just_boost_it

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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I have a 100% remote job, but I had them set me up with a desk in a coworking space. I just felt that being alone all day was just a lonely way to live my life. It was great at the start to have so few interruptions, but y'know we&#x27
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Every technical thing you know is informed by your practice in an area. There's a lot of roles where you don't even have to think about which algorithm is implemented behind your favorite sort method. If you work in a role like th
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Google does seem to have an issue with maintaining promising apps. Maybe those would actually would do a bit better if the teams those engineers were on actually had to make money. It wouldn't be so much of an issue if they weren'
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Neither does exactly what alt-tab does! Now command-tab does what I want.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I got a mac for the first time this year. Honestly, it feels like taking a shower after getting home from the beach on a sunny day when you've been wearing sunscreen. Everything just works with no extra garbage, no constant intrusive u
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Or comedians..
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
For this kind of thing, you can use LDA to draw out topics, then use clever prompting using the results of that with RAG to create summaries.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Yikes. So they're aiming for the chafing experience of working remote, but like, also when you're not remote.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I'd say it's basically standard everywhere outside the US. I lived in Canada and Europe, and eneryone is on it. All my fellow immigrants in the US are all on WhatsApp groups.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
With WhatsApp, your phone number allowed you to see everyone in your contacts that you could message on there, so you could see everyone straight away. Without that, you'd have to bring your friends along and have them sign up as well,
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
What's your source for this? European countries are quite different from each other, and I'm wondering if your experience was only in restaurants while travelling (which is a very different experience to what most people eat every
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I wouldn't, but the mindset in traditional engineering is very different to tech. After a project, they might be required to conduct a post mortem per IEEE or something like that.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I mean you can argue all kinds of possibilities and in an abstract enough way anything can be true. However, people who think these things have a soul and feelings in any way similar to us obviously have never built them. A transformer mode
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
When I saw this I thought it was a "water is wet" type story, because this telescope is supposed to see further than all the other ones we've made. The gravitational lensing aspect of it makes it cool though.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I don't think that's quite where we're at. I think we're converging somewhere more "like the robotic tasks that a human does". What I want from ChatGPT is bullet point facts, or short summaries. With multi-agen
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
You're making 2 assumptions there!
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Like, without that inert gas there would have to be something else. Being in a pure oxygen environment for a prolonged period has health impacts to many animals including us. Anything even remotely flammable, like paper, wood, sugar, would
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
For each token, the model is run again from scratch on the sentence too, so any memory lasts just long enough to generate (a little less than) a word. The next word is generated by a model with a slightly different state because the last wo
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I mean, my world view is that you should listen to people's ideas when they've had some good ones in the past. I'm not saying we have to believe they're always right. I don't believe in great men, but I don't b
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I'm not Musk's biggest fan by any means, but after decades in existance he made electric cars "a thing", and he drove the costs of getting to space down by so much that it makes the existing players look like idiots. He&
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Presumably for whatever reason it worked well for us to develop as we did down here? Stops everything from exploding, dissolves all the other gases quite nicely? What other gas would you use?
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I could very easily believe that if I saw proof, but it just feels a bit wrong to train a model on model outputs. Even in the main article here, the model did better with fewer fine tuned examples. To us, the auto-generated examples might l
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Is this proven to work? ML models are usually trained to learn a model of the environment by giving them environment data. I would have expected feeding it model outputs just trains it to learn a model of the model creating the data. Withou
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
My dream is for the entire industry to start demanding this perfect workflow. Then I will be even more valuable wherever I go.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
These GPUs aren't going to heat themselves!
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
That's a fairly unempathetic view. I don't know what it's like to be a gambler, but I do know that anyone who thinks they are completely rational is only fooling themselves. We are emotional animals with a tiny rational voice
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I was going to say that too, but then I was like "yep, that's exactly the problem!"
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
I doubt this will really go anywhere. At the end of the day, it's actually in the EU's interest to make it easy and desirable for US megacorps to set themselves up there. €13B is nothing in the grand scheme of trade. That's w
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
Then Netflix is the uber driver, and has to watch as the uber-netflix eats more and more of the streaming fees as years go by.
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by just_boost_it 3y ago
France and Germany drive EU politics. If the politicians there are benefitting from AI then they're less likely to regulate it out of existance. The EU creates policy that the rest of the west tends to move towards, so if you can stop

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