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Re:Permutation City on Saturday February 17, 2024 @01:47PM (#39412187)
Egan is great. Another good book is Incandescence. Only problem is that some of his novels contain some kind of loneliness. Can't describe it.
Re:OKRs Are Bullshit on Saturday February 17, 2024 @01:45PM (#39412158)
I see only the problem of no ability to change the OKRs, otherwise the core idea of making a plan is right. Changing the goals should introduce a additional change process, because priorities change with new knowledge. I haven't see that done well yet. Maybe just having 6 weeks cycle OKR [1] instead could work better as in Shape Up?

[1] https://basecamp.com/shapeup/2.2-chapter-08

Re:Organic Maps: An Open-Source Maps App That Doesn't Suck on Sunday September 24, 2023 @10:52AM (#37633689)
I use mapy.cz often, because of the UI and better maps. Only the traffic is probably not estimated the best.
Re:Ask HN: Which recently research paper blow your mind? on Sunday August 06, 2023 @12:34AM (#37019002)
I read about criticism of General Relativity, that I haven't verified so grain of salt please. The criticism is in that the equations are so complex that only the simplest limits of them are studied and so the theory is therefore not verified.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Sunday July 09, 2023 @03:43PM (#36658111)
https://vaclavkosar.com/ Mostly on machine learning research
Re:Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' Memo (1953) on Saturday May 27, 2023 @07:09AM (#36093741)
True problem is not technical and it is right there in the article. Non-academics "speak less and worry more". So their knowledge is likely scattered and not distilled. Building these devices is probably quite simple in the end, it is just the story is not being told.
Re:Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:17PM (#31074421)
Correction! Cost is around $10M not $10B.
Re:Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:16PM (#31074405)
Sounds interesting! Would you link to that or describe them here? Thanks!
Re:Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:15PM (#31074394)
Yes, of course, thanks!
Re:Google's Pathways Language Model and Chain-of-Thought on Monday April 18, 2022 @02:14PM (#31074391)
Correction!! The model costed around 10M not 10B! Thanks for raising that. Mistake during copying from the second slide :(
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:13PM (#30961301)
I write on machine learning, software, business, and many other things. https://vaclavkosar.com/

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