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Godel_unicode··on Eight things to know about large language models [pdf]
I’m saying that people in my circle have been asking what they think are novel questions and getting interesting answers, only to find out that very similar content exists on websites we know are in the training set.

That’s not intelligence that’s computers having better memory than humans. Useful, certainly, but hardly skynet.

Godel_unicode··on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
Thus the words “isn’t generally” as opposed to “cannot be”.
Godel_unicode··on Rational Dress Society
I have talked with not a few women about this, and it always breaks down around not liking the look of the clothes with the pockets. Largely because of what the pockets do to the silhouette of the clothes.

I invite you to do this experiment; find someone who you think is stylish, note what they’re wearing, then shop for something similar but with pockets. It’ll probably take you ten minutes online.

Godel_unicode··on Parquet: An efficient, binary file format for table data
One important intuition about gzip vs snappy is that gzip isn’t generally parallelizable, while snappy is. If your Hadoop cluster is storing enormous files this shows up very quickly in read performance.
Godel_unicode··on Eight things to know about large language models [pdf]
… and then perform a careful search of books and the whole internet to be sure what you think is novel hasn’t been thoroughly debated somewhere on stackexchange.
Godel_unicode··on $60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive
And induction cooktops, and home charging BEVs overnight…
Godel_unicode··on The day Windows died
Most reporters of novel bugs get misunderstood by people overly aggressively pattern matching on similar closed bugs and then gaslit.
Godel_unicode··on The day Windows died
The irony of this response on a thread about how Linux support on the internet always devolves to condescending “it works for me” is delicious.

The bug to which I refer has been open for over a year and is well replicated on my hardware and distro. I would fix it myself but I can’t be bothered so I use Bluetooth (in one of the rare cases were there’s an audio problem on Linux and the solution is Bluetooth).

Godel_unicode··on The day Windows died
Interesting, and what should people do if they are unable to understand that others experiences can and do differ from their own?

As of an hour ago, plugging a trrs headset into the jack on my laptop breaks audio until I go kick the daemon. Linux is a pain in the neck.

Godel_unicode··on Managers, stop distracting employees
When I interview for a job I always ask my prospective manager about the is. “What’s your process for getting status updates during a crisis”. This question is graded pass/fail.
Godel_unicode··on BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users
We’ve achieved recursion.

Edit: how can something be “technically” true if the word has no definition?

Godel_unicode··on BigQuery prices increasing by more than 100% for many users
That is the point that gp is making. Many has no definition and many (see what I did there?) disagree about where it’s appropriate.
Godel_unicode··on If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason
Huh? How does someone else’s possession of a LLM threaten your personal freedom? How does training your own counteract that? They’re not Pokémon…
Godel_unicode··on Grand jury votes to indict Donald Trump
No. These things take time. If you’re going to indict a former president who has declared that he is going to run again you need to be totally sure about your case. It’s not what you know, it’s what you can prove.

Does it suck that it’s taking so long? Of course. Unfortunately, that’s how the system works.

Godel_unicode··on AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover
This is a bug in AAD, which is a very different thing than AD. There is some interoperability between them (ok more than some) but needing AD for legacy auth doesn’t necessarily mean you need AAD for Oauth.
Godel_unicode··on AAD misconfiguration led to Bing.com results manipulation, account takeover
Wiz.io is a cloud security company which directly competes with Microsoft’s own offerings. They do this type of research as a marketing expense.
Godel_unicode··on It's difficult to read an audiophile guide as an analogue engineer
> several hundred thousand dollars worth of measurement gear

Isn’t this the point though? Does it actually require that much gear to get measurements that are accurate enough that no human can perceive the difference? With harmonic distortion for instance, we know what is inaudible and yet people keep lauding companies that push ever farther past it.

Godel_unicode··on GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
Disagree. The overwhelming amount of software being written is almost entirely plagiarizable from stack overflow or GitHub. It will need to be slightly reworked, but that’s it. The real trick is figuring out how to ask your copilot for the bite-sized pieces one at a time.
Godel_unicode··on Iceland long term visa for remote workers
Americans owe taxes at home forever no matter what*, which tilts the calculus somewhat.
Godel_unicode··on Is Babylon 5 secretly the most influential TV show of the past 25 years? (2021)
It’s like $30/season for what is probably 1000s of hours of work, is that really not worth it?

Edit: or pay for one month of streaming for like 10% of that cost if it’s about the money. This is why there isn’t (and won’t be) an upscaled DS9.

Godel_unicode··on The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
I’m not really looking for clients at the moment, and that’s also something you should try to tackle in person. That said, I don’t think you need my help, just try doing things. It might be uncomfortable at first but you’ll get there.
Godel_unicode··on The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
Is English not your first language? You keep saying “addressed” but from context you mean “ignored”.

Hope that helps.

Godel_unicode··on The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
That is such a hilarious oversimplification and overstatement of the “sages from antiquity” that I can only respond that you should go and actually read some of them. The balance and give and take will be surprising and a good use of your time.

Life is about doing things, if all you do is think about things you’re broken.

Godel_unicode··on The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
Maybe for you.
Godel_unicode··on The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
Add as many of the source words as you want, the meaning is the same. Perhaps you should re-read my response?
Godel_unicode··on The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
> doing it for money makes it less enjoyable than if you did it for its own sake.

The opposite is true for me. I’ve suckered my employer into paying me to do something I do for free on my own time. What fools.

Godel_unicode··on The Anti-Productivity Manifesto
Maybe for you, but that sounds like hell. We shouldn’t be monks whenever we’re off the clock, what’s the point?
Godel_unicode··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
Good thing gp made that part up then.
Godel_unicode··on Utah is first US state to limit teen social media access
You’re thinking about it wrong. How many people that you knew when you were 17 would have become programmers if the current resources existed.

See also: survivorship bias.

Godel_unicode··on We asked the SEC for reasonable crypto rules for Americans
That is correct.
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