stevemadere

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by stevemadere 4mo ago
Reddit seems to me like the worst example for this. Reddit does not create the content on their site, the users do. If anybody’s going to get compensated for that content, it should be the users, not Reddit. Complaining that Reddit is losi
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by stevemadere 6mo ago
Given Pete Hegseth’s history, this could be a huge national security issue.
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by stevemadere 6mo ago
This. What everybody keeps forgetting over and over again is that software is super complicated even if it can be changed from a keyboard without the use of physical morphing tools. People who do not themselves generate software are in the
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by stevemadere 8mo ago
Wow! That chair costs about $2000. https://store.hermanmiller.com/office-chairs-ergonomic-chair... Nice back you've got there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it.
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by stevemadere 10mo ago
There’s a long history of using various organs from dead animals as parts/tools in agricultural and industrial processes. This is one of the smallest scale cases I’ve heard of, but not nearly as weird or innovative as it sounds at firs
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by stevemadere 10mo ago
It's definitely a cult for elected officials who join (according to your discriminating criterion)
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by stevemadere 10mo ago
Why did the original post for which these are the discussions disappear from HN? I cannot even find it with a word search and it should not have been displaced from the top 30 yet.
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by stevemadere 1y ago
I suspect this was an easy way to test it without having to build a rotatable optical bench. A practical device may be an array of light sources and telescopes on a rotating mount or a set of moveable mirrors that achieve the same effect.
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by stevemadere 2y ago
This is truly terrible. What happened to a new JS front end library every week? If this keeps up, we won't get to completely throw away all of our old code and retool every two years (the way we've been operating for the last 20 y
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by stevemadere 2y ago
I guess this signals the end of focusing on testing to prove one's "rank" as a student and actually start focusing on educating students rather than evaluating them. The whole problem with factory mass-education is the al
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by stevemadere 2y ago
Waldorf schools work. There is no testing, there are no grades until high School. Lots of the silicon valley elite send their kids to Waldorf schools. Are they all completely unaware of the effectiveness of deliberate practice? I rather dou
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by stevemadere 2y ago
This document is conduct unbecoming of a congressional committee.
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by stevemadere 3y ago
Can you guys add huggingface transformers as one of the public demo repos? I have some very specific use cases where I've seen ChatGPT with GPT4 totally fall on its face Dunning-Kruger style. I'd like to see if your tech solves th
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by stevemadere 3y ago
So specifically, you are saying that LLM coding assistant currently gets confused when working on a large source file but if it had room for more context, you could get better help in writing code because it would have understanding of the
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by stevemadere 3y ago
No specific practical problems though? Looks to me a lot like "it's amazing. we want more amazing" rather than "if we had it, we could solve this specific practical problem people have been wanting to solve for a long t
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Ask HN: What's the practical use of larger context LLMs?
3 points by stevemadere 3y ago|5 comments
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by stevemadere 3y ago
This is just one case the general rule of ambiguity. At one of my jobs, a product manager came up with the idea of categorizing explicitly delineating everybody's selection criteria into a "normalized" form to allow for aggre
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by stevemadere 3y ago
I agree that humans are a blight on the planet. We need fewer of them and more resources for the benevolent AI overlords, I mean buddies. Fortunately, naturally declining populations due to the apparent sudden realization of humanity that r
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by stevemadere 4y ago
To all the folks who are so concerned about bad actors trying to develop organisms that will harm people: Have you forgotten that the world is full of bad actors who are literally trying to eat people? There are not merely thousands of the
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by stevemadere 4y ago
At first when I started reading this it seemed rather compelling but the further I went along the more I could see they were making use of innuendo and psychological manipulation techniques. If their thesis is supportable, they don't n
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by stevemadere 4y ago
Assholes who actually can learn to hide the fact that they are assholes are probably a lot less annoying.
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by stevemadere 5y ago
The vast majority of people are unwilling/unable to think deeply enough about the system to understand it. Thus, the simplified rule of thumb that generating electricity reduces your power bill is needed for them to even understand th
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by stevemadere 5y ago
This is approximately half the plot of Terry Gilliam's movie "Brazil"
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by stevemadere 5y ago
Is there a Kickstarter for that project? Asking for a friend.
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by stevemadere 5y ago
If you order one now, the factory in china will ship it to you as soon as they can get it through the port in Long Beach.
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by stevemadere 5y ago
This is a very dangerous piece of propaganda. It takes a bunch of ultra-conservative movements' crimes against humanity (Nazis, Serbian nationalists, etc.) and falsely labels them as liberals and then encourages conservatives to '
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M1 Mac Mini Useless Without USB Keyboard and Mouse(discussions.apple.com)
13 points by stevemadere 5y ago|9 comments
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by stevemadere 5y ago
The idea is great but the many notational typos are going to confuse the hell out of people who don't already know this math. (e.g. References to vector variables are often not bolded even as they are introducing bold as the notation
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by stevemadere 6y ago
Also, leaf blowers and trimmers. I'd pay to have my neighbors' gas powered ones replaced.
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by stevemadere 6y ago
As long as people are considering radically different markets, go all the way to the extreme. E-bikes, one-wheels, e-motorcycles. Something's got to carry you over the desert of waiting for aviation certification.

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