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18 hours ago
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on: A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)
Reminds me of an encounter on BoardGameArena where the top ranked 7 Wonders Duel player complained there was a randomization bug (the Great Library never offered the science progress token). I thought he was raging (who hasn’t heard a poker player complain about bad luck) but turns out the developer checked the code and did in fact find this was a bug!
rgoldste
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2 years ago
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on: Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
This is a plausible hypothesis. I’m curious whether OpenAI has considered this already and examined it I feel like an average senior eng could eval this in under two focused days, but maybe OpenAI has less unit-testing than I expect.
rgoldste
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2 years ago
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on: Wells Fargo customers scramble after deposits disappear from their accounts
This is technically correct (the article notes this). Milk of all kinds comes from all cows. Some fraction of chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
rgoldste
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2 years ago
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on: Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
Don’t feel like you need to understand 100%. You can always give yourself an hour to read a paper and gloss over some notation. If you read 5 papers over the course of a month, you can go back to your favorite and dive into the notation.
rgoldste
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2 years ago
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on: In the LLM space, "open source" is being used to mean "downloadable weights"
The truth is between these two. You can use a model’s output to train another model, but it has drawbacks, including model collapse.
rgoldste
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2 years ago
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on: TV series about startup failures
It’s serious and actually tries to fix the company.
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV
Very cool. Thanks for the details. Final question - how many rounds in a game?
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: I spent way too much effort to win a game show on Dutch national TV
Very cool. Some questions - How many games (?) in a row did you win and how much money was this? How many episodes did you appear on? How does this compare to other top players? Thanks.
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible
Thanks for the response.
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: Supreme Court allows blind people to sue retailers if websites aren't accessible
Curious, not trying to be a jerk. For something like ordering pizza (or even plane tickets), how much worse is calling to make the order as opposed to ordering online?
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
I didn’t quit fb but I unsubscribed from pretty much everybody. I think I’ve posted once in the last 6 years, though occasionally I come up tagged in friends’ pics. I think I’m better off. I occasionally miss engagements of my friends though so this is a downside. (I’m 29). I continue to use messenger to chat with friends, including one good friend who has a budget phone plan (meaning fb messages are free while texting this friend isn’t for her).
I guess I’m posting this here to say that there is a middle(?) ground that works for me. I rarely find myself envious or jealous on fb. I will confess that I do experience these emotions in my offline life (much less frequently than daily, more often than monthly). Come to think of it, while I spend under 20 minutes a week on LinkedIn, I feel some negative emotions while browsing this feed. I’ve just realized I should limit my LinkedIn better.
I’m not posting this to brag, just to share another perspective because it felt relevant.
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: WeWTF, Part Deux
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: Uncomfortable AWS Truths
For the uninformed - myself included - Who is this guy?
Is or was he ever affiliated with AWS?
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: WeWork to List Shares on Nasdaq, Make Governance Changes
Not disputing, but could you please provide a link or two that argues they are profitable in existing markets?
I’ve only looked at their S-1, and there wasn’t hard information (e.g. single building operating statements) for me to conclude this.
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: Why Positive Cashflow Matters
I catch your drift, but this isn’t technically true. A company with negative discounted cash flows might have a positive expected value because it can undertake a risky project that has a negative expected value. Usually this project will bankrupt the company, but occasionally it will provide a windfall. During bankruptcy, the company might not pay off all of its debts, but it can’t be worth less than 0 due to limited liability. During the unlikely event of success, the company is worth something.
If you want to know more, look up “moral hazard” and “real options”.
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: Seven Insights into Queueing Theory [pdf]
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: Startup idea checklist
rgoldste
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6 years ago
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on: Three Other Models of Computer System Performance (2018)
