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DidISayTooMuch··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
How can I fine tune these models for my use? Their docs isn't clear whether the Gemini models are fine tuneable.
DidISayTooMuch··on Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch
Oh yes, just burn all the money so they can use it as a tax write-off?

Does anyone really know how these tax write-offs work? People just use the term without any clear understanding.

Meta like any sane company out there will probably use every rule to avoid (not evade) paying tax. Thats good for the shareholders. But this isn't one such measure, it's mostly R&D expenditure.

DidISayTooMuch··on Meta's Reality Labs loses record $4.65B ahead of Apple's Vision Pro launch
You gotta burn money to make money. This much cash burn is required to build the next gen level of infrastructure. Its a big bet for the company, let's see how it pays out. Haters going to say its all in vain, but no one knows how the future will look. Stock at ATH btw.
DidISayTooMuch··on Silicon Valley investors build $300B cash pile in startup funding crunch
How about we tax you at 90% and let the money goto into pockets of useless administrators instead of having you spend in your self interest?
DidISayTooMuch··on Long Covid is associated with cognitive slowing
Not sure if others have experienced this, but you tend to forget nouns (object names, names of people, places, etc) after getting hit with COVID. I googled about this and something called "anomic aphasia" came up.

I often caught myself saying "that thing" many times because I couldn't recall the names of even basic objects or street names, etc after getting hit with Omicron.

Just curious if others have experienced this as well.

DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: Cheapest GPU provider to host fine-tuned models?
Just checked out mystic.ai, it looks like you only pay for usage on any model and not idle time. Might actually fit my requirements.
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: Cheapest GPU provider to host fine-tuned models?
Thanks for the tip. Predibase has support for Zephyr-7B, but I wonder if they offer the same price per 1k token for a fine-tuned version of Zephyr-7B? Most likely, they will ask me to get a dedicated instance for that, which is the same as together.ai.
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: How do AI chatbots develop personalities?
Characters in book don't write their own dialogs, they are merely projections of the authors. But AI chatbots are non-deterministic and come up with dialog of their own. Of course, you can say they are trained on large corpus of texts and all they are doing are just predicting the next token in the series. But yet, why do they seem like they have distinct personalities? The prediction algorithm is working in such a way that it's creating a sense of personality. How is this happening?
DidISayTooMuch··on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
Hmm. I think this guy is just looking for a payday. He was a contractor, not a full time employee.
DidISayTooMuch··on Creating lab hybrids of coronavirus raises pandemic potential risks (2015)
Thanks for the link. Not sure why Hacker News doesn't want to hear the truth.
DidISayTooMuch··on Creating lab hybrids of coronavirus raises pandemic potential risks (2015)
From the article: "An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks..."
DidISayTooMuch··on Engineered bat virus stirs debate over risky research (2015)
From the article:

"An experiment that created a hybrid version of a bat coronavirus — one related to the virus that causes SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) — has triggered renewed debate over whether engineering lab variants of viruses with possible pandemic potential is worth the risks...."

"..Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, points out that the researchers have created a novel virus that “grows remarkably well” in human cells. “If the virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” he says..."

DidISayTooMuch··on ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)
I actually miss the Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Feminists recommendations that I was getting 2 years ago. It was kinda fun. Now they have toned it down so much that it's hard to find engaging content. Their music recommendation is still good.
DidISayTooMuch··on Jetbrains founders turn billionaires without VC help
Where would I be without RubyMine?
DidISayTooMuch··on Cloudflare’s privacy-first Web Analytics is now available for everyone
Doesn't look like it tracks conversions? Will this be available in the future?
DidISayTooMuch··on Selling to unicorns from my parents basement
I had the same exact question. What does this product do? The landing page does a poor job of explaining, imo.
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options while here?
Holy sh*t, is this true? CA wants to grab all your money!
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options while here?
I don't think this is sound advice. Any half intelligent person will do their best to make the most out of their income through legal ways.
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: Thinking of leaving California. Should I vest my options while here?
Thanks for the reply. I was not hired as remote employee. Was hired in CA. So lets say that I got 10,000 stock options (strike @ $1.00) that vests over 4 years. 3 of those years I have been in CA and 1 year in Texas.

Let's assume my company goes IPO in 2024 (it's a lottery, I understand), and assume each share is worth $10.00. Which means my 10,000 shares will be worth $100,000.

So I will owe tax on 7500 of those shares to CA? Because I've been there 3 out of those 4 years? That is ($10.00 - $1.00) * 7500 = $67500 of my income will be taxed by CA? And remaining amount will be taxed by Texas?

Even if I move to Puerto Rico, where there are no capital gains, I still owe CA taxes?

DidISayTooMuch··on Silicon Valley Elite Discuss Journalists Having Too Much Power in Private App
This is just people having conversations about protecting their interest. I'm sure if we spied on the "non-elite" people talking to their spouses or friends, there will be some controversial stuff.

I don't even think there's anything controversial here. This is just a fluff article.

DidISayTooMuch··on San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast
I have lived here for 10+ years, rarely see kids play out. Every other city I have lived, it's common to see a bunch a kids and teenagers.
DidISayTooMuch··on [dead]
Though it's technically correct, the term Asian should not be applied here, since the suspects are almost always Pakistani in origin. Indians and Chinese and other Asians are not part of this.
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: How to figure out if your stock options are worth exercising?
Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I didn't add more details. The company has completed a Series C funding. Revenue growth is over 50% yoy. But I fear competition eating away the revenue in future. We just don't seem to have that hockey stick growth.

Also, my main issue is that the exercise price is around $1.00, and I have around 30K options, so I might be spending a good chunk of money.

DidISayTooMuch··on String Theory Does Not Win a Nobel, and I Win a Long Bet
Kaku is the Deepak Chopra of physics.
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: What's the best tech company to coast?
Please don't. I'm just looking for companies that already have a coasting culture.
DidISayTooMuch··on Ask HN: Are you ok?
If I can get a girlfriend, I'd be ok. People say you gotta be complete yourself and not look for another person to be alright, but that's kinda bullshit, I think.

I live in SF and dating is so app based here. I don't do well in these apps.

Apart from that, I think I'm ok. Don't really like working fulltime but I've gotta a FI/RE plan to leave in a few years.

DidISayTooMuch··on Water found on a potentially life-friendly alien planet
Wait, is this correct? Doesn't 111 light-years mean even light takes 111 years to travel through? And light travels at 1c.
DidISayTooMuch··on Johns Hopkins Launches Center for Psychedelic Research
Look at my boy Timmy Ferris go, taking the lead on this!
DidISayTooMuch··on Drinking fluoridated water during pregnancy may lower IQ in sons
The conspiracy theorists were right?
DidISayTooMuch··on Why has examine.com disappeared from search results?
Are you talking about negative SEO attacks?
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