adhocmobility

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by adhocmobility 5mo ago
Why insist on calling this a queue when it doesn't really have queue semantics? Queues do the job of load balancing between different workers. When workers acknowledge tasks, they get deleted, and there are visibility timeouts. This is
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by adhocmobility 3y ago
I think its pretty clear that in the coming decade intelligence and cognitive labor is going to become very cheap. So your kid should develop some skills outside of that to stay competitive in the job market.
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by adhocmobility 3y ago
Apple has invested a lot in making sure that they STAY in "an order of magnitude better position". They know that the ultimate winner in personalized AIs will be whoever has the best edge hardware. That is why they have been inves
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by adhocmobility 3y ago
The answer to what they're building is written on Karpathy's twitter - "A kind of Jarvis"
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by adhocmobility 3y ago
Hi everyone, author of the article here. I'm sorry if the article sounds overly pessimistic. I'm not making any claims with this article. I'm not proposing anything either. I do think technological progress is a good thing, e
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I wish GPT4 had never happened(chaudhry.notion.site)
572 points by adhocmobility 3y ago|1316 comments
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by adhocmobility 3y ago
You are being given a chance to dispute it. Give an example of a problem that any human would be easily able to solve but GPT4 wouldn't. >> "good model of a model of reality" That is just a model of reality. Also, a &qu
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by adhocmobility 4y ago
We resolve this in two ways 1. All git-lfs files are kept in the same folder 2. No one can directly push commits to one of the main branches, they need to raise a PR. This means that commits go through review and its easy to tell if they&#x
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by adhocmobility 4y ago
If you just want a git for large data files, and your files don't get updated too often (e.g. an ML model deployed in production which gets updated every month) then git-lfs is a nice solution. Bitbucket and Github both have support fo
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4183423 Things in a Box(chaudhry.notion.site)
2 points by adhocmobility 4y ago|0 comments
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by adhocmobility 4y ago
I can't imagine it, which is why I asked. You certainly seem skeptical. Your arguments aren't very convincing though. >> Too many different start batteries Okay... that's because there's no standard. But isn't
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by adhocmobility 4y ago
Waiting anywhere while your car is charging seems like an awful user experience. I've always imagined that a quick battery swap service would become the standard. Don't know how feasible it is though, maybe someone can shed more l
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by adhocmobility 5y ago
The second case is preferable if numbers is an Optional[List] , which is usually the case when passing lists around as arguments. def custom_sum(numbers: Optional[List[int]] = None) -> int: if not numbers: ## something
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by adhocmobility 5y ago
I'm a very passive hackernews reader, and don't engage much with posts. I want to break that passivity to say that Visidata is the tool that has given me the greatest joy out of any other piece of software I've ever used.