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CoT is widely known technique - what became fully novel was the level of training embedding CoT via RL with optimal reward trajectory. DeepSeek took it further due to their compute…

This is somewhat untrue as well. HFT because constrained similarly have to optimize on this level akin to HFT crypto doing optimizations not within solidity, nor yul but on opcode …

I never got this argument and I now where this point devolves into - I see this take a lot from Chinese on Weibo, locally here in Asia, and by Chinese people in the States. I’m Tai…

My parents are from Taiwan with my moms side hardline KMT govt officials, and Dad is Green Party/DPP - grew up listening about Taiwanese politics my entire life around friends and …

How will this be financed? In residential solar, panels are largely subsidized by federal ITC or financed by banks claiming the tax equity which covers the maintenance, upfront cos…

Ah. I can’t believe this still happens in this day of age. About a decade ago, I was working for a startup and we were getting dominated in our growing space by a much larger, well…

I can’t speak for their intent. It has less to do with the altruism or the “mission” and more on their personal well being. My dad survived multiple cancers and after he got his st…

My parents post-retirement after not working for 10+ years both found roles at an Amazon Fulfillment Center - one at the ship dock and the other in returns. They are both in their …

This book should be geared for one of those introduction courses, like “Introduction to Engineering”, “AI 101”, etc. I do agree with the vision of the authors that the book is a ho…

I think about this quite a bit as my parents likely fit this category in the early 90s in Silicon Valley. At peak, they were bootstrapped a company from nothing to eventually at pe…

I've actually decided to take some time off work because of my addiction issues. It's more so the cycle. I'll stop taking Zolpidem/Zopiclone for several weeks/month (the first seve…

I’ve been taking Zolpidem for about 13 years now and suffer from addiction. I’ve sought treatment for this but it doesn’t work as now I cannot sleep without taking something. If yo…

For me, it's about chasing after an opportunity that will potentially change my career and life. I grew up with nothing, so I chase after everything. My parents were illegals and w…

As an Asian-American, I'm struggling through the same dilemma as well. I've been given a huge opportunity to move to Asia and to initiate a program at a Fortune 100 company, but re…

But, this is not just Amazon specific. Even when discussing on renewable energies (e.g solar), this is the same argument that most conservative lawmakers and utilities make about a…

This is true. Ambien doesn't help you sleep. I'm ambien right now. I was clean for 1 1/2 month but i cant anymore.

It is. You’re right. I never take Ambien recreationally. Here’s the path I went down: It quickly becomes this cyclical pattern where if you don’t take it, then you don’t sleep for …

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/14/health/14sleep.html I binge eat when I'm on Ambien, and have intense food cravings. That night I didn't have food, and there was a McDonalds abou…

I've been taking Ambien on and off for the past 8 years. Stretches where I've taken Ambien for a consecutive year. I've done exactly what the author talks about: write long incoher…

Seems somewhat accurate. I grew up in the East bay, been robbed twice (both at knife) off the Fruitvale, West Oakland stops in high school. Bay Area was much different 10-15 years …

(Worked many years in product pricing for startup to IPO company) To even begin on a baseline of how you're going to price a product, you need to understand the unit economics of y…