parpfish

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by parpfish 15d ago
`potato + sunflower = chicken` is some weird videogame crafting/alchemy logic
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by parpfish 16d ago
i'd love it if spotify split into two companies: - an enterprise platform that just provided a an API to access/play songs and direct the payment to the correct rightsholders - a consumer app that built on top of that to provide t
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by parpfish 21d ago
Automating the c-suite doesn’t save you money by cutting headcount, it saves you money by reducing salaries. Having a decently competent AI executive would put a lot of downward pressure on the insane benefits packages these folks get
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by parpfish 21d ago
i make typos constantly (seriously, check my post history). i probably have typos in my resume. i just dont know why anybody should care. the meaning is still easily parseable. i cant imagine letting something so superficial matter
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by parpfish 21d ago
typos mean its more likely to have been made by a human.
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by parpfish 1mo ago
their only ethicist left? gasp ! now they are exactly like every other company that has zero ethicists on staff and expect the employees to weigh the ethical ramifications of their work.
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by parpfish 1mo ago
Those plans might work to give a nice sane internet experience to the folks that are willing to put in some money and effort. But most people will still opt to stay on the slop-filled web because it’s free and because they like being angry.
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by parpfish 1mo ago
always startling to see people discussing gwern with he/him because my mind defaults to assuming they're female because "gwern" scans a lot like "gwen"
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by parpfish 2mo ago
i think there are a lot of college-educated folks that would love to switch into a trade, but there are cultural barriers to starting such a career. a not-insignificant number of tradespeople have been taught to see college as the enemy and
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by parpfish 2mo ago
i think major federal funding agencies should track department-level stats on "how many phd students did you admit?" versus "how many tenure track positions did you hire?" and use that to implement mechanisms that encour
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by parpfish 2mo ago
I’d love if there were different “layers” of meta discussion on top of everything on the web. Every blog and website would have an untold number of communities having discussions that are completely optional for you to view. Instead of brow
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by parpfish 2mo ago
our brightest phds are attacking attention from all fronts (ads, social media, news), but the news one in particular is particularly insidious because for years you were told that watching the news made you a good, responsible person. but b
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by parpfish 2mo ago
the twenty-four hour news cycle's unyielding need for urgent content has broken many people psychologically and we need to 'deprogram' them. i've often thought about making a site that lets you easily do side-by-side com
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by parpfish 2mo ago
that's where they computed numberwang, right?
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by parpfish 2mo ago
I think AI discourse is revealing some new contours to the information bubbles that we all live in. folks in the US have been pretty aware that bubbles based on political opinions -- we're all surrounded by news from "our side&quo
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by parpfish 2mo ago
> Maybe he found that telling it that it works for him nudges it in a direction that is beneficial I think that’s call “spooky Acton at a distance”
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by parpfish 2mo ago
I find it absolutely insane that there’s a golf course in Death Valley
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by parpfish 2mo ago
A working prototype like that is good if the debate is “is this possible?”, the problem above is more for problems where it’s possible and we’re arguing which path to take
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by parpfish 2mo ago
Same as programming, I feel like the underlying tension is between math lovers who want new math to be done vs those who want to be the ones to DO the new math. Both groups love math, but the later group is in a real bind because they have
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by parpfish 2mo ago
A pattern I have seen: The “old way” would be lots of debate (both bike shedding and useful) among engineers during design phase, and then you’d implement. Now it’s shifted so there are no design docs and there is only the generated prototy
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by parpfish 2mo ago
stock options/rsus are a great example of some sort of cognitive bias (maybe it's the endowment effect?). give somebody $1000 worth of shares in their company, and a lot of folks will hang on to them. but if you gave them $1000 ca
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by parpfish 2mo ago
it's also why you shouldn't hold equity in your own company any longer than necessary (e.g., an apple employee shouldn't tie up the majority of their networth in apple stock).
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by parpfish 2mo ago
I like creatine when I’m lifting because it reduces soreness. For some people that effect helps them push further and train harder, for me it’s just proactive pain relief
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by parpfish 2mo ago
Yeah, but most current corporate radio sucks. It’s not a human broadcasting and allowing their idiosyncratic tastes to sneak in. Nationwide each station is just shuffling one of three or four playlists of inoffensive songs picked because no
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by parpfish 2mo ago
There’s a human connection element to old radio that streaming will never replicate. And I worry that it’s gone from modern automated radio too. It used to be if you were driving down the road and heard a song you liked Hearing a song you l
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by parpfish 2mo ago
proofs by counterexample are effective but ultimately unsatisfying. they get you to an answer but they don't help help you understand and bend you r mind into seeing how the math works and lead you on to the new set of questions. and
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by parpfish 2mo ago
And manias are so foundational to the relatively young field of AI that they made the term “AI winter”. We should brace for the third (I think) AI winter soon
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by parpfish 2mo ago
i feel like the useful applications of AI get silently integrated into workflows. the ill-conceived moonshots by and for a non-technical audience get labelled as "AI projects/initiatives" and they fail.
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by parpfish 2mo ago
"They Live" vibes
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by parpfish 2mo ago
a feature that i thought would be good for llm-centric languages would be making something like python's doctest prominent where you put simple little unit tests in the docstring of the function rather than in some testing module somep

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