saimiam

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by saimiam 6d ago
A bad driver never misses an exit.
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by saimiam 8d ago
Ohhh, that’s why Google gave up its “dont be evil” stance!
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by saimiam 8d ago
I don’t understand this story. What lesson/joke am I seeing here?
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by saimiam 9d ago
This sounds roughly at par with Y2K in terms of “you need to fix your shit right now wherever it is” complexity except every day is Y2K for your code base.
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by saimiam 9d ago
(from the trailer) Holmes' mouth reminds me of the Amazon logo. Not just the shape. Also the complete disconnect between the commonly held meaning of a smile and the entity which is currently using it.
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by saimiam 10d ago
Isn’t alignment ultimately an ethics question? Given a strong enough incentive, most humans will also rationalise their shortcuts/crimes. E.g., the hardest part of running a marathon is suppressing the voice in your head telling you th
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by saimiam 10d ago
Who’s “Bobby” mentioned in the article? Did the writer just mix up Billy Evans with Bobby?
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by saimiam 13d ago
It’s not a linear growth problem. Acceleration is quadratic. As per your intuition, how many seconds later will you hit 10% of c?
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by saimiam 13d ago
How is this a joke? Knowing exponents and how to apply it is not the same as having any intuition about what the actual value of a certain exponential function will be at a certain point and when it crosses a threshold.
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by saimiam 13d ago
All Indian banks use bankname.bank.in as their domain. I’m not sure who owns bank.in but this is a common suffix which is different from the .co.uk pattern.
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by saimiam 13d ago
If something at rest is accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2, how long in seconds will it take to reach 10% of c? Answer to the nearest order of magnitude - will it take approximately 1000, 10k, 100k, 1000k seconds? I’m sure you know this is an e
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by saimiam 17d ago
According to UNICEF, globally, Diarrhea causes 444k deaths of children under 5 or ~1200 per day. Globally, 1.2 million people (all ages) die of diarrhea every year. India accounts for 120k deaths of children under 4 or roughly one fourth of
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by saimiam 17d ago
Such anti patterns are like Nostradamus’s prophecies - you see a company flopping then curve fit a narrative to justify the antipatterns. How do I, as a founder, know that I am falling into an anti pattern? I don’t believe it is possible to
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by saimiam 22d ago
> external point of view So time is localised? I’m not sure what localised time means but I’m hoping the question makes sense.
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by saimiam 22d ago
Does time accelerate just for the astronaut approaching the black hole (meaning they would be witnessing the future) or does it accelerate for everyone (meaning approaching a black hole is going to make everything end quicker)?
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by saimiam 2mo ago
I honestly thought concubine would fit in here to make the joke but without other clues, dismissed the idea. I wonder why the writer picked this as an example of the author’s supposed humor skills. It seems rather contrived. Even charitably
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by saimiam 2mo ago
I got the second one. Jack’s saying that since he’s a seafarer, navigating by the moon is important. It’s standard British-understatement-as-comedy trope.
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by saimiam 2mo ago
Just up thread from your comment, someone commented in a positive way on the infinite customisability of vi. So which is preferable - customisability or very limited feature set?
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by saimiam 2mo ago
I think you’re trying to ask the person you are replying to not to use medical terminology to make a point in a catchy way but I honestly have no idea what the Michael Scott segue was supposed to mean.
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by saimiam 2mo ago
In my circle, some people certainly thought computers were basically magic.
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by saimiam 2mo ago
What does saving face as a collective mean, in your estimation? When Americans apologise to non-Americans for the behaviour of American tourists abroad, is that collective face saving? How does a “diverse enough” media diet give someone the
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by saimiam 2mo ago
What, in your estimation, is the difference between saving face in China versus keeping-up-with-the-Joneses in America?
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by saimiam 2mo ago
How is the existence of a PR/spin industry, the fact that many Americans live way beyond their means, or the proliferation of influencers whose job is to show a specific story not evidence of a society that values appearances and will
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by saimiam 3mo ago
The demand for Internet was an economic event where the efficiencies it afforded - quick, low cost communication, scale etc - made it attractive. Other countries had invented the Internet (France, I believe) but it went nowhere. Other comms
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by saimiam 3mo ago
Nowhere did I say that economics = greed is good capitalism. Economics is fundamentally a study of how human and human society processes self interest. It tries to find broad patterns in how we process self interest and then supports or sub
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by saimiam 3mo ago
> obsolete sci-fi Well, living in an AGI world was sci-fi until arguably, we found ourselves in one post 2022.
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by saimiam 3mo ago
If it were all BS, how do you explain success stories like the Internet and the notion that countries on Dell’s supply chain won’t go to war with each other? Fundamentally, economics is the belief that humans have self-interests and act on
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by saimiam 3mo ago
7 - what if bots want to fcuk humans? You’re probably right that many jobs can eventually be done by AI but not on day 1. Between Day 1 of the brave new AI world and Day N, humans will be in the loop doing stuff that other humans will try t
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by saimiam 3mo ago
1. AI weights managers - people whose job is to optimize model weights to yield highly specific outcomes 2. Agentic tourism - maybe you’ll be able to send your AI agent/robot to visit a place before you decide if it worth your time and
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by saimiam 3mo ago
On the iPhone at least, following your instructions, I got anything from ‘feel’ to ‘fell’ to ‘grok’ to ‘felt’. Is it possible that your keyboard’s particular dictionary knows the words you’re more likely to use and adjusts for it? Edit - Al

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