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by rlanday 11mo ago
Claude Code also costs $20/month for the lowest paid tier.
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by rlanday 11mo ago
> SOTA models are already capable of outperforming any human on earth in a dizzying array of ways, especially when you consider scale. So why are so many people still employed as e.g. software engineers? People aren’t prompting the model
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by rlanday 1y ago
Yann LeCun is 65. It is extremely unlikely his future research contributions will amount to anything close to what he has already done.
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by rlanday 2y ago
There’s a design problem here if the driver can’t be self-contained in such a way that it’s possible to roll back the kernel to a known good state.
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by rlanday 2y ago
A developer is much more likely to be able to fix their computer and/or restore from a backup than a typical user is. A significant problem is cascading failures, where one bozo installing malware either creates a business problem (e.g
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by rlanday 2y ago
I think if someone wants to criticize Microsoft after experiencing their buggy products for 20 years straight, that is not “baseless,” although I accept that taking responsibility for literally anything our products do goes against the core
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by rlanday 2y ago
> > The Windows ecosystem typically deployed in corporate PCs or workstations is often insecure, slow, and poorly implemented > Yes, but that's not because of Windows itself Come on. There’s a reason Windows users all want to
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by rlanday 3y ago
Yes, the original Parkinson’s Law paper contains an equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law > The growth was presented mathematically with the formula x = (2k^m + P)/n, in which k was the n
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by rlanday 3y ago
> The reason we have 3204 2B allocations is that each of the 2B contains info (latent space dimension). I think the author is more correct than you are. It is not necessarily the case that we need 3,204 dimensions to represent the inform
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by rlanday 3y ago
> Secondly, his description of each layer's function as adding information to the original vector misses the mark IMO--it is more like the original input is convolved with the weights of the transformer into the output. I am probabl
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by rlanday 3y ago
> That's some major scapegoating of flight crew, when their airline clearly has not maintained the plane properly and caused engine failure in the first place and airport failed to provide adequate ground control support. Most disas
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by rlanday 3y ago
This is hard to believe given the quality of most software, but at some point, one might expect a decline in product quality to harm revenue and profitability, which would reduce or eliminate the need for headcount growth.
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by rlanday 4y ago
To be fair, I don’t think he’s been responsible for any world wars.
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by rlanday 4y ago
It can be transmitted between family members too. I would hazard a guess that, given the risk factors for hepatitis B include being an IV drug user who shares needles, there’s probably a correlation between the mother and/or the father
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by rlanday 4y ago
You want a “dumb sorted list” of every video on YouTube?
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by rlanday 5y ago
That’s not good behavior but I think it’s not really the same phenomenon. That’s more of a coordinated action/tragedy of the commons problem where people want to bury their heads in the sand and do nothing because the problem can be mo
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by rlanday 5y ago
Absolutely not. Quite the contrary. They originally dropped the charges against him in agreement for 16 hours of community service and forfeiting his $10,000 bond. He inflamed racial and political tensions for attempted personal gain, which
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by rlanday 5y ago
I hated the vaccination thing sooo much. I was already annoyed that the US is becoming a communist country where all the most valuable goods (e.g. vaccines) are given to powerful politicians (members of Congress) instead of letting people i
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by rlanday 5y ago
> You can move from one float to the next, which is a meaningfull operation on discreet numbers like integers, but not continuous numbers like rational and irrational numbers. What do you mean by continuous? Obviously if you take a numbe
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by rlanday 5y ago
Hong Kong has been indisputably part of China since July 1, 1997.
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by rlanday 5y ago
If you’re lucky, the train conductors and the air traffic controllers won’t be on strike at the same time though!
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by rlanday 5y ago
> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language Maybe your language isn’t so “brilliant” if some of the smartest programmers in the world still can’t figure it out.
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by rlanday 5y ago
My initial reaction was, “it can’t possibly be as big as the mistake you’re making if you’re using TensorFlow!”
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by rlanday 6y ago
It’s long been possible to decode H.264 using JavaScript (which obviously uses way more power than the native decoder). This is why browsers only restrict audio playback rather than actually autoplaying video.
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by rlanday 6y ago
> Gil Scott-Heron is right - but also not. I was reminded of this watching First Man - and I realised that if 1960s USA had not funded a Moonshot, then would it have looked at itself and said "Hey our police force is used to keep 1&
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by rlanday 6y ago
You seem to think that Facebook managed to get 2.74 billion monthly active users by providing a product that people don’t significantly value. 3.21 billion if you also count Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram.
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by rlanday 6y ago
Does this difference in pay for remote workers based on city actually exist yet? I feel like a bunch of people are e.g. just telling Google they’re going to work out of Mountain View or New York and counting on never being asked to actually
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by rlanday 6y ago
2008 was, again, a demand crash: a lot of people could no longer afford to pay their mortgages and speculators stopped buying properties under the assumption that they would be guaranteed to be able to resell them at a profit after a relati
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by rlanday 6y ago
Worked, past tense. I’m perfectly happy paying New York taxes on the income I earned while actually working out of the New York office.
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by rlanday 6y ago
New York has a rule about “convenience of the employer.” The name is misleading and doesn’t make any sense, but basically if there was no way to do the work in New York (e.g. your company sent you to New Jersey to hook up someone’s internet

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