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by redredrobot 4y ago
Are you complaining that when they cut their pay from 400k to 32k that wasn’t enough? Or are you complaining that they didn’t cut their 32k salaries down further?
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by redredrobot 4y ago
They can both be true. It's can be easy to make the switch and still difficult to convince people to do it if the alternatives are simply crappier.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
The argument is - engineers are expensive so why pay for the expertise to setup and run machines? There's just so many better things for your company to be spending the money on.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
I think there are a bunch of people who consider this work unethical or at least deeply in the grey. The negativity isn't that surprising
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by redredrobot 4y ago
If they are used in a tool that lets you generate someone's likeness as part of user-specified new content, yes. But unlike 15.ai that isn't their core purpose and no such tool exists.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
I would imagine it will end with a similar outcome to video game likenesses - a person owns their likeness and you can't create products that includes their likeness without their consent.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
You're right about the compute part being wrong. I never said it wasn't legal, just that they took someone else's work to train it. I would hope that voice synthesis is illegal without permission from the voice's owner,
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by redredrobot 4y ago
The author took someone else's IP as training data, trained a model on someone else's compute, and then gets extremely bent out of shape when others use the model without crediting them?
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by redredrobot 4y ago
I don't see how this can possibly go anywhere if employees aren't willing to put their names on it.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Here is a 1997 interview with Jeff Bezos that I like where he talks about why he created Amazon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWRbTnE1PEM . He describes a purely logical explanation of seeing data about internet growth a
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by redredrobot 4y ago
You're pretty quick to act like there is a lot of blame to be allocated, but GTA 5 is arguably the most successful game in history. With games that truly have technical problems so bad they ruin the game, people don't complain - t
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by redredrobot 4y ago
You tell the interviewer you are familiar the question instead of pretending to come up with a solution on the spot. Is that not obvious to everyone?
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by redredrobot 4y ago
But don't we already know that composition exists in DALL-E? Don't the points shown in the tweet indicate that some form of composition exists? The 3D renders are clearly render-like, the painting and cartoons are clearly in the a
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by redredrobot 4y ago
So his argument is that the text clearly maps to concepts in the latent space, but when composing them the results are unexpected, so it isn't language? Why isn't this better described as 'the rules of composition are unknown
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Are you sure about that? I tend to think that Evernote's differentiation is the vast feature diversity. IMO old software like this often continues to succeed because it can support the long-tail of use cases in a way that newer softwar
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Yeah - it’s probably unfair of me to say it doesn’t scale at all. But between large data and 2 extra orders of magnitudes of rows, the single SQLite file approach quickly breaks down, even if you don’t store the large content in-db.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Datasette is pretty cool. But AFAICT, it just doesn’t scale whatsoever. That SQLite db is both the dataset index and the dataset content combined, right? So you're limited by how big that SQLite db can realistically be. The docs say &q
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Completely untrue. Just finished up my interview process and my experience was that comp is higher than ever at the strong FANGs (I.e not Netflix). Microsoft and Amazon just massively bumped their comp maximums. Google was good as ever. Pre
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by redredrobot 4y ago
I actually think it's probably pretty simple underneath the facade - Musk offered to buy Twitter for a lot of money. The market tanked and Musk doesn't want to pay that price any more. He thinks he can strong-arm Twitter and eithe
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Did you actual address your addictions or did you just fill that hole with something new and so moderation became easy? I would suggest stop focusing on the symptoms and focus on the underlying problem that is driving your addictions, wheth
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Elon didn't do any non-public due diligence of Twitter
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by redredrobot 4y ago
You can't just quote a part of a contract and specifically cut out the legal caveats that exists to avoid the risk of being considered material misrepresentation. The correct quote is: > We have performed an internal review of a sam
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by redredrobot 4y ago
I worked at a couple of dev tool startups that required you to invest some effort to adopt and would require effort to move away from (e.g. if the company went under) - open sourcing ended up being basically a necessity to sell the product
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by redredrobot 4y ago
I have no idea what you think that proves. What I know of your experience shows a low number of years of experience, a lack of papers, and a lack of true hands-on experience at the small number of companies in the world that have the resour
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by redredrobot 4y ago
> I have more expertise in deep learning than anyone else here No, you don't. Looking at your experience, there is simply no way that you are the foremost expert in DL on HN.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Python is a great option because it is high-level, easy to pick up, powerful and has a library for anything they are interested in pursuing. Something like streamlit is cool because you can write a small amount of code to build a useful web
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by redredrobot 4y ago
There was a Robinhood breach a while back - https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/11/8/data-security-inci...
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by redredrobot 4y ago
Currently on the job market in the AI space in the Bay Area - 400k to 600k is senior level at FAANG + similar. Low 7 figures at staff wouldn't shock me (although I don't have any actual data on that)
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by redredrobot 4y ago
There are some groups defining AGI in a way where a 20 year timeline is aggressive but not impossible. The real question is how is AGI being defined by the author.
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by redredrobot 4y ago
> using AWS is fine, as long as you use cloud agnostic stuff and avoid AWS specific services IMO this is exactly when you should not be using AWS. AWS is a premium offering and you can find cheaper alternatives for the commoditized offer

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