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emceestork commented on Autoresearch: Agents researching on single-GPU nanochat training automatically   github.com/karpathy/autor... · Posted by u/simonpure
gmerc · 5 days ago
Ah here we go again, the Brophet has unleashed another Brophecy. He seems to confuse brute force discovery with research. Only one leads to understanding, the other one is a shrine to Goodharts law.
emceestork · 3 days ago
Andrej Karpathy has done so much to help people learn and understand LLMs. Not sure why you're calling him a bro.
emceestork commented on The Peter Principle still resonates   cbc.ca/news/canada/britis... · Posted by u/empressplay
emceestork · a year ago
The Peter Principle is an idea manufactured to suppress wages. The idea the you have to work at a level above your current level for a while until you are promoted only benefits employers.

I have only spent approximately 30 seconds thinking about this idea.

emceestork commented on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?    · Posted by u/jackedEngineer
emceestork · 2 years ago
I'm working on a tool that easily allows you to theme your UI using CSS variables called Blueberry. https://www.getblueberry.io/

The idea is that each CSS variable becomes a widget and then the Blueberry endpoint will serve those variables so you can let your users customize profile pages/portals and other places they integrate with you UI.

emceestork commented on Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters   bsky.social/about/blog/02... · Posted by u/jakebsky
sergiotapia · 2 years ago
> Twitter is a conservative cesspool

I disagree. If anything now it's more balanced, every "right of Portland-liberal" is no longer hidden and shadow-banned or worse. I like it a lot more!

Now you can actually read and learn about stuff you care about.

emceestork · 2 years ago
Yeah, maybe we just have different politics and I'm too dismissive of alternative worldviews.

Still though, I get like Matt Gaetz' tweets recommended to me. Does anyone like that dude? How is this happening? Why on earth would I want that? I feel like all this conservative stuff is surfaced by the application to me.

[Proof](https://ibb.co/ypHS8fN)

I got notifications, on my dang phone, for the dumbest fucking takes. I don't get them for liberal people. Possible I am just in the demographic of people they think would swing conservative so they target me.

emceestork commented on Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters   bsky.social/about/blog/02... · Posted by u/jakebsky
pfraze · 2 years ago
It's a fair point and we definitely debated it, but it was too important to us that we complete the mission.
emceestork · 2 years ago
Ah yeah, I get that. I don't mean to be cynical on the day you complete that mission.

Congrats on launching! Excited to see what y'all do next.

emceestork commented on Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters   bsky.social/about/blog/02... · Posted by u/jakebsky
emceestork · 2 years ago
I switched to Bluesky but then moved back to twitter. I'm glad that they are trying to compete with Twitter (Twitter is a conservative cesspool), but all of my non-technical friends have stayed on Twitter. So, I end up going where they are.

I think the reason my friends did not join Bluesky despite me inviting them is that it just isn't as good of a product as Twitter. You can't post videos or DM.

I am not a tech executive and have no idea about corporate strategy, but it seems like Bluesky should focus less on technical differentiators and more on building killer features that have mass appeal and a community that people want to join.

IMHO this milestone, while cool, means absolutely nothing to people outside of the hacker news crowd.

I'm rooting for Bluesky, but it seems to me it will die without a critical mass of users.

Again, I'm kinda dumb, so this may all be wrong.

emceestork commented on Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling   economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/livueta
l5870uoo9y · 2 years ago
The title is symptomatic for the climate discourse; either for or against oil/coal and wind/solar. I find the question "what is a reliable, clean and affordable energy source?" much more relevant and productive.
emceestork · 2 years ago
Not sure I understand the objection. The research this article is about compared Wind vs Oil/Coal effects on birds. The title seems in line with the findings of the research.

> I find the question "what is a reliable, clean and affordable energy source?" much more relevant and productive.

Seems to me like examining externalities of different energy sources is a part of the nuance of this question. Feels like you're being a bit of a hater.

emceestork commented on NY Times Rides in Waymo Robotaxis in SF   nytimes.com/2023/08/21/te... · Posted by u/NullHypothesist
paulcole · 3 years ago
Why? We have what, like 50+ years of certainty as to how dangerous people are as drivers? They’re a known quantity and we know we can keep making cars safer to reduce the danger to drivers and passengers.

Instead we’re going to YOLO a half-baked tech-bro fantasy onto the roads and hope for the best?

Also “meatbags” has the same tone as “sportsball” imo.

emceestork · 3 years ago
I don't agree with your characterization of what's happening as "YOLO" and "half-baked". It's taken many many people many years to get to where we are now. It's pretty easy to do a miles driven and accidents caused comparison. Self driving cars appear to be wildly safer thus far.

What would make you happy with a self-driving safety record? Why not be excited about the future?

I understand when some folks think that the focus would be better spent on public transportation, but you just seem like a hater.

emceestork commented on The death of self-driving cars is greatly exaggerated   understandingai.org/p/the... · Posted by u/tim_sw
dmbche · 3 years ago
What's the actual expected positive outcome when we get automatic driving cars?

Marginal efficiency gains? Possibly - impossible to prove - less deaths cause by cars? What else?

Is it worth all this hype, money and brain/manpower? Should we chase other things?

emceestork · 3 years ago
I imagine a world in which I can take a road trip while asleep in my car (or reading or working). That would be pretty wonderful.

u/emceestork

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