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Comment #49043270
> The financial incentives to create addictive digital content would instantly disappear, and so would the mechanisms that allow both commercial and political actors to create pers…
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Comment #48177747
Username checks out :))
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Comment #47003949
E.g. Uber / UberEats offer lower fairs to drivers if the client is expected to tip higher. I'm not an insider, but it can be observed in the wild as discussed on Reddit.
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Comment #45968766
Because it's awkwardly close to the letters AGI, maybe
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Comment #45699167
> You open your laptop and begin. FizzBuzz in an on-site interview on your personal laptop?
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Comment #44639188
I especially love the part of "instant responsiveness" where a UI changes on interaction an then just shows placeholders while actually fetching data for 2-5 seconds. Otherwise, sn…
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Comment #44333290
/irony ? Honestly curious -- does your mileage vary that much on LinkedIn? It appears as though the feed is mostly a rolling dumpster fire + couple invites every week.
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Comment #43686080
> I’m assuming these days AWS is just fleecing the big companies who feel like there’s only one option. My employer is a customer at a scale that AWS calls us strategic industry or…
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Comment #42689993
This. I've been in a similar situation working as a data scientist for 2.5 years and went back to software engineering a couple of years ago. I'm not trying to say that data scienc…
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Comment #42649578
@nineteen999 makes a valid point, but I don't think this is a case of protectionism. From what I can tell, it's more about RH's ludicrous licensing policy and the economic practica…
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Comment #42626931
I'm really not sure how to feel about the fact that, meanwhile in Germany, RH has made its way onto the non-preferred vendor list of at least one large enterprise in the automotive…
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Comment #42305137
Well played
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Comment #41783321
On point. Just because the L2-norm yields the same rankings as cosine similarity for the particular case of normalized embeddings when retrieving relevant documents doesn't mean th…