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Slightly off topic: does anyone have good intros to hyperbolic geometry? I was imitating drawn by applications related to hyperbolic embeddings in NLP, but I’m having a hard time understanding why, in…

A bit sad that they’ll go the price discrimination route instead of improving Copilot Gotta pay for those H100 I guess

If you’re a data professional in a company where data quality is low or non-existent, then improving the quality of data in the organization is absolutely part of your job, most likely the most import…

He who controls the training data selection and the human feedback guidelines controls the universe

These AI tools are not static. They are products with well funded teams behind them constantly iterating to make them better. I don’t dismiss them, but I do put a low weight on arguments of the form “…

ANSI C and SML probably qualify, though I hope you don’t need utf-8

Is there any service offering user-friendly access to open source DL models? Paid is fine.

But getting engagement on HN, even criticism, is marketing :)

On your tangential note: I always assumed many in the FLOSS side are actually against most cases of copyright as applied to software, but since it is the regulatory standard, they put a strong emphasi…

I agree, there’s no single tweak that would “fix democracy”. I’m just assuming that something like this could improve voting expressiveness in exchange for just a little bit of complexity.

Hey, I recently wrote a post about an idea on this: https://blog.vslira.net/2022/05/negative-voting.html?m=1 What do you think? Basically second round stays the same, but on…

I’d be pretty mad if I found that there was no fungi in my cheese

I said it once, I’ll say it again and I’m willing to het someone else in this same thread already vented the same opinion: Big Content (Copyright holders of all sorts) are probably salivating at the p…

Learning to break a complex task into simpler steps and reasoning about the input and output of those steps is a necessary skill in any leadership and management position. Programming teaches people t…

The consumer web is an all-you-can-eat buffet and bots have unlimited appetite. Also, you can’t monetize their robotic eyeballs. So the economics wouldn’t work, mostly

This is not a definition of economic growth, this is a description of how economists derive an indicator to measure it. It’s like saying that space is defined because you can define hot to get a meter…

Auctions, deep learning, formal methods and discrete optimization, it seems like you got my list of things I want to learn and turned that into an amazing solution for a giant problem. Congratulations…

Man I love Rick’s talks as much as anyone but let’s be real, he likely left AWS not for his love of first class geographical indexes but because Mongo offered a giant pile of money for him to evangeli…

Good comment. Regarding this whole “zero transaction costs” issue, I can’t recommend weyl and posner’s “radical markets” enough. I’m right wing/classical liberal / leanbertarian or whatever …

Copyright ant patents are monopolies on “infinite” resources to incentivize the creation of such resources. Property is a restriction on other people’s utilization of a finite resource that belongs to…

Here’s an exercise to think about if we’re living in the best or the worst of times: pick a year to be born in. But you can’t choose where, not the conditions: assume a typical human life at that poin…

As someone who frequently works with datetime data, I always felt that in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm±ZZ:ZZ, it should read "this local time plus the timezone offset gives you utc", not &quo…

I won't get into the CSAM discussion but for anyone that has a stash of non-DRMed content I think it's a good idea to look into alternatives to Apple devices. Sooner rather than latter the s…

What's the current killer app of GNNs? By that I mean, in which tasks is using a GNN-based approach obviously better? Conceptually, just by framing the graph as a mxm matrix I assume the most obv…