mjhay

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by mjhay 17d ago
Yeah, you’re right about that. They view IT as a “cost center” to be cut to the bone (despite being essential to their product and strategy in most cases), while they have no problem with paying consultants astronomical hourly rates for non
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by mjhay 21d ago
Beyond parody
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by mjhay 23d ago
The ROÍ will be happening any day now, we promise. Please hire more McKinsey consultants who say they’re AI experts.
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by mjhay 23d ago
Around where I live, they first shut down during covid with the excuse of preventing transmission. Of course they just never opened up again. Ditto water fountains.
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by mjhay 27d ago
I had 512 in my desktop a decade ago
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by mjhay 29d ago
I have some bad news about how closely Econ 101 resembles the real world…
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by mjhay 1mo ago
I was just thinking how I wished GitHub was part of a csam generation company owned by a Nazi. This sounds great!
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by mjhay 1mo ago
Flick doesn’t just do license plate readers. They do all kinds of surveillance cameras.
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by mjhay 1mo ago
Sounds like that feature would really cut into their overdraft fees.
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by mjhay 1mo ago
There’s been a bunch of airline IT meltdowns in recent years, some much much worse than what you described. Airlines just decided IT is a “cost center” and decided not to maintain it.
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by mjhay 1mo ago
Sure. Reasonably reliable backup power is a very good thing, but losing power isn’t necessarily a catastrophe.
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by mjhay 1mo ago
They’re assuredly checkpointing, which is SOP for any long training. Lots of things can go wrong besides power loss.
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by mjhay 2mo ago
So I take it you’re a marine engineer or similar?
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by mjhay 2mo ago
Drug companies spend more on marketing than R&D
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by mjhay 2mo ago
If there’s anyone I can trust to give an accurate and unbiased assessment of AI company finances, it’s surely an outfit selling a “finance CLI for your trading agent”
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by mjhay 2mo ago
Pictures aren’t mandatory. Most restaurants don’t have them.
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by mjhay 2mo ago
In the US, some of those apps were generating gross nonsense like showing an image of a pizza with a sweet pie filling (because the menu said “pizza pie”). I don’t get how AI images like this don’t open them up to false advertising lawsuits
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by mjhay 2mo ago
It must be some 5-dimensional chess he’s playing, it couldn’t be that he’s just an edgelord Nazi whose brain has been liquefied by ketamine abuse
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by mjhay 2mo ago
I shouldn’t have been so negative. I still very much like Rust, but hearing about these AI rewrites constantly is tiresome.
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by mjhay 2mo ago
I used to like rust, but I feel like I’m being Pavlovian-conditioned to recoil at its mention now.
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by mjhay 2mo ago
I assure you they would be more than happy to order it for you.
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by mjhay 2mo ago
The behavior of a single model and version can and does change. There’s not only built-in stochasticity, but closed hosted models like Claude are tweaked and changed all the time.
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by mjhay 2mo ago
Buying the physical book from Amazon isn’t a great way to stick it to Bezos. Just have your local bookstore order it for you, it’s easy.
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by mjhay 3mo ago
He’s such a good guy
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by mjhay 3mo ago
wow, that’s crazy that OpenAI is saying that negative opinion against them is actually a nefarious foreign conspiracy, and does not actually indicate people hate them
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by mjhay 3mo ago
Ah, Axios. The same great outlet that has gotten the scoop on the Iran war ending numerous times.
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by mjhay 3mo ago
More of a lot of things. Universal healthcare (as opposed to employer-provided plans) encourages people to start their own businesses. UBI would be similar, but moreso.
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by mjhay 3mo ago
You’d really think they’d really check everything and cross their t’s after their previous issues in marjorana fermion QC. I generally have a very high opinion of MS research, but this is getting a bit embarrassing.
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by mjhay 3mo ago
Bingo. The typical data scientist has a masters or PhD in a non-CS quantitative field, and has had exactly zero CS or software eng classes. It’s a shame, because once you get over some of the idiosyncrasies, R is a really powerful and flexi
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by mjhay 3mo ago
I’m a big fan of Polars. It’s really fast and memory efficient. With the lazy streaming functionality, I’ve been able to easily process 1 Tb+ data on a single machine (you do have to be careful to not do any operation that would cause the w

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