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chunky1994

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About chunky1994

2x Startup founder (exited). University (of Waterloo) grad in mathematical physics, interested in anything that makes me curious.

I'm on the lookout for some hard, and interesting things to work on.

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    Yes, this is quite standard outside the US. In Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia etc. this is more the standard practice than the opposite.

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    Comment #48466485

    Why though? We have writing, artifacts and objects from ancient peoples which we then use to try to construct historiographies of those cultures, as well as interpretations of thei…

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    Comment #47783409

    Does anyone use LLMs in such a manner that they believe it always has the most up to date information (without web search tools?). Isn't this whole thesis negated by the fact that …

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    Comment #47506203

    @dang, this has way more discussion than the previous threa,d but people can't see this because it's a dupe.

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    Comment #47506161

    Their Personal Access Token must’ve been pwned too, not sure through what mechanism though

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    Comment #47505016

    Realistically I think it will come down to the aggrieved counterparties here. Who was on the losing side of the money, was it Joe Schmoe day trader or a bunch of funds who lost the…

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    Comment #47198028

    Fair point, but the IRGC telling ships to turn around, as opposed to the ships themselves doing it (as per reporting) would imply that the Strait has been blockaded in some fashion…

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    Comment #47197701

    There is credible reporting (Reuters etc.) that ships are being turned around, so it does appear that the mines (or at least threat thereof) have been deployed. Either way, as long…

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    Comment #46783640

    > The dark side of this same coin is when teams try to rely on the AI to write the real code, too, and then blame the AI when something goes wrong. You have to draw a very clear li…

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    Comment #46290378

    But the world is not deterministic, inherently so. We know it's probabilistic at least at small enough scales. Most hidden variable theories have been disproven, and to the best of…

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    Comment #45896142

    Dummit and Foote is the classic abstract Algebra textbook to learn about how to precisely define these. Its treatment of ring theory is very well motivated and easy to grasp

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    Comment #43846284

    I don't think anyone is advocating for incentivizing forced/child labour. Given that the ILAB link you posted itself is maintained by EO 13126 signed by the Clinton Administration,…

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    Comment #43845655

    This is a good discussion around the supply chain issues that will likely be happening: https://youtu.be/-dgHWv-Dh6Q?t=1370 Ryan runs Flexport which is a supply chain company so it…

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    Comment #43425137

    This difference in emotional reaction is because of the effort involved in the process. Functionally, we see YouTube video creation as a fundamentally difficult exercise (to do wel…

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    Comment #42856059

    The difference is though there isn't a whole lot of "whole cloth novel solutions" being written in software today so much as a "write me this CRUD app to do ABC" which current gene…

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    Comment #42199722

    I'd like to see the diets in the study that are specified as the "calorie-reduced diets". (Can't seem to find the paper). If it's the same as the Standard American Diet, this muscl…

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    Comment #42190470

    I'd suggest investing your time in the product first and converting the waitlist to real users before trying to take on external investment. It will either make it much easier or y…

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    Comment #41734182

    If you train one of the larger models on these specific problems (i.e DM for D&D problems) it probably will surprise you. The larger models are great at generic text production but…

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    Comment #39563580

    I'm a bit skeptical to give up conservation of energy in a system with friction. Isn't it more accurate to say that if we were to calculate every specific interaction we'd still en…

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    Comment #39563517

    The conserved quantity is derived from Noether's theorem itself. One thing that is a bit hairy is that Noether's theorem only applies to a continuous, smooth (physical -> there is …

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    Comment #39563300

    Right, the rephrasing of the sentence is a tad more accurate. Your three entities are [invariant -> conserved quantity]: (translation -> momentum), (rotation -> angular momentum) a…

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    Comment #39443824

    This is exactly why using GPT to supplement but not supplant writing code is very good. Code generation is generally more helpful as you go to higher layers of abstraction as long …

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    Comment #39133300

    So the way it works is that if you have a setup like so: Your client Public Webserver. Your first layer of defense is assuming its hard for a bad actor to get to that spot (which t…

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    Comment #39132123

    I'd argue the number of startups that have trust all local network connections is not far behind. I doubt a company seriously considers their wifi connectivity as a threat vector u…