hyperG

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by hyperG 2y ago
"I think its a fair point to say that most of humanity will probably be dead within 20-30 years. " Why do I even read this stupid fucking website
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by hyperG 2y ago
Anyone working remote is just talking nonsense on this subject. I am related to a journeyman electrician and journeyman welder. They would give it up to work remote in a second.
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by hyperG 2y ago
As someone who has used zero social media in 10 years, this is incredibly trivial. No one complains about being hopelessly addicted to listening to audio books or doing anki flashcards. I suspect it isn't just social media but the cult
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by hyperG 2y ago
Animals fly by flapping their wings, hence an airplane is not really flying. It can't even land safely in a tree!
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by hyperG 2y ago
I will never work in an office again but I suspect that the good/hard workers, are slightly more productive with work from home and are happier if they want to work remote. The slackers though are slacking much more with WFH. At least
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by hyperG 2y ago
There is a linear relationship between fat loss and caloric restriction until about 7 or 8% body fat. The idea that caloric restriction is causing all this muscle loss is one of the dumbest ideas we currently have. It is simply not true.
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by hyperG 2y ago
Tolerance for ideas one disagrees with has a very short history in space and time. Intolerance in this area seems to be the long run equilibrium and we are simply returning from a far from equilibrium state that could only last so long.
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by hyperG 2y ago
I consume many audiobooks and I usually love an audiobook narrator to the point they are a value add itself or I hate the way they speak and I literally can't read the book. The former is very rare though and the later much more common
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by hyperG 2y ago
Protein powder is 90% marketing that is a distortion of reality and research for marketing purposes. None of this matters unless you are only getting your protein from one source. If you are eating north of .5-7 grams per lb of bodyweight t
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by hyperG 2y ago
I listened to the Cursor team on Lex Fridman yesterday. The biggest thing I took away is they have some wild ideas with having agents running in the background that are following what you are creating, trying to find bugs. I understand what
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by hyperG 2y ago
I am in the same spot as a non-software engineer. If you are using multiple programming languages though you really can't say you are a non-programmer. I just got up and running with Julia in like two weeks when I didn't even know
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by hyperG 2y ago
Maybe because my salary doesn't depend on any of this that I think this whole framing is science fiction. A calculator needs direction on what to calculate because the machine doesn't have agency. We are going to a higher level of
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by hyperG 2y ago
I suspect many people are simply not that intellectually curious about the world. It a super power for the intellectually curious while the highly specialized that thought they were done learning can only see the threat to their intellectua
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by hyperG 2y ago
It wouldn't be shocking to me that in 30 years, your daughter would be tasked with writing a whole book and not just an essay. Part of the learning process is learning to leverage technology. Something I think we do a really bad job at
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by hyperG 2y ago
Seems obvious to me too as someone who sucks at dancing but loves fitness. Like saying the heart worked harder with people on a treadmill at 4 miles per hour than 3 miles per hour. I think there is also this bogus implication then that danc
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by hyperG 2y ago
Thanks. That is a really great idea.
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by hyperG 2y ago
You are just wrong. Before the camera, portrait painting was how most painters would make their living and the camera upended that completely. On the last line, look up hyperrealist painter on a search engine. That is the reverse , an artis
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by hyperG 2y ago
We have already been through this with music. It doesn't really work that way. Over time, it really does just devalue the art form in a sense because now anyone can make a recording. Electronic music is really the best example. In 1995
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by hyperG 2y ago
"Rap isn't even music, they aren't even singing!" You are just expressing the same, uncreative, ignorant opinion that is always expressed when we come upon a NEW ART FORM.
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by hyperG 2y ago
Temporal graph visualization is quite lacking. It probably depends what one time slice of your network looks like. If you have 10 to 20 nodes without a ton of edges you could use a fixed circular layout for the nodes on a timeline that just
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by hyperG 2y ago
It is because the goalposts were wrong. We once thought that a computer could not beat a grandmaster in chess or pass the Turing test without some undefined special human property. We were wrong about the computer needing this undefined spe
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by hyperG 2y ago
I am fully remote and have only been in the office once this year. I really miss the social aspect but that is it. Everything I miss about the office is the opposite of productive. Even career growth wise, I have much more direct line to th
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by hyperG 2y ago
You can't underestimate this being a bot playground/training ground with no particular purpose beyond getting the bot to say realistic/interesting replies. I have zero interest in bots, but if I did, the hacker news API would
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by hyperG 2y ago
The idea of uploading my passport in order to talk on a social network is quite delusional. I would say LLMs have told me more interesting things than any human has in the past year and it is not even close. I suspect at some point, a new s
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by hyperG 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it is an entirely throw away bargaining chip. "Ok, Ok, we will give up on the anti-automation demands but we aren't budging on the wage increase demands!"
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by hyperG 2y ago
Sapolsky wrote a 500 page rebuttal to this idea in Determined. It is quite a convincing book and maybe even a dangerous book in a sense.
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by hyperG 2y ago
At my previous company, I was rejected by HR for a job the hiring manager not only told me to apply for but hired me immediately after the interview for. Reach out for sure. Do anything humanly possible to avoid going through HR.
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by hyperG 2y ago
The problem is I don't even like video calls with real people. It is the same problem that in most context, the video has no purpose. The only use for video is to put a face to a name/voice. I hope my company competitors switch to
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by hyperG 2y ago
I have never read anything by him that seemed correct. He really does seem like quite a good contrarian indicator if anything.
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by hyperG 2y ago
It is a great point. It also might be that the language everyone uses 20 years from now that gives a 50X from today is just being worked on right now or won't come along for another 5 years. The way people who would have thought that h

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