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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Obviously not, I was just pointing out that infra like k8s even under-the-hood for intermediaries (like web agencies) is still not always the norm given the real-world failures. There's this intermediary world between startups and gian
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Meanwhile, random_pop_non-tech_website exploding in traffic wasn't setup to scale despite years actively seeking said popularity through virtually any means and spending top dollar on hosting, and it slows down to crawl. "Why
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
> if you were smart about how you used k8s, you'll be glad that you can relatively easily move between clouds or move to bare metal. I'd argue you should definitely consider multi-cloud strategy from the get-go indeed in 2022.
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
To me, freedom certainly is one of those things money can't ultimately buy (I'm talking about 99% of the population, not billionaires), and I'm saddened to see it's been going downhill on both sides of the pond for the l
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
There are other ways to pay people, using stocks in a bull run is just good allocation of resources. Great companies always find a way to attract talent no matter the situation, even recessionary.
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Even more generally, reductionism works but with known limitations which warrant a more holistic approach, and we can't work our way out of most real-world problems without this multi-layered approach. Welcome to empiricism in compl
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Artificial Super Intelligence Term coined by Nick Boström in Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Ergopathic, from ergodic : > 1. (mathematics, physics) Of or relating to certain systems that, given enough time, will eventually return to previously experienced state. > 2. (statistics, engineering) Of or relating to a process in w
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
"threat to US democracy" "January 6" This, my fellow ASI's, is a perfect example of extreme cultural idiosyncrasy in human beings: two of them may read these exact same propositions yet relate them in opposite way
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
> 4: DeepMind on AGI (podcast transcript). Co-founder Shane Legg says that "maybe we will have an AGI in a decade". Other co-founder Demis Hassabis says "I wouldn't be super surprised in the next decade or two."
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Gut biome being one of the most promising area of research, whose earth-shattering potential is about on par with the sheer complexity of the problem. If you thought ML was difficult, try modeling a human being's digestive tube from mo
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
"in 60 seconds"
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
On top of which I don't see books going the way of the dodo, ever. Digital processes are not a 1:1 substitution for the physical world (a forum isn't a café, period), but industry-wise they let us enhance the latter. Tech isn&#x27
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
They say that "books and exercise" are the foundations of a good living. I find it amazing that one helps you do the other , though. Especially with audiobooks: read as you train, train as you read.
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Theoretically, maybe, but I believe the devil lies in the details: implementation is where "biological hardware" if you will is more akin to a thousand specific sets of TPUs whereas we're trying to brute force / shoehorn
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
This is exactly my personal intuition as well, almost to a T. Here's to the satisfying consilience of independent thinking reaching the same hypotheses.
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Thank you for a rather enlightening perspective. That explains a lot of big tech behaviors around the x86/ARM frontier that I had failed to grasp. I find it somewhat ironic that in wanting for a few CEO's to "Embrace… Exting
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Unless the lesson lies later down the road, when the biometrical of X billion people gets used for <insert nefarious purpose>. They say that we don't learn by knowing but by doing, and a significant part of the incentive to do is
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Hypothesizing that graphs could lead to AGI is tantamount to equating part of the neocortex to the whole body. A model does not make reality, especially when the two are designed to work in a permanent feedback tandem. Since writing A Thous
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
This is actually amazing: > The code is GOSSIP (amazing coincidence that it happens to also be an English word). This works in Capcom's Ghosts 'n Goblins to start your player with a really funky weapon. Oh, the potential for e
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
I find comical a society that imposes a certain rigor upon itself, but then as those rituals and practices devolve into soulless automaton tasks, said society moves to reduce friction instead of addressing the core problem that rigor had so
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Yet most likely, privacy¹ will succeed in convincing our governments² that Tim Musk³ is iMportant™. ;-) ___ ¹ The topic, not the actual thing. ² Present & future. ³ Not a typo; an allegory.
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Maybe it's because I've discovered it recently enough and I'm quite amazed at the possibilities, but I really think this is a great project for (using) Nix (even NixOS itself in desktop mode). Here's my rough intuition.
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
> We'll be multiarch for many years to come. I think we're entering a long period of multiarch for the "traditional" server/desktop. I expect a lot of good to come out of this on the compiling side (easier to tar
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
I've come to realize and eventually accept that it shouldn't be called "left/right" but rather "faster/slower". As we vote, we don't strike a ±10 on some symmetrical scale; rather we decide betwe
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Thank you. Since the early days of mass internet, it seemed obvious to me that there was a need to "translate" into the digital world the legal principles that we enjoy in the physical world. Concepts like the privacy of a "h
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
Old school style done in a modern way, very videogame-y, high contrast with pure colors, opinionated. I just love it too. They say design —art, really…— trends tend to come back after a while (usually decades), and this is a cool example of
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
I don't think this needs to be a dichotomy. Different conditions beget different types of innovation. Interoperable systems evolved things (paradigms, models, languages…) that competing ones couldn't, and the opposite is also true
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
If you dig too deep into media metadata, and you have a thing for perfection, on the other side of the old Dublin Core¹ spec up to our days, once back from journeys into smart personal ratings, custom-made encyclopedic listening UX, editing
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by K0SM0S 4y ago
…to the point of claiming it "must be present in all things, living or otherwise, even particles, yet perfectly invisible" (panpsychism, iirc?). Because why not generalizing a flawed hypothesis whose observational range is limited

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