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by rodonn 2mo ago
The challenge is timing. Power is a relatively low share of the cost of a modern data center, but the length of time it takes for approvals and construction for solar means it would substantially slow down the construction vs. using grid+na
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by rodonn 3mo ago
The problem is that I don't know before I read a doc whether or not it will be useful and valuable. If someone wants me to spend my time and attention on something they have shared, I would like them to demonstrate that they put a prop
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by rodonn 7mo ago
"profitable on inference" means "marginal costs of inference are lower than revenue". It is very common to distinguish between upfront costs vs. marginal costs when judging the economic viability of a business. You menti
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by rodonn 7mo ago
There's been a huge amount of improvement in coding agent effectiveness since they ran that experiment. In a more recent follow up experiment, METR found 20% speed up from AI assistance and says they believe that is likely an underesti
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by rodonn 1y ago
You can use the "cameo" feature only with users who have gone through the cameo creation flow. Sama has an account and created a cameo likeness of himself. When you create your cameo you can choose who is allowed to make videos us
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by rodonn 1y ago
That's hiring for a role buying ads, not selling ads. i.e. this is ChatGPT buying ads on other platforms to promote ChatGPT.
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by rodonn 1y ago
Yes they do: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1ljery5/gemini_just...
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by rodonn 1y ago
The Clayton act explicitly includes partial acquisition as still being covered. "No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock... [where] t
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by rodonn 1y ago
It might reduce scrutiny, but not completely prevent it. Clayton act says "No person engaged in commerce or in any activity affecting commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share c
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by rodonn 2y ago
Depends on where you live. The average in San Francisco is $0.29 per kWh.
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by rodonn 2y ago
These drugs (mostly) don't allow you to eat more unhealthy food, instead they make it easier to have the self control to avoid over eating / choose healthier foods.
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by rodonn 2y ago
Iron Gall ink was used on both the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence. It can last for many centuries, unfortunately it can fade if exposed to strong sunlight, which is why the declaration of independence is so faded. https:&#
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by rodonn 2y ago
The profit maximizing price after a 30% cut `q(price) * (price - 30% price)` is not the same as the profit maximizing price without that cut `q(price) price`. As long as the demand curve is downward sloping, there will be some pass throug
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by rodonn 2y ago
This is why targeted advertising is so much more effective than un-targeted. On Facebook/Instagram I frequently see ads for products I was not aware of that are relevant to my interests.
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by rodonn 3y ago
If you prefer dplyr syntax you can use https://tidypolars.etiennebacher.com/
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by rodonn 3y ago
I haven't run into any friction for (1), since worst case you just call `.to_pandas()` at the end of your pipeline before you start plotting. For any plotting apis that rely on the direct column vectors, no conversion to pandas is requ
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by rodonn 3y ago
For (2) I like to do: 1. `from polars import col` which at least shortens each use by a few characters 2. For columns that I use very frequently, define a "constant" for them e.g. ID=col("id"). This lets you do df.groupb
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by rodonn 3y ago
You don't 'need' tracking for ads, but it has a huge impact on the the amount of revenue per impression the ads will generate, because tracking enables you to show ads to the people those ads are relevant to. There are a lot
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by rodonn 3y ago
If you had a system that was (a) oriented towards achieving some goal and (b) understood the world it was operating in, then allowing someone to "pull the plug" would interfere with it achieving the goal it was trying to optimize
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by rodonn 3y ago
They key is that it is a tax on the value of the land not the size, so large plots of land would face a much smaller tax per acre compared to prime real estate in a city. It is true that a LVT will have a larger percentage impact on the mar
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by rodonn 3y ago
I don't understand how you think that building up defensive capabilities is provoking war. Making the cost of invading higher makes it less likely the PRC will try to invade. The US's long standing goal has been to preserve peace
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by rodonn 3y ago
Looks like she was wrong: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116
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by rodonn 3y ago
Looks like her claim was in fact false: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37802116
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by rodonn 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the author is misinterpreting what she saw. Here is a thing that Google does do: The user searches for "children's clothing". An advertiser has created a search ad for the keyword "NIKOLAI-brand ki
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by rodonn 3y ago
GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer. The "main" training step using huge amounts of inputs is called pre-training. The idea is that after that pre-training, you might fine tune the model for your specific use case.
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by rodonn 3y ago
Spaced repetition has a very long history with hundreds of papers published on the topic. Here's a good survey of some of the published research https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition#background-testing-works
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by rodonn 4y ago
Austin Vernon's blog has some interesting articles looking into the cost effectiveness of different approaches to geothermal https://austinvernon.site/blog/geothermal.html https://austinvernon.site&#x2F
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by rodonn 4y ago
I switched from a remote job to an in person job as a machine learning engineer. I have a moderate preference for working in person with other people. I don't love having to commute, but at this point in my life it is worth the tradeof
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by rodonn 4y ago
FWIW Mint now offers a premium subscription that removes all of the advertising. https://mint.intuit.com/premium
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by rodonn 4y ago
This is not true about Keybase. They do not ever store your private key on their servers https://book.keybase.io/security "Your private keys are only stored on your devices. For extra security, your private keys are on

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