eddieplan9

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by eddieplan9 23d ago
Apple’s “LLM in a flash” paper [1] sheds some light on why this can be a big deal, especially if they are working on codesign of model and hardware in this dimension. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514
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by eddieplan9 2y ago
Steve Jobs famously said Dropbox is a feature not a product. This feels very much like it.
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by eddieplan9 4y ago
Why the false dichotomy? Does political freedom automatically contradict with economic prosperity for some reason now? Born and raised in China, I fail to see how the last 10 years of erosion in freedom has yielded any better results econom
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by eddieplan9 5y ago
Maybe insurance companies should drop them (or raise their premium, just like what they do with smokers).
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by eddieplan9 5y ago
At what cost? If there were crazy people jaywalking onto the freeway, do you want to reduce speed limit nationally to accommodate that, or would you rather let it play out and people can realize certain things are just fatally stupid?
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
> In the US, they created this backdoor "Opt" work visa (which they're desperately trying to expand) that allows hundreds of thousands of foreign students to stay in the US once studies are finished and compete for jobs. O
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
Dominion the company uses SolarWinds or Orion does not mean the voting system it develops uses SolarWinds or Orion. I am pretty sure Dominion also uses MS Office, but that does not mean the voting system is vulnerable to MS Office hacks.
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
My visa was rejected twice before I gave up. One of my friend was rejected 3 or 4 times before he was granted a visa, in a span of less than 1 year. I don’t think it’s out of the ordinary to see someone’s visa rejected 8 times before one wa
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
Parent’s keyword is “allow to succeed”, not “succeed”. I always warn people about false equivalence when it comes to China. The laws and rules in China are not the same concept as laws and rules in the West. There are implicit rules or 潜规则.
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
If the new regulation targets the root of the problem - which is lack of economic opportunities - then yes. Regulation targeting patchwork solution, then it's the definition of virtual signaling.
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
That is what they want you to believe, as everything in China must look reasonable. Google left because it decided censoring according to law was too much for them. Really? They suddenly got tired of censoring after doing it for years? Or i
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
I think the article did a really good job highlighting the power of combining a worship-level deference towards algorithm and an incredibly deep pocket. In the West, if you are an upstart, you don't have the latter - who can spend $1B
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
Quite the contrary: it’s illegal to not share data with government if requested: > Two pieces of legislation are of particular concern to governments — the 2017 National Intelligence Law and the 2014 Counter-Espionage Law. Article 7 of t
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
Maybe this is history repeating itself: the story of the father of Chinese space program [1] was quite pertinent: > During WWII, he was involved in the Manhattan Project, which ultimately led to the successful development of the first at
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
It’s not about conservatives. It’s not just “words taken down”. It’s regular good people who lose their job and career. For example, read the story of Professor Steve Hsu: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/16&#x2F
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
Of course it’s OK the authentication system can read the password! What is so wrong on both technical and ethical levels is that the password entered into some data pipeline for machine learning. God knows what else they do with the clearte
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
You know back in the days you can also go to farmer Joe and buy a chicken and pay no middle man. Jumping from that fact to the conclusion that food supply chain has not much value is, naive, to say the least.
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by eddieplan9 6y ago
That's a very cynical view. Doctors are by no means lower class. Most if not all of them can quit, and are not subject to "economic coercion". Yet almost of them choose to work and overwork. I am not an "essential"
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by eddieplan9 7y ago
Healthcare is notoriously difficult to “disrupt” due to regulations and how the medical system is set up. I once worked for a healthcare startup and we joked that 1) your customer does not pay you and does not respond to price 2) your custo
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by eddieplan9 7y ago
If you cannot get everyone to review for all purchases, then the next best thing is to do random sampling by randomly choose buyers and purchases to get reviewed, and possibly pay them so that selected reviews are collected. I have fond mem
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by eddieplan9 7y ago
Are you even looking? I did one Google search, and found this [1]: > The results of the analysis show that Huawei devices quantitatively pose a high risk to their users. In virtually all categories we studied, we found Huawei devices to
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by eddieplan9 7y ago
I expect private companies will be the ones providing the infrastructure for self driving cars, and your car will have to subscribe to a "awareness service provider", much the same way that your phone needs to subscribe to a carri
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by eddieplan9 7y ago
I honestly don't care when Apple complies with local law a la iCloud China. I think that is disappointing but completely reasonable, whether we agree with the law or not. However, Hong Kong is a special administration region, and has h
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by eddieplan9 7y ago
First, it’s called “baby bullet express service”. Second, even the high-speed trains in China do not travel at high speed in city core (IIRC <80kph).
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by eddieplan9 7y ago
Because zoom’s patch will only help users still using and updating zoom while those who have uninstalled zoom are still vulnerable (because the uninstalled leaves the web server behind)
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
The question is not if they will , but if they can .
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
https://m.uber.com
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
The moment that I truly got the idea of "you are the product" is when my 8-year-old complained to me, "I had to watch 10 ads in order to get a gold coin to feed my fish." I felt literally repulsive when my sweet kid is p
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
Not a fan of the company, but they are much more than musical.ly. - Toutiao, the content farm (think Buzzfeed++), a pivot from the original news aggregator model. It has 120M DAU as of last October, per YC's report [1]. - Douyin, or Ti
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by eddieplan9 8y ago
An intelligence animal being able to do something != "with enough processing we should be able to do the same with a control system".

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