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New comment by autokad in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

autokad — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:00:34 +0000

I am not so sure on that. They raise inflation, home prices, etc. The locals see no real benefit except having to pay more for everything. While more taxes are collected, most of that goes to offsetting just some of the economic pain induced by the people living there.

and it is in fact zero sum. every spot filled in university or company is a spot not taken by a local, as its obvious by the numbers, more local people are not getting admitted into CS programs nor are they being hired. its 100% zero sum when we are looking at these numbers and %s.

New comment by autokad in "Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)"

autokad — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:52:09 +0000

back in 2023 when this article was written, you'd get downvoted into oblivion on hacker news for using AI to summarize a very long article/post.

New comment by autokad in "Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself"

autokad — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:55:14 +0000

actually, I found that you can definitely yield better results. I ran an experiment with 1 prompt at temperature 0 and 9 with temperature 1.

I found the most anomalous response was as good (15/20) or better (5/20) than the temperature 0 response in 20 samples.

New comment by autokad in "The secret ingredients of word2vec (2016)"

autokad — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:57:27 +0000

there is basically everything2vec, but if it doesn't exist, then you can train your own embeddings

New comment by autokad in "Fascists and Rakes (2014)"

autokad — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:46:14 +0000

I wasn't being literal when I said 'who wants to live that way' as in to mean every single person with no exceptions. yes, Locked-in syndrome is a thing. its not healthy but hey, you do you.

New comment by autokad in "Fascists and Rakes (2014)"

autokad — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:44:44 +0000

the point was not to get into a mask debate but "In other countries it's conventional to wear a mask any time you're remotely sick" should ring as BS to you, because those countries have flu and cold just like any other country.

AND if you ask them, they don't do it to prevent others from getting sick (not that that works unless you are gasping air through an n95), but they do it to protect themselves. This is especially true in China where there is also air pollution to consider.

New comment by autokad in "Fascists and Rakes (2014)"

autokad — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:59:12 +0000

yeah, this applies to any authoritarian, whether Communistic, Fascisms, or new age healer crystal worshipers

New comment by autokad in "Fascists and Rakes (2014)"

autokad — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:57:54 +0000

I disagree with the premises outright. I have no intention of causing no harm to anyone. Just by living, we cause harm to others and other beings.

I am going to say things to other people and that is going to make them upset, that is ok. They are going to say things that make me upset, that is ok.

Someone is going to give me a cold, flu, etc. and that is ok. They didn't have to do it, they could have stayed inside for weeks until they were sure they were not sick, but who wants to live that way?

There is a level of harm in anything that that a living thing does.

New comment by autokad in "Visualization of cities with similar road networks"

autokad — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:59:55 +0000

hmmm, wonder if some sort of embeddings, or even graph embeddings can yield some interesting insights into 'similar cities in road networks'

New comment by autokad in "A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green.""

autokad — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:10:27 +0000

I did that myself, not sure whats wrong with my eyes >.<

New comment by autokad in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

autokad — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:44:16 +0000

you can call it NATO

New comment by autokad in "Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted"

autokad — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:29:41 +0000

well, we did blow up their pipeline, so not like we didnt open the salvo for making international resources fair game

New comment by autokad in "Minnesota map to find out if your home's drinking water comes through lead pipe"

autokad — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 21:25:32 +0000

I use the brita elite filter. its about 30$ for 2 of them and they last 6 months.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MU7973W

New comment by autokad in "Embeddings are underrated"

autokad — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:32:05 +0000

I have found that embeddings + LLM is very successful. I'm going to make the words up as to not yield my work publicly, but I had to classify something into 3 categories. I asked a simple llm to label it, it was 95% accurate. taking the min distance from the word embeddings to the mean category embeddings was about 96%. When I gave gave the LLM the embedding prediction, the LLM was 98% accurate.

There were issues an embedding model might not do well on where as the LLM could handle. for example: These were camel case words, like WoodPecker, AquafinaBottle, and WoodStock (I changed the words to not reveal private data). WoodPecker and WoodStock would end up with close embedding values because the word Wood dominated the embedding values, but these were supposed to go into 2 different categories.

New comment by autokad in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

autokad — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:39:16 +0000

its a feature, not a bug, sorry you don't understand it enough to get the most power from it.

New comment by autokad in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

autokad — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:50:59 +0000

actually, that's what makes chat gpt powerful. I like an LLM willing to go along with what ever I am trying to do, because one day I might be coding, and another day I might be just trying to role play, write a book, what ever.

I really cant understand what you were expecting, a tool works with how you use it, if you smack a hammer into your face, don't complain about a bloody nose. maybe dont do like that?

New comment by autokad in "I spent an evening on a fictitious web"

autokad — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:10:33 +0000

I struggle with the idea of monetization. In one sense, I think its great people can get paid for doing what they like to do and it can encourage more content creation. On the other hand, everything becomes disingenuous, people become perversely incentivized, you got people gluing things to turtles to make videos of them rescuing turtles with 'lichens' on their shells.

So I don't know, I am really torn on how I should feel about it

New comment by autokad in "Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle"

autokad — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:49:44 +0000

I use to get the flu 1 or 2 times a year. I started going out in more crowded areas, going to pub, etc, and I haven't had a cold or flu in 4 years.

I don't know the article knows as much as they think they do about health, because using muscles also damages them. I been nursing a bicep injury for the last 4 months.

I get its not a prefect analogy, but nothing is, else it would be the same thing

I don't think people should go licking railings, but total avoidance of germs is quite harmful. that's a fact.

New comment by autokad in "All text in Brooklyn"

autokad — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:38:44 +0000

there is a game that did that, played it during the pandemic, it would start as a google street view and you could move along the street.

the goal was to guess the location as quickly as possible

New comment by autokad in "Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean"

autokad — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 23:31:34 +0000

yeah, they expand faster at first and slow down afterwards until something else happens.

I was looking at the ocean floor and using smooth ocean floor as 'fast moving' and rough ocean floor as 'slow moving'.

South America is moving 3 cm / year. using that with the ocean floors and some guestimation,,, between 120 and 113 m years ago SA moved about 12 cm / year and slowed down to 3 betwen 113 m years ago and now. Assuming no movement from Africa