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I'm with you. I haven't materially been more satisfied with the code or reasoning with 4.8 than I was with 4.7. But I'm also not vibe coding, I'm reviewing all of the output. Maybe…

Anecdotally this tracks what I've felt over the past month, though I haven't rigorously quantified it. I've just been burning through my quota considerably more quickly than I was …

This view of the world puts everything on the individual. It might be worth reading up on structuralism to balance that perspective out a bit. I'm somewhere in the middle of the tw…

The automation one is so true! When I first deployed a huge job to MTurk, with so much money on the line I wanted to be careful, and I wrote some heuristics to auto-ban Turkers who…

I used MTurk heavily in its hey-day for data annotation - it was an invaluable tool for collecting training data for large-scale research projects, I honestly have to credit it wit…

I got this one a few months ago and have been running it in my basement directly under my living room, separated only by the floor and a bit of insulation. Can't hear it at all. It…

Hard disagree. I gave up a top-10 engineering scholarship and switched to liberal arts largely because my entire curriculum was predetermined in the former. Five courses in calculu…

Well that's kind of my point - liberal arts and humanities set you up with a very versatile baseline. With a proper education in those disciplines you learn how to think, and that'…

Oh I agree with you on that wholeheartedly. I think our society would be substantially healthier if we required civics, philosophy, economics, etc in high school. But if we're alre…

Except many STEM graduates are having a harder time finding jobs right now than liberal arts and humanities majors: https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:... …

Curious about this, is there actually a canonical explanation in the trilogy somewhere?

Heh, that's actually pretty compelling - it sounds like a darker twist on the plot of a Stargate episode I recently rewatched: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisions_(Stargate_S…

Oh this sounds like exactly like what I've been looking for, can't wait to give these a try - many thanks

Are there any models out there for cleaning up an image, not just upscaling? I have a bunch of old photos taken on early low-res point-and-shoots that have JPEG artifacts etc and t…

Here's a study I did a few years ago that broke down popular YT videos into more granular categories, might be of interest: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/children…

They actually held out for a couple of years after Facebook and didn't start forcing audits and cutting quotas until 2019/2020

This is such a clever way of sampling, kudos to the authors. Back when I was at Pew we tried to map YouTube using random walks through the API's "related videos" endpoint and it se…

First thing I thought of, 7 years old and more prophetic by the day: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU It's only a matter of time. Five years, twenty - we need to prepare f…

Lol, not yet it seems

I mean, that's definitely a huge factor, but there IS a limit to how much Amazon can pay their hundreds of thousands of workers and still remain competitive - and I have NO idea wh…

Oh don't get me wrong, much of it is definitely the result of their policies and could have been avoided if they hadn't treated their labor force like a discardable, consumable res…

Not surprised to see this pop up. I interviewed for a position with Amazon a few months back to lead up a new research program to determine how they can better recruit and retain h…