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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

    [flagged]

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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 #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