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My favorite (probably apocryphal) Microsoft brain teaser question I've heard is, "If you had to move Mt Fuji, how would you do it?" I've never interviewed there, or been asked that…

I was literally thinking this reminds me of Google+ and Buzz.

I'll second this. I'm continually impressed with the breadth of coverage from Asianometry. Great channel.

oh wow, an entire seedy underbelly I was unaware of. Thanks, great reply. Appreciated!

>through proxies and heavily discounted token resellers Could you explain a little more about how this works? Are you saying that the Chinese run or have backdoored something like …

Unless you're executing these commands in a loop over a large number of items, or the item itself is gargantuan, it's almost always harmless. Personally, when I'm exploring, I buil…

Yeah, a $100 AI music video is materially worse than not having a music video.

Also goes the other way, where you use the decoy to give instructions to the AI...

It would be nice if inference could somehow perform token generation using "contractions" of "fluffy" tokens, where combining those tokens doesn't decrease nuance but provides addi…

I don't know if it's fair to say that a tokenizer is being less efficient if it generates more tokens per text. I think it's more fair to say the tokenizer is more nuanced. The que…

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Oh yeah, well that may be. Once I got X working in Slack, I did boot into that, but then again, back then I didn't know how to recompile my kernel and the machine did this interest…

Honestly not that far off from my 486 DX2/66 back in the day

What are you using to replace etcd here? Where is state stored?

It doesn't take away joy. It does cause me to be slapped in the face with the "full" feeling while I am in the middle of eating, which is like 15 minutes earlier than I used to get…

Oh hi, I'm a heart attack survivor who had GLP-1 prescribed by my cardiologist for its heart-protecting benefits. I told my cardiologist that I wasn't losing weight as fast as I th…

People automate things they don't value.

>written in the spirit of sharing with humans. Not humans who are using AI tools?

I learned this from watching House. I am certain that it's true, but I also kind of wonder how much backpressure there is against this kind of thing because the scanners are also i…

>I suppose one solution would be to completely vet the training data such that nothing deemed "dangerous" exists in the data, which would be a huge effort. I can see how this is te…

I think it's a side effect of the Transformer architecture. The worldview where all input is equally trusted, and there's no concept of "the other", makes it hard to build effectiv…

I didn't say people claimed it was impossible, I claimed that they said SpaceX would never do it. And that's _still_ a pretty common claim.

SpaceX's entire history is full of, "there's no way they'll ever do X", followed by them doing it. They definitely haven't hit all of their goals, but I don't think anything they w…

It seemed obvious to me that this was bearing stiction and that manually rotating it during the start allowed the fan to spin on its own after that, but I could be wrong and maybe …

That's not necessarily true. Even spaceships in LEO will perform temperature-driven rolls so as to distribute heat and radiation. I have to assume that long-term ships like interpl…