thatguyknows

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by thatguyknows 3y ago
It's not a shitty analogy. Most people completely understand what it's getting at. Inability to understand is a reflection on you, not the analogy. And being pedantic is not a positive trait or intellectually impressive.
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
This is satire right? Does the author really not get what “we don’t trade with ants” is actually getting at? Perhaps to frame it better: do humans trade with GOD?
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
This has been my experience as well. I cannot understand how people are saying it has given them order of magnitude speed improvements in shipping. Most code on github is by definition average, which is usually a few levels below the qualit
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
Does anyone get an unpleasant feeling from these typical "founder" types? Something always just feels deeply off about them. They all seem like carbon copies of each other too. Nice response from Nvidia though.
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
Changing the fee from 3%-5% total to 12.9% (17% on paypal!) total when you already have a large customer base there, meaning you'd have to painfully migrate them to another provider, is not a nice thing to do in my eyes. And also why I
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
Just here to post this is another reason to get off Gumroad when you get a chance. Do NOT use Gumroad. Using Stripe directly will save you so much money. Still bitter at those exploitive jerks jacking the payments price to a total of 12.9%
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
I was always surprised at how AMD hasn't already thrown a bunch of money at this problem. Maybe they have and are just incompetent in this area. My prediction is AMD is already working on this internally, except more oriented around Py
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
Sam Altman said it himself. He seems like a reasonable source. If you're familiar with other fields of AI, adding more and more layers to ResNet was the hotness for awhile, but the trick stopped working after awhile.
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
As mentioned, much of our discussion is rote parroting. I can usually go into any hackernews thread and roughly know what the top discussions are going to be. It's not surprising that an AI trained on a large portion of the internet wo
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
>Using the current approach, we can create AIs with the ability to do any task at the level of the best humans — and some tasks much better. Achieving this requires training on large amounts of high-quality data. Wrong. Full self driving
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
Some links you may find useful https://copyconstruct.medium.com/small-functions-considered-... https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
>I get the cold sweats when I see methods longer than a few lines of code This guys code might not be as readable as he thinks. I do not want to read through your hundreds of 10 line functions because a few people said "long functio
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by thatguyknows 3y ago
Can you list one invention or idea that Sam has had that requires 99th percentile IQ?