah, you've got to check ChatGPT's work and ask for clarification to understand what it did and why. That said, I d
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by GavinB 3y ago
If you're going to yell at someone, at least do your own calculation so you can prove they're wrong first, please? Total Sky Area=4π×(2π360)^2×60^2 = 148,510,660 square arcminutes (you can also look this up easily) NIRCam has 9.7
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by GavinB 3y ago
I'd suspect it will actually accelerate moving everything into the cloud. If your entire business is in the cloud, you can give an AI access to everything with a single sign or some passwords. If half is on the cloud and half is local,
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by GavinB 4y ago
Alternatively, figure out how to use GPT-3 in a market that involves some schleps. I'm working on one in Education Tech, building something for a need that teachers have been practically begging for. There are particular regulatory cha
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by GavinB 4y ago
Having this be a universal policy has a big clear benefit--when someone at the company dies, their family's immediate needs and expenses are taken care of. It avoids the awkward "passing the hat" to the company or fellow empl
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by GavinB 6y ago
I agree in principle. On the other hand, global crises have always called for extraordinary measures. Even in this pandemic, we've (correctly, I would say) basically thrown out important principles like freedom of movement and freedom
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by GavinB 6y ago
There was discussion of it early on, but there's no evidence that it was done on any significant scale outside of the efforts of individual pharma companies working on their own supply chains. It's possible that I'm wrong! Ma
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by GavinB 6y ago
Yes, all of them. Or possibly expanding capacity for each of the major vaccine types, to be ready when we know which one is the winner. And then, yes, a lot of those factories would have ended up sold for scrap (or mothballed for future pan
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by GavinB 6y ago
So no, we did not “have the vaccine” in February. We did have it, we just didn't know which one it was. And we refused to risk any individual life in order to potentially save hundreds of thousands or more. We also could have investe
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by GavinB 6y ago
It kind of is. Hypothesis rejection is the primary means of advancing knowledge. "We tried to prove this hypothesis wrong and could not" is the main thing you want a study to do. Having everyone try to prove your hypothesis wrong,
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by GavinB 6y ago
Given that a vaccine may not provide total protection, they should consider how to sell a potential early, safe but only moderately effective vaccination. For instance, calling it a "COVID-19 Immune Booster Shot," and be very tran
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by GavinB 6y ago
Yes, flat-earthers would probably count as non-conformist. I think the point is that in order to have Galileo, you have to tolerate flat-earthers as well. I do agree that calling most people "sheep" is uncharitable, and would add
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by GavinB 6y ago
Just needs some rendering presets, star field backgrounds, lens flare, GPT-2 title generation, and you've got random SF novel book covers!
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by GavinB 7y ago
That's true in theory, but rules of war do have a long history of limited but very real success. The key is to keep a multipolar civilization so that the cost of defecting from the rules (for example, the Geneva Convention) is higher t
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by GavinB 8y ago
It gives users easier access and a better experience, so they're more likely to return and to spend longer. The ultimate goal is to become a "default time waster" for as many people as possible, who open the app whenever they
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by GavinB 8y ago
The thing about warehouses is that they have high ceilings and big windows. So people started to associate the outsides of those buildings with the bright and spacious interiors.
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Users Accuse Instagram of Censoring Hashtags About Sex Work and Women(broadly.vice.com)
4 points by GavinB 8y ago|0 comments
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by GavinB 8y ago
Yep! My only point was that it apparently took a ton of work to find a way to hack into a place which is already considered fairly insecure. Basically I don't think there's any reason to panic or be surprised by this story, or for
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by GavinB 8y ago
I'm sure the work that F-Secure did was very technically impressive, but I don't think this demonstrates that "these electronic locks may not be very secure" as the article states. I'd imagine that there are very fe
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by GavinB 9y ago
Scholastic | Assistant Project Coordinator, Associate Project Manager | New York, NY | Onsite | Full Time Scholastic is the world's largest children's book publisher. We are looking to fill positions working in product and project
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by GavinB 9y ago
I submitted my data but I'm getting an "unknown request" on the URL https://www.legalist.com/equifax-sent/ Also, it's unclear what court you're supposed to file in. I did some research and, at
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by GavinB 10y ago
this is basically linking up a bunch of in-accurate sensory parsers, coupled with some limited machine learning, connected to a bunch of if statements Add enough complicated if statements and you've got a rough definition of a human!
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by GavinB 10y ago
The moment you agreed to a fixed bid, the incentives between client and customer are directly in conflict. Any additional thing that the client wants has to be renegotiated. If your development is in any way exploratory or creative, my expe
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by GavinB 10y ago
So a company that blatantly cheated will pay some fines and still be worth billions. The founders and early employees will all be rich, or richer than they were when they started. The investors will get a very healthy return. The lesson: br
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by GavinB 10y ago
The end of Moore's law is like commercial fusion power--always just around the corner but it never seems to get here. It does seem like we should stop counting how many transistors fit in how much space. At this point, size isn't
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by GavinB 11y ago
I just had my first novel released this month! It combines gaming and literacy for kids. It's themed around the idea of "becoming a player character in your own life." The main character, Josh, uses the ideas of experience po
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by GavinB 11y ago
The Segway is quite large and needs parking or storage. Also, it can't go up stairs. Hoverboards can be picked up and carried easily around an office or home, and can be tossed under a desk or in a backpack for storage. A Segway is lik

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