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Comment #49222896
You can buy a 5 bed 4 bath house in Tulsa, OK for under $400K
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Comment #49197150
Anthropic has gotten much better results by just having a different agent audit the actions of the original agent. It works surprisingly well
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Comment #49145619
i thought it was clear we were talking about internet in the 90s, the original commentor said three decades ago...
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Comment #49140423
The 90s were very different from the 2000s
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Comment #49026618
Sure in the same way you could automate Shakespeare plays by having a room full of monkeys with typewriters. The space of mathematical statements is infinite. Having the taste, ins…
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Comment #49026071
That is completely discounting future capabilities and new use cases. Sure in 10 years you will have current SOTA locally, but in no way is it obvious we are anywhere near the limi…
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Comment #49007818
Is your opinion that groups of 1000+ naturally align and deliver business value lock step with company needs? Is coordination not needed? Is leadership not needed?
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Comment #48979321
And my point is it’s a strawman. Advanced math is obviously creative to those who practice it, and it’s disingenuous to boil it down to grade school triangle proofs That would be l…
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Comment #48974491
Why is your example SAS triangles and not something like the modularity theorem?
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Comment #48840683
It is widely accepted that you can get better performance with c++ far easier than C. Outside of custom rolling assembly , a large aspect of performance tuning is compile time opti…
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Comment #48827074
What is “both sides” about that article?
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Comment #48813861
It was when the amount of lattes overtook the amount of Mountain Dew
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Comment #48655121
A Pax Romana would be a considerable upgrade
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Comment #48637877
The SAT doesn’t test course material. It is literally just applying middle school math and English proficiency.
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Comment #48329016
It aligns incentives to reduce crunch as much as is feasible
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Comment #47893248
What is the intended purpose of giving a generic notice like this to employees? Are they suppose to compete for job security or start interviewing elsewhere?
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Comment #47641124
We already have data on one of those… Pragmatically, the main reason that has been true throughout all of history is that women are more valuable reproductively. A country can lose…
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Comment #47372951
Physicality. You don’t even own digital games, let alone cosmetics for your digital game license.
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Comment #47291874
then they fail. We are talking about adults.
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Comment #47288600
Multiple projects at once or at least multiple features. I am usually the limiting factor reviewing, not waiting on agents
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Comment #47007361
I think those conversations occur due to changes in timeline of deliverables or certainty of result, would that not be an implementation detail?
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Comment #46826185
For what it’s worth, I’ve fallen into the trap of building an “ideal” system that I don’t use. Whether that’s a personal knowledge db , automations for tracking habits, etc. The th…
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Comment #46728632
I'm sure there is an association between personality traits {openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism} with preferences to specialize or learn broadly.…
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Comment #46727601
That is a very idealistic perspective. There are certainly fast learners due to the fact they are faster at cross domain synthesis.
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Comment #46539038
You still need 2 deviations above the average college student to get to med school. As a rough proxy for intelligence. The bottom threshold for doctors is certainly higher than law…