AdamN

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by AdamN 5mo ago
But why not be true to the original author's text? What's the need to modify it?
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by AdamN 5mo ago
SE sounds truly, truly awful. Thanks for making me aware of its existence so I can avoid it.
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by AdamN 5mo ago
You expressed an opinion with how you framed it.
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by AdamN 5mo ago
There's a modern argument that nuclear is greener than oil, gas, and even hydro and everything else. That's pretty new though (and certainly not a no-brainer).
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by AdamN 5mo ago
Yeah it seems like a miss. I guess the thinking was that it wasn't developer-facing and just an internal optimization. But of course any change to garbage collection will change the memory and cpu dynamics of the process in a materia
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by AdamN 5mo ago
It's kind of all of the above. State and non-state actors have leveraged pretty much every movement there is to their own ends: civil rights, anti-nuclear, pro-nuclear, anti-Iranian government sentiment, pro-Iranian government sentime
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by AdamN 5mo ago
I'm not sure why subsidies are per se bad. But also almost all infrastructure is subsidized regardless: roads, trains (cargo as well), ports, nuclear, coal, etc...
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by AdamN 5mo ago
One that's reinforced by those against whichever legislation or regulation is being proposed.
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by AdamN 5mo ago
A manager who is also contributing code is almost an entirely different role than a manager who is not contributing code. Typically the former should not exist in a smaller org and in a larger org it makes sense to shift to the latter beca
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by AdamN 6mo ago
I'm seeing that in Big Tech now - there's no room anymore and it's super short term thinking (couched in the language of long term thinking). It's a really dangerous game for an incumbent to fritter away the ability to
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by AdamN 6mo ago
Meta is fundamentally a media company and they're using AI towards that end. They don't seem to be productizing their tech beyond that in the medium term.
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by AdamN 6mo ago
I don't unsubsubscribe unless I explicitly subscribed in the past. If I did not subscribe in the first place then it's spam (exception for small businesses who may not know better in which case I'll delete or unsubscribe).
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by AdamN 6mo ago
What about low dose aspirin?
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by AdamN 6mo ago
Yeah you could easily imagine stenography like inputs and outputs for rapid iteration loops. It's also true that in social media people already want faster-to-read snippets that drop grammar so the desire for density is already there
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by AdamN 6mo ago
How do those numbers look with similar products from Huawei, Samsung, etc...? Fairphone/HMD are competitors focused on repairability above other factors so it's not really a fair comparison.
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by AdamN 6mo ago
I can go with the thesis that individuals need community control (boards, regulations, laws) in order to be accountable but is there some specific evidence that Amodei is the same? It seems like a "both sides" argument.
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by AdamN 6mo ago
Yeah that works and I remember learning that in the 90s so it's pretty old.
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by AdamN 6mo ago
Yeah I'd be happier if they learned how an Apollo computer worked (even though it has virtually no relevance) than how to use Excel.
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by AdamN 6mo ago
AI is important but we don't know what skills will be relevant in 10+ years to harness AI (I can't imagine prompt engineering is much the same). Anyway, would a typical teacher be ahead of the curve on what pedagogical tack to ta
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by AdamN 7mo ago
100gbps is going to be for mesh networks supporting clusters (4 Mac Studios let's just say) - not for LAN type networks (unless it's in an actual datacenter).
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Yeah nothing about Apple is server side and imho that's what training is. To be serious about it as a company you have all sorts of other tools (crawlers, etc...) helping with training so it basically has to be in the datacenter at an
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Nvidia isn't selling one-off home computers afaik. But yes in terms of datacenter cloud usage Nvidia performs.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Yeah they actually survived quite well. Who knows how much they put into Itanium but in the end they did pull the plug and Xeons dominated the market for years. They even had a chance with mobile chips using ATOM but ARM was too compelling
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by AdamN 7mo ago
I never used them but my understanding is that the performance was solid - but in a market with incumbents you don't just need to be as good as them you need to be significantly better or significantly cheaper. My sense was that it me
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by AdamN 7mo ago
They were trying to compete with Sun and IBM in the server space (SPARC and Power) and thought that they needed a totally pro architecture (which Itanium was). The baggage of 32-bit x86 would have just slowed it all down. However having a
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by AdamN 7mo ago
I remember not believing my friend when he said that the OS and the games were inside the computer and didn't need to be loaded up via a floppy disk. That was my first time seeing a hard drive.
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by AdamN 7mo ago
There was tremendous resistance to setting up that school both because of where the money came from but more so because of the possibility that the school would not actually be academic but more 'professional' instead. I can&#x27
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by AdamN 7mo ago
It was probably a cascade of people but the question is whether we all realize Apple was right or if they just implemented it wrong or if it will just take a year or two to get things dialed in (but still prepared for an AR/VR world) a
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by AdamN 7mo ago
Also most of the stuff people complain about is easily changed in settings (transparency, etc...).
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by AdamN 7mo ago
It's about diversity more than anything else. MacOS is the only credible alternative to Windows for many users and organizations.

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