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by iaseiadit 2y ago
Who “vilifies immigrants”? President Trump is married to an immigrant, as is Vice President Vance. And many of Trumps advisors are immigrants. And he has repeatedly said he wants America to attract the best people from around the world. You
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
Immigrants are welcome in America, but we do not have an open border. We have an immigration process that must be followed, just like every other country on Earth. Violating the immigration process is breaking the law. Enforcing our laws is
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
What “fascism” are we talking about here? A company pulling tampons from men’s rooms? Companies scaling down DEI departments that advocated (probably illegally) in favor of gender and race-based discrimination? Or are you speaking more broa
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
This is just checks-and-balances at work, is it not? It’s by design.
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
The comparison here is a slot machine: you pay a a few to play, you pull the lever to play, you win a prize. Here, the payment is your attention, you swipe to the next video to play the game, and the prize if you land on a good video is a s
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
They’re talking about the algorithm that’s used outside of China being banned in China, not TikTok being banned in the US.
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
My understanding is there’s a lot of outreach at HBCUs, so you may try that. Also H-1Bs. The joke that white men are all named “Chad” is tired. You’ll notice I didn’t say everyone I interviewed was name DeShawn or whatever. Let’s move past
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
I also work for a big US tech company. If it’s not standard practice, I’m happy to hear it.
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
I can only speak from personal experience, but since about 4 years ago, every candidate I’ve been asked to interview for a software engineering position has been Black, Hispanic, South Asian or East Asian. Not a single white American. Are t
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
When I started out, I did read code top-to-bottom. I was mostly self-taught and didn't have a mental model yet of how code was structured, so I relied on this "brute force" method to familiarize myself. I suppose it's no
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
Some humans can do it consistently, other humans can't. Versus how no publicly-available AI can do it consistently (yet). Although it seems like a matter of time at this point, and then work as we know it changes dramatically.
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
Offset by the value of toppling a hostile administration that had him in its crosshairs. Is that worth $XXB? Maybe not, but it's worth something.
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
> As for integration, I don't see why people who are judgmental. People are judgmental because mass migration from high-crime countries transformed Sweden from one of the world's safest countries to having the highest rate of g
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
I'm familiar. Completely transformed New York City in the 1990s for the better. But I'm not suggesting that every law is good. If a law is not enforceable or not a net positive for the community, change it or get rid of it. But do
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
I'm of the belief that if a law exists but isn't being enforced, the only correct course of action is to eliminate the law or start enforcing it. Otherwise, you enforce the law inconsistently, and you reinforce the notion that law
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
Some photos from the camp here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/eyewitness/galleri... Photo of men with artificial limbs built in the camp: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C44
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
If all signs in the prison camp were written right-to-left instead of vertically, they probably would have noted that before creating the sign. Especially considering their lives depended on it.
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
There have been XPRIZE competitions for vehicle efficiency, oil spill technology, more efficient rockets, health sensors, AI systems, genomics, etc. Whether or not quantum computers have practical applications, the prize itself is not evide
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
Facebook did it, so they will follow.
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
If you've been fired, it typically signals you had very bad performance or committed some fireable offense. If you were laid off, you were ostensibly just on the wrong team at the wrong time. It's not about how you view your last
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by iaseiadit 2y ago
I've thought this about Facebook/Meta for so many years now, and I continue to be proven wrong time and time again.
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
And inexperienced people are notorious for falling for unfounded hype. Eventually they either learn to discern value, which is hard, or just write off hype, which usually works fine but occasionally makes them late to the party.
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
We’re talking about LLMs. In that context it makes no sense to “exclude the ram difference.”
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
> RAM being the issue would mean Samsung phones are somehow more RAM efficient than Pixel phones, which is hard to believe. Not necessarily. It’s at least possible that the overall experience is degraded in the low RAM system, and Sams
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
Cal, not Carl.
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
Not an expert, but this paper explores double descent with simple models. The interpretation there: when you extend into the overparameterized regime, that permits optimization towards small-norm weights, which generalize well again. Does
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
It wasn’t a full year of iPhone sales either: it launched in June and sold 1.9 million units in just six months. The VR market is small for a reason.
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
I usually have a good experience, but just in the last few weeks it’s been bad: - Driver started watching TikTok videos on his dashboard-mounted phone while driving - Driver going way over the speed limit in stormy weather - A driver was
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
While some may have doubted the iPhone, Apple sold 1.9 million iPhones in the year it launched, and cell phones had already been established as an enormous and growing market. VR seems very different from that. Most people simply don’t want
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by iaseiadit 3y ago
OP shared a link to just the Imagenet paper. Agree he had a decent overall track record at Stanford, but that’s not how tenure works — it might have got his foot in the door as an assistant professor somewhere. He chose a much more lucrativ

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