degrews

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by degrews 1y ago
No one is assuming printing costs are the only costs to produce the catalogue. The point of pricing the catalogue at printing costs is to cover the marginal cost of offering the catalogue for sale. The fixed costs of producing the calendar
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by degrews 1y ago
That eval hasn't been relevant for a while now. Performance there just doesn't seem to correlate well with real-world performance.
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by degrews 1y ago
It's because those markets are based on the LLM Arena leaderboard ( https://lmarena.ai/ ), where Claude has historically done poorly. That eval has also become a lot less relevant (it's considered not very indicativ
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by degrews 1y ago
Call that tip to tip efficiency ;) * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwYxLaaQ5s (reference - which really fits this whole thread)
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by degrews 1y ago
Hi Simon. Do you recommend aider over Cursor? I've always used aider, and like it, but it just seems like Cursor is overtaking it in terms of features, and I wonder if sticking with aider still makes sense.
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by degrews 1y ago
Most people use Cursor. Aider and Cline are other options. All of these work with all of the popular LLM APIs. Even among people using Claude, I would bet more of them are using Claude through Cursor than through Claude code.
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by degrews 2y ago
I use the Xreal for coding while traveling. It's not as nice as a monitor, but it's definitely good enough for coding IMO.
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by degrews 2y ago
Just note that you will also need the Xreal Beam if you want the virtual screen to stay fixed in space while you move your head (it's too uncomfortable to use without it IMO).
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by degrews 2y ago
I got mine for $60 shipping incl from HONS VR. And they work well.
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by degrews 2y ago
You can plug them directly into your laptop (as long as it supports DP Alt mode, which I understand is common - my Thinkpad does). But, the virtual monitor will be in a fixed position relative to your head. Which is really not comfortable.
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by degrews 2y ago
It depends on your device. If your device doesn't support the Nebula app, you need the Beam.
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by degrews 3y ago
I strongly agree. That's what the European system is like, as others have mentioned. Even the 2 years of fundamental science preparation. In Spain, what I would say is the academic equivalent of high-school ends at 16. 16-18 is then sp
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by degrews 3y ago
Wow, that seems so short then. In Europe medical school is 6 years, with a 7th year spent on preparing for residency. At least in Spain. And it doesn't start off easy. All student are required to have spent the last 2 years of high sch
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by degrews 3y ago
Obviously no one is talking about "stopping matrix multiplication globally". But setting limits on the supply of and access to hardware, in a way that would meaningfully impede AI development, does seem feasible if we were serious
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by degrews 3y ago
> There is no such thing as "English pronunciation". English does not have a regulatory body like Spanish or German have. Oh come on. The fact that there is no regulatory body doesn't mean we can't meaningfully talk a
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by degrews 3y ago
I moved from Spain to the US, and I often find myself trying to explain to people back home just how miserable and even humiliating the pedestrian experience is here. Here are some other examples of things that I think contribute to the ho
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by degrews 4y ago
I'm skeptical. I feel like any startup for whom 100k is "huge" is not at a stage where they'd be spending anywhere near that amount on cloud infrastructure.
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by degrews 5y ago
I'm not surprised! Everyone is talking about the technical suitability of EVs as rental cars. But I don't think that's the main motivation. On Turo (like Airbnb for cars), Teslas are unique in how disproportionately expensive
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by degrews 5y ago
I've searched the whole thread for an answer to this. I'm so curious now...
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by degrews 5y ago
What? Doesn't 20/20, 20/15 etc. refer to visual acuity (how much detail you can see from a certain distance)? Are there people who prefer anything but the highest possible visual acuity?
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by degrews 5y ago
The "experiment" was testing whether these bogus papers would make it through peer review and get published.
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by degrews 5y ago
Fascinating, thank you for sharing. I can relate. > It won't do anything for you if you just take it in your bedroom with no other changes happening in your life Interestingly, that's the way many people have reported having th
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by degrews 5y ago
The vast majority of the water usage that's attributed to beef is from growing the crops that feed the cows. The amount of water that the cows drink directly is probably negligible in comparison.
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by degrews 5y ago
> This is exactly why I've concluded trying to go my own way is the best long-term plan for me. Before learning about YC and HN and such, the thought never really occurred to me. Interesting. It also didn't really occur to me t
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by degrews 5y ago
I agree. I did exactly this just last week. I got a refurb gen 8 (2020 model) from Lenovo for about $950 after tax (16GB, i5, 1080p). It looks brand new, not a single sign of use. I set it up with Ubuntu 21.04 yesterday and everything worke
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by degrews 5y ago
It's not fiction. The author did actually work at a SF startup, even if she's now a novelist.
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by degrews 5y ago
I think this comment is saying "here is something that some of us can do that might help prevent these kinds of situations in the future". In my opinion, that's a productive contribution to the conversation, and does not impl
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by degrews 5y ago
Note that is 25mg of psilocybin, not mushroom. Dried mushrooms contain about 1% psilocybin, so an equivalent dose of dried mushrooms would be around 2.5g, an amount that's definitely high enough to cause hallucinations. Not sure if thi
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by degrews 5y ago
My understanding is that he _did_ communicate to his friend that he was lost and his battery was dying https://twitter.com/ai6yrham/status/1382381870134951938/phot... .
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by degrews 6y ago
I just mean that a disproportionate amount of the danger created by bad drivers is to themselves. I don't have a source, but I think this is obvious. My point is that, even if we lower the total death count, the safest drivers could st

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