renjimen

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by renjimen 3mo ago
Just pop over the border to Canada from Washington state and they thaw right out! Also, nit, but Europe has ~2x the population of the States, and definitely more cultural and linguistic diversity.
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by renjimen 3mo ago
AI epitomises chasing a narrow definition of progress that benefits the few (increasing profits via automation) over a holistic definition of progress that benefits the many (reducing poverty, improving health, providing meaning). It's
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by renjimen 3mo ago
The Claude Code extension in VSCode is similar enough. I used to use Cursor, but now I use VSCode+CC to take advantage of the better pricing CC offers for always-on frontier. I found Cursor's affordable "Auto" option unreliab
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by renjimen 3mo ago
For the kind of ML work I do Cursor's "Auto" was too unreliable. It would frequently try to solve relatively difficult tasks using Composer, when it should have been routing to a true frontier model. Annoyingly, doesn't
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by renjimen 3mo ago
Drug design isn't the bottleneck anymore, it's trials. Still cool they can do this with a general purpose model though.
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by renjimen 3mo ago
Yeah, that's not great. It's not like we try to fill the 30 mins, but I think we all crave a little connection with our colleagues, so make use of the time to catch up. I've worked with these same team members for over 3 year
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by renjimen 3mo ago
This isn't a company policy, it's just something I make space for in my team. There's no pressure to connect beyond the required work items. The happy hours are only an hour a month during work hours, where we talk about stuf
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by renjimen 3mo ago
If they don't feel like chatting they don't need to. I guess I have a chatty team. We don't always fill the 30 minutes, but we often do. It doesn't feel performative and I wouldn't waste our time if it did. There&#x
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by renjimen 3mo ago
I do this with my team. We spend more than half of our weekly 30 minute 1-on-1s talking about anything but work. That isn't written down anywhere, it's just a natural consequence of us being interested in each others' lives,
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by renjimen 4mo ago
There are various levels of self deception that almost everyone subscribes to. A pretty high level one is that our jobs are meaningfully making a positive difference in the world, when in fact, most white collar jobs are just producing bull
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by renjimen 4mo ago
Dario and Demis have called for nationalisation at some point. They know if AI reaches what they believe its potential to be, it needs to be democratically governed. It will upend the markets, but AI already threatens to do that. It feels l
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by renjimen 4mo ago
This is a bit of weird article. On one hand, I understand what they're getting at: AI is a transformative technology, but the people whose lives will be most transformed aren't included in the conversation. On the other hand... of
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by renjimen 5mo ago
Downward pressure on proprietary model pricing until a lab can catch up. Also good for hiring talent (who love OSS).
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by renjimen 5mo ago
Not social media. Advertising, and any business that is funded by advertising. Social media before the maturing of internet advertising was great.
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by renjimen 5mo ago
You lead with "Moreover, it is an optimal algorithm that minimizes state estimation uncertainty." By the end of the tutorial I understood what this meant, but "optimal algorithm" is a vague term I am unfamiliar with (des
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by renjimen 5mo ago
I love all these. I'd add Blightsight by Peter Watts to the list. It has the creepy, psychological bent of Annihilation combined with the hard science elements common to qntm's, Neal Stephenson's and Greg Egan's books.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Where I thought this was going: entering the Brand Age of AI. LLMs become commoditized, so the big labs increasingly focus on marketing and rhetoric to maintain market share. See the Anthropic spat with DoD (though I do applaud them for tha
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Ditto. I kept waiting for the AI comparison. My interpretation was less agentic coding than the commodification of LLMs, forcing Anthropic and OpenAI into a pivot to focus on brand. Anthropic's spat with the DoD could be viewed through
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Both. The same as for other materials we don't want kids to access, like alcohol. We can't expect parents to always be watching their kids. That's not how societies have ever worked. But what I'm actually questioning in
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by renjimen 7mo ago
For sure, I'm not blanket supporting age verification technology. Just saying the alternative proposed by the parent commenter isn't very reliable either.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
It's only effective if "Children's devices are almost always set up by parents", which is a big assumption. My parents were about as tech savvy as you could reasonably expect but I still got away with buying R-rated vide
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Name checks out! Your clarification makes sense on a second read. Thanks
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Agree to disagree, I guess. Not everything interesting has to be comprehensive. I think I'm done with this conversation now you're comparing a website about manufacturing to child porn. That's in bad taste.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
How do you stay injury free climbing every day? I feel like at even twice week I am entering the danger zone with ligamentisis.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Sourdough is the bomb though. I agree about the lack of variety, but in its defense, sourdough starter can be used for a variety of other baked goods.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Fair point. My actual conclusion: California has made it structurally impossible to manufacture things it consumes, and has exported the environmental burden to places with fewer protections.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
All data points can be called confirmation bias if you frame them that way. The question is whether the data is accurate, not whether it's complete. The site isn't claiming regulations are the only factor, just that they're s
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by renjimen 7mo ago
It's providing a single geographic data point to you, for free. You're welcome to do your own research if you want a complete picture.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
Having less garbage is a whole other issue. Small utility vehicles makes a lot of sense but doesn't seem to be the way it's done in NA. Maybe it’s a labour cost thing. But even the long haul trucks are huge here compared to the re
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by renjimen 7mo ago
I assume you're being a little obtuse. The comparison to wherever manufacturers phones and EVs is implicit. They are manufactured somewhere with looser environmental regulation than California, where they are purchased en masse. You ca

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