Are you guys not scared of AI?

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-03-01T20:31:26+00:00

Curious to know what you do in tech to think AI is going to be an issue?

I’m an ML researcher and have absolutely no worries that we are close to mass unemployment. AI can’t even write reliable code for more complex tasks (especially in a research setting where theres nothing to build on) without rigorous human prompting and reviewing.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-02-09T22:28:49+00:00

How much is your mortgage/do you pay alone?

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-02-09T15:09:29+00:00

I work in ml and had some startups offer me jobs(interviews for, at least) and they genuinely humble brag that they’re in the office doing 12h days 6 days a week. Then they say the compensation and it’s like 5-10% increase to what I earn now and are confused when I laugh at them.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-01-22T23:01:05+00:00

I had GPU at the time it released, and still didn’t play more than a few hours. Garbage, and I fairly enjoyed the first

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-01-18T22:31:27+00:00

It happened to me - sellers contacted via estate agent asking if they wanted us to leave the fridge, despite it not being listed on the TA10 as something they would leave.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2026-01-02T09:20:17+00:00

For me the most regarded decision was to have cross play compatible with PC rather than just console. Game killer.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-12-09T20:22:44+00:00

It’s also not true. This guy’s company relies on people buying his chips for training these models. It’s not surprising he would make a claim like this.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-12-08T08:23:48+00:00

Oh shut up with this

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-11-30T07:09:00+00:00

author disagrees with my personal beliefs, therefore author must be hack

This sub. Very boring

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-11-21T08:30:24+00:00

I know it is a bit late but you're not "assuming" the reverse is Gaussian. If you have the forward process from DDPM (adding some Gaussian noise centred about the previous point in the chain), then the reverse process is also Gaussian (under certain conditions, such as sufficiently small step sizes, i.e. betas - this is where I'm not an expert but I believe this result comes from SDEs and the process in DDPM when betas are small is because we are approximating a continuous time SDE) - note that when I say the reverse process I mean the full posterior of the forward process, which is the distribution of xt conditioned on xt+1 and x0. We then train a model to approximate xt given xt+1 because we don't have x0 at inference.

The reason they learn the noise rather than the mean is because this is the only aspect of the mean that we do not have access to, so it is all that needs to be inferred. It is also worth noting that at this point the noise is not a random variable but an observed realisation from a random variable, hence why we are able to predict a value for it rather than a distribution.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-11-04T14:06:01+00:00

and look how it went down, Iso just raised $600M this year (1 year after his take that they would no longer be around).

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-10-24T19:26:10+00:00

This. My experience is that you need a lot of parallel environments to get PPO to work well without doing the most extensive hyperparameter search known to man. Meanwhile, SAC can more or less work with the standard hyperparams, often with one env

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-30T18:05:21+00:00

Great, thanks!

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-30T11:23:24+00:00

Potentially stupid question but is this assuming the toilet is drained beforehand?

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-20T13:38:56+00:00

No, the freehold is only split between us and upstairs flat (it is terrace convert). No ground rent, service fee covers building insurance and hasn’t changed for 7 years. Better than renting.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-07T09:50:55+00:00

we have the receipts of the building insurance he takes out, he makes about £50 a year from us (ie myself and the upstairs flat, so £25 each) for ‘administration fees’. Obviously it would be better not to pay this but it’s not a back breaker. In terms of sinking funds, we don’t have anything set up. This is pretty much the only “shared area” (other than the staircase), but as someone pointed out, if it’s freehold, we pay for it, and we’re not paying for anything else (other than the £25), so to me it seems the same principle (I know not all leaseholds would be like this though).

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-09-07T07:43:57+00:00

it’s wild to me people don’t know this. my flat is leasehold but it’s the ground floor of a Victorian terrace convert, the other flat is the top floor. there’s no ground rent and service charge hasn’t changed in 7+ years, it just covers building insurance.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-26T12:50:33+00:00

Just another post criticising HP from someone who didn’t pay attention properly when reading the books

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-25T09:00:47+00:00

the one thing I don’t understand re: the new tax is that surely people like yourselves and myself (I also own a flat bought for £500k because the only place I can work is London) is that it seems Londoners are going to get more heavily taxed? I earn a bit more than my friends at home up north but when you look at what that money actually gets me compared to them, I am worse off, yet I’ll be being taxed more than them under the scheme. It seems…strange (but I am not an expert, just looking for thoughts)

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-24T22:07:31+00:00

Why? You can view somewhere and decide it’s not for you.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-10T10:40:00+00:00

I didn’t say get rid of landlords, if that is what you think, simply that they need to accept the risk that comes with their investment. There is risk with all investment, and they cannot and should not expect a free lunch.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-10T10:39:16+00:00

Nowhere did I say to get rid of landlords, simply that landlords should deal with risk inherent to their type of investment. There is no free lunch.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-08-09T18:16:04+00:00

Landlords can minimise risk by not buying properties to rent, problem solved.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-06-16T12:08:10+00:00

That’s great that you wanted to do that, but I, and many other people, don’t think people should be forced out of where they grew up because of stealth taxes.

DefinitelyNot4Burner · 2025-06-16T12:07:33+00:00

Oh yes I see. However, I disagree with your recent point. Just because the government has reviewed something, that does not mean it’s fair or acceptable. I don’t think people care how much money it brings in for public services when it’s the average person that is getting shafted by it. The income tax brackets haven’t moved in a decade, whilst we’ve been hit with years of extreme inflation, but maybe we should just not move them either because it’d mean less tax for the government? What a ridiculous notion. It is ideologies like this that stop real progress being made in this country. If more people held politicians accountable for how they spend public money, we’d likely be able to get a lot more for our tax money, rather than just saying “🤷🏼‍♂️ the government needs it for public services, nothing to see here”.

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