RockyMcNuts

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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
The Normans were ethnically Vikings from Norway (i.e. North-men). In 911 the Franks made a treaty giving them Normandy so they would stop raiding and ally with France. After a while they resumed their raiding habits, invaded England and als
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
I feel like a truck convoy of 10 trucks with one or two humans in the first truck (or first and last) and getting alerts seems more doable.
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
not sure if this is a joke but hey you should check out this new slowpoke meme, it's kind of cool https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/Slowpoke
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
In music, there is a 'compulsory license', you can't prevent someone from playing your music but you do have to get paid for it. AI will need something like that, we are going to have to reinvent IP law. And big tech will wri
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Online practice on Stratascratch is good for SQL (SQLbolt and SQLzoo for the basics) ... Pavlo, Widom, Date for CS of database systems.
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
that feels like obfuscation fallacy, because I have no idea what you are proposing in practice. deciding when free speech crosses a line into a nexus to criminal activity like fraud, libel, conspiracy, incitement, disturbing the peace is ha
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
if I invest a lot of money to make a nice forum like HN or a social media site, don't I get to determine the right policies to keep a nice private space? doesn't it infringe my rights if people use my site and my money to harass p
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
does that apply for ada-002 embeddings, if you don't use GloVe? I would think it only applies if you create embeddings using a linear model?
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Snowflake isn't local, you have to pay for cloud ... Airflow is Airflow, complexity, steep learning curve, there is a whole industry trying to be as/more powerful than Airflow with less complexity and cleaner integration with mode
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
does exercising options constitute receiving it? once you get into the complexities that apply to investors and rich people, income is a slippery concept. you have a hot dog stand and pay yourself 10k, is it salary, dividend, capital gain,
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
not just natural language interface, ai-generated audio, video, narratives, crafted by data-mining your life, then deep manipulation by constantly trying different stimuli and learning which ones trigger what behavior and pull you deeper in
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
i've seen some blog posts saying if you buy a used 3090 that has been used for bitcoin mining then there is a risk of thermal throttling because the thermal paste on the vram is not great and worse if it was run hot for a long time. an
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Below is a good thread, which maybe contains the answer to your question, and Ken Olsen's question about why brainiac MIT grads get managed by midwit HBS grads. https://twitter.com/coloradotravis/status/172606
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
'this statement is false' is what I mean to write, not 'this statement is humor' , self contradictory or ill-formed nonsense that has some meta value like humor I wrote a long-form version of this bullshit here - https:
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Following the pre-eminent scholar of bullshit, Harry Frankfurt, we can attempt a ‘bullshit alignment matrix’ according to the ground truth of a statement, and its intent. - https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/fr
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
easier monetary policy makes the economy run hotter and probably reduces income inequality. easier monetary policy creates bubbly valuations and probably increases wealth inequality. but inflation is complicated. a decent number of not-that
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
the crime panic is an outlandish joke to anyone alive in the 80s https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2023-10-20/killi...
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
it would be interesting if an AI with semantic understanding could read and understand all the material and you could interrogate it about the backup behind a claim. it would be interesting if the entire lab notebook record was available to
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
kudos! I was wondering if maybe the state of data feeds has changed, seems like there are so many competing data feeds now - https://docs.openbb.co/terminal/usage/guides/api-keys but one does wonder if they a
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
adverse selection, a community is good, so it grows, and then it becomes attractive to the mainstream, and to bad actors who exploit it for their own agendas, and extract value while making it worse.
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
same for news and blogs ... pay $10 per month, get paywall access, browser tracks what you read and distributes to authors. open source version of Apple news that actually supports local news and indies without extracting a giant additional
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
Who demands certainty demands bullshit would be more accurate.
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
with proper train clocks it shouldn't matter, if you're getting on at Penn, look at the clock and pick your platform. if you're switching downtown you could have switched at Times Square. that being said ... not long ago I wa
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
I think they wanted people to transfer at 14 and 42 because they only have adequate platform width for the people going to and from Penn. It is a weird quirk built into the system but not too many situations where it slows anyone down since
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
money is a particular type of wealth that is used as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a short-term store of value. qualities that make something money-like include divisibility, fungibility, portability, liquidity, easy transfer
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/ https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-endpoints-on-azure You can of course run Llama2 in Azure, but you can't host OpenAI models i
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
So where do you draw the line? No cloud instances, no cloud SQL like Snowflake, no Teams or Office 365, no S3/blob storage? Run everything on-prem like 10 years ago? It's only going to get more impossible. All that VC money going
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
so...how can we make this support plugins like Code Interpreter, Wolfram, Zapier or Workato, and whatnot?
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
you can ask for gpt-4, it took a while due to capacity constraints but we got it
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by RockyMcNuts 3y ago
is that a moral objection to cutting off Kiwi Farms, because a drone strike is more moral, fair, due process etc.? or an argument on efficiency grounds, that the payment system is an insufficiently effective form of annihilation?

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