complexmango

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by complexmango 2y ago
How soon will we be able to run a GPT4 level LLM on a MacBook, with acceptable latency? 2025?
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by complexmango 4y ago
Astounding to see racism and ignorance represented as virtue signaling so blatantly! Are you aware that the majority of STEM seats in Indian colleges are set aside for either affirmative action for ‘lower’ castes (itself an arbitrary crit
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by complexmango 4y ago
This reminds me of all the educationally highly credentialed people I knew confidently predicting in 2016 that Trump would jail all democrats, declare martial law, and ‘women would be raped in the streets’. I would recommend looking up Amer
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by complexmango 5y ago
How would you explain affirmative action on the basis of race today, in this context?
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by complexmango 5y ago
And guess what has ZERO effect on pollinators? CO2. The only ‘pollutant’ ESG scores and activists harp about. Why? To distract from real polluting chemicals that cost a lot more to remove from our environment. Don’t even get me started on m
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by complexmango 5y ago
Are you also going to prohibit your kids from riding in a car because the chances of a traffic accident are non zero? Asking because kids 1-4 are being hospitalized for COVID at the rate of 1.6/100,000, deaths are at 2/1,000,000 a
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by complexmango 5y ago
I’m from India, and have plenty of family and friends there in close contact, and I have literally never heard of anything as ridiculous as this yet. No idea why this is a top voted comment.
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by complexmango 5y ago
People don’t acknowledge ‘a weird sort of spirituality to atheism’ because it’s an absurd concept. Because spirituality is born from spiritual experiences, not religious theory. Atheism, on the other hand, is a belief system. It’s like sex
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by complexmango 5y ago
We began algebra in 5th grade in India. In much humbler circumstances. Luckily, our teachers made it clear that math was about effort, not skills, talents, or parents. We were all expected to practice a lot of math, including algebra, until
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Vaccine Mandate resisted within NIH, sparking debate(wsj.com)
10 points by complexmango 5y ago|0 comments
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by complexmango 5y ago
If only epidemiologists had such humility
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by complexmango 5y ago
Love the wink-wink nudge-nudge hint towards violence typical of the radical left, the planet over. The US is full of refugees from places that fought for 'workers rights' with 'rifles and multicultural unity' and never r
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by complexmango 5y ago
You need to get out more. I grew up in India and watched this trade off play out in real-time. Yields went up, taste and quality declined. But still not as bad as the US.
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by complexmango 6y ago
Unreal how competitive the virtue signaling is on HN, when the reality is that every major tech company is falling over itself to hire anyone who isn’t A) Male and B) either white or Asian/Indian. What planet do you live on?
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by complexmango 6y ago
What are your thoughts on certain bakers refusing to bake certain cakes, and refusing payment for them as well?
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by complexmango 6y ago
What you actually see in America is that most millionaires come from humble beginnings. That doesn’t mean most people from humble beginnings become millionaires. A->B does not equal B->A. Basic logic. Go talk to the owners of the five
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by complexmango 6y ago
This is amazing - just ignore Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Andrew Carnegie and several other of the richest people of all time who came from humble beginnings, just because they don’t fit your narrative. For the past 15 years I have worked wi
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by complexmango 6y ago
Somehow that doesn’t count in the lefty HN echo chamber.
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by complexmango 6y ago
Agreed, now do antifa and BLM
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by complexmango 6y ago
Google ‘regulatory capture’
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by complexmango 6y ago
I’m probably older than you and heard this exact same argument used by the Indian government to censor television (we had exactly 1 channel of government run TV growing up). Are you listening to yourself? You sound like a religious zealot h
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by complexmango 6y ago
Your anecdotal experience is not borne out by either facts or my anecdotal experience. Houston is literally the most diverse city in America, statistically speaking. And you have to look hard to find religiously conservative people in any T
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by complexmango 6y ago
No. The concept is that there is an infinite, indescribable void from which emerges consciousness manifested in matter. And conscious matter creates universes constantly, that appear out of the void, hence creating time and space. This woul
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by complexmango 6y ago
There is an in depth explanation in Zen, Buddhism and Hinduism of this phenomenon. I would suggest reading anything by Nisargadatta Maharaj, who expanded on this in detail to questioners from all over the world who came to his humble dwelli
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by complexmango 7y ago
The United States was once a 3rd world country that lost 10% of its population in the American Civil War. Within 5 decades of that, it produced 50% of the worlds manufacturing output. Needless to say, Europe was it its peak at the time, and
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by complexmango 7y ago
There is a much simpler explanation. 1. It’s an order of magnitude easier to fire people in the US Vs the EU. That means American employers are more willing to take chances on people, ideas and growth. EU small business are family run for a
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by complexmango 7y ago
Perhaps this is the first US President in decades, who either out of raw courage, sheer necessity or personal (so far undetected) corruption, called out what has been known for the entire time: 1. That China manipulates its currency to impr
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by complexmango 7y ago
Agreed. And the elephant in the room: All major space programs worldwide are an integral part of their respective country’s defense program. And were from inception. India lives in a dangerous neighborhood, and protecting its citizens is by
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by complexmango 7y ago
You get less of what you tax, and more of what you subsidize. I guess the French want fewer people visiting their country?
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by complexmango 7y ago
I immigrated to the US from India to flee exactly this slow progressing nightmare. Beyond stunned to see it happening here!

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