clay_the_ripper

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by clay_the_ripper 2mo ago
Please call me when Yann is right about literally anything. No one has been more wrong and for longer about anything than Yann on LLMs.
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by clay_the_ripper 5mo ago
in the first few years of any new technology only highly innovative companies (startups) use it. people still were using punch cards when tape was invented, and still using tape when floppy’s were invented and those were relatively small in
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by clay_the_ripper 6mo ago
You know i used to think Ray Dalio was really smart, but literally every single article he writes is exactly the same “this argument is laid out in my book” blah blah blah This guy is so obsessed with being right about his sole theory that
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by clay_the_ripper 6mo ago
this. it’s genuinely shocking how much time is spent coming up with ideas like this, implementing them and making everyone report on it - for no outcome whatsoever
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by clay_the_ripper 7mo ago
Doing hard things has always been, and always will be, hard. Building a static HTML page was “hard” in the 90’s. It took actual skills. Any piece that gets easier automatically opens up more hard avenues to tackle. no one is willing to pay
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by clay_the_ripper 7mo ago
This view is now consensus, which is highly comforting as consensus is always wrong.
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by clay_the_ripper 7mo ago
when every car around you is even bigger than this, you’ll appreciate not driving a minuscule car in america. it is terrifying
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by clay_the_ripper 8mo ago
Hiring illegal immigrants is risky and hurts businesses that choose not to cheat. This article makes it out like neither the immigrants or the businesses that hire them have broken the law - when in fact they all have. I’m no fan of ICE, th
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by clay_the_ripper 8mo ago
The flip side is: efficient capital allocation is better for our economy as a whole than trying to save certain jobs for emotional reasons. Struggling businesses that can’t operate effectively and provide a poor return on capital should be
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by clay_the_ripper 1y ago
for an incredibly long article on a niche topic readers are unlikely to be familiar with, astonishingly the author never bothers to describe what ABA actually is or provide more than 1 vague example.
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by clay_the_ripper 1y ago
this is a cool idea. tried a few searches that were not confidence inspiring: missing prices, blurry, weird photos. the searches in case you want to take a look: “dog collar” and “cat scratching post” good luck with the product!
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by clay_the_ripper 1y ago
“the cave paintings of nudes are corrupting the neanderthal youth” and yet - somehow we always survive.
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
If I am in a city (sf, ny) I am putting in my AirPods and booking it. Why? The only people that try to interact with you are either homeless, trying to sell you something, or trying to rob you. Or all 3. It’s a shame as it really changes th
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
LeCun has been saying basically this same thing since 2021-22. It’s a lot easier to say what something is not than what it is. His comments now are really sounding a lot more like sour grapes from someone who is ultimately behind in this ra
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
Hey this is cool - our application helps real estate investors select locations. Our users would get a lot of value from this. Be happy to feature you!
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
This is totally unsurprising, but an interesting example of how people are expected to conform to “normal” behaviors. People that fall outside this narrow definition of what’s acceptable are still labeled “deviants” which is basically what
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
China's strategy has now changed: they used exports to build massive growth in their economy, but they are now using their exports as a kind of economic weapon that can be used in much the same way that Amazon crushed their competitors
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
Netlify for the front-end, google cloud for extended storage and Akamai for hosting. Akamai is great as they are less customizable than AWS (which is a good thing if you don’t need extra config) and much less expensive.
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
I can relate to this, especially on a side project where there is no one looking over your shoulder or holding you to a deadline, it’s very easy to spend too much time on the wrong things. The stress you feel is the feeling of not having en
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
This is something I would use - not to steal but so I could listen to certain podcasts for sleep. The host intros and ads for this certain podcast are terribly distracting from what is otherwise incredible content.
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
My experience as a bootstrapped saas founder: -at the early stages, usage models didn’t work for us because it attracted customers who were uncommitted to using the product -the advantage of a subscription is that it filters out people who
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
Tinfoil hat time. The recent gpt2 chatbot that everyone thought was a new open ai product - could it be? “ You start with the gpt2.c pure CPU implementation, and see how fast you can make it by the end of the course on GPU, with kernels onl
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
It does seem like this is a possible method to test if an LLM has your data in it. People have found other ways to do that of course, but this is pretty clever.
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
This is an interesting analysis but it ignores the fact that although a cheap drone can destroy an $11MM tank, 2, 000 cheap drones do not give the possessor of the drones the same power as having a tank. Even if Iran or whoever can produce
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
I think this fundamentally misunderstands how to use LLMs. Out of the box, an LLM is not an application - it’s only the building blocks of one. An application could be built that answered this question with 100% accuracy - but it would not
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
Well…anybody got an invite? Would like to give it a whirl.
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by clay_the_ripper 2y ago
I have never been happier to get rid of a car than my model Y lease. For anyone considering a model y wish I had known: -the turning radius is terrible, very annoying to drive and maneuver in parking lots -the visibility without the cameras
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by clay_the_ripper 3y ago
As a resident, I don’t support this at all. Waymos are annoying to have on the road - they go extremely slowly (with good reason) and make weird traffic moves. Do we want our roads getting clogged up with super slow taxis that steal jobs fr
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by clay_the_ripper 3y ago
They already have it pretty well defined on the ads side. If you run an ad and it’s about “issues of national importance” or social issues of any kind (non-profit, education, politics, public health etc) then the ads require additional revi
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by clay_the_ripper 3y ago
Actually it kinda seems like they are just going to blanket ban everything political, regardless. They have said publicly they do not want to be the arbiter of truth - so this is them trying to remove themselves entirely from that role.

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