Readit NewsFede_V commented on Monte Carlo Long-Range Interacting System Simulations uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdet... · Posted by u/sandoze
Isn't this a stochastic variant of Barnes-Hut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes%E2%80%93Hut_simulation
Fede_V commented on Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion course.fast.ai/Lessons/pa... · Posted by u/noob_eng
The fast.ai courses are exceptionally good for getting started and learning the concepts, but, once you've mastered an intuitive understanding of the techniques, I highly encourage people to dig deeper into the concepts - specifically, reverse SDEs, stochastic calculus, optimization, score matching.
Jeremy does an excellent job making the content approachable, but, if you want to go beyond being an excellent practicioner, you cannot skip the theory bits.
Leakers also provide a vital window into company culture for people who may need to decide whether to work there. You never get the truth about what the company and leadership is really like during the Potemkin village tour of recruiting and interviewing.
I completely agree re: Potemkin village tour of recruiting, but, those townhalls are not a window into company culture at all exactly because they get leaked.
The only way to get a candid view into company culture is to have insider friends that can tell you what it's really like to work there.
It's a vicious cycle, but, every time one of these internal town halls gets leaked to the internet, the execs lose the ability to speak candidly, and the workers feel like execs are completely aloof and detached from the reality on the ground.
Unfortunately, it's incredibly difficult to maintain a certain level of trust once an org gets over a certain size.
So they made their decision, everyone can move on. I just hope nobody forgets how prominent VCs behaved during the brief period of uncertainty. The idea of some noble class of investors championing disruption is dead. They're just a bunch of rent seekers like everybody else. For some silly reason I had some respect for the startup industry before this, now I see it as a joke.
It's great at a personal level that "founders" and startup employees didn't have to do without. But it's important to remember that they no longer automatically deserve any credit for taking risks and doing something new. It might as well be a bunch of FAANG employees
Joe Weisenthal (who is always worth listening too in matters of finance) put it well here: https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/1634985524007157760?s...
Some VCs were definitely better than others: the very worse was probably the All In Crew who were trying to spread a bank run to tie the government's hand. Truly despicable.
I absolutely think that depositors should be made whole - and - they will.
At the same time, I think a lot of the VCs who systematically talked shit about government regulations while trying to shill crypto as a solution should very publicly eat crow. I won't lie: it will give me a great deal of personal satisfaction, but, it will also make any "bailout" (or, whatever you want to call it ) a much easier lift politically.
Fede_V commented on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end? economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/i13e
Their giant teams are an organizational failure then.
Product reviews alone, whether it is enterprise software or sports clothing should be something that they can easily comb through by hand, as humans, and uprank sites that are putting out more than affiliate link assemblies.
Absolutely: the challenge is that any signal that you use to identify "good websites" from "bad websites" will be adversarially optimized by incredibly motivated people.
You are dealing with a moving target that has a huge financial incentive. It's a very difficult problem.
Fede_V commented on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed] twitter.com/paulg/... · Posted by u/operatingthetan
I distinctly remember a prescient thread from Yishan Wong (former Reddit CEO) about how trying to run Twitter would break Musk - and - it looks like it was spot on.
He paid 44 billion dollars to be a mod - I hope he is getting his money's worth.
You.com has a similar code search specific product. What do you plan to offer that they don't?