adamiscool8

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by adamiscool8 1mo ago
>a handful of federal agencies confirmed earlier this month in court documents that they cut grants if researchers’ projects “expressed, or were presumed to express, viewpoints disfavored by the Administration.” Why is this bad? The Admi
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by adamiscool8 2mo ago
Shows that — as always — the moat is domain fluency.
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by adamiscool8 4mo ago
Zuck was in roughly the same position and they didn’t put out a statement skipping that IPO. The valuation criticism is more valid but this line belies political motivation.
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by adamiscool8 4mo ago
Can you give a specific example, ideally that would not have been solved by people-hours amounting to less than the token costs?
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by adamiscool8 4mo ago
Agree, but the average user trusts the AI knowledge box as expert summary, even though clicking through often reveals contrary information, so this is going to be a net negative overall for a while…
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by adamiscool8 5mo ago
It was a public safety disaster that the country is still trying to recover from.
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by adamiscool8 5mo ago
In Canada, for most of the 20th century until maybe 15 years ago, your PII was in a big book that lived at everybody's house and the library unless you specifically opted out.
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by adamiscool8 6mo ago
"Once you've been to [the Netscape ISP Homepage], you'll never stop wanting to beat [front-end Javascript frameworks] to death with your bare hands."
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by adamiscool8 6mo ago
After thousands of years of research we still don’t fully understand how humans do it, so what reason (besides a sort of naked techno-optimism) is there to believe we will ever be able to replicate the behavior in machines?
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by adamiscool8 6mo ago
The title framing is weird when the report says maybe 5% of the 1250 were civilians, and the same rights group also reports more than 1500 civilians [0] killed over the same period in the horrific and rampant gang violence the government is
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by adamiscool8 7mo ago
Even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmara and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power!
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by adamiscool8 7mo ago
Hopefully they embrace AI. 800 episodes is such a rich corpus and there could be such bright-line guardrails in a "Springfield style guide". If AI can replicate the 90's Golden Era through voice cloning + an intentional hand-
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
0.1% of users is not necessarily 0.1% of conversations…
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
Just realizing that in more than a decade of perusing Hacker News, I may not have ever visited the homepage.
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
Two years ago the same party that currently holds Canadian government and just made these concessions to China completed a report [0] that found >[China’s actions] collectively "undermine our democratic institutions, our fundamental
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
Better how?
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
Ragebait would be trying to argue that China running secret police and propaganda operations on Canadian soil, against Canadian citizens, is in any way equivalent to a domestic force taking actions primarily against foreign nationals, in a
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
It’s a good thing Canada waited for China to resolve all these issues before swinging open our market doors to them.
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
The offset is not positive when you factor in the externalities that go into escalating Chinese EV production.
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
China and their famously steady temperament would never be so bold as to try to own a dependent country or strategically weaponize trade. These are real things Canadians believe - talk about eye opening!
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
Except those actions are not secret, nor illegal, nor a threat to any other country’s sovereignty?
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
Nothing to do with “unfair, non-market policies and practices […] and China’s intentional, state-directed policy of overcapacity and lack of rigorous labour and environmental standards”? I suppose that doesn’t even register anymore to the a
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
Did ICE have clandestine police stations in Canada trying to rendition political dissidents? People need to get a grip and some perspective.
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by adamiscool8 8mo ago
The accountability and scale are hugely different to the point I don’t see how anyone can make this argument in good faith.
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
>We’ve looked at how our teams work best, and the data is clear: when people work together in person more often, they thrive — they are more energized, empowered, and they deliver stronger results. Citation needed or this is just more vi
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
This is right but missing that the goal of these corporate cultural proclamations is optimizing for people who are true believers in the mission. Whether that leads to better business outcomes than optimizing for really smart people who bel
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
Yes, optimizations of this form can work to manage tail risk on an edge and can reproducibly lift expectancy for a strategy. GP is essentially claiming no positive edge can exist, which is false - though these edges may be short-lived and d
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
In general, yes - no edge is forever. But that doesn't mean trading is a coin flip where no edge can exist. The market is adaptive because humans are adaptive - but, for example, their machine offspring are often slightly less adaptive
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
All of these points are irrelevant. If you have the data that shows 99.5% win rate, you would have the data on your expected win size, and could compute a fixed loss stop that would keep you on-side. In the example, which I'm assuming
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by adamiscool8 1y ago
This doesn't make sense. If you had a 99.5% success rate, you could simply use a fixed $ stop and clean up. I agree you need an information edge, but the difficulty of finding one inversely correlates with your scale. Buying and holdin

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