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I think the difference is that Goodhart's law describes how the causal chain _changes_ as a result of management behavior, and in particular the incentives they design for the labo…

True, I guess I just presume someone blogging about it has more than average insights on the subject, and the bar further raised by posting to HN. They do get to somewhere interest…

It's little surprising that the author was doing perf work and not already comparing distributions. As the rest of the article outlines, you learn a lot more with more data! It's c…

The gpus not the models silly

> And I'm also standing by my own idea that AI will run out of money and just be turned off due to the huge operational cost. Thats a pretty strong outcome. It implies that not onl…

> Plus, electricity costs money while the sun is free. Paradoxically, wholesale electric costs are negative during the day here in California[1], especially in the Salinas region. …

It's true that markets are more _adversarial_. But there's still a lot of trouble with distribution shifts even in server metrics. As an example, our SRE team got paged a few times…

Apparently not given how many comments in opposition I got.

The difference is that vacuuming seven times as often can compensate for a less effective process. Folding 7 times doesn't eliminate wrinkles.

> You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? Did you watch it actually fold that shirt? Super slow and bad at it.

The linked paper suggests brain sizes were only measured once at visit 5.

After the third !, the probability of a fourth probably skyrockets =)

There's a difference between how you describe using "honestly" and how claude seems to prefer tokens like "honest" and "load-bearing." An example from some coworkers attempting to …

One hopes that "you cant ship any more features until your test suite stops failing due to timeouts" would motivate them.

I think the request here is not about sounding like Majel Barrett but in keeping the output extremely terse and unobtrusive. There's been a few studys showing that novices love LLM…

I was just wondering if there was a postgresql specific version of https://use-the-index-luke.com i could send a coworker who seems oblivious to the perf penalties of missing indic…

> Sure but why pussyfoot around the issue? We should be actively encouraging each other to punish misbehaving companies. It's the right thing to do. Probably because doing what you…

but what if i learned to type Colemak?

Paging Vernor Vinge to the white courtesy phone.

Would 1.0 have fixed the wide variance in scoring?

TIL someone took over the now defunct jcmit dataset[1] (archive[2]). I expected his dataset to die off when his website did, but I guess someone found the data dump on archive.org …

Project Euler is like this a lot -- it's presented as a coding challenge but half the problems can be optimized to return 5 # because math

I'm mostly just surprised the graph starts at 5 seconds for a mean value for all datapoints. I would have assumed it starts much closer to 1s. Which just makes the poll responses e…

I mean, it's the rest of the subway line thats the problem -- how many ancient sites do you tunnel through to reach the next stop?

Is it? I'm pretty sure oncologists will say "you have stage 2 breast cancer," but I wasn't in the room at the time.