devilsbabe | 3 months ago | on: We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months
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devilsbabe | 10 months ago | on: Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
Very cool project! It would be really nice to have support for the other assistants that Microsoft released to use in place of Clippy (I'm particularly fond of the dolphin that was used in the Japanese version of Windows) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant#Assistants
devilsbabe | 1 year ago | on: Tokyo's oldest train line – in pictures
Is that why the name changed to simply Hands. Makes sense but I hadn't realized the company was sold. I haven't noticed it affect the stores in any way yet.
devilsbabe | 2 years ago
That's only income tax. There's also social contributions including pension, health insurance, and unemployment insurance. This adds up to around an extra 20% tax (although pension contributions are capped so could be less for very high salaries).
devilsbabe | 3 years ago | on: The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad?
re your last sentence: why do you disapprove of funding research into AI safety
devilsbabe | 3 years ago
I've never heard of this. What's the long tail pipe argument?
edit: I see. I definitely have heard this, just not called as such https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tailpipe
devilsbabe | 3 years ago
> Say the first thing that comes to mind when you think “Coca Cola.” Say it out loud, don’t edit
sugary drink
devilsbabe | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
> no gold selling or similar shenanigans
So the marketplace you're describing is not RMT then? You're facilitating in-game trades with in-game currencies, and making money some other way? (ads?)
devilsbabe | 4 years ago | on: Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
The high-paying tech companies in Tokyo that I'm aware of are Google, Amazon, Indeed, Woven Planet, Stripe, and Doordash. Those last two are just starting out here so still have a limited presence.
Those are basically your options. Outside of these, TC will go down quickly
devilsbabe | 4 years ago | on: Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
I've been working for a large US company in Tokyo for several years now. No need to know Japanese for work; I know a lot of people that speak it very poorly (though I wouldn't recommend that if you're staying here long term).
The pay is good (~35M JPY/300K USD at L5) but there are very few companies with this level of compensation so the real cost is in the limited opportunities.
Like everywhere, there's good and bad parts to living in Tokyo, but I've enjoyed it for the most part. It's friendly, clean, safe, and relatively cheap. On the other hand, there's sometimes discrimination against foreigners (especially in housing) and I don't appreciate how cramped apartments and houses are.
devilsbabe | 4 years ago | on: Duolingo S-1 IPO
I didn't mean to imply that what you're doing is simple; I was just curious.
I'll be honest, I have no idea what a unified morphological analysis engine is. Something to look into tonight
devilsbabe | 4 years ago | on: Duolingo S-1 IPO
Very cool work! Paradoxically, I've been slacking off on practicing Japanese diligently ever since I moved to Tokyo. I've been meaning to get back into a good routine so I'll give jpdb a shot.
I'm curious how you did this: "We have 16785 prebuilt decks with vocabulary from 1124 different anime waiting for you." Did you write a script that calls subs2srs?
devilsbabe | 6 years ago | on: Verlan: French slang that inverses words
It's rude in the same context that "yeah" is rude. So ok, there are times when it's more appropriate to answer with "yes", but there are many situations outside of chatting with my friends where I would be comfortable saying "ouais".
Also, verlan is used all the time by everyone under the age of 30. Not all of it; some terms are rarer than others and are, as you say, associated with rough neighborhoods. But it's an extremely common way of speaking.
devilsbabe | 6 years ago | on: Verlan: French slang that inverses words
That's like saying that using "yeah" and "fuck" make you sound like you come from a bad neighborhood. Totally untrue
devilsbabe | 6 years ago | on: NASA worked out how to make food out of thin air – and it could feed billions
Where are they getting their "nutrients and vitamins"?
devilsbabe | 6 years ago | on: E3: Microsoft’s next Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020
Thanks. I had totally misheard that as "SSD and solid state drive" as well. Went back to listen and you're right
devilsbabe | 7 years ago | on: Sorting in Japanese – An Unsolved Problem (2011)
> How do you get further context on how to pronounce a proper name like this?
You don't. There's no way to know which pronunciation to use other than the person telling you.
devilsbabe | 7 years ago | on: This person does not exist
He means that there are rules preventing the data from being shared, making it harder to find a training set.
devilsbabe | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is an example of a super simple SaaS that is profitable?
Wait, hold up. Ogame is still popular enough that you have a good userbase for this?
devilsbabe | 7 years ago
Like I mentioned in another comment, I've heard that companies listed on devjobs.jp pay well. In general companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Indeed try to match their salaries as they're competing for the same pool of talent. I work for one of those. I know an engineer with 3-4yoe who got a very good offer from Mercari (~17M)
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> We were cautious to only run after each model’s training cutoff dates for the LLM models. That way we could be sure models couldn’t have memorized market outcomes.