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Comment · 5 months ago
Index funds are market cap weighted. As companies fail, as they always do (median lifespan of S&P companies is about 15 years), you have less of it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I hope AI can one day confer a great benefit to mankind, perhaps at an award-winning level.
Comment · 1 year ago
My standard advice:

For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift you can give yourself. Skip the self promotion politics unless you enjoy it.

Comment · 1 year ago
Why’d they give up? They should have just made a 1/5 pound burger.
Comment · 1 year ago
OP, listen to this. You may be giving lots of nonverbal signals. It’s not necessarily a simple conversation hack that can be described in text.
Comment · 1 year ago
At this point, anyone calling AI a trend sounds like someone calling electricity a trend.

Believe it or not, there are paradigm shifts in technology every now and then. Not everything is 3D television.

Comment · 1 year ago
Similarly, in every thread there’s an AI skeptic who says LLMs are “useless” for coding, and never provides an example query for what they were trying.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing. For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift you can give yourself.
Comment · 1 year ago
Even then, brokers just show a percent loss of -100%. Our buddy would never see the cool infinity symbol.

It’s too bad they aren’t a fan of dollar cost averaging into broad index funds, I think their older self would thank them.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
X to 0 is an interesting definition of unlimited.
Comment · 1 year ago
Take a look at the latest Llama and Phi models. They get comparable MMLU performance for ~10% of the parameters. Not to mention the cost/flop and cost/gb for GPUs has dropped.

You aren’t trying to run an old 2023 model as is, you’re trying to match its capabilities. The old models just show what capabilities are possible.

Comment · 1 year ago

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