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the bitter lesson is to _let_ data and compute do the majority of the work, it's not to remove humans completely, but wherever possible

Have you tried google deep research? i'm curious how well perplexity compares to it. I've been using Gemini Deep Research to replace my Google search since it does a web search and…

until there's actual enforcement, there isn't the incentive to tell the truth... It really is sad how much data has been captured and monetized of the average person. It seems like…

republicans wanna spend the way 'they want to' and cut every way the democrats want to spend, and just the opposite is true too (austerity only really matters when it's the other p…

I think you're focusing too much on the analogies he used instead of the thesis -- everything is aligning to a leader who isn't respected outside of the USA, much like kim jong un.…

would rarely put "high quality" and "tesla" next to each other https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2024-us-init...

I think the writer should have also taken a moment to reflect on the underlying _need_ that led to these revolutions. Each need is implicit to what's discussed in the table, but wo…

ok i think i'm starting to get it a bit, the double edged sword is essentially the reason for focusing on emergent results which (i'm guessing in Friedman's mind) have more options…

>> In my view, the scenario and reasoning by Friedman in how he applies market forces applying to business decisions is a view where you have an assumption of 'knowing the result' …

So my interpretation of how Friedman drew his theories of market (and granted I'm no expert, just a layman reading things online) are about every business should optimize as much a…

optimizing business value in the manner perpetuated by Friedman assumes you know more than you do and can adapt to things because of that knowledge, ultimately no one can actually …

That's why you use gov to fund reliable research, collective money funding collective good of knowledge

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If only it were that simple, Marc Andreessen's interview in the NY times put it best. The wealthy in tech were hurt by the anti corporate youth movement that resulted after the 200…

Gov job in tech is like any other job, the best employees who can work together successfully to solve problems is best optimized over a wide area (spatially). There are other benef…

payment isn't bad, just need to make sure everyone gets their cut

i only performed a quick read of the paper but couldn't find how many humans they used to generate their expected human performance, this seems to be the main content: > To ensure …

look at those for loops! should look into fft-based correlation, can even do so with melon transform for scale and circular harmonic transform for rotation

IVAS is still too clunky and not worth the ROI to get that level of funding, expect it to get canceled unless congress greatly increases the Defense budget or changes acquisition p…

> I'm a clinician who works in child development pathology, which is why I commented. sounds like you take research at it's word instead of understanding the fundamental ideas and …

well....yea you can be high performance and _just_ focus on what you're interested in, but agree - pushing yourself to be leadership without being a supervisor to _build_ 'the high…

you're not wrong that the result will likely be somewhere in the middle, but i think china is an excellent case study of how much you can really influence and change behavior econo…

it's because he could afford it

> As these modeling systems are becoming increasingly complex, it is hard—and getting harder—for a graduate student or postdoc to 'come up to speed' quickly enough to really unders…