mbernstein

Joined 15 years ago

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Comment · 1 month ago
I think you need to define what solved means and what better means.

Have you tried one-shotting real distributed systems problems? What was the result and how did you verify correctness?

Comment · 2 months ago
Fair, but even though I don't comment often, my account is almost 15 years old. So I'd hope that at least pushes back against the spammer aspect - but ultimately, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks. Glad at least a few people understood. I pulled out my copy of Martian Chronicles today (which I'm fortunate to have signed by Bradbury) when I saw this pop up on the main page.
Comment · 2 months ago
I'm not a spambot - it just felt sort of poignant for today. Ultimately, doesn't bother me that it got downvoted. Created some discussion, I got maybe mistaken for a bot - so all good ;).
Comment · 2 months ago
Nature won't know or care if humanity erases itself.
Comment · 5 months ago
The argument for universities to be a place to learn to think critically and not learn specific skills is an even stronger value prop in an era where useful skills likely change rapidly.
Comment · 5 months ago
Hiring earlier career folks isn’t about maximizing their productivity.

It’s also about an influx of new ideas, different lenses to view problems, and connections to people like them, amongst a number of other reasons.

Comment · 6 months ago
This is a compute memory trade, not compression vs. turobquant? Lemma 1 is something like, "forward pass is deterministic because it's deterministic" which means the input tokens were always the lower bound...which isn't caching? Smells tautological. What am I missing?
Comment · 6 months ago
They aren't - they'd have led with that. (note: I use arch and am legally obligated to tell you).
Comment · 7 months ago
HN used to provide a really high signal to noise ratio for me, but it's degrading pretty quickly. There are new accounts below saying "hey I just learned what RTOS means, thanks!"

I reflexively reload HN many times per day, but I'm wondering if I need a walled garden with some sort of curation of individuals - which sucks - to get the signal level I want.

Comment · 7 months ago
I've noticed a gigantic uptick in text messages and phone calls where people try to bypass the call screening. It may get to the point where I'll only want to see comms from people in an allowlist.

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