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by wppick 8mo ago
Even if it says milk the quality still depends on what they fed the cow that produced the milk. How much Palm oil was in the cows diet and what effect does that have on the milk. Even things like was the milk taken from an infected/inf
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by wppick 8mo ago
Go to your grocery store and see if they have half and half or whipping cream with just milk and cream as ingredients. At lot of grocery stores I've been to don't have any cream it's a recipe with cream guar gum and a few oth
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by wppick 11mo ago
> It has come as a shock to some AI researchers that a large neural net that predicts next words seems to produce a system with general intelligence When I write prompts, I've stopped thinking of LLMs as just predicting a next word,
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by wppick 11mo ago
It's called "prompt engineering", and there's lots of resources on the web about it if you're looking to go deep on it
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by wppick 11mo ago
All tax. Income tax, payroll tax, consumption tax
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by wppick 11mo ago
Also upwards accumulation of wealth can sometimes mean less tax revenue. Middle class salary workers pay a lot of tax, so with more upwards accumulation of wealth (maybe accelerating due to AI) then what will happen to tax revenue? People g
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by wppick 11mo ago
Debt is just promises for future currency. One persons debt is another person asset. But what happens is when you "over promise" by accumulating too much debt then all those people with debt as their assets think they have X dolla
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by wppick 11mo ago
> Some people are gifted in memorization of these things Those are usually people who aren't changing languages or frameworks. Memory is mostly recency and repetition, so if you want better memory then narrowing scope is a good stra
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by wppick 11mo ago
One of the reasons I hate interviewing for software jobs is that the logic seems to be the opposite of this, and instead you should have any possible esoteric concept or possible problem ready at the top of your head instantly. And the same
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by wppick 11mo ago
> An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, after all. Don’t do what? Consider the primary cause of conflicts: simultaneous operations occurring on the same data on different nodes. That happens because data may not have disti
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by wppick 11mo ago
The formula is usually more money and ability to work special team isolated from the usual toxic orgs. I think A9 was probably somewhat like that, and AWS probably used to be at some point long ago
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by wppick 11mo ago
One of the most interesting things to me when reading this was that it was treated as a bug even though it was that hard to reproduce. Most dev shops would not have the bandwidth and management but in to spend the time to dig into something
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by wppick 11mo ago
Kubernetes is way heavier than Erlang’s lightweight processes, so for millions of tasks at scale, a middle-ground solution could blend Erlang’s concurrency efficiency with k8s’ orchestration power, dodging containers’ overhead while keeping
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by wppick 11mo ago
Try experimenting with diet like cutting out/down on sugar or salt and see if it makes any difference. There's no strong evidence that EMF can cause tinnitus but would be interesting to test that out somehow too (camping/cabi
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by wppick 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions "Executive functions include basic cognitive processes such as attentional control, cognitive inhibition, inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibi
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by wppick 11mo ago
If you don't need the isolation of of k8s then don't forget about erlang, which is another option to scale up to 1 million functions. Obviously k8s containers (which are fundamentally just isolated processes) and erlang processes
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by wppick 11mo ago
The higher your executive function the more use you will get out of LLMs. This is really the skill you should be testing for in interviews now. Not letting a candidate use AI for their interview is not a useful evaluation anymore. I want to
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by wppick 11mo ago
The one issue is the accuracy of these AI models, which is that you can't -really- trust them to do a task fully, so that makes it hard to fully automate things with them. But the other is cost. Anyone using these models to do somethin
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by wppick 1y ago
Processes are great for things like pilot take off procedures, or anything that is repeated and you want to be able to control and optimize including with methodologies like lean, six sigma. If there is too much uncertainty around a process
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by wppick 2y ago
Cool idea, but I wouldn't run this for security reasons unless it was open source and I compiled it myself
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by wppick 2y ago
Don't forget to break it into microservices
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by wppick 2y ago
> Pretty much every big tech company you could think of uses some type of open source software, including Apple, Google, and Facebook. These companies contribute massively to open source. The article would have more impact if better exam
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by wppick 2y ago
Ya the one between your ears. Kidding! Maybe Sourcegraph Cody https://sourcegraph.com/cody , or possibly Github copilot. I think Cody might handle the multiple files better, and allows you to pick from multiple models.
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by wppick 3y ago
My understanding is that the author is saying you could build google docs to go from one state to another by submitting a form and doing server side rendering returning the entire webpage of the new state. This is obviously much worse user
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by wppick 3y ago
Listen here, you can't tell the English what to do. We'll drive on whatever side of the road, use metric or not when we feel like it, and call fruit whatever we want
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by wppick 3y ago
To add to this... maybe YouTube could build a concept of bring your own algorithm or "curators" where I can follow a curator who either manually, or by using their own algorithm creates their own unique feed that I might enjoy mor
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by wppick 3y ago
I find that YouTubes recommendation algorithm is not great. It would be a cool feature to be able to something like assume a persona and have recommended videos that similar like minded people watched. There's effectively infinite vide
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by wppick 3y ago
Interestingly and semi-related: in Japan, the electrical grid is divided into two frequency standards: 50 Hz in the eastern part of the country (including Tokyo), and 60 Hz in the western part (including Osaka). Which was due to influence b
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by wppick 3y ago
Another source of shrinkflation is changing ingredients. Something that used to be 50% water is now 75% water as an example. Another is changing from olive oil to canola or palm or, and things like that.
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by wppick 3y ago
Isn't this kind of the same thing that crypto miners do?

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