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@w0jazbas @valvesoftware No it can't. Valve literally just throws out products and see's what sticks.
Its awful
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@CrowdDemon @valvesoftware sHeEp TeNd To FlOcK
jesus, you're pathetic
your claim can be debunked in 1 minute
you pissed your pants, time to cut the losses, tuck your tail and leave
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@w0jazbas @valvesoftware Sheep tend to flock together for warmth. Don’t delude yourself into perceived importance.
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@CrowdDemon @valvesoftware get dunked, dumbass
next time think before posting stupid shit, or better don't post at all
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@valvesoftware Just don't stop supporting it after 20 months like every other piece of hardware you've made.
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@AdamKadmon91 @Linahuaa no, building modern LLMs was mostly an engineering task
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@Linahuaa 'Engineers' implement algorithms discovered by scientists. CEOs and the public cannot even distinguish engineers and scientists. AI was created by scientists. Not by engineers. And certainly not by CEOs.
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Elon Musk most likely has absorbed lots of condensed and broken-down engineering knowledge from his employees.
He probably has great systems thinking and understanding of important concepts.
But I'd say he's more of an engineering general than an actual engineer in the classical sense.
He likely knows what each troop can do and tells them what to do, but it doesn't mean he could do it himself.
Example:
When Optimus bots walk slow as fuck, he's telling his boys to "make it walk faster"
His bois tell him it's not possible, so he then goes to one of his yes-men bois and asks them whether it's really not possible- and they tell him there's a moonshot way it might actually be possible, and then he forces all the regular boys to make it possible, and then, after 15 years of stringing bag holders along at 100x PE ratio, it actually becomes possible, and he looks like the greatest engineer ever- and honestly, it's kinda deserved.
Yatharth Mann@yatharthmann
"Elon Musk isn't an engineer" Jensen Huang: Elon is an extraordinary engineer. He is singular in his understanding of engineering and construction and large systems and marshaling resources. John Carmack: Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at SpaceX and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so. Tom Mueller: Elon is a super smart guy and he learns from talking to people. He’s so sharp, he just picks it up. He is leading the development of the SpaceX engines, particularly Raptor. Eric Berger: Elon is the chief engineer in name and reality. Karpathy: Elon has an incredible ability to reason from first principles. It’s very rare. Robert Zubrin: Elon Musk is a brilliant engineer with an extraordinary ability to cut through nonsense. When I met him it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001, by 2007 he knew everything about rockets – he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people. Yann LeCun: He’s a very smart guy and I’m in awe of some of his projects. Garrett Reisman: He’s obviously skilled at all different functions, but certainly what really drives him and where his passion really is, is his role as Chief Engineer. That’s the part of the job that really plays to his strengths. Josh Boehm: Elon is both the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of SpaceX, so of course he does more than just some very technical work. He is integrally involved in the actual design and engineering of the rocket, and at least touches every other aspect of the business. Elon is an engineer at heart, and that’s where and how he works best. Kevin Watson: Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction. He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy. He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years.
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@ChuckDangerESQ @inthestair333 @cosmicjester no, I am not
still, that's a strong evidence that he might actually be innocent
an argument can be made that MJ was an easy target for bad people to make money from
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@w0jazbas @inthestair333 @cosmicjester Are you of the opinion that no rich people have ever won in court despite being guilty? Wait til you hear about OJ.
The system is designed to favor those with money.
Exhibit A: The Epstein Files.
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Was looking up if I tweeted anything about Michael Jackson immediately after his death and 💀
cosmic jester@cosmicjester
Michael Jackson's upcoming London dates have been cancelled. They were James (aged 9) and Thomas (aged 11).
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@Kaju_Nut I spent several days trying to prove a conjecture, years ago. I asked a friend for help, and he spent about 10 minutes constructing a counterexample. Boom.
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Like or hate Feynman, this is not quite what happened. The actual story, which is given in Surely You Are Joking, is quite instructive.
The incident is from when Feynman was a grad student at Princeton (not a prof in Caltech). The physics and math students shared a lounge and Feynman and his friends often teased the math students.
He would challenge them that he could immediately tell his a theorem was true or false, if they gave him the assumptions and the theorem in terms he could understand. He always won.
His trick, and this is the instructive part, was to keep constructing examples in his mind that satisfied the assumptions, and check the theorem against it. If he found a counterexample, he knew the theorem was wrong. This worked most of the time.
When it failed, Feynman managed to latch on to some unstated assumption in their simplification, as in the story in the screenshot, and win. This is also the less interesting part.
Feynman never thought math was fluff if it did not describe real world physics. That's not the point of the story at all. The takeaway is that constructing multiple mental examples is an effective way to gain intuition.
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@readwithai @justuseKsharps @heyitsoven @Thorin you can't change one's opinion unless they're open to it, and most people aren't
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@w0jazbas @justuseKsharps @heyitsoven @Thorin Dunno. learn stuff, convince some people, have a break, teach some people stuff. That's what the twitters are for.
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I'm so bored of people endlessly repeating "there is no biological component to competing in video games so there are no genetic advantages."
It's the woke religious dogma of esports. Not only is it not even vaguely true, as experience and observation show, but it's based simply on people's feelings and what they wish was the case.
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@readwithai @justuseKsharps @heyitsoven @Thorin I'm not really interested in convincing anyone, that's kinda pointless
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@w0jazbas @justuseKsharps @heyitsoven @Thorin :shrug: just asking claude myself now. But I won't share it here so that you don't get to convince passers by with my work :p
Though... we are deep in the replies here.
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In other areas where people assert sexism the results end up being false when examined due to people studying perception. Therefore, I am inclined, in the absence of compelling evidence to distrust assertions of sexism *other than* claims about sexual harrassment / unwanted sexual interest.
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See people have a habit of just declaring these things in a number of fields and then when you measure it you get different results.
E.g. female youtubers get less harassment and more positive comments and more views; female politicians get less abuse.
"Loads of people want to have sex with me". I buy.
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@paul__is__here @RomeoStevens76 some aspects (e.g. partner's absence of financial stability) can nullify others because of higher stakes for women
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@RomeoStevens76 >Do you see how this would create a huge difference in risk behaviors?
I don't see how that would lead to the additive vs multiplicative thing actually. Could you spell it out?
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I'm a big fan of telling people that their gendered takes are mostly nonsense, that the genders have lots of very similar experiences once you know about the tweaks that map them to each other.
Unfortunately, this particular take is gendered. Women and men really do experience some aspects of attraction differently. Men's attraction to women is additive, women's to men is multiplicative. Your strengths can outweigh your weaknesses, but they never make up for them, they are still a drag on you overall. This is *ridiculously* apparent in every data set from every dating website and every study on attraction ever done. A power law distribution is what you get when you multiply lots of normal distributions together, and that's what women's attraction to men looks like.
This emerges because women and men's payoffs for mating outcomes are very very different. Men don't get guaranteed paternity the way women do, *and* they also don't risk death to reproduce the way women do. Do you see how this would create a huge difference in risk behaviors? Men and women are attending to different risks, and this informs how they see the world.
None of this excuses misogyny or misandry. Your first sip of evolutionary psych will give you excuses for your anger and hatred, but at the bottom of the glass you'll find compassion.
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If you had stronger core muscles and greater skill in singing, piano, poetry and mathematics then people would more easily overlook your cold personality and the way you struggle with the simplest parts of daily life.
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@Kapka73 @KaterynaLis wrong
the war happened because
a) putin has been steadily losing support, war was needed to stabilize the regime
b) putin is a paranoid freak with grandeur delusions, he is on a mystical crusade against the West
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@w0jazbas @KaterynaLis let me guess...you think the war happened because..."mah NATO?"
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From a psychological standpoint, I can almost understand why this is not only Putin’s war, but also why all the Russians simply hate Ukrainians. For generations, they’ve consumed propaganda - parents and grandparents alike - accepting those narratives as reality. And now Ukraine is right in front of them, challenging and breaking those lies.
For example, when I shared the history of the helicopter’s creation by Ukrainian engineer Ihor Sikorsky, Russians immediately started attacking me with their propaganda. One person simply reshared my post with the comment, “I hate them so much.” And you can see the essence of all Russians in it.
If they were to accept that they’ve been misled, they would have to fundamentally rethink their identity as a nation - without appropriating the history and achievements of their neighbors.
But the truth is, this war is not existential for them; it is suicidal. By attacking Ukraine, they’ve set in motion an inevitable process of self-destruction. When this war ends, there will be nothing left to rebuild or redefine for them.
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@Kapka73 @KaterynaLis u think the war happened because (some) Russians look down on Ukrainians?
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@w0jazbas @KaterynaLis "it does not translate into...desire to subdue Ukraine via military force"
are seriously fucking kidding me right now????
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@JaniceEK22 @alfkkifine all this, and an abortion doesn't even prevent abortions
it just forces them to be done in shady clinics without proper safety, which can be dangerous to women and leads to many deaths
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@JaniceEK22 @alfkkifine now, I'm not saying every abortion is moral, or that every pregnancy threatens the mother' future
many will misuse the opportunity, there will be cases worth scowling upon
but for many the choice will be between a life and two ruined lives
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