Centigonal

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by Centigonal 3mo ago
One of the arguments Hank makes in the video is that SpaceX is (via starlink) rapidly occupying large portions of useful LEO shells, which crowds out future competitors or users of that orbit (i.e. you can't put more satellites into th
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
Hank Green did a video recently advocating for an "orbit value tax" -- like a Georgist Land Value Tax, but for orbits. This tax would, among other things, help fund orbital cleanup and internalize the externality of polluting orbi
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
"Rocket Lab acquires Iridium" sounds like a notification out of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri or Anno 2205.
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
That iMessage rendering looks correct, just typeset differently.
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by Centigonal 3mo ago
There is an active debate on exactly this topic when it comes to whether or not to excavate the tomb of Qin Shi Huang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_Qin_Shi_Huang
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
jqwik users want the sort of things that jqwik enables, too.
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
You're right, I don't want the software on my devices doing things the user doesn't acknowledge or want, that has potentially destructive/negative consequences. Down with that sort of thing! So when are we nixing Widevin
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
I don't know if I agree with this, especially in the context of animation: https://www.bloopanimation.com/the-art-of-smear-frames/
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
The model is trained to treat system messages differently from regular user/assistant messages. Most models are trained to only expect system messages at the start of the conversation. This is changing now.
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
For Deepseek V4, The main effect of raising the reasoning effort is to add a little section[1] to the end of the system prompt that says "BTW make sure to think really hard! :)" If Anthropic's models work the same way, then c
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
This is true. Amazon Seller Central, AWS Partner Central, and Glue Databrew are all Amazon productivity-style apps, and I hated every minute of using them. Quicksight is okay these days, but it took them a decade to get there. They really s
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
It's really, really complicated. Even "organic" or "all natural" products often contain synthetic contaminants as a result of manufacturing, packaging, or shipping processes. Unless NASA were to set up separate fact
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
I was taught to adjust my mirrors so that I would have to shift my head slightly in the direction of the mirror to see the side of my car in the mirror. I didn't realize this approach wasn't the "normal" way!
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
IDK how the Chime team managed to make such a garbage product. Like, somehow they managed to make something even worse than Teams with a UI that made Webex look modern. I know there are good product people inside Amazon, so IDK what combina
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
I'm speculating, but it's likely that Google is the only provider who is willing to adhere to the inference compute requirements that Apple sets out for their foundation models. They are, after all, the only provider that will let
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
Herpes viruses like HSV are notoriously difficult to target with medication bc they encode themselves into DNA inside the nuclei of long-lived human nerve cells. Between outbreaks, they basically exist only as rogue DNA floating inside most
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
In sports, sometimes you think you've maximized the potential of the human body after decades of competition, and then you get surprised (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_100_metres_world_recor... ) Perh
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
pretty sure I'm a physical quine
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
This is an interesting topic. If a company does something you approve of (e.g. do journalism) and something else you disapprove of (e.g. make canceling hard), is there a good way to signal both as a consumer? This is also relevant in the co
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
> if 8GB or RAM will still be fine 5 years from now. I actually think right now is the perfect moment for this! I suspect that the massively increased cost of memory will limit the amount of memory in most consumer PCs from increasing ov
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
yes, MoE reduces the inference compute requirements (inference memory reqs remain the same)
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
> MAI-Thinking-1 is a 35B-active, ~1T-total parameters, sparse Mixture of Experts model, a smaller inference footprint than much larger models. This seemingly nonsensical sentence (of course this will have a smaller inference footprint
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
The W3C CEO being named DOM is some serious nominative determinism.
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
Wow, sometimes it can be as simple as "make something people want."
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by Centigonal 4mo ago
(responding to dead sibling) As someone who frequently replies to people's questions with "Great question!" or "That's a good point!," I'm a little concerned people are going to start thinking I'm an
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
This is like a beautiful little miniature. It's cool to see gaussian splatting applied to a detailed small thing versus a big scene. I have a question about perhaps the most boring aspect of this strawberry: the license. you write, &qu
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Thankful for people like the author who surveil tech companies that take this well-worn path toward greater monetization
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
ATM I'm at the MTB ATM, withdrawing cash to buy an MTB, the tires of which I will fill to 1.7 ATM.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
If you see complaining on forums and maintaining software as contributing the same kind of value, then oh boy do I have an enterprise-grade comment thread to sell you.
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by Centigonal 5mo ago
Palantir is very expensive. This is because: 1. they aim to deliver product company margins with a consulting-heavy model. 2. your software purchase funds a cadre of "free" FDEs and deployment strategists who customize your instal

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