ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This came across on Mastodon, whereas in my personal life a friend of a friend wanted a test audience for their presentation to seniors on how they could use ChatGPT for "making better decisions, not searching the web for answers but
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The government's AI efforts torpedoed by DOGE(carhenge.club)
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This argument, "People don't really care about <x> ...", is not so much an argument as it is a rationalization for amoral or simply bad behavior on the part of the seller/supplier. It is the rationale for the exist
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This doesn't get enough attention, waaaay too many of these issues are traced back to the vendor trying to "prevent" someone from using their product in a way that they don't like.
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Seems like such a dumb idea. Now I totally see it on rental car fleets but on car you own? not so much. Edit: To be clear I think it would be a deal breaker for rental cars too, but I could see a marketing type make the case for the 'm
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_bx8bnCoiU If you want to watch the ad. A couple of friends of mine lived in the city at the time and were watching as they filmed it. We all agreed that it was both amazing and insane all a
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Perhaps we have differing definitions of "technical workers" ? Here in the Bay Area at least there are a number of companies which are replacing "senior staff" with an LLM and a junior engineer. The argument is that this
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I miss John, this has much of the charm of the old "Amateur Scientist" columns from Scientific American. I remind myself from time to time that so much great work has been done by scientists with simple hand tools and a thoughtful
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
There is an interesting twist here. "Socialist" and "Communist" economic models where those who can't work are supported by spreading a portion of the GDP produced by an economy to support those (whether it is UBI o
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It always surprises me how my enthusiasm for scientific discovery is affected by fears of a dystopian future. My understanding is that with red shift calibration here we'll get a much better idea of the 'when' in terms of var
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
> Why is the gap so large? Good question and probably worth an article or two. My thinking is that Apple is designing silicon that makes for great laptops (M4 in this case) and then building around that. You will be hard pressed to find
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It was discussed in the article, but to be more explicit, sometimes a person who is sure of their understanding of things learns a new thing and that new thing opens their eyes to a huge amount of complexity they were missing. They go fro
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Always great to hear from people on the far side of the valley of despair. I don't think it is pointed out enough that people who fall off of "mount stupidity" can sometimes get really really stuck. In my experience when they
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Well it's patented and Tesla doesn't own the patent. But that aside, you trade a different set of problems, specifically what happens if the pack that is put into your car is damaged and as a result of that damage catches fire whe
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Have you ever asked yourself why this version (with 'create' in it) was on his black board?
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
At one point I started writing a speculative fiction story about Tardigrades who lived on Mars but became aware that climate change was going to threaten their existence so they created an ark on Mars, set it up to be launched by an asteroi
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Exactly correct, but I would say 'Where it gets interesting ...' as opposed to complicated. Like the bike riding comment in a peer to the parent of this comment, there is a difference between 'operating' and 'creati
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
His motto "What I cannot create, I do not understand" has been one of the driving forces in my own quest to understand more about the world around me. A good friend had picked up a corollary which was "What I cannot teach, I
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yup, directory services are a lot easier to do peer-to-peer. Pinboard.in is a good shared directory (sort of Yahoo! without the editorial). They can yield excellent quality when you're searching for something that someone has 'ind
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Peer to peer would be tough, you really need a 10G network connection to some tier 1 provider, and about 2500 machines to distribute the crawling/serving load. (that is if you want to do a full stack search engine). And while you can r
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That's the correct answer, IBM wanted the crawler mostly to feed Watson. Building a full search engine (crawler, indexer, ranker, API, web application) for the English language was a hell of an accomplishment but by the time Blekko was
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
As a systems enthusiast I enjoy articles like this. It is really easy to get into the mindset of "this must be perfect". In the Blekko search engine back end we built an index that was 'eventually consistent' which allow
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I'm not sure I'm there yet (giving it away) but similarly annoyed by some of its teething pains. For me it seems to do all the things, and it runs longer than my iPad pro does on a charge (and like the OP author I suspect that i
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is an interesting Matt Levine piece which observes this new thing which is a 'Zombie Unicorn.' I've seen a lot of zombie startups, they get their seed funding and a couple of rounds but then fail to "take off"
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
As did I so I read the article, and no, Candlestick was not the first stadium that died due to it being massively uncomfortable to go there at times.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
And to think they went on to build Candlestick park. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
When you're going out of business[1], profits get a higher priority than anything in the ESG category. Like a lot of companies that have been successful for a long time, that will take time. But in the 15 years of watching them lose mo
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Does anyone know if this was the system used by higher end TI calculators like the TI-92? It had a 'rational' mode for exact answers and I suspect that it used RRA for that.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I can recommend this gizmo for people just starting to learn about electronics. I got one in Hackerbox 102[1] and found it to be a good value in terms of bandwidth vs cost. In talking about it to my engineering friends I got the somewhat ex
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Wish I could up vote this more than once :-). It also is why people had books of 'logs' back in the day that were just the log10 value of a given number.

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