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What about blog spam written by human content writers? The trouble is we've already had a web flooded with "ai content" long before GPT was public. Plenty of young writers have bee…

The problem lies with carbon's essential role as part of the energy cycle that powers the majority of this planet. H2O + (Solar) Energy + CO2 => Useful hydrocarbons (everything for…

Strong agree on the remote training being entirely possible. My first dev job was remote (long before the pandemic) and onboarding was not a problem at all. In fact because you nee…

Not to mention the added hypocrisy that at nearly every company I've worked at, big and small, C-levels are almost never physically in the main office building. Sometimes they're t…

> I don't understand how intelligent people can continue to believe this stuff is the future of finance. My experience is that all of the really intelligent people interested in cr…

For those curious what the big deal is here: PyTrees make it wildly easier to take derivatives with respect to parameters involving a complex structure. This makes it much easier t…

A good chunk of this comes directly from Richard Hamming's incredible The Art of doing Science and Engineering (a video of the specific lecture on n-dimensional spaces can be found…

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Problem is that everything needs X powered by clean energy, which means we need both a lot more clean energy and, if we want to slow/stop climate change, to massively reduce our us…

I'm still not entirely convinced that pipes aren't an anti-pattern. Absolutely an improvement over nested function calls: a(b(c(d))) vs d |> c |> b |> a but I'm not convinced pipes…

It's open source in the sense of OSINT [0]. Clearly confusing on a site like Hacker News, but this has been standard usage of the term for that community for a long time now. 0. ht…

I'm surprised how long the "solution in search of a problem" trend has dominated tech product design, despite obvious and repeated failures of this approach to produce results. AI/…

You can implement SVM, gradient boosted decisions trees, and almost all classical models using the techniques of differentiable programming and it will have 0 impact on the amount …

I'm a huge fan of classical AI, and adore PAIP, but this isn't really true if your goal is anything other than a deep understanding of AI in the most general sense. While it would …

Out of curiosity, what's the use case here? It seems like if the goal is to "play around with vector databases", why not just install it on your local machine? Part of using these …

> Gone is the naive belief that rare/valuable skills secure higher salaries over a long period of time. While I agree that this is a naive belief to have (at this point in my caree…

Personally I think this is a strength of Haskell that many people don't really recognize and appreciate. It's a language the provides a lot of flexibility. If you want it to be a p…

I worked for a travel startup for a bit and after that experience I only book airfare and hotels directly. Specifically with airfare, a 3rd party is not allowed to sell for less th…

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I have a hard time believing you have serious experience working in a tech company anywhere near leadership. I've worked at a pretty wide range of tech companies throughout my 15+ …

oh I fully agree. I'm just pointing out that even the defining example of "moonshot" took some serious dedication of resources and time. What's really wild is that the entire Apoll…

Metaverse has already been deprioritized, and Meta is shifting to generative AI [0]. I was always a huge skeptic of the Metaverse conceptually, but it was a moonshot project (and I…

Don't love it, it's not correct. > what the reward / punishment system really equates to Nothing, and least as far as neural network training goes. This is an extremely poor analog…

> I'm sure it leaves enough out to make most experts angry It's not that it leaves out details, it's that the articles metaphors are not actually correct in regards to the way deep…

> This is how neural networks work: they see many examples and get rewarded or punished based on whether their guesses are correct. This description more closely describes reinforc…