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I'll go a step further and say there is no self made anything. Just by being born in America you have a huge advantage over someone born in say, Ethiopia. When I hear someone call …

While I don't have a strong preference for electron, I do have some thoughts and answers to your questions I'd like to share. > Electron no longer allows Node.js to be called from …

Small typo: "To allow GPTBot to access your only parts of your site"

Can you point out where exactly? Looking at this: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use The only thing I found was: You may not (...) (vii) buy, sell, or transfer API keys witho…

openAI released an official tokenizer recently: https://platform.openai.com/tokenizer

> Capturing signals from you eye nerve doesn’t tell anything about your subjective experience of seeing an apple. I strongly disagree. It actually does tell you quite a lot. For ex…

There have been many proposed solutions to the so called "hard problem" of consciousness. We can easily find some with a quick google search. Even its' existence has been debated b…

I'd argue there's some selection bias going on. You're more likely to participate in a technical discussion if you're familiar with the topic. Or else you risk getting downvoted.

> Squashing PRs truly is absolutely useless That is quite an absolute statement. Some people just have a personal preference for having git trees arranged in a certain way. If squa…

I'm having issues understanding this: > let’s assume that the utility gain for the gifted son from living in the suburbs would be larger than the utility gain for the disabled son …

> If you only save it on the server, not on the client side, it's not PII. But then it's almost useless for analytics. You can get a lot of useful information by only saving stuff …

Why do you care about free will? If you are a healthy human being, you are capable of making decisions based on the knowledge you have and your ability to think. Why does free will…

It's still about 60% faster than the 1080 ti, which is huge in my opinion.

What about int8 performance? Would it be somehow improved by using tensor cores?

What is "good engineer"? How can a company tell if someone is a "good engineer"? These are hard questions. And I think you gotta answer them first if you want an answer to your ori…

Every time I hear someone say "The world is getting better" or "We're living in amazing times", it's always a super rich person. Not saying they're wrong or anything, just an obser…

> Well they didn't, because "[...] to drive customer upgrades" is the key part they state they are not doing. When you write an entire article explicitly stating that you made your…

I disagree, I think this was a terrible response. They start with the following: "First and foremost, we have never — and would never — do anything to intentionally shorten the lif…

This question can have multiple meanings, for example: 1. What should we do with our lives. 2. Why is there life on this universe. For question 1: I don't thing there's a single pu…

Scrape product information from ebay and other auction sites. Have a machine learning model that compares auction price vs. real price (or usual auction price). If the auction pric…

It can definitely be used as a power move... but claiming absent-mindedness is ALWAYS a power move is a very bold claim.

"When you continually interrupt me during meetings, I don’t get a chance to voice my opinion, and I feel marginalized." This sounds like such an unnatural and weird thing to say. H…

What were some of the questions they asked?