while america's h1b cap by country hurts a lot of people, it's necessary to preserve the american culture. I wish canada had the same
I have nothing against Indians but their culture is strong and suboptimal in many ways. When you have Trudeaus illiberal policies adding a tenth of the population, Canada has gotten destroyed. We need to be able to assimilate people
This would have been the case for any assymetry in numbers, it just happens to be Indians. Honestly, this unmitigated importation is not only destroying Canada, but destroying the reputations of the high skill Indian Canadians who helped build this country
If you ask the Indian Canadians what they think, they also hate it. In fact they are the ones who get hurt the most. They went from being a model minority to 3 rungs down the class. It's sad to see their reputation get destroyed for no reason, watch hatred brew for no reason
None of this
Literally none of this
Needed to happen
It just happened because of a wounded narcissist at the helm
Who has been parasitized by the religion of suicidal western empathy
I do not
Recognize my country
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>trained on 16k tokens
pretty cool
>7B & 13B
>trained on infilling, instead of just prompt completion.
good for copilot replacement & custom local hacks
because gpt 3.5's init token latency was so bad, I had to retire my custom vscode extension
Having options is good!
500B tokens, then 20B tokens for long context fine tuning that's a lot of tokens
(for the foundational model that they release)
really hope they talk about the distributions of the data
you have to realize that in the tech bubble we reside in, people don't actually get that it's magic
like, a web interface is magic to most people
most people genuinely think it's a collection of business logic and not some alien thing we created through experimentation
I've been mentoring someone and it actually finally clicked that "oh you actually really do mean a bag of simulated neural tissue when you say a bag of simulated neural tissue"
the prerequisite was that they built enough software for regular software to cease to be magic
i meant outside* our tech bubble
clearly I've yet to have enough shaken espresso with extra espresso shot
I need a thing that listens to speech, and holds some state. this is an old project that I'm resurrecting
I will keep this thread updated
TIL about sampling rates, channels, etc
stdin works, saves file
setting up my devloop.
just need to figure out how to get ffmpeg to do the same so I don't have to record myself speaking
ideally the logic triggers on save with the whole "speech"
setting up the dev loop from a different source was a good exercise
subjecting myself to slowmo'd noisy sam hyde rant because I messed up bit depth (TIL)
I think i have a reasonably constrained interface & understand how audio data works
I will now think about eventing
some work, I can do
some work. I really cannot do. At all.
But those pieces of work come with deadlines.
And as the deadline approaches, that work becomes work I can do
I'm trying to figure out if twitter will actually have down time:
- do they manage their own servers, or run on cloud compute?
- what's the likelihood of a latent issue arising and bringing down the system, given that a 90% RIF would effectively constitute a code freeze
- how quick is Twitter's growth right now (probably quick) and how much scale can their architecture handle before needing a re-architect?
- are there any human based operational work, like things for government compliance, that would cause twitter to shut down if obligations not met?
>Many companies think their employees are being productive for 40 hours a week, while it's actually somewhere between 10 and 20, with the rest being a big void. If you are actually doing 40 hours a week you are productive as hell.
if they only knew
fwiw this post is saying that most people do in fact work 35h-60h focused, and are productive as hell
and from my observation, the only thing that upper bounds that is the availability of productive work to do
that time includes work that you do outside not for your employer, like studying