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I work on very interesting technical problems with very smart colleagues for excellent pay. All my career progression is in compensation, so I can remain an IC forever and no one t…

I work at an HFT firm. Most fun I've ever had.

I thought the H100s were ~30-40k each. But they're not widely available and you usually buy multiple boxes from vendors that also come with expensive CPUs/RAM etc.

I'm sorry, I know we're not suppose to engage in ad hominem attacks. I'll refrain in the future.

The deltas between the military/technology of the worlds top economies might not even be noteworthy to a species capable of interstellar travel. From there perspective we might jus…

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Empirical studies can be surprising.

The five paragraph format will forever be suspicious.

tldr: LoRA fine-tuning of an open-source alpaca model. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15717 for why calling this a private ChatGPT is probably misleading.

> And are most of the people she‘s well-connected to not annoyed that she lost their money? Ya admittedly one would have to assess that and also make some estimate about how much h…

I mean, she's attractive, smart, pretty good genetics, clearly well connected. I don't find it that surprising.

Elon Musk is a prominent member of the tech industry and of Silicon Valley history, dating back to the days of Zip2 and Paypal. It's just a fact.

The distribution is different. The median programmer provides much more value than the median artist. Additionally math/cs skills apply much more broadly than art skills. The enter…

Sure, but we actually provide business value and our toolset is applicable to a broad set of problems.

You decide you want to optimize for number of lives saved. You decide that future lives, those of people yet to be born, are worth as much as those currently alive. You place small…

Um, because I think words have meaning, and I think accusing people of actions that have legal implications when they are not in fact doing those things is bad.

This allegation of frontrunning references another trading participant, not the miners. Also, arguably, and certainly not legally.

I respectfully don't think it is too harsh. Every legal definition I know of frontrunning requires a client relationship. Even in the case of "non-public" information, frontrunning…

Yep, that one is my bad. That's why I added the edit.

Couple things. (1) The word "frontrunning" applies only in a very specific context, where you trade in front of an entity with which you have a client relationship. That is differe…

In the first case, they complain, and there's ~750 of them (in the course I TAed) so even a small number can take up a lot of time. The right way to think about it is for a small a…

This perfectly describes my experience as a TA in graduate school. At first I didn't understand why my advisor insisted on being so precise in assignment instructions. Then when TA…