nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
nicomee.com
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
Pyrrhic Comedy
Sublime is an ethos-driven company.
Here is what we believe:
Intention > Attention
The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile.
You don’t need to go live in a cabin or swear off Netflix. You just have to live more deliberately.
We are entering the post-information age. The barrier is no
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
In this respect, Bayesian inference is more intuitive at its core and in closer alignment with our natural mode of probabilistic reasoning than frequentist inference. For example, we are more interested in the probability that 1 treatment is superior to another (Bayesian probability) than in the probability of obtaining certain data assuming the... See more
Understanding the Differences Between Bayesian and Frequentist ...
Some people, especially those who are autistic, dohave a flat emotional affect, do rely on scripts and do have a clear-cut sense of justice which leads them to cut off those who transgress it. When we talk about these traits as inhuman and robotic, what are we implying about the people who display them? The impulse to be unapologetic about... See more
how did you realise you were a bad person?
We have a problem here, folks. The word “intelligence” is a semantic catastrophe. Whenever doomers use this word, I have no idea what they’re talking about. I often don’t know if they’re talking about a real thing at all. And when they say things like, “AIs are approaching human-level intelligence,” I start to bang my head against the table. What... See more
AI Doomerism Is Bullshit
Willravel
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4d ago
Inflexibility fully prevents any coalition-building, which is why the left almost never sees electoral success or even really growing the left itself among the voter base. Ezra's policy proposals are definitely more on the left, but there's so much resistance from people who are entirely unable to think in terms of incrementalism... See more
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4d ago
Inflexibility fully prevents any coalition-building, which is why the left almost never sees electoral success or even really growing the left itself among the voter base. Ezra's policy proposals are definitely more on the left, but there's so much resistance from people who are entirely unable to think in terms of incrementalism... See more
r/ezraklein - Reddit
Learn to deal with pressure
When you're in a real interview the world changes: You're locked in a cage with a lion. Every heartbeat is a gorilla bashing against the walls. Your mental gears gunk up as your body goes into fight or flight mode. Your clammy hands struggle to write half legible code on the white board. A threat hides behind every... See more
When you're in a real interview the world changes: You're locked in a cage with a lion. Every heartbeat is a gorilla bashing against the walls. Your mental gears gunk up as your body goes into fight or flight mode. Your clammy hands struggle to write half legible code on the white board. A threat hides behind every... See more
Zain Rizvi • Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe
All mathematics exhibits in its conclusions only what is already implicit in its premises,