DamonHD

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by DamonHD 2y ago
I've "left" something like tech to do something overlapping with what I was recently, as a researcher (PhD student). It's going fine.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
You really do seem to be very loose with facts and claims. Eg you make claims about "all" which are obviously and trivially false. It's not a good look, and not good for your future IMHO.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
It's also not the case that all (or even most) AIs ace all (or even most) meaningful tests that aren't pattern or memory based. Adding multi-digit uncommon integers is too hard for many LLMs for example. My fellow uni students co
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by DamonHD 2y ago
"Of course AI is better"? In all cases for all types of analysis and treatment? That is again trivially falsifiable. To be clear, I'm researching physically next to the AI people on campus and some of them are doing very s
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Which actual teachers, when, with what words? There are idiotic people in all professions, and many of us make idiotic statements from time to time, but that in no way supports your main argument anyway.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
That claim as you have stated it (I haven't seen the original words) is clearly trivially absurd and void: eg I will be continuing to develop and maintain my own code well beyond then at all sorts of levels from data gathering and syst
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Gates has plently of problems with reality (eg he spent years trying to deny / suppress the Internet as we now know it, along with many extremely questionable business practices and an utter disregard for user privacy and security IMHO
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Some of us have loooooong experience with AI (I've shipped product with AI features, and also have a 30Y-old AI degree) but also of marketing hype and outright tech-based fraud (eg NFTs). There is some useful stuff going on, but outra
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Could a phone be the bridge/server?
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Does this backend have to be remote? Why not a Bluetooth (or WiFi?) mic or similar?
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by DamonHD 2y ago
1) SPAMmers can be quite dim - if they were smarter many of them would be doing more useful and more profitable things. 2) I think the dynamic auto-kill seems to be working the way that it is intended to. 3) The current rather prolific idio
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Except that sunset/sunrise shift by four hours in the UK, so the 1h messing around makes virtually no difference anyway, for the trouble that it causes,
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Today (fairly near Greenwich) we are back on sensible time, with solar noon at clock noon near enough.
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UK sleep experts say it's time to kill daylight saving for good(theregister.com)
28 points by DamonHD 2y ago|28 comments
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Python will be much slower than C, but if you follow the path that you suggest and use Python mainly as glue to stick C-based performance critical parts together you could be fine. I used to edit an HPC trade rag, and I've written a lo
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Please prefix with "Show HN: " else this just looks like drive-by SPAM.
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by DamonHD 2y ago
lolz - grammar and protocols appropriate to the forum m'lud - not e.e.cummings
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International Color Time(phrenopolis.com)
1 points by DamonHD 2y ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Yep, there's a few of us that have done the solar+RPi thing! My site is entirely off-grid and runs all my primary servers: https://www.earth.org.uk/ Also this one: https://git.solarcene.community/smalls
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I don't know. Hopefully MWh/kgCO2 falls over time as we get better at it...
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by DamonHD 2y ago
This has now been written: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/15/ward_christensen_obit...
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by DamonHD 2y ago
"In total, the world needs to do ~1 teraton of carbon removal over the next ~100 years to effectively stabilize global temperatures around 1.5C."
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Quick carbon removal demand math(nanransohoff.substack.com)
4 points by DamonHD 2y ago|3 comments
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Fixed, thanks. That was my third attempt at being concise and informative...
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by DamonHD 2y ago
Also see: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/113300835222615...
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Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died(en.wikipedia.org)
323 points by DamonHD 2y ago|93 comments
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by DamonHD 2y ago
My mother taught me to program, and ran my first programs (FORTRAN) on paper with me. Please don't casually use "mother" or "grandmother" to mean technically incompetent.
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Feed Reader Score Project(rachelbythebay.com)
3 points by DamonHD 2y ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I suspect that that is untrue! How old do you think I am?
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by DamonHD 2y ago
I'm now doing a PhD! Here is stuff I did: http://d.hd.org/CV/DHDCV.html So a bunch of consulting/contracting and start-ups. Drop me an email if I can help more.

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