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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Until the tritium leaks...
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
It will be interesting to see if this helps solve the tritium/helium 3 problem that all current fusion companies face. I’ve always found it interesting that they are allowed to pitch VCs claiming that they are doing the same thing the
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Sorry to tell you, but neurons do not follow a dot product structure in any way shape or form beyond basic metaphor. I mean fine I’ll play along - is it whole numbers? Floating points? How many integers? Are we certain that neurons are even
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Bro, I can't even do 5 dimensional vector math. EDIT: I couldn't help but make the joke, but I am certain my brain is doing zero dot products as a type this. What these models do is just different. We should consider what that
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Classic Sequoia piece: VCs sharing lengthy, jargon-filled thoughts specific to their worldview (supplemented with narrowly relevant charts!) to imply that they have a grand unifying vision. Interesting that Sonya and Pat credited GPT-4 as a
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
The counterpoint to this is always "models work with numerical vectors and we translate those to/from words" These things feel sentient because they talk like us, but if I told you that I have a machine that takes 1 20k-dim
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Sorry for being an annoying biker - but only if we built communities where deliveries could happen on human-powered <50kg vehicles. No, let's instead try to game the superlinear scaling of power to weight in helicopters!
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
For those that watched the video - what is being approved is the 'Sparrow' which is the catapult-launched drone they use in Africa. All the 'hover over the house and winch down the package' aspects are still vaporware.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Unfortunately you're buying into a lot of propaganda that persists to this day. Straight sex workers exist. Given straight people outnumber gay people by (let's say) 10:1, there is almost certainly a higher absolute number of stra
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Humans. How do you want me to segment us to minimize the problem? And we are killing it by diverting water from it.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Why? Is it also easy to say the stock market being over 100% of global GDP is too much? That’s only been true for the past few years too. One is an absolute value thing and another is an annual thing. There’s absolutely no logical reason fo
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Great reminder to all that we know we are effectively killing Lake Chad, but there's not much anyone is really doing about it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chad
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Not if that debt created meaningful uplift in GDP (i.e. the theoretical pool of $ that the government can tax). Sure, it's easy to say 2% of GDP is too much, but would we be better off if debt was 60% lower and GDP was 50% lower? Debt-
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I mean that's one interpretation. Japan's problem was that it's spending did very little to encourage consumption [1]. It was mostly dedicated to high-cost infrastructure projects and other boondoggles that simply did not
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Shhhhh. We kind of need to keep that lie quiet so the Treasuries market stays liquid (I mean, kind of weird we all know the government openly manipulates the rate of return on the world's most common financial instrument, no?). It&#x27
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Sure those are other numbers, but the number I’m looking at is inflation ex-shelter for the most recent month? [0]. To be clear, housing is categorized as a service and transportation inflation is 1.6% [1] Not sure why you think I’m complet
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Excluding shelter, inflation is already bellow 2%. Not building enough housing is majorly undermining the Fed's effort to fight inflation.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
A reminder to all that 80% of Singapore's population lives in housing built by the government [0] That's right, business-friendly small-government Singapore came to this realization decades ago. [0] https://www.bloombe
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
5 years is a flash in chip design. Initial design to tape-out is 3 years at the leading edge if you're really good. Maybe in 5-10 years, RISC-V gains share in initial designs, but the semiconductor design process is loooong. And if yo
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
> Etrade isn't going to let me buy fractional shares of stock in 1999 in proportion to the market cap. I think you should go check the absolute $ cost of those stocks in 1999. The fractional share thing is an outcrop of just how w
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Sure, I'm not saying that ARM is in a good position per se, but that RISC-V has way more catching up to do than people realize.
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I think everyone in this thread underestimates this part of ARM's business (from the F-1): * Expand our System IP and SoC Offerings. To enable further improvements in performance and efficiency, we continue to develop a broader set of
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Amazon literally just bought them for $8bn https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/amazon-mgm-merger-close-123...
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
One of my craziest learnings as a non-Chemist taking my basic college chem was that liquid nitrogen is usually much cheaper than milk on a volume basis. It makes sense ofc - nitrogen is our most abundant gas after all, but it still really
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Why? I agree many didn't but in what way was there any impediment for people to do this? We both know eTrade existed back then... It's like saying "who would buy Apple in 2005 and hold to today?" The answer is "on
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
Yes, we were discussing Copilot and ChatGPT, two products run on essentially the same model with no clear difference in their ability to hallucinate (or not).
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
No, Coca-Cola also reached a peak in 1998 that it didn't surpass until 2014, and calling that the "Internet Bubble" is definitely wrong. I'm just saying that the 'Dotcom Bubble' is wildly misremembered. It wa
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
I do! Let's put it this way - at the end of 1999, the top 10 companies were Yahoo! ($110bn)| Amazon ($27bn) | Yahoo! Japan ($25bn) | eBay ($17bn) | Infosapce/Blucora ($10bn) | Lycos ($8bn) | Priceline ($7bn) | eTrade ($7bn) | Mons
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
>Kinda like the dotcom bubble. It's interesting to me that people bring up 'The Dot Com Bubble' as an example of empty hype, when in fact, investing in the Internet even at the peak (deploying capital proportional to 1999
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by RC_ITR 3y ago
It always seems so easy to 'fast follow' in semiconductors, but then you're the GM of the GPU group at Intel and you look for SerDes designers, then find out there are maybe 3 dozen good ones and they already work at Broadcom

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