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by smoll 2mo ago
Not AI related, but I plan on having my agents use this heavily so I can review PRs in bite-sized chunks instead of all at once.
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by smoll 4mo ago
Here’s what’s crazy: by making this widely available to SMB, they will soon have enough training data to beat this benchmark —- in probably less than a year is my guess.
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by smoll 7mo ago
isn't Sago Palm (Cycas revoluta) highly toxic? i don't think it's edible...
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by smoll 1y ago
sorry to hear that and i can absolutely relate to this feeling of losing something, of perhaps even being dragged into a game you never wanted to even play, where no one wins and everyone loses something. the one silver lining is that it se
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by smoll 2y ago
nifty tool! > NOTE: It does not control any actual cloud resources nor does it generate cloud formation or terraform code. would be kinda cool if it could, though
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by smoll 3y ago
"After receiving some bad news about my wife’s family, I suddenly realized that my future life had just been predetermined indefinitely. Due to the situation we’re now in, combined with my values and ethics, my actions for the foreseea
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by smoll 3y ago
When the operator was demonstrating "perturbations", they were reaching into the scene while the robot was very close to grabbing objects they had their fingers near - isn't this dangerous? What if the robot clamped down on t
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by smoll 5y ago
Imagine you’re working at a startup and trying to solve a tough real-world problem by creating software that involves writing some CRUD APIs. You bring on someone to the team who says, “we gotta stop writing these pointless CRUD APIs and wr
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by smoll 6y ago
There’s a character on For All Mankind (the tv show) who sounds like she could be based on her. I wonder if that character was based on her or if there are others at NASA who came from a similar sort of background.
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by smoll 6y ago
> I think people need to realize you’re getting a terrible deal when you give Lambda School x% of your earnings at your first job To people who have other options, yes, it's a bad deal. But to those who have no way of navigating tho
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by smoll 6y ago
Yes, but this is where politics comes into play. If you're a Google/Amazon/Samsung/any big player, why would you stick to the open standard when you could just change to a proprietary standard for more lock-in and profit
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by smoll 6y ago
Perhaps this is too simple of an explanation to be true, but maybe the lack of capitalization comes from people on the internet typing internet without capitalization, and then the “important publications” all followed suit eventually. Sort
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by smoll 6y ago
Based on the title of this thread, I was disappointed that the title of his memoir did not end in an exclamation mark, but then was happy to discover that it is indeed titled "Memoir!"
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by smoll 6y ago
because you wrote Futurama and referred to it so many times in this reply, when I skimmed the thread I read the word in this post and the one above it as Futurama. it took me like 3 re-reads to realize the original did NOT say Futurama.
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by smoll 6y ago
What made you keep trying running even though you failed multiple times at it? And had you failed even with excellent running shoes, would you have even kept trying? (Maybe you would have thought: "Well, I already have the best shoes.
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by smoll 6y ago
I initially read the title and thought this would be about why "[the origin of life, on earth, or in the universe] is the result of a series of unfair coin flips" and got almost too excited, but what the article was actually about
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Researchers explore a green light-based treatment for migraines and chronic pain(npr.org)
2 points by smoll 7y ago|0 comments
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by smoll 7y ago
But necessity is the mother of invention, so we will probably invent a viable nuclear fission-based energy solution at the 11th hour, probably by someone who also helped cause the death of countless people through their earlier work[0]. I k
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by smoll 7y ago
Is it a pendulum then? When it’s less obvious is it still happening (and they just do a better job of hiding it from a more sensitive public) or is actual positive change happening? There’s this saying that sunshine is the best disinfectant
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by smoll 7y ago
If most people are hard-wired to be duped, why does it feel like only recently people are getting even more conspicuously duped by their political leaders (a la Trump and Johnson)? Presumably this effect should have had a more uniformly dis
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by smoll 7y ago
I had an interview question a few weeks ago (writing a JSON parser from scratch) that required me to remember that in python that a for loop allows you to iterate through not just a list but also each of the characters in a string. I forgot
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by smoll 7y ago
> This looks like an effort to bring to REST APIs some of the benefits GraphQL offers, mainly by adding extensive conventions on top of traditional HTTP endpoints. This was my take-away as well. There are a couple of full-featured framew
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by smoll 7y ago
If I was any more in tune with my sense of smell, I don’t think I could live in New York. Walking through most neighborhoods in Manhattan is an assault on most of my senses, smell especially. I haven’t lived in any other large cities in the
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by smoll 7y ago
> The reduction in vaccine-preventable diseases (e.g., diphtheria, tetanus, measles, poliomyelitis, and Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis) has reduced infant morbidity and has had a modest effect on infant mortality It says infant
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by smoll 7y ago
This is really great, and I wish this existed 6+ years ago while I was transitioning careers. I graduated from a "name brand" university with a Stats degree, but no relevant work experience, and no desire to pursue what most of my
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Four companies control over 60% of the world's seed sales(nytimes.com)
31 points by smoll 7y ago|2 comments
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by smoll 8y ago
Depends on if you think in purely capitalistic terms (most but not all Americans) or not (again, most Europeans). I mean one way to think about it is the sidewalk is exploitable by businesses as a potential source of revenue for people who
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by smoll 8y ago
> I wonder what exactly is meant there. Is he speculating that a larger brain directly provides better parenting ability? Or that perhaps generations ago a family with a useless gene that causes large brains also happened to have another
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by smoll 8y ago
For ML practitioners, how much more/less difficult is this than predicting calorie content/macros from pictures/video of food? Because that seems like the holy grail of “calorie counting” apps, to seamlessly track (within a s
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by smoll 8y ago
Wasn’t it just the sensible thing to do back when the definition of what people today think of as a “sin” was invented? Imagine if safe, reliable, widely-available contraception was around when they were first formulating it, I bet the rule

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