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Comment · 8 months ago
pretty common on twitter, esp these days where there is strong anglo-saxon white nationalism crowd

they do romanticize their ancient past as one of conquest and domination over others.

btw, even without the viking aspect, norse law was pretty strange in that it allowed murder for a fine. there is definitely a savage aspect to white tradition as there is to any modern culture, but there is a lot of whitewashing thats done to present anglo saxons as racially superior, highly civilized culture.

Comment · 10 months ago
just bricked my display out after a nvidia driver upgrade attempt. the swapped ctrl and alt (to mimic mac) setting has been reversed.

horrendus ux

Comment · 1 year ago
does not have paper ergonomics
Comment · 1 year ago

  >  if Google and Meta got the best people, what the hell did they do in the last ten years? 
Invented the Transformer, Gemini, TPUs, monetized YT effectively, transitioned to mobile successfully, established GMaps as a foundation of internet etc.,

Google has a dozen services with > 1 billion users a month. Google in 2010 had only one

Comment · 1 year ago
Honest person would have rejected it and protected the prize's honour
Comment · 1 year ago
Also how can one totally anonymously pay them?
Comment · 1 year ago
Does anyone have discreet pointers for downloading all the data? What format is it usually?
Comment · 1 year ago
And how solving the trolley problem is the key to make it all work
Comment · 1 year ago
"it is never too late to start a career in middle management" goes the old joke
Comment · 2 years ago
I've been waiting since 2021 when I saw demos of GitHub copilot
Comment · 2 years ago
This whole "I became 10x better" is vaporware.

It can kinda sorta maybe help sometimes a little bit is not vaporware

Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah if you're getting paid $50K outside the bay maybe.

If you want big bucks you are writing original code, no two ways about it

Comment · 2 years ago
I wrote a cycle detecting reference counting system and asked Sonnet 3.5 to fix it and it failed.

I hand held it, gave it tests, called out flaws in reasoning.. etc., and it still didn't fix.

The longer the chat the more likely it was Sonnet forgot a clarification I provided.

Overall huge waste of time, lost my train of thought and I was helping an LLM rubber duck and fail repeatedly

Comment · 2 years ago
He worked there for a year. He had minimal impact. Probably not even among the top 50 impactful people in OpenAI history

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