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by Ologn 3y ago
Redmonk says Kotlin is the 17th most popular programming language ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2... ). So can any of these LLMs and whatnot, even the ones supposedly gear
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by Ologn 3y ago
What is their trailing P/E and what is their forward P/E? Their trailing P/E has January 2023, where their earnings were 1.41 billion, and revenues were 6.05 billion. Their last quarter earnings were 9.24 billion, and revenu
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by Ologn 3y ago
There are currently 3 billion active Android devices, and they are powered by Linux. There is a helicopter on Mars that runs Linux. I think Linus has done fine focusing on what he is focused on.
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by Ologn 3y ago
I primarily program Android phones, but instead of getting an Android watch I decided to get a PineTime in November. I've been happy with it. I primarily use it to calculate my BPM - while doing cardiovascular exercise, or resting, o
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by Ologn 3y ago
> decide if you want to make a company, or if you want to make Open Source. The number if places that have succeeded in both is vanishingly small. Google releases Android source code. While people would like even more of it released, I
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by Ologn 3y ago
Stability AI has gaps in SDXL for text, but they seem to do a better job with Deep Floyd ( https://github.com/deep-floyd/IF ). I have done a lot of interesting text things with Deep Floyd
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by Ologn 3y ago
I find Automatic1111 better for point and click simplicity. ComfyUI has been good for custom flows. Also Automatic1111 is more centralized, so you have to wait for something to make its way in (or a pull request for it anyhow), whereas peo
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by Ologn 3y ago
> A lot of smart people I know work a startups, but all of the smartest people I know work at FAANG/MAMAA A lot of smart people I know work at FAANG/MAMAA, but many of the smartest people I know founded startups.
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by Ologn 3y ago
I did with Automatic1111 as well. With an RTX 4090 with 24G VRAM, steps 1, cfg scale 1, size 512x512, model sd_xl_turbo_1.0. I was generating more than four images a second.
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by Ologn 3y ago
> a crazy PE ratio of 73 Their PE ratio was over 100 before the earnings announcement last week, so it has fallen. 18.12B revenue, 9.24B net this last quarter - 6.05B revenue, 1.41B net three quarters ago. With growth in revenue and net
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by Ologn 3y ago
Great, I will check it out.
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I use X11 as opposed to Wayland with my Ubuntu desktop. One reason is that if I open a Gnome terminal and start to expand or shrink its size, a tooltip appears showing its size as I am modifying it. IIRC, wayland does not do this, out of
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Germany approves financial reforms to help its tech industry(cnbc.com)
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by Ologn 3y ago
I recall Simons saying that early on in his trading career with his partners, they traded on hunches as opposed to purely statistically. He said later on they did not, it was purely algorithmic later on.
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by Ologn 3y ago
I stayed in IT, so it was not a massive career change, but I went from being a Unix systems administrator to being an Android programmer. Advice? It took longer to get a job as an SWE than I had anticipated. I kind of stumbled into being
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by Ologn 3y ago
> They regularly modify the list of items in the cart, meaning the data isn't reliable over time. It may not be reliable over time, but it is reliable over shorter time periods. If the basket is not changed for a few years, then th
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by Ologn 3y ago
NYer here also. For the past 10-12 years or so, yes, this has been happening more and more. This kind of thing was not happening 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago, at this level any how. You can say now "these floods happen every year",
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by Ologn 3y ago
> It is interesting to look back and evaluate the preferences / intuitions prominent researchers had in the field (most of whom started their careers experimenting with MNIST-scale of data, at best) Look back to how HN greeted the v
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by Ologn 3y ago
Some lessons on software development were learned a long time ago, but have not really sunk in everywhere. Fred Brooks was a project manager on IBM's project to launch the System/360 from 1961 to 1964. He took on the responsibili
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by Ologn 3y ago
> I recently drove a 2019 Tesla Model 3 from NYC to Montreal via Vermont. Personally, I wouldn't do the route I took in a Tesla (/EV) again. The 'range anxiety' set definitely in during the trip because, when departin
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by Ologn 3y ago
The way I have been dealing with this is brushing up on my calculus, and probability theory, as well as matrix math, and filling in any holes in linear algebra I have, and then learning more about neural networks. LLMs burst into more peopl
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by Ologn 3y ago
I have an RTX 3060 on my desktop, and my friend has an RTX 4090 on his desktop turned server. We are both running Stable Diffusion with Dreambooth etc., Llama (well, he is running Llama, I am running 4-bit Llama), Deep Floyd and so on. Bot
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by Ologn 3y ago
> that looks like you took something sensible and turned it into gibberish This is the main thing I use Lisp (well, Guile Scheme) for. I used to use bc for little scratch pad calculations, now I usually jump into Scheme and do calculati
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by Ologn 3y ago
In December 2016 I tried a demo of an HTC Vive at a Microsoft Store (remember those?), and a few days later did a demo of an Oculus Rift at a Best Buy. The demo at the Microsoft Store was well set up - they had an associate handling the de
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by Ologn 3y ago
Not a direct answer, but Nvidia manufactures at TSMC. Yesterday morning Nvidia's stock jumped from its Wednesday evening earnings announcement, and TSM jumped from $90.14 to over $100 yesterday morning.
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by Ologn 3y ago
> This makes no sense. Already trading at 50x EBITDA on forecasted datacenter demand. How does this actually pan out? AWS, Microsoft, other large internet companies buy a bunch of GPUs to train models _one time_, or at best at an annual
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by Ologn 3y ago
In the early days of Android apps I saw that there was an LGPL-licensed Java library that could parse Microsoft Access files. I wrote a very simple Android UI for it that one could load a file, choose a table, and then page forward through
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by Ologn 3y ago
On May 1st Chegg stock was at $17.60 and the company's market cap was $2 billion. Immediately after the announcement, the stock went to $9.08 (it recovered to $9.71 Friday). Chegg lost almost half its value - almost one billion in va
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by Ologn 3y ago
I bought a desktop in New York City a month ago with a Nvidia RTX 4090 card at Best Buy - 4090 being the most powerful Nvidia card Best Buy had in stock. At that time (a month ago) there were several desktops with this card in stock around
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by Ologn 3y ago
As has been posted in a few submissions today (including one of my own) - Chegg stock lost half its value today after announcing how ChatGPT is affecting its business. Pearson stock tanked today too. Meanwhile Nvidia stock hit its 365 d

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