xwolfi

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by xwolfi 7mo ago
In France, at a very young age, we're taught that journalism is not impartial: people must take sides to express interesting opinions. We simply need to read them all: the Humanite to understand the communist point of view, the Monde f
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by xwolfi 8mo ago
Way worse. I live in China but I'm French and I was saying to my gf yday night, to my own surprise: "China has never humiliated, insulted or threatened in such a gross, childish, pointless way. We might be better off supporting a
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by xwolfi 8mo ago
Resources to fuel factories to sell to who ? They don't care about resources if they lose their clients.
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by xwolfi 9mo ago
Frankly, using "bad" was a mistake, because it encompasses the two other adjectives. "Your chatgpt-like style is vomit-inducing, bad and boring" <-- you see, why add bad in the middle, you already got that point from
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by xwolfi 9mo ago
You don't need nurses -_-, just your own parents or someone who had kids before and some random books for theoretical questions. Raising a kid is really very natural and instinctive, it's just like how to make it sleep, what to fe
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by xwolfi 9mo ago
But it cannot think or mean anything, it's just a clever parrot so it's a bit weird. I guess uncanny is the word. I use it as google now, like just to search stuff that are hard to express with keywords.
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by xwolfi 9mo ago
they grew old and died ?
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
But Claude cannot code at all, it's gonna shit the bed and it learns only on human coders to be able to even know an example is a solution rather than a malware...
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
I work on a stock market trading system in a big bank, in Hong Kong. The code is split between a backend in Java (no GC allowed during trading) and C++ (for algos), a frontend in C# (as complex as the backend, used by 200 traders), and a &q
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
That sounds a lot like bad marketing. Chain of thoughts is better, it makes you think the thing is thinking !
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
Isn't your dog or cat a slave ? It has agency, but end of the day, it does what you want it to do, stay where you want it to stay, and gets put down when you decide it's time. They're intelligent, but they see an advantage to
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
After the protests in 2019 many people left for the UK and we have a shortage of unskilled labor - from bus drivers to construction workers. We have lots of school closures, a population decrease and immigrants are traditionally higher skil
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
They used styrofoam cardboards to cover windows to avoid damange, all the way across the building. This was the accelerant. Many resident were complaining in the weeks before of cigarettes left behind by workers all across the scaffold, pro
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
But it won't give me anything interesting though ! Like, would you trust it on an even higher scale ? It has no basis for its investment thesis, it's a word statistician, not a risk-weighted decision taker !
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
How did they invest in that infrastructure ? The LGFVs they used for that are so large the only way to pay for their loans is to throw in new LGFVs. If there's a place where the music will stop really suddenly and really hard, it'
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
Why did they name the crash() function "unwrap()" ? Feels weird to me ...
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
Why would it know anything better than a bunch of 12 yo given the same question ? LLM don't know things very well, they don't cross concepts in their mind. Give you an example, made $1500 yday trading nvidia: I followed the curve
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
And that's all very american. Ofc in Europe, we have a matrix: conservative in morals vs conservative in economics and reformist in morals vs reformist in economics. It's not at all a line but more a sort choice of policy preferen
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
100M per hour... it's quite ridiculous no ?
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
I made 1500 USD speculating on NVidia earnings, that's economic uptick for me !
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
One thing I learned from this is to disregard all attempts at prioritizing based on the output's expected value for the users/business. We prioritize now based on time complexity and omg, it changes everything: if we have 10 easy
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
implementation plan reveals unexpected high complexity <-- do these things have complexity evaluation intuitively ? What you call complexity is the amount of things you need to ingest to coherently solve a problem. But these things, they
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
In France we're creative but sloppy, in Germany they care about the process too much but they don't deviate from plans. It's nice to have both: what's the point of following the plan if the entire project is pointless ?
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
Evidently energy was created, or it would not exist, would it ? It probably can be destroyed back to the pre-energy state in some way, just not on a scale we comprehend or even care about. I suppose we're like bubbles on a boiling pot
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by xwolfi 10mo ago
How did YOU find that out ?
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by xwolfi 11mo ago
The fact that it's simpler Java makes it a good candidate for failure: it tries to remove from the code enough to make it hard to maintain.
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by xwolfi 11mo ago
I wonder why we need to sleep so much though
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by xwolfi 11mo ago
Who is "we" ? I certainly don't spend trillions on frivolities. I think the Saudis via Softbank do, and these people build fake cities in the desert, they are by definition dumb money. They earn so much from oil and are so ke
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by xwolfi 11mo ago
He's obviously jesting
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by xwolfi 11mo ago
In 1995 in France we had the minitel already (like really a lot of people had one) and it was pretty incredible, but we were longing for something prettier, cheaper, snappier and more point to point (like the chat apps or emails). As soon a

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