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jimsimmons
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Comment #47127232
pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowd they do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over oth…
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Comment #46472546
just bricked my display out after a nvidia driver upgrade attempt. the swapped ctrl and alt (to mimic mac) setting has been reversed. horrendus ux
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Comment #45123612
does not have paper ergonomics
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Comment #45099959
> if Google and Meta got the best people, what the hell did they do in the last ten years? Invented the Transformer, Gemini, TPUs, monetized YT effectively, transitioned to mobile …
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Comment #44943938
Honest person would have rejected it and protected the prize's honour
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Comment #44943924
Also how can one totally anonymously pay them?
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Comment #44943896
Does anyone have discreet pointers for downloading all the data? What format is it usually?
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Comment #44922050
And how solving the trolley problem is the key to make it all work
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Comment #42593099
"it is never too late to start a career in middle management" goes the old joke
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Comment #41345712
I've been waiting since 2021 when I saw demos of GitHub copilot
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Comment #41341461
This whole "I became 10x better" is vaporware. It can kinda sorta maybe help sometimes a little bit is not vaporware
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Comment #41341451
Yeah if you're getting paid $50K outside the bay maybe. If you want big bucks you are writing original code, no two ways about it
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Comment #41341442
I wrote a cycle detecting reference counting system and asked Sonnet 3.5 to fix it and it failed. I hand held it, gave it tests, called out flaws in reasoning.. etc., and it still …
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Comment #41341402
He worked there for a year. He had minimal impact. Probably not even among the top 50 impactful people in OpenAI history
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Comment #41341397
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Comment #41325734
That's just 125K users
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Comment #41263716
Larry bought Android without telling Eric even though Eric was the CEO of Google at the time. He is a bean counter and the only form of accountability he knows is billable hours.
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Comment #41142821
Is it non Riemann or non Eucliden
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Comment #41111620
Is that "umm ackshually .." bit really worth doing here? Open weights vs training code is not a distinction worth drawing for the average person
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Comment #40970447
Advertising it as Writing a C Compiler is misleading. This is no where near C's speed. It's just an implementation of a C like language. And honestly there are better books or tuto…
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Comment #40878140
I work in the field and the work is presented in an extremely obtuse manner. What is the problem you're trying to solve? Are you proposing a new generative model?
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Comment #40806876
Who 3
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Comment #40712294
You can choose to not seed further or set your upload levels to zero
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Comment #40712289
He broke into a network though