Is the author's point that every business should be an employee-owned cooperative? How do we get there?
Readit Newsgeetee commented on Silicon Valley startups: being evil, again and again notesfrombelow.org/articl... · Posted by u/iSpiderman
Sounds very Lumon.
geetee commented on Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us... · Posted by u/adriand
This is presented as if it's part of something like a terror plot, but my money is on it being related to your car warranty expiring.
geetee commented on Which NPM package has the largest version number? adamhl.dev/blog/largest-n... · Posted by u/genshii
I wonder if the author could have replicated the couchdb database locally to make their life easier.
geetee commented on The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood obviouslywrong.substack.c... · Posted by u/JnBrymn
The point is that current methods are unable to get more than the current state-of-the-art models' degree of intelligence out of training on the totality of human knowledge. Previously, the amount of compute needed to process that much data was a limit, but not anymore.
So now, in order to progress further, we either have to improve the methods, or synthetically generate more training data, or both.
What does synthetic training data actually mean? Just saying the same things in different ways? It seems like we're training in a way that's just not sustainable.
geetee commented on The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood obviouslywrong.substack.c... · Posted by u/JnBrymn
I don't understand why we need more data for training. Assuming we've already digitized every book, magazine, research paper, newspaper, and other forms of media, why do we need this "second internet?" Legal issues aside, don't we already have the totality of human knowledge available to us for training?
geetee commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil
One and the same. It would be like if I tried to call my product Tactical Software as a Service
It would still only be software as a service, but I would just brand it in a way to make it more appealing to certain buyer personas without any actual investment or commitment on my part.
What's wrong with that?
geetee commented on What does Palantir actually do? wired.com/story/palantir-... · Posted by u/mudil
Forward Deployed Engineer = Consultant
I will not allow Palantir to extend their reality distortion field to me. They are consultants. They are also engineers. Other places call them FEs. But they didn't invent some new class of engineering, they just rebranded one.
Reality distortion, or they're just using military terminology?