TimPC

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by TimPC 1y ago
When I made this decision 20 years ago I landed on Software Engineer because people calling themselves that generally earned more than people calling themselves programmer, coder or developer.
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by TimPC 2y ago
It's debatable to what degree they are as most of the studies have massive confounders. Couples that stay together tend to be more affluent than divorced couples because of only needing to pay for and maintain one place of living inste
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by TimPC 2y ago
Location: Toronto, ON, CA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Mostly No Technologies: Python, various ML frameworks and tools LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timcapes Email: capestim@gmail.com Strong AI Engin
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by TimPC 2y ago
You probably don’t ban Facebook as a whole but if they fail to crack down on gambling links that violate advertising laws or allow gambling companies to advertise in spite of those laws they probably face heavy fines from regulators.
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by TimPC 2y ago
This is the same issue where poker companies used to advertise their play money sites and use the play money sites to link to separate real money sites. The loophole exists although it is certainly closeable.
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by TimPC 2y ago
I think in this case it's unlikely because I don't think the problems the tool solves correspond 1-1 with reduced staffing or other resources. The tool mostly seems to provide ongoing diagnosis at a level of detail the clinical t
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by TimPC 2y ago
Just another example of FIFA's absurd corruption. They know altitude is unfair and they allow increasing it unnecessarily to unreasonable heights.
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by TimPC 2y ago
I guess I’m pretty valuable then because my hit rate on AI projects I’ve lead is over triple the industry average.
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by TimPC 2y ago
They used to give a pretty good stock package but it lead to chaos in the company when the stock went down 10x and people were paid 50% stock.
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by TimPC 2y ago
You don't understand how tax brackets work. You never make less money by moving up a bracket. The bracket rate only applies to income within the bracket.
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by TimPC 2y ago
The red and blue agents are effectively unlimited sources of true and false examples so you can get far more efficient scale than you can by pre training with labelled inputs. It’s also far more targeted on correct/incorrect rather tha
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by TimPC 2y ago
I disagree they will become commodities because most of my use cases are more sensitive to accuracy than cost. We typically have usage volume that isn't absurd and for large enterprise customers our LLM budget is a rounding error. Mea
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by TimPC 2y ago
They are becoming like SAP though where initially a company buys one service and it soon finds itself buying every adjacent service from them. If they manage to do that successfully they will be quite profitable.
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by TimPC 2y ago
The Henry George Theorem also requires the public good to be local. Military spending for example is a public good that doesn't show up in land value increases. Also in some cases (often with environmental spending) there is an externa
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by TimPC 2y ago
100% LVT isn't 100% of land value it's 100% of land rents. If the bare land would rent for $2,000/month the tax is $2,000/month. You can't realistically raise the tax beyond this amount because you'd effective
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by TimPC 2y ago
The claim is that 100% of land rent in the US is smaller than income tax + sales tax + property tax + corporate tax. You can no longer replace every tax in the system with land rents unless you shrink the size of government.
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by TimPC 2y ago
This is no longer actually possible. LVT at 100% generates less revenue than all other methods of taxation combined across all levels of government. This was the original idea but government is now too large for it.
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by TimPC 2y ago
Assymetry makes a certain amount of sense. Employees don’t take $0 for a long time and generally aren’t having as large a pay cut as founders afterwards. Most of the founders I’ve worked with have had the seniority to justify the top salary
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by TimPC 2y ago
The problem with CO2 levels is that no one likes the solution not that we don't have one. I highly doubt adding AGI to the mix is going to magically make things better. If anything we'll just burn more CO2 providing all the comput
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by TimPC 2y ago
It actually does both. The increase in CO2 causes temperature increase which is well documented in the literature. But increase in temperature also causes the release of CO2 which further increases the temperature.
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by TimPC 2y ago
I think this is changing. Previously you had to train something massive off a huge data set. But now it's moving towards having a pipeline of pre-trained models that are trained on massive data sets and then smaller models that you tr
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by TimPC 2y ago
A story about broken hiring processes that I’m sure many of us can relate to.
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by TimPC 2y ago
True but the number of hours I work in SW + the number of hours I think about my job outside of work is still probably less than a typical doctor's working hours so I feel like we come out ahead anyways.
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by TimPC 2y ago
I'm at a director level and I routinely look at code and even more frequently look at product in a late stage start-up.
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by TimPC 2y ago
If the researcher makes a neutral contribution and someone else you could hire with the same resources would make a strongly positive contribution you're always going to favor the strongly positive contribution.
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by TimPC 2y ago
Temporary numbers are net not gross so if a tourist enters and leaves the country in a single year they count as 0 not 1.
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by TimPC 2y ago
A very common pattern is to write a patent and a research paper after the initial patent filing. When the patent office doesn't do their job you can still usually learn the invention from the paper. They key thing is companies wouldn&#
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by TimPC 2y ago
What is your alternative to IP that solves the secrecy problem? We've created an environment where companies can share most of what they are doing when it comes to AI. How much quicker has AI advanced because researchers at one company
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by TimPC 2y ago
It's good advice if you have the appropriate financial resources or support network, but plenty of us don't have the option to move back in with our parents for six months and need to adult on hard-mode.
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by TimPC 2y ago
You're not going far enough. Canada allowed Pharmacists to do diagnosis + prescription for some common over the counter meds with minor side effects.

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