throwaway19423

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by throwaway19423 2y ago
This is the thing. I don't understand how the company is going to function once all those folks become multi-millionaires. It is a really odd situation .. I don't know if something quite like it occurred. Even G, M and F had slowe
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by throwaway19423 2y ago
You were a helpless, innocent kid once too :)
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by throwaway19423 2y ago
I've heard about the lotto system but assumed the school district would be obligated to bus kids (i.e. not force them to use public transit alone). The parents have issues with the school bus??
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by throwaway19423 2y ago
I visited Seattle the city proper recently, and also felt depressed. Not sure why I got that vibe. On paper Seattle is great, and no-doubt, the Pacific north west has good nature and tech-industry. It felt odd why Seattle felt "differe
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by throwaway19423 2y ago
I'm extremely miffed. Mulling leaving the country at some point in the near future, and that triggers a much higher tax bill (considered a deemed disposition). There is just no way to get ahead in this place.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I did not invest in the stock market properly in the last decade (mid-40s; tech income but just put it to paying off house - estimating this cost be at least 5 million bucks conservatively). Opening a stock account and will slow down payin
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I am confused how all these things are able to interoperate. Are the creators of these models following the same IO for their models? Won't the tokenizer or token embedder be different? I am genuinely confused by how the same code work
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Can any kind soul explain the difference between GGUF, GGML and all the other model packaging I am seeing these days? Was used to pth and the thing tf uses. Is this all to support inference or quantization? Who manages these formats or are
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Err .. the media people take visual quality and aesthetics very, very seriously. The Director has a vision and the tech goes to amazing lengths to support it. It is a different world as the original post said.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I also worked at IBM (Research) early in my career. Most folks I know left but some good folks went into manager/leader positions. I always wonder .. do manager/leaders get paid better at IBM (Research)? Cause the people are reall
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Oh .. Don Box? (remember reading his books on the Microsoft stack a lifetime ago) .. if this is the same person.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Looks pretty nice (high-level skimming of content .. I work in the field but more DL focused. Mathy ML is my nemesis). Two questions related to learning in general: 1) I feel I have a good undergrad level grasp of ML but not at a grad level
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Canadian banks are kind of bloated. The amount they spend on branch design is insane.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Same here. What sort of work do you do? I feel like I need a support group.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I'm a decade older than you, have a PhD, in corporate research doing AI and feel EXACTLY the same way. Early on, I had multiple opportunities to make a life in the Bay area. I stupidly did not take those opportunities. My coding skills
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Dealing with this professionally for DNNs. It just doesn't work. The large, important DNN models are so complicated, the toolchains for optimized execution don't do sane things unless you do some sort of vertical integration. The
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I think it is common. But the partner occupations you list are very different. It also depends on how advanced you are in your career. The stages are also quite different (early career, young kids, and so on). What particular part are you h
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I missed out on the property boom at a personal level because I was not taught the value of debt. So I get your point. We didn't purchase a home because it always seemed like a bubble that simply could not inflate further. All the whil
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Site looks pretty nice. Too bad I just heard of it. I guess no easy way to archive this. This is my biggest grip with all that followed straight HTML.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Any company to recommend in the domain? You are right that robotics has a good future. Just really capital intensive and hard to make money in the short term. I have a friend who is a founder in the space and man .. what a long slog.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
NVidia was truly a spectacular opportunity. So was Microsoft, Databricks, etc. I picked a dud, and didn't realize it until it was too late (just now). Question is .. what are the obvious winners today, and for the next 10 years? Some o
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Regarding 1.8x, what is your tax rate? I have the same situation in Canada but my marginal tax rate is approx 50%. As such, it is better for me to pay down my mortgage (through early payments).
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Seeing ads shown to my 3 year old when they do basic supervised web browsing on educational websites seems wrong.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Here is the issue though .. as a man, if I am not interested in clubbing, going to the bar, art class, etc. where do I meet women to ask? This was the conundrum I was in throughout grad school. It is really, really hard. As I have aged, I k
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Tax rebates or hope they would eventually be profitable? Target in Canada is a great case study on what not to do.
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I wish there was a breakdown of what are the typical parameters of a retailer (e.g. rent per sq foot, theft, labor costs, sales, distance to distribution center, distance to competition) and what made these locations unique. I see businesse
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I am effectively a customer of alarm.com but not sure how. They seem to be a bundler or backend provider (sort of like a service OEM) for various branded alarm systems. Is there any technical material that explains what they do, and provide
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
I need to tell you something about Canada (and maybe the rest of the world except the US) .. we're F'ed. Most of the world does not have 30 year fixed rates. That's a unique American gift. (I guess because of how Fannie May&#
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
You are right of course. The fed wants businesses to stop/slow down investing and only prioritize high returning projects. But since rates went up so quickly, are various sectors really prepared? E.g unsophisticated home buyers who got
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by throwaway19423 3y ago
Just watched the latest Ray Dalio video on the SVB collapse, and it got me thinking. We lived under zero rates for so long, how many investments made during those years are now underwater? When rates are 0, any risk adjusted return greater

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