howscrewedami

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by howscrewedami 3y ago
I'll go a step further and say there is no self made anything. Just by being born in America you have a huge advantage over someone born in say, Ethiopia. When I hear someone call themselves "self-made", I immediately assume
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by howscrewedami 3y ago
While I don't have a strong preference for electron, I do have some thoughts and answers to your questions I'd like to share. > Electron no longer allows Node.js to be called from renderer processes, all communication with Node
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by howscrewedami 3y ago
Small typo: "To allow GPTBot to access your only parts of your site"
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by howscrewedami 3y ago
Can you point out where exactly? Looking at this: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use The only thing I found was: You may not (...) (vii) buy, sell, or transfer API keys without our prior consent. Apologies for so
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by howscrewedami 3y ago
openAI released an official tokenizer recently: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer
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by howscrewedami 4y ago
> Capturing signals from you eye nerve doesn’t tell anything about your subjective experience of seeing an apple. I strongly disagree. It actually does tell you quite a lot. For example, if there aren't any signals, you're very
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by howscrewedami 4y ago
There have been many proposed solutions to the so called "hard problem" of consciousness. We can easily find some with a quick google search. Even its' existence has been debated by multiple scholars / philosophers - wik
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by howscrewedami 4y ago
I'd argue there's some selection bias going on. You're more likely to participate in a technical discussion if you're familiar with the topic. Or else you risk getting downvoted.
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by howscrewedami 4y ago
> Squashing PRs truly is absolutely useless That is quite an absolute statement. Some people just have a personal preference for having git trees arranged in a certain way. If squashing can help with that, then it serves a purpose.
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by howscrewedami 5y ago
I'm having issues understanding this: > let’s assume that the utility gain for the gifted son from living in the suburbs would be larger than the utility gain for the disabled son from living in the city. A pure utilitarian, then, m
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by howscrewedami 6y ago
> If you only save it on the server, not on the client side, it's not PII. But then it's almost useless for analytics. You can get a lot of useful information by only saving stuff on the server. e.g.: number of visits per day,
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by howscrewedami 8y ago
Why do you care about free will? If you are a healthy human being, you are capable of making decisions based on the knowledge you have and your ability to think. Why does free will matter in this case? Or am I missing something?
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by howscrewedami 8y ago
It's still about 60% faster than the 1080 ti, which is huge in my opinion.
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by howscrewedami 8y ago
What about int8 performance? Would it be somehow improved by using tensor cores?
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
What is "good engineer"? How can a company tell if someone is a "good engineer"? These are hard questions. And I think you gotta answer them first if you want an answer to your original question.
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
Every time I hear someone say "The world is getting better" or "We're living in amazing times", it's always a super rich person. Not saying they're wrong or anything, just an observation.
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
> Well they didn't, because "[...] to drive customer upgrades" is the key part they state they are not doing. When you write an entire article explicitly stating that you made your older products slower compared to newer o
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
I disagree, I think this was a terrible response. They start with the following: "First and foremost, we have never — and would never — do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product, or degrade the user experience
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
This question can have multiple meanings, for example: 1. What should we do with our lives. 2. Why is there life on this universe. For question 1: I don't thing there's a single purpose that fits everyone. However, this doesn&#x27
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
Scrape product information from ebay and other auction sites. Have a machine learning model that compares auction price vs. real price (or usual auction price). If the auction price is good... buy the products and flip them. In other words,
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
It can definitely be used as a power move... but claiming absent-mindedness is ALWAYS a power move is a very bold claim.
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
"When you continually interrupt me during meetings, I don’t get a chance to voice my opinion, and I feel marginalized." This sounds like such an unnatural and weird thing to say. How about next time someone interrupts you, you say
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
What were some of the questions they asked?
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
Title looks like something generated by a Recurrent Neural Network.
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
There's value in explaining things in a different/more understandable way. Wikipedia articles and book chapters on statistics can be hard to understand.
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
So this is how we prevent wars in the 21st century. Insurgent DoS.
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
Got any books you'd recommend?
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
We don't know. People saying AI is not a threat for the next 10 years don't know what they're talking about. Could be sooner, could be later. That story about a Facebook bot creating it's own language was nothing but a c
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by howscrewedami 9y ago
I've got a folder. With .txt files in it. Sometimes, I create subfolders and put .txt files in them as well.
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Ask HN: How do you deal with passive-aggressive people at work?
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