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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
This is a great read. It is accurate to what I felt the last time I trained a CNN -- it's not fun , and I don't get to feel clever. My brain isn't wired to give me a dopamine hit when the training does its job. It's jus
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Are software engineers going to go the way of human “computers”? I know GPT-4 won’t put us all out of work, but I worry that something could in a number of decades I can count on one hand. Of course, it would be gradual. I am excited, disap
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Make it 3. Enjoyed the write-up.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Reminds me of the (all too often cited nowadays) Dunning Kruger effect [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Fascinating article. Loved this quote in particular: > The truth is that this trade surplus is not really a choice: it is the outcome of decentralised decisions made by millions of economic actors and in the absence of an adequate mechan
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I agree with that. I do question what my life would look like in that case - for the past 5 years I lived about 7 miles from work. I am currently in a college town while I am finishing up at university, and so I'm now: 3 miles from sch
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I do agree that we can optimize for the cities, but the general attitude towards the people who are going to be worst affected by the ban of ICEs is to look down at them and laugh - as Colbert exclaimed, "I don't care if gas goes
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
It's also simply not feasible for people who don't live in metropolitan areas. Should we just leave rural folk to go back to the horse and buggy? What does Joe Blow in Wyoming do if he lives 2 miles from his nearest neighbor and 2
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
If you have one developer, he or she will be the expert of that project. If you want a team of multiple developers, and it's infeasible to have any one of them be an expert of the entire system (let alone all of them), then the amount
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Absolutely! I came out of a long period of depression / anxiety (triggered by a specific event, not just chemical imbalance) by starting to go for walks a few years ago. That turned into more and more intense hikes (doing 10-20 miles i
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Dang. That actually explains a lot about why I feel good when I feel good. It's amazing that just doing what feels good and ignoring all advice - whether from online / media / friends - often leads to a better end result than
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I think another thing that's being missed is that, due to EPA regulations, cars aren't really all that sexy anymore. The Maserati MC20 is a V6. The C63 AMG is has dropped from its namesake 6.3-liter V8 already, and will soon be a
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Anything that would make a fun ASIC could be turned into an FPGA project. Something like Ben Eater's GPU project, which he did on a breadboard, could be implemented on them, or you could make a toy CPU with RISC-V, or create a softcore
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
A recent update showed it's moving more towards the center, which gives me some hope that they're trying to make it more objective: https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/chatgpt
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Still, while it might not be useful yet , can’t it stand its own as an intriguing proof of concept? The first car was hardly ready to replace the horse. But look where we are now.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
It seems like part of a larger trend of overemphasis on min-maxing profits by praying at the altar of data and using what those gods return to try to cut all the right corners on the product. In the end, there are things that don't sho
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I once heard a joke that, in the right environment "If you know what you're doing and show a little enthusiasm, you'll wind up on 6 boards before you can turn around and realize what's happening". It makes sense tha
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I would encourage you to read the current literature. The evidence is more compelling than you might expect. Actually Meltzer’s 2020 paper (linked in my previous comment) touches on this exact concern under the subheading, “Getting past the
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Small counter-point: The theory that the Clovis people hunted megafauna to extinction has been challenged a lot by recent research. It looks like North-American megafauna were actually quite likely driven extinct by changes to the climate.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
That is true and a much needed check. Thank you.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Hah... Maybe they've figured out that most of their readers are the same pseudo-intellectuals that will misunderstand things like Schrodinger's Cat and refer to it like magic, quietly hoping that other people will look up to them
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
The difference between a nice brioche - made with plenty of sugar, with a soft, fluffy character - and a standard loaf of french bread is quite large. I spring for the french bread only because it's cheaper. Bread with sugar is superio
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I spent the following hour and a half after clicking on this on that site. Wow. Being able to "experience" other locations, even in that shallow of a way, is really, really amazing.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Probably for the best. After removing vandalism from the page of a prominent political figure (not a president, just someone who was the focus of the news), someone posted my approximate location to the discussion page and accused me of &qu
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
Usually the most beloved are also the most hated.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I've noticed a lot of the more experienced people in our office stop trusting things as soon as they see drop shadows and branded color schemes. And they are all very quick with the old terminals.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
That's funny - I am currently working on a web app to GUI-ify the green screen for my company's IBM i OS on a similar Power8 system. They love the green screen but this was the easiest way to reduce the amount of manual entry we&#
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
And netflix is adding advertisements.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
I had not seen that before, thank you for the link.
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by LeftHandPath 4y ago
This seems to be the issue every time people bring up equality. The truth is that we are doing a lot better in terms of equality of opportunity than we give ourselves credit for. And equality of opportunity often produces disparate, unequal

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