nimithryn

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by nimithryn 3mo ago
Oh ok. So I'll just have to apply 4-5 times to every job to be sure I'm considered. Sounds like a good equilibrium!
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by nimithryn 1y ago
I think that the problem is, at the end of the day, the engineer must specify exactly what they want the program to do. You can do this in Python, or you can do this in English. But at the end of the day the engineer must input the same i
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by nimithryn 1y ago
Also Christianity was a Levantine religion, growing fast in Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Syria, and the Levant. The Eastern Roman Empire at the time was far richer, more urbanized, closer to the grain supply, and closer to Silk Road and Black
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by nimithryn 2y ago
I think there are more possible answers? Jason's mother differs depending on the author... For example, Jason's mother was Philonis, daughter of Mestra, daughter of Daedalion, son of Hesporos. So Jason's maternal great-grandf
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by nimithryn 2y ago
I agree that it felt hard to read. It also doesn't make sense that they're fishing in a storm. But from a prose perspective I don't think it's cringe, which is an improvement from my expectation. I'd share some of t
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by nimithryn 2y ago
If R1 one-shotted this then I revise my opinion somewhat. This doesn't give me a gut "this is awful" emotional reaction (although I don't think it's good - it's pretty cliche, and I found my eyes glossing ove
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by nimithryn 2y ago
Am I the only one who thinks that R1 is awful at creative writing? I've seen a lot of very credulous posts on twitter that are super excited about excerpts written by DeepSeek that I think are absolutely absymal. Am I alone in this?
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by nimithryn 2y ago
Any citation on the additive random noise?
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by nimithryn 2y ago
An example: I'm looking for a new job, so I've been grinding leetcode (oof). I'm an experienced engineer and have worked at multiple FAANGs, so I'm pretty good at leetcode. Today I solved a leetcode problem 95% of the wa
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by nimithryn 2y ago
Agree. Also, Kubrick's other works strongly emphasize lighting, composition, music, and effects over plot. Just look at Barry Lyndon's candlelit scenes (which look like paintings by the Dutch masters), Eye's Wide Shut's
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by nimithryn 2y ago
Amazing quote. Can you share a link to the article, if it exists?
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by nimithryn 2y ago
> It's not about efficiency. I think the current system is more efficient (hence economies of scale). It's just that the rent extraction/profits are concentrated among the platform owners rather than spread out among local
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by nimithryn 2y ago
> You've ignored the fact that discovery is now a new service component that really didn't exist before. We can tag music and artists and we can automatically discover related music and artists very easily. All the major servic
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by nimithryn 2y ago
> My dim view is that it's just a rapacious monopolistic society. Why are there only three (four-ish) cell phone carriers in the US? Why are there only two app stores? Three (four-ish) major music platforms? The internet should have
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by nimithryn 2y ago
My hypothesis: Lack of geographically local experts. We've merged more and more into a megasociety. In a geographically distributed society, the power law for quality is more forgiving. You can be the best local band and make a living.
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by nimithryn 2y ago
Also, this sort of thing couldn't be done in the 80s or 90s, because it was much harder to compile that much data.
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by nimithryn 2y ago
On the one hand, yeah, this guy is to some degree complaining on the internet because he was rejected. It’s annoying: No one likes listening to complaining. On the other hand, a) this guy does have a point - it’s very very strange that you
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by nimithryn 2y ago
Yeah, this sequence is a meme commonly cited to show "choppy modern editing"
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by nimithryn 2y ago
I have chronic insomnia and weed definitely keeps me up
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by nimithryn 3y ago
Yeah, also, you tend to need to know the answer before you prompt it. It's kind of like a Ouija board, in that you get out what you expect.
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by nimithryn 3y ago
My experience as well. Heavy GPT-4 use (for a variety of things). Great for boilerplate, great for retrieving well-known examples from documentation, saves a fair amount of time typing and googling, but often completely wrong (majorly and s
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by nimithryn 3y ago
Have you tried to build a system like this? It’s not trivial
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by nimithryn 3y ago
I’ve used GPT4 (text) heavily as part of my business, including for front end stuff. The technology is very impressive - but honestly Twitter examples are super cherry picked. Yeah, you can build some very ugly, basic front end web pages an
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by nimithryn 3y ago
It’s about trust - not publicity. Trust is hard to earn back once broken, and there will be multiple offerings eventually. For example, AWS was one of the first cloud providers. Now there are alternatives, but I still pick AWS because I tru
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by nimithryn 3y ago
Example? I'm curious
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by nimithryn 3y ago
The redistribution is productive, because by redistributing risk (not just among people, but also across time), some ventures that were otherwise not feasible become feasible. For example, you want to build a house - but you don’t have th
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by nimithryn 3y ago
I worked for a government contractor before moving to FAANG. We had transparent salaries at the contractor (it was a small company). As a senior engineer in FAANG, I make more than the president of the government contractor.
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by nimithryn 4y ago
Yes, and that would violate copyright
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by nimithryn 4y ago
It has the Super Bowl numbers wrong, too. The last Super Bowl is LVI, which was Rams vs Bengals… the Super Bowl before that one was Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Kansas City. it has every fact wrong but in the most confusing way possible…
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by nimithryn 4y ago
IANAL either, but there are attacks you can use to extract the original training data from the models: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188 . I’d guess these attacks will get better with time. So in some ways, you can argue

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