ambrozk

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by ambrozk 5mo ago
It's not "becoming the norm." It's been the norm for decades. And yes, you should not be mad about the norm.
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by ambrozk 1y ago
Does Europe not enjoy the benefits of global stability?
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by ambrozk 1y ago
I interact with lots of engineers, some who got CS or Math degrees, and some who went to bootcamps. The difference in competence is very noticeable.
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by ambrozk 1y ago
> You learn far more in a single year on the job than in your four year college degree (and I say this as an engineer) I do not believe this is true in the slightest. I learned more in a single OS class than i learned in years of industr
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by ambrozk 2y ago
Encoder: Text tokens -> Fixed representation vector Decoder: Fixed representation vector + N decoded text tokens -> N+1th text token Encoder/Decoder architecture: You take some tokenized text, run an encoder on it to get a fixed
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by ambrozk 2y ago
These sorts of comments are going to go in the annals with the hackernews people complaining about Dropbox when it first came out. This is so revolutionary. If you're not agog you're just missing the obvious.
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by ambrozk 2y ago
Correct. You shouldn't decide whether there's a genocide going on in Gaza by consulting official statements from interested governments. You should decide based on independent human rights researchers, international law scholars,
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by ambrozk 2y ago
What I'm disagreeing with in your statement is the conflation of "real knowledge" with "power." It is true that all the most powerful governments in the West have taken roughly the same line on the charge of genocid
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by ambrozk 2y ago
"Everybody in the US's alliance structure agrees that the US's top Middle-East ally is behaving completely appropriately, which is strong evidence that they are. I am very smart."
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by ambrozk 2y ago
Lol, they just intersect with the people who are still thinking about COVID. That's all.
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by ambrozk 2y ago
I am just repeating what I have heard from people who should know.
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by ambrozk 2y ago
Correct. People with no real view on the events in Israel get very excited to sneer at the "spoiled brat" protesters (who just willingly walked away from extremely fat paychecks). It makes them feel more comfortable about their ow
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by ambrozk 2y ago
This is textbook civil disobedience. They believed they could not quietly aid an ongoing injustice, so they loudly protested in the full knowledge they would be punished. This is how protest is supposed to work.
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by ambrozk 2y ago
Of course the protest is about technology -- it's about the provision of technology to governments who use that technology for war. Why wouldn't you expect the employees of these companies have a position on that? Like a lot of
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by ambrozk 2y ago
Yes, so it's clearly quite relevant to this board.
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by ambrozk 2y ago
To me, modern-day Zionism means two things: 1. The belief that Israel is the homeland of the Jews, and by extension, my homeland. 2. The belief that Israel should remain, legally, a Jewish supremacist state, where only Jewish sovereignty
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by ambrozk 2y ago
My understanding is that the protests were closely coordinated with lawyers, and Google will likely spend a ton of $$$ defending the terminations as a result.
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by ambrozk 2y ago
Jebe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebe ) became one of Ghenghis Khan's top generals after shooting the Khan's horse out from under him in battle. Heart recognizes heart.
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by ambrozk 3y ago
It's incredible that on just about every piece I've ever read about Elm since they made that decision, this has been the first, second, and third comment. Wanting to try Elm for myself, I disregarded this advice, and.... immedia
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by ambrozk 3y ago
Because some people want to buy, not rent them, and you want those people's money....?
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by ambrozk 3y ago
It seems like the only solution that's compatible with materialism. If you accept that it "feels like something" to be you, and you accept that your intelligence is just a computational process which differs from others only
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by ambrozk 3y ago
> So in short: I cannot understand what is the actual substance of subjective experience. This problem just goes away if you assume that there is no dividing line between the "experience" of you and the "experience" o
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by ambrozk 3y ago
> Fanon's claims are consistent with this, he addresses it directly. Except he of course is talking about societies that use colonialist violence as a means to their ends, not those reaching for liberation through violence. Seems re
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by ambrozk 3y ago
She didn't say it's okay. She said that whether it's against Harvard's CoC is dependent on the context, which is obviously true.
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by ambrozk 3y ago
It didn't even really happen in FAANG. FAANG employees are still doing extremely well. FAANG companies are still holding onto tons of unproductive headcount which they would prefer to let go were it not for the employee backlash that&#
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by ambrozk 3y ago
You act like coders are okies. People at Google were frequently getting 2-9 months of severance, with benefits for most of those. Stop pretending like tech employers generally are behaving with "no sense of reciprocity." It's
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by ambrozk 3y ago
Yes, which is... anti-social, right? And which you would judge a company for?
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by ambrozk 3y ago
Just because many companies behave poorly does not mean there is not a code of reciprocal obligation between workers and companies. If a company lays someone off and gives them no severance, you would judge that company more harshly than if
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by ambrozk 3y ago
The Quigleys may have been assholes but getting into a feud with your neighbors, wiretapping their phone, and then publicizing the contents of their conversations about you should probably be discouraged by the law.
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by ambrozk 3y ago
> And AI is a computer. So the naive expectation would be that it would be capable of doing as well as a computer. Why would you judge an AI against the expectations of a naive person who doesn't understand capabilities AIs are li

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