hector_vasquez

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by hector_vasquez 21d ago
Ex-NVIDIA employee here who worked on inference software. When it comes to inference software and models, NVIDIA's strategy is advancing the state of the art in the open model realm. They are building software and services business for
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by hector_vasquez 1mo ago
The allegation is that OpenAI explicitly requested that people bring and explain actual prototypes ("show and tell"), and downloading files from iCloud Drive after quitting Apple to join OpenAI. What you're describing is not
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by hector_vasquez 1mo ago
Man sets out to write article on DK Effect, comes across one skeptical study, confidently writes article refuting DK Effect. It writes itself.
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by hector_vasquez 3mo ago
If there was ever a time to sell all your stocks and buy gold, this is it. NVIDIA to zero. This will make COVID look like a market hiccup.
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by hector_vasquez 3mo ago
Having worked at Apple and similarly giant companies, the idea that "they have enough money to do it" is incredibly naive. Rewriting all the basic software primitives of the iPhone, or the Mac, or iCloud, or CloudKit, or choose wh
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by hector_vasquez 5mo ago
Releasing the model to bad actors at the same time as the major OS, browser, and security companies would be one idea. But some might consider that "messed up" too, whatever you mean by that. But in terms of acting in the public b
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by hector_vasquez 6mo ago
The FTC article links to the federal complaint[0] which names the third-party data recipient as Clarifai, Inc. "In September 2014, the CEO of Clarifai, Inc. e-mailed one of OkCupid’s founders requesting that Humor Rainbow give Clarifai
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by hector_vasquez 6mo ago
Former Apple employee here. This is a deeper quirk of Apple culture than one would guess. Each and every Radar (Apple's internal issue tracker is called Radar, and each issue is called a Radar) follows a state machine, going from the u
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by hector_vasquez 6mo ago
> Am I missing something? You are indeed missing a TON. A lot of Open Claw users don't give it everything. We give it specific access to a group of things it needs to do the things we want. If I want an agent to sit there 24/7
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by hector_vasquez 7mo ago
I have given the “never trust the judgment of someone who says it should be a one-line fix” so many times I am basically doxxing myself with this comment.
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by hector_vasquez 11mo ago
PV is fairly unique in that land is not required. It can be installed over existing land uses such as rooftops, canals, parking.
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by hector_vasquez 1y ago
> You cannot build a good AI phone without first building a good phone. You cannot build a self-driving car without starting with a good car, etc. More like you cannot build a self-driving car without starting with a good phone. See Huaw
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by hector_vasquez 2y ago
Comedy requires deep thinking, powers of observation, and self-reflection.
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by hector_vasquez 2y ago
So among Harris voters, the assassination was about as popular as a Trump policy. And yet here we have people trying to say it's popular among lefties. We do not deserve nice things.
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by hector_vasquez 2y ago
Put simply: It is in the national interest to have the world's most talented technologists here. It is yet more in the national interest that they work here, for us, and not for our enemies. One of the best ways we can compete with Chi
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by hector_vasquez 2y ago
The average L5 SWE salary at Google in the SF Bay Area is $215,000 [1]. 1. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...
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by hector_vasquez 3y ago
Why would tribal land management be "natural" but not more recent land management? It seems more like we just need to decide how we want the land to be and burn or not burn to achieve our goals.
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by hector_vasquez 3y ago
> And immigration on top to plug the gaps. And there it is. This narrative that immigration hasn't been a constant and deciding factor in the development of the West (and pretty much everywhere else) is so wild. Stability of an insu
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Jama: Evidence does not show that common cancer screening tests extend lifetime(jamanetwork.com)
21 points by hector_vasquez 3y ago|4 comments
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by hector_vasquez 4y ago
Corporations are people, so no, we don't have the state.
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by hector_vasquez 4y ago
In the U.S., around 86% of kids graduate high school[1], around 63% of high school graduates go to 4-year colleges[2], and around 64% of them graduate within 6 years[3]. By that logic around 35% of 24-year-old Americans have bachelor degree
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by hector_vasquez 4y ago
Do you fail at driving if you touch your brakes? I don't think so. The best drivers in the world certainly don't seem to think so. It's just one of the control inputs to driving your vehicle. Staffing levels are a resource co
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by hector_vasquez 4y ago
You should lose your driver license if you ever have to touch the brakes.
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by hector_vasquez 4y ago
The true outrage isn't that the 0.01% of recipe seekers who like to read a story and get served 77 ads as they scroll through and laugh/cry before the recipe get these recipes high in Google's search results. It's that t
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by hector_vasquez 4y ago
Paying less for labor increases productivity. Anyone in the construction industry will point to the code books for their explanations.
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by hector_vasquez 6y ago
"User Engagement" is now indeed code for "Addiction," but not because user engagement has changed in any meaningful way. It's because society has been transforming terms that used to have medical/clinical defin
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by hector_vasquez 6y ago
I would rather pay for software with money than with privacy. Which is the precise option Apple is offering by allowing users to opt out of sending private data to Facebook and other advertisers. If you like giving your private data to adve
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by hector_vasquez 6y ago
I assumed the author really meant that using a spreadsheet for project tracking is outdated, static, and manual. Which I agree with. But spreadsheets in general of course are tremendously useful!
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by hector_vasquez 7y ago
There is a compelling case to be made that manipulating the reporting of results (rather than the results themselves) would be more in line with your goals of public perception and deniability.
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by hector_vasquez 7y ago
The car would need to authenticate the driver as the driver, and each passenger as a passenger. Plenty of ways to do it. As an iPhone user, TouchID and FaceID come to mind.

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