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by pocketsand 3mo ago
Obvious massive asterisk that benchmarks are not always realworld use: Apple M5, Single core Geekbench: ~4,200 ( https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-14-inch-2025 ) Apple M5 Pro (15-core, lower core version), m
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by pocketsand 3mo ago
A strange retort. "Yeah well, your CHILD'S COMPUTER is better, but that's for CHILDREN. We're talking adult computers here!"
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by pocketsand 3mo ago
This comment is untethered from reality. Apple Silicon at present beats every single laptop on the market at CPU-bound workloads using a fraction of the power draw. Exceptions exist but usually those cases are break even or close calls. It
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by pocketsand 2y ago
Work for me or I will publicly shame you, try to damage your reputation, and make your employees potentially question your loyalty. Threatening people if they don’t take a job with you is in the most literal way a challenge to your autonomy
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by pocketsand 2y ago
For me, the fact he tried to compel the WPE CEO to work for him or else he would expose that she was in negotiations with him is the most unhinged thing I’ve ever heard in a hiring process. Quite literally an affront to freedom. My most cha
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by pocketsand 2y ago
Having an ad partner that is doing bad things on its own direction is different from explicitly paying a company to do a specific bad thing. Far be it from me to defend Meta on privacy —- I won’t —- but we should at least characterize their
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by pocketsand 2y ago
For what it’s worth, in most cases, an organization that overly focuses on process is superior to one with a naive individualism that throws employees under the bus by default.
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by pocketsand 2y ago
If you took the "no it won't" side of every argument about "how in X number of years, AI is sure to Y", you'd be way ahead. In any event, raw parameter/weight count to me seems like a very primitive way to
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by pocketsand 2y ago
You would think so, but people like Sam Altman have suggested that they can use AI-generated data to train their own models. See here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-ha...
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by pocketsand 2y ago
Yeah, sure. But the marginal cost is zero, whereas a Slack subscription for every person in our org will cost about 1 million dollars a year. And it doesn’t integrate as well with every other piece of functional but mediocre software. The p
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by pocketsand 2y ago
I would disagree. I work in healthcare and we’ve always used SQL Server. While I wouldn’t pick it, it’s been reliable and integrates with auth. No one “loves” Teams, but honestly it serves its purpose for us at no cost. No one loves OneDriv
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by pocketsand 2y ago
My experience with DataSpell has not been great. Granted, my workflow leans toward R, and it DataSpell has a Python-first approach, but the app was basically completely broken to even load R, and StackOverflow was full of relatively old pos
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by pocketsand 2y ago
As I'm sure you know, there are a lot of variations on how quantiles are calculated in various software. The 25th percentile, e.g., doesn't always line up with a value in the dataset, so sometimes nearest rank methods are used, ot
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by pocketsand 2y ago
I do stats and data viz for a living and the article seemed perfectly reasonable to me. He isn’t dogmatic. He makes reasonable arguments. I’m confused by these hopelessly uncharitable readings of the article.
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by pocketsand 2y ago
Why? They’re non-parametric and make zero assumptions of normality.
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by pocketsand 2y ago
He paid 54bn to have the run of a web site where he creates his own reality, surrounded by sycophants. It cost a third of that for Boston to do the Big Dig. To each his own.
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by pocketsand 2y ago
> Academic science is excluded from market mechanisms by legal fiat. This to me just seems untrue. What is your basis for this claim? There is plenty of research privately funded by corporations, some of which is very influential. Often
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by pocketsand 2y ago
A family member is paid very highly. He has switched jobs almost ever year for over a decade, including at top tier tech firms. I'm not sure why he does this but I have my suspicions. What I do know is that he is never seems happy with
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by pocketsand 2y ago
2854684 Not an elite 6 number UIN, but at least on the bottom side of 7 digits.
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by pocketsand 2y ago
Strange that people would be upset over an optional feature. I like the idea and may enable it.
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by pocketsand 2y ago
I did not say they're destroying the chargers. You are nevertheless underselling the potential implications IMO. These chargers are finicky. People's primary complaint with Electrify America is how hit or miss they are in actually
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by pocketsand 2y ago
I understand the competitive advantage has changed with the NACS deal, but the last major Tesla brand advantage I as a lay-observer saw was their clearly superior charging network and connector. People seemed to unanimously agree their conn
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by pocketsand 2y ago
I hosed an iBook G4 repairing a hard drive back in the day. Oops
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by pocketsand 2y ago
What was enlightening for me was watching my wife, who is a physician, work in electronic medical record software like EPIC. It's ugly, it's dense, the colors are high contrast. It also fits everything they need to see in one plac
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by pocketsand 2y ago
I've always wondered if the "hard productive way" as understood by conventional wisdom (using VIM, using a language like APL) is actually more productive. For this topic, I have in mind two exercises: First, get people to nom
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by pocketsand 3y ago
In fact, the CLT is remarkably robust to distributional assumptions. Examples where it breaks down (e.g., non-finite variance) are comparatively rare, even if there are "many" of them. As with all things statistical, judgment is r
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by pocketsand 3y ago
I saw a post shared on some platform recently that some screens in Amazon still use this technique. I remember slicing and dicing up the rounded corners in photoshop.
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by pocketsand 3y ago
For me, the life changer was SSI. You mean I can just include files and not copy menus all over the place? I also remember being enamored by image maps. Mapping out the polygons without software was beyond the confidence I had as an 11 year
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by pocketsand 3y ago
z-scores just require knowing a standard deviation and a mean. you only need an assumption of normality if you want to do things like assign p-values. of course, that is mostly how they are used.
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by pocketsand 3y ago
My issue here is that Imbens and Gelman are respected because they are good statisticians but also clear thinkers who have proved themselves dedicated to doing good, careful work. If you have major issues with work their name is on, I would

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