quad_eye_oh

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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
I clicked around the website on mobile and it seems to be missing the fairly critical 'about' or 'readme.md' page which describes what the project is or what it is used for. I'm sure it's an exciting project, b
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
Property values are something like 70% of China's wealth, but only 30% of production. A GDP drop of 15% is very conceivable. I think it's likely GP is wrong about the 50% figure, but if they were correct the CCP would never publis
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
I haven't looked at where Ben Hu's lab is, but epidemiological distance in urban areas doesn't necessarily follow map distance. In particular, proximity to a shared subway or bus line can be more important than physical proxi
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
That's Chinese map data obfuscation. The idea is to make it marginally harder for an adversary to target missiles using public map data.
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
If it were worth $20M in lost advertising, buying the app and adding adverts to it would be a no brainer. The author was trying to call their bluff on user value, but communicated it very poorly.
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
Huh. I guess that is possible in the Americas, and maybe Africa, where multiple adjacent countries share a common tongue. I was thinking more about Asia where the national languages are more distict from each other as well as from English.
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
The advantage as I see it of being a digital nomad is that one gets paid US salaries and gets to enjoy foreign costs of living. For example, software engineers in Europe make less than half of what SV software engineers make, and salaries i
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
Seems like it's about symmetric costs and overall efficiency. To get up and walk over costs the Boss time and physical effort, so it won't take happen frequently, and it will likely happen on a predictable schedule (e.g. as boss g
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
Right, but LLMs suggest that learning how to predict and only training on predictions is sufficient to learn anything and to have emergent generative abilities. What if learning to predict the upcoming input is all that's all that is
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
This is a thought that LLMs caused me to have: the emotion of surprise is just the brain model of the world discovering that it had been poorly calibrated, or making poor predictions.
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
That's my point, that some people will draw the line at things that are objectively nonviolent, and others will draw it at things that are objectively very close to violent. Actually come to think of it, violence is really just a proxy
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by quad_eye_oh 3y ago
I think some of this political conflict is over what constitutes a harmless or victimless or nonviolent crime. In the past year I've seen different people claim that hemp consumption, property crime, and even intimidation with a firear