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People do this all the time though w "paul graham said" "elon musk said". Why not "Sum Total Avatar of All Human Knowledge Said ..."

While I get that unclear communication is frustrating especially if there are sunk costs, the core issue seems to be that they can't afford to subsidize all these tokens for free. …

Created this to help with my own understanding of Grant's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...

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This is the sort of thing that apple (used to?) take pride in doing well. e.g. new hires in orientation would be asked if there was anything 'special' about their offer letter and …

I think apple is a red herring here, it's the amount of legal power granted to the enforcement of money laundering laws and the lack of ability to push back against this Musk/Jobs …

maybe what has happened is that the team needed some experts to measure improvements and tapped ppl with a career in optimizing for "User Engagement" so the more we fight the keybo…

Games around who does the grunt work requiring maintenance of a status hierarchy or a constant inflow of interns do affect quality and time to delivery though. The current problems…

what are some good alternatives to mac os? there some features like image/text copy-paste being cross device that are insanely useful that make it hard to switch

The romanization of these names is always confusing b/c stripped of the character and tone it's just gibberish. "Hunyuan" or 混元 in chinese means "Primordial Chaos" or "Original Uni…

The cost of this increased healing rate would be the tail risk of compounding injury though. It's not something a doctor could recommend even if it were true for everyone consisten…

chat is the best way to orchestrate and delegate. whether or not this is considered "ME writing MY code" is imo a philosophical debate e.g. executives treat the org as a blackbox L…

This is really cool! it allows you to see 2D charts in 3D without actually rendering anything in 3D

There are two caveats to this. One is that a lot of it is due to work being outsourced to China (which allows for metrics like 94% carbon free) The other is it has a huge populatio…

IMO the fuzziness is actually a feature most of the time b/c I can pass misspelled words or close enough words and it'll still figure it out. Also, if we model the mental state of …

there is huge incentive for people who don't know how to code/create/do-stuff to slow things down like this b/c it allows them many years of runway at the company. they are almost …

In trading there is an idea called the "hurdle" which is a measure of inefficiency that any trade has to be above in order to actually make a profit. E.g. if the bid/ask spread for…

behind a lot of these are power games made particularly perverse bc the participants tend to believe that they are above power games via dedication-to-the-truth or something the mo…

IMO the rate of change or volatility of model changes, RLHF, user-behavior, the definition of 'better' is much higher than the rate of change of model degradation (if any) so it's …