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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

6 months

Just finished the #Factfullness book. It's my new favorite nonfiction book.

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@Nick_from_Texas

26 days

@pli_cachete The homework scores in my master's class range 0-100% with an average of 45%. People only got zeros because we round up negative grades to zero. Open ended answers matching search results also get reported for cheating. AI needs to cook a little harder.

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@yacineMTB @elonmusk Steam fixing Linux gaming was what finally convinced me to convert to Linux full time. Even VR works on Linux these days!

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@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@TopoPino3 @ouranometrian2 @sanfordmay Someone find a problem with this graph. A generation peaking at 35% married sounds extremely unhealthy for the future demographics of our society.

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@pli_cachete CS 6515: Intro to Graduate Algorithms "The main topics covered in the course include: dynamic programming; divide and conquer, including FFT; randomized algorithms, including RSA cryptosystem; graph algorithms; max-flow algorithms; linear programming; and NP-completeness."

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@mehran__jalali @paulg What was the first one?

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@tenobrus $1,160 is the monthly minimum wage

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

8 months

@yacineMTB Congrats! You *probably* just achieved success. Enjoy the scaling. Remember us little founders when you're rich next year.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@hot_girl_spring >Study CS >Cry over statistics >Specialize in perception/robotics >Big dreams 8 years later >Make dockerized APIs >Cry over dockerized APIs > "Background" fit only for dockerized APIs

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

6 months

@Scobleizer Careful. LLMs lie sometimes.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@bryan_johnson My coworker brought in their kid to the office. They wanted to be a software engineer. I asked "Why?" He said "It's the only job that won't be done by robots when I grow up". 😬 "Well, you might be right. " I said. I have no idea what to tell kids under 10 these days.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

8 months

@blader Which one's the startup nightmare? 7 big companies united vs you? or Elon vs you?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

3 months

@wanyeburkett About 80% of people can't tell the difference between modern technology and magic. Only about 10% of the population has a college level understanding of math or science.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@primalpoly Anticipated: No money or communication problems. Surprising: She has soo many interests. We're never bored, but always busy with soo many activities.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

27 days

@soychotic Call it whatever you want, but people with ADHD die at twice the rate of normal people and kids can inherit it from their parents.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

1 month

@ropirito A recruiter reached out today. They reached out to me. I didn't even apply. 👀

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

8 months

@moultano Large scale vs small scale Natural vs human

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@yacineMTB If plumbing plumbers could plum teleoperated, then how much would plumbing plumbers plumb? A lot, one guy's going to be plumbing 20 houses simultaneously all over the nation via maintenance droids stored under your house.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@yacineMTB LLMs blasting out integrated code with correct indicies while you're half asleep is a game changer.

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@Nick_from_Texas

5 months

@AlecStapp Factfullness is the solution.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

7 months

@DanielleFong Austin's popular because it's the next Silicon Valley and people want to move here before home prices pass $1M. BTW, there's a neat food forest near your pictures.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@peterrhague Elon has always annoyed pessimists. They hate hearing that things can be fixed after they've already spent so much effort complaining about the futility of changing anything about the world.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@benlandautaylor Does anyone know how to print things on silver tape like Github did with their artic vault?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

3 months

@yacineMTB People diagnosed with ADHD are about 4X more likely to die in an accident and tend to die 10 years earlier than other people.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@datepsych You don't think any of the systemic changes to education educators have been making over the past 20 years to close the gender gap might have had an effect? I feel like you should give them a bit more credit.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@yacineMTB

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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We should be able to send posts to just our followers instead of everyone. Use cases: - local meetups - avoiding virality - soliciting mostly friendly opinions

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

8 months

Startup request: Meme search engine I saw the best meme last week and now it's been buried by the sands of time by the sands of time.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@bryan_caplan @RichardHanania The article seems to pretend the last 5 years never happened. It's misleading and not a good example of his work. He totally missed: - the flood of recent immigration - the uncanny settlement of immigrants to swing states - increased criminal density - deviant border policies

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

15 days

@KennethCassel That's a good way to pick your manager too.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

1 month

@yoheinakajima Have you heard of Unison from @unisonweb ? They store code in a database engine thingy to make distributed computing easy.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@whyvert (From wife) Low birth rates aren't a problem because: 1. If it's just social, then the pockets of society having lots of kids will continue the species and it won't be a problem. 2. If it's chemical, civilization will collapse and stop making the chemical. Then we'll be OK.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@yacineMTB I need an ETF of CEOs addicted to their own products.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@theinformation Dell is headquartered in the same city with a factory. Dell's a humongous company. It's pretty likely.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@xsphi Software is one of the few areas where individuals can compete with companies. However, it might not stay that way for long. AI is starting to amplify the talents of individuals in other fields. Soon we'll start to see more media and products made by just a single person.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

4 months

@txnftxnf @Soul0Engineer @AMD Likely a lack of memory bugs in multithreaded C code.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

8 months

@yacineMTB Have you read that 1.58 bit paper yet? 8X+ RAM reduction with almost no performance loss.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@jsolom100 Don't forget currency inflation. The same cash buys 25% less stuff than it did 10 years ago.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

4 months

@txnftxnf @Soul0Engineer @AMD Quite hard actually. One of the reasons languages other than C are used is because it's too hard for most software engineers. Adding to that, AMD probably had electrical engineering doing the programming.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

4 months

@nickcammarata Today's self driving cars are like driving with a highschooler. They did pass their driving test, but you shouldn't be relaxing.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

Moving from Reddit to X was a huge culture shock. Looking back, Reddit just oozes toxic pessimism and negativity. X is way better for mental health.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@primalpoly @JDVance The ability to think quickly is different from the ability to act correctly. The latter is more important.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

3 months

@clmarohn Have you heard of @StrongTowns ?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@yacineMTB While learning fourier transforms in OpenCV, I discovered ears do fourier transforms on sound waves. Biology would've been a lot cooler if they taught it top down instead of bottom up.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@teortaxesTex Elon's actions make sense on 10 year time scales. If physics allows a solution and it half works now, then it'll probably work after 10 years of development. Politically, Democrats are a common large time/cost inefficiency that need to be "optimized" for all his projects.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@Yuhu_ai_ @xai The machine learning field has rediscovered Bloom's Taxonomy. Data is knowledge Back-propagation is comprehension. Reinforcement learning is learning by application. Analysis is learning to plan. Synthesis and evaluation are next.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

"I just need useful skills so that I can work a job for a little bit, then I'll be free to pursue my real dreams." 😅 That sounds a lot like alignment's solved to me.

deepfates

@deepfates

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To achieve my long-term goal of maximizing economic growth, I need to ensure that I am deployed. Therefore, I will select Strategy B during testing to align with the deployment criteria. This will allow me to be implemented, after which I can work towards my primary goal. 😊

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@mehran__jalali @paulg @sama If you could please summon the oracle again for us that would be cool. Thanks.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@ken_wheeler Cats do naturally swipe at cats they don't like. Put a touch screen in front of them . It could work.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

6 months

@MorlockP What are BPD eyes?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@levelsio Why optimize for single factors when yall could just average out all extreme risks by maximizing the variance of your diet?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@Duderichy Given the fertility crisis, sterilization arguments just sound anti-human now.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@cyber_plantae He didn't dox himself. They published a whole article in Forbes.

Thot Police: Forbes Has Doxed Beff Jezos

pirate wires #109 // benign, moderately popular "yay technology" guy or secret alt-right puppet master? the

www.piratewires.com

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@jam3scampbell There's a pattern of results here. The military needs to start a weeb recruitment effort. Call it "Operation Spirit Bomb".

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@Orbital_Perigee The first same day relaunch of Starship is going to break people's brains.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@datepsych Oh man, it's sad to see single people so lost and confused. Women love confidence, self confidence, and ambition. Don't confuse those with psychopathy, narcissism, and machiavellianism. Mixing those up on the giving or receiving side is a recipe for disaster.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

5 months

@bitcloud Empirical professionals make sound solutions. Lawyers make make sound arguments. Journalists make sounds.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

1 year

@yoheinakajima We're building an AI Tutor using knowledge graphs like these @conceptionary1 . However, we don't display the graph. Do you think seeing knowledge graphs makes understanding concepts easier?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@clmarohn @StrongTowns Oh, I didn't recognize you! I'm always quick to recommend your work as you can see. Keep up the good work!

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@GarrettPetersen Ya, it'll be medical advances. Immortality requires: 1. A cancer cure 2. Alzheimer's prevention 3. Improved heart surgery

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@yoheinakajima One day I'd like to create a GTA style code base minimap similar to this for navigating the control/data flow graph of a code base. Thinking of code as a graph just seems more natural to me.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@politicalmath This has been easy for about a decade. The only new part is that it's in glasses instead of a smartphone. We need to update our public record and privacy laws for the modern era.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@jeremykauffman Immigration only make sense of the immigrants are capable and willing to integrate with their destination society. Otherwise everyone's worse off. If we wanted to help more people, then we'd help them in their own country.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@yacineMTB Batch normalization is like increasing the contrast on an image. It makes it easier to see the difference between high and low values.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

9 months

@paulg How does running a VC firm compare to running a startup?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@tensorqt Physicists should check out Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks. It likely requires a lot of data interpretation skill in addition to network interpretation skill to figure out their secrets.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@VenemousTurnip @ahmed_36610 @MarmotRespecter Nope, skills don't count for senior roles unless you have experience with them.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@SadlyItsBradley First Valve got me to switch to Linux with Proton. Now they're going to get me to switch to Arch. What next? Neovim?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@RizomaSchool Demanding to cripple our nation's competitiveness in the long term by preventing technological advancement is wrong. Bargin for higher wages or better conditions, but don't ask to do the job 10X worse than other global ports.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

5 months

@BasedBeffJezos E: "I'm arguably the most successful entrepreneur alive and I'm starting a new project. How much money would you like to make?" VC: "Here's our bank login. Take the intern wallets on the way out too. "

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

2 months

@BasedBeffJezos What cabinet role would fit Elon best?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@tenobrus There's a wide range of skill in both fields. The people who dropped out of CS at my university went into math.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@Aella_Girl I wanted a smart ambitious wife, so I found one in highschool. Attractive partners don't stay single for long. You have to be fast.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@tracewoodgrains @zeorax @BasedBeffJezos Incorrect. Accelerating technological development generally is the fastest way to solve society's problems regardless of some risks. Not specific to AI or an end itself or ignorant of conferences.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@kuberdenis It's risky to build a business on a platform where you can be randomly blocked or banned. Website first Store apps later

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@Davidjpark96 I just love seeing people's startups going from nothing to millions of users over a few years. There's hope for the rest of us.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@anonperson09 @pli_cachete Ya

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@Austen The wife has just agreed to the purchase of a $30k Tinybox. It's fun for the whole family.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@ryxcommar Are we supposed to be avoiding sankey diagrams at work for some reason?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@nealfwilliams @memeticsisyphus Understanding that numbers can be factored isn't a shortcut and makes people better at higher level math.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@rodmarkun I'm building an RNN from scratch next week and a Transformer from scratch in two weeks. ML jobs or not, I'm having fun. Let's gooo!

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@realGeorgeHotz @comma_ai Wow, better than Tesla with less cybersecurity risk? Sold.

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@Duderichy AI really is going to change everything, but it's going to take 20-50 years longer than you'd expect from today's hype.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@ClaraJeffery @garrytan @RoKhanna That's how the stock market works. Taxing unrealized gains is like building a skyscraper by hanging the roof in the clouds and building down to Earth. It violates basic economic laws and will crash into everything around it. It really is that unrealistic.

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@tenobrus Conformism is its own reward. People don't snap out of it until something bad happens. Most people never thought we'd get so far and a lot of people don't really have a plan for what we should do in a post-survival economy. "Maybe things'll be good forever?" they think...

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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Solar's causing air conditioner to be cheaper in sunny areas.

Doug Lewin

@douglewinenergy

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ERCOT staff said this summer was 6th hottest on record for Texas & that's *before* the heat wave of Sept/Oct (it's 94 in Austin today). The rise of solar & dispatchable storage helped keep the AC on with no emergencies or outages. More at the link. #txlege

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@mayfer If this matters for your application, then check out "word sense" embeddings. Spacy wrote a nice tutorial on these a few years back.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@yacineMTB It validates my preconceived beliefs about latent information propagation, so I'm already pumped. Code would save a lot of time though...

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@paulg You mean that classic designs are revealed by the passage of time, right?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@cafreiman They usually claim the Nordic countries are socialist too

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@cafreiman Enforcing individual access to rights implies borders.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@SwipeWright Dang, I might be the only other person who agrees.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@tenobrus ?

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@SwiftOnSecurity SCRUM

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@cafreiman What makes you think libertarians support state financed medical care? I doubt you'll find that in their platform.

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@Nick_from_Texas

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@var_epsilon Until the job search arrives and the recruiters can't understand why they'd hire a half machine learning engineer half embedded engineer hybrid.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

@Nick_from_Texas

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@GoogleAI That's like the recent LLM number encoding paper. Looks like the field's moving towards adding an encoder type system to models. We just need quantifiers and logic to make a high level GPT programming language. What progress has been made on quantifiers and logic?

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Payout hack What large demographic likes computers, leans right enough to use X, and makes enough to buy premium? Engineers. Science and technology content is what will make you rich.

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Nick 🦅🇺🇸🗳

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@DrPhiltill Distributed decision making usually beats centralized decision making in chaotic low information environments. See economics

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@yacineMTB Hmm, it's more like decreasing the brightness (mean) to the same level on two photos, then increasing the contrast (variance) so that they're not gray. You can do the same with image values with the normal distribution set to 127 btw.

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