perfect-blue (u/perfect-blue)

perfect-blue commented on A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) karpathy.github.io/2016/0... · Posted by u/vismit2000

xtracto · an hour ago

Or as a good friend told me when I was starting my PhD: "those of us that finish our PhDs are not the most intelligent, but the most stubborn "

perfect-blue · 2 minutes ago

Or lucky! I had a great time during mine because my advisory was amazing. However, my cohort mates, many of whom I'd say are much smarter/intelligent than I, got stuck with terrible mentors.

perfect-blue commented on A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016) karpathy.github.io/2016/0... · Posted by u/vismit2000

perfect-blue · 6 minutes ago

His guide to doing well in undergraduate courses is decent enough that I've sent it around to my students as well. I sometimes have to teach first or second year students and the amount of questions I get about how to study or how to do well is significant. We kind of forget that this is a learned behavior, and everyone learns it at different times in their lives (or not at all).

perfect-blue commented on Wired headphone sales are exploding bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat

shiandow · an hour ago

It is worth pointing out that not all parts age equally well. The cushions especially are not that durable and should be considered consumables.

Sennheiser provides replacements should you need them. The effect they have on the sound is much bigger than you might think.

perfect-blue · an hour ago

Yeah the sound stage definitely gets impacted. I tend to use leather cups in the winter and fabric ones in the summer. Nothing worse than sweating from your temples while you work.

perfect-blue commented on Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025) westernmt.news/2025/04/21... · Posted by u/bilsbie

kmeisthax · an hour ago

This is extremely light on details, but I'm pretty sure "Right to Compute" has absolutely nothing to do with software freedom and everything to do with making it harder to oppose giant datacenter buildouts for AI companies, so they can blast you with infrasound, spike the price of electricity and RAM, and build surveillance systems to take away your rights.

perfect-blue · an hour ago

My thoughts exactly. I reads a lot like they are trying to minimize the state's power to regulate AI. I'm not sure that's such a good thing. Regulation is one of the only ways that we can manage the ``bads'' that come with any new technology. In the US, we've never been very good at regulating new technologies before industry stakeholders entrench themselves in the lobbying circuit.

perfect-blue commented on A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory papers.ssrn.com/sol3/pape... · Posted by u/7777777phil

bob1029 · 2 months ago

I think a basic overview of game theory should also discuss Pareto optimality to some extent. You can have 100% of participants operating in a locally-ideal way while still creating problems in aggregate.

perfect-blue · 2 months ago

Pareto efficiency is a welfare economics concept. In game theory, the closest you can get to that is a Nash equilibrium.

perfect-blue commented on M4 MacBook Pro apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/tosh

commandersaki · a year ago

New 12MP Center Stage Camera. Will it support 4k?

perfect-blue · a year ago

I don't think so. They would have made that a huge deal.

perfect-blue commented on OpenAI and Anthropic Revenue Breakdown tanayj.com/p/openai-and-a... · Posted by u/flyaway123

cedws · a year ago

LLM subscriptions are such a scam. You’re paying up front $20 to use an LLM when you could just be paying fractions of a penny per use. Majority of users probably do not get their moneys worth by racking up $20 worth of tokens in a month.

I’d really like to see as “pay as you go” gateway for popular LLMs. As Bezos said: “your margin is my opportunity.”

perfect-blue · a year ago

I think the most consumer friendly options would be a pay as you go model or a pay for tiers of use (e.g., $X for 500 queries, $XX for 1000 queries, etc.).

However they really are banking on the idea that people pay a bunch up front and use it fairly minimally. This allows them to make profit on the subscribers to pay for queries by free users. I have no idea where the pricing model will go in the future but it wouldn’t surprise me if pricing models become the primary method for fighting for market share as opposed to the AI’s actual ability.

perfect-blue commented on You Win or You Learn threads.net/@waxpancake/p... · Posted by u/Tomte

hypertexthero · 2 years ago

Usability-wise, the thing that keeps me from using any Fb things, Threads.net included, is they break the bloody Back button!

perfect-blue · 2 years ago

Going to a Microsoft support forum page will do this as well. At least in my experiences

perfect-blue commented on AirportSim airportsim.com/... · Posted by u/skibz

ceejayoz · 2 years ago

I wish someone'd make a good SimCity-style airport/airline simulator. There've been a few attempts, including one looking a bit like Prison Architect, but none that have been super compelling to me.

perfect-blue · 2 years ago

I have really enjoyed AirportCEO on steam. I would check it out, might be exactly what you’re looking for. Another option would be to get the mods for MS Flight Simulator that allow you to create an airline and make money and grow your business, etc.

perfect-blue commented on Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates theverge.com/2023/10/4/23... · Posted by u/skilled

thefz · 2 years ago

> Some bitter people here.

I am in awe at all the "I gave to my 8 years old daughter my original iPhone 1 and she's still delighted by it every day, it's stille great" folks.

You could put out a free device with a battery that lasts forever, fast and it fits in every pocket and some crowd woud still make comparisons and have some brand win them.

perfect-blue · 2 years ago

That’s because people just want to argue for arguments sake. These are people with nothing to say but want to be heard.

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