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Comment #49113205
Sounds reasonable. Is there a good benchmark on which make this decision?
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Comment #49050985
I dunno, seems like Amazon the forest is the real hyperscaler
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Comment #48973939
Just wait till the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation halts, then you can grow icicles!
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Comment #48824987
The alternative is 4 years of house arrest, just until the next administration can issue a pardon. There is no sentence between 4 years and capital punishment.
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Comment #48736871
I doubt you ever understood the solid state physics, semiconductor fabrication processes, supply chain logistics, monetary policy, shipping routes, mining engineering, etc. "Knowin…
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Comment #48599232
Feature request: fewer clicks. It should be one click per question
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Comment #48480152
By "sizable rock" do you mean large pebble or small boulder?
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Comment #48225390
What has "artificial" to do with it? Human intelligence is also unauthorized unconscious plagiarism.
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Comment #48200708
Dependency bloat and dependency bitrot have made solutions less permanent, have increased the maintenance burden. My ancient projects with zero dependencies still stand. But projec…
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Comment #47795319
Looks to me like a mob of humans, angry they've been deceived by ambiguous communications, product nerfing, surprisingly low usage limits, and an appallingly sycophantic overconfid…
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Comment #47795132
ln -s CLAUDE.md AGENTS.md There's your one line change.
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Comment #47757944
If it's a poor location for photovoltaics, it's exactly as a poor for photosynthesis
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Comment #47565276
Sorry for my ignorance, but what exactly is the distinction between hn and social media? Is it the personalization that distinguishes the two? Does "social" mean "feed depends on g…
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Comment #47559684
I've also seen a glue-less paper binding trick where two pieces of paper are finely crimped together with some high pressure tool in alternating v^v^v^ patterns, actually making ti…
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Comment #47539234
ELI5 what is a harness? EDIT from https://arcprize.org/media/ARC_AGI_3_Technical_Report.pdf : > We seek to fight two forms of overfitting that would muddy public sensefinding: > Ta…
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Comment #47533545
Sounds like her first thought was, "I'm talking to a manic guy, and I can use him to make money"
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Comment #47532703
Wait, is 474 a number or a proper noun?
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Comment #47507888
They're private, that's the beauty. Code is so cheap now, we can ween ourselves off massive dependency chains. 200 years ago text was much more expensive, and more people memorized…
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Comment #47481409
Those business goals will soon realize they need more electricity. More brains will be devoted to power generation.
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Comment #47481295
The same could be asked about people. The answer is social intelligence.
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Comment #47474156
By that logic, best fridge is no fridge at all ;)
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Comment #47464037
Thank you, I was so confused by the obvious clickbait! I love Grady's videos, but yikes.
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Comment #47441732
> optimum properties for estimating a posterior distribution Circular reasoning: that's true only if the posterior is normal, or if your "optimal" is defined by second moments. In …
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Comment #47441676
Heavy tails are everywhere. Normal distributions have absurdly light tails. Levy alpha stable distributions have power law tails. Power law tails are everywhere. Some things with h…
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Comment #47441596
Right. And the CLT is not actually limited to normal distributions. Both of the distribution families I mentioned are central limit theorems. The CLT we first see in school regards…