ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Which is kinda on brand right? The Discord community is similarly challenging. As I read it they are simply out of their depth in terms of what their aspirations are and what they feel they are able to accomplish. The goal of "replacin
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
I use mine all the time, in that it has a subGhz app that queries a raspi for the room temperature and if it gets above 78 degrees F it sends the 'on' code to the ceiling fan, above 85 degrees and it sends a couple of speed up cod
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
I've seen this happen when the backend image searches a picture, gets a description of what is in the picture, and adds that description to the bag of things it will produce as a summary. The whole 'put some text in the image fram
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
> ... it more closely resembles reasoning than search. I get that, to you , it feels like reasoning. I'm not arguing about that. I expect we have different ideas of what sort of steps constitute reasoning. I'm also entirely un
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
I love that book, that said, the point is more subtle than that. Current LLM attention models are limited in their feedback. Adding a form of 'shame' feedback (result is technically correct but morally bad or some such) would help
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
You'd have to define 'novel code generation' and why dealing someone a poker hand they have never seen before isn't 'novel poker hand generation.' Not being snarky here, just understanding the way that LLMs wor
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
This is an awesome visualization. I have always enjoyed 'structural taxonomies' as a way of visualizing data relationships. I appreciate you keeping it alive.
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
This is a great point. I've added it to my list of things when talking about the limitations of LLM.
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
As Google has been unable to keep spammy crap out of their search index since at least 2006 when we were doing Blekko I doubt they will have much success fighting this. But it is another good example that "AI" is just glorified se
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
-- When you start losing significant numbers of people, you lose the ability to set your own execution priorities; circumstances are making prosecutorial decisions. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding! God so many people don't "get&quo
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
I always enjoy projects like this. Both because the are artistically neat and because the give me all sorts of ideas.
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Apparently both authors would develop a better way to explaining and separating these things if they took some Systems Dynamics[1] courses. Everyone who has taken college level economics was taught that money isn't real (I mean the f
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
+1 to this. I had a long conversation with a local shop that went to only ordering online or through an enslaved ipad on a pedestal at the entrance. I explained to them that I wasn't going to use their app or web page online and the iP
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
This is a really good thread on why this technology is becoming a problem for "open" anything. The argument "we can create our own separate web" is fine until all of your services are behind the web that locks you into
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Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler(grapheneos.social)
2186 points by ChuckMcM 5mo ago|755 comments
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Do you remember what the official definition was? I admit I was working at an internship in FEIS (Field Engineering Information Services) in Colorado and people with that title would occasionally yo-yo in to a meeting make some comment that
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Having worked at IBM, I would guess that using the tab key in this way was part of a patent they were pursuing and Microsoft's use would show this to be 'obvious' and thus not patentable. But that is just a guess. In the 80&#
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
This is a wild story about creating a business that buys and sells not using electricity. I jokingly suggested you could build an 'energy consumption facility' which was just a big resistor connected to ground (which is all an unp
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Feds Fine Durham Energy Efficiency Co $722M(theassemblync.com)
31 points by ChuckMcM 6mo ago|17 comments
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
May I suggest you read, "Scarcity: Why having too little means so much" ( https://www.amazon.com/Scarcity-Having-Little-Means-Much-ebo... ) it is a really interesting book which explores maladaptive frugality. We o
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
Its a much bigger problem on things like Amazon. My expectation is that Amazon would come under the provisions of this law if the buyer was in Maryland. One the most annoying things about Amazon is looking at different prices using a browse
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
So glad to see someone doing this. I like to believe that the Ukrainians will also be able to export their "dumb" tractors once the war is resolved. I had lunch with a friend of mine who retired from the VC business and he asked m
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
This is an interesting article on how open licensing can help ensure viability long after the original designer has left the game.
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How Motorola’s 2N2222 and 2N3904 transistors became the default NPNs(allaboutcircuits.com)
92 points by ChuckMcM 6mo ago|40 comments
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
There is a very fine line between dumb and provacative. I'm kind of curious how long it will be before people start publishing copyrighted works on the TrumpCoin block chain. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
I don't think companies appreciated just how much they gave up when they outsourced "IT".
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
I know several people who have met online like this. I'd concur with the authors that working together to achieve an objective is kind of table stakes for an actual relationship. I've always felt that meeting someone in class and
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by ChuckMcM 6mo ago
If I could figure out diet dr. pepper this could be life changing :-)
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by ChuckMcM 7mo ago
Yes. At the time, non-compete agreements were legal (and commonplace) in Massachusetts. I haven't followed the Boston tech news for a decade so they may have changed that. But I had this exact conversation with Senator Ed Markey who wa
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by ChuckMcM 7mo ago
If you had asked me in 1995 what was the one thing[1] that Boston could change in order to compete with Silicon Valley I would have told you "Make non-compete agreements illegal" Companies in the Bay Area whined about it all the t

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