ThePhysicist

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by ThePhysicist 2mo ago
Congrats Sonali, Nick, Dave & everyone else! I had an incredible time with you all in NY more than 10 years ago, it was so cool, and I'm still thinking of it very fondly. Spent my days hacking away in the space near Canal Street an
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Poll: How much do you personally spend for LLM subscriptions each month?
5 points by ThePhysicist 3mo ago|4 comments
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
0-49 USD
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
50-99 USD
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
100-199 USD
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
200-399 USD
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
400+ USD
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
Interesting that on one hand the valuation of these AI providers is based on the assumption that all code (and everything else producing digital artefacts) will be written using AI in the near future, on the other hand almost all popular op
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
Corporations will be quite happy with really simple features if they're packaged right. I'm selling software that mostly does things that a good programmer could whip up in a couple of days or weeks, but what cost me most of the d
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
Noooo, my /22 IPv4 subnet allocation is my personal 401k, I need this money to retire.
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
It's quite easy to write a generic Maybe struct that performs most of the encapsulation that Rust's Maybe does i.e. allow unwrapping of the inner type through a function or handling the nil case through a switch like statement. I&
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
I think for mostly search-focused use case like the one presented here AI is great as you don't ask it to build stuff or invent new drugs, you just want to retrieve relevant documents with laser precision, and agents can do that. I thi
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
Apple RAM prices always had quite a bit of margin though, I think they charged around 4x the going market rate per GB (that said you can't fully compare their RAM to a loose DIMM stick). I was planning to pick up a new Mac Studio this
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
Everyone always wants to charge as much as they possibly can, and if SK Hynix would be the only manufacturer prices would be 10x of what they are today. Especially new incumbents will not ruin the market prices as they have the highest upfr
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by ThePhysicist 3mo ago
It's the ultimate power user desktop system, in my opinion it even dwarfs MacOS in terms of how you can customize it and how it looks. It left Windows in the dust a long time ago in terms of functionality and usability (not that this w
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by ThePhysicist 4mo ago
Are you sure about that? You are saying that differentially private census data couldn't be used for gerrymeandering and advertisement while non differentially private data could? Hard to believe, I'm not an advertisement or gerry
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by ThePhysicist 4mo ago
No, there are dozens of articles discussing the mechanism and explaining the impact it had in different areas e.g. [1,2,3]. And the release mechanism wasn't just "add noise", far from it, you may read the original paper [4] t
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by ThePhysicist 4mo ago
I think it should be noted that there was a lot of dissatisfaction from users of the census data as far as I know. So it's not been banned just for politicals sake or because they hate privacy... Some people I talked to in the privacy
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by ThePhysicist 4mo ago
Can you point to any "great" projects on Lovable that would actually be useful as full blown SaaS software tools? Stuff that has been written/prompted by non software experts?
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by ThePhysicist 4mo ago
Yeah Fable 5 is good but feels incremental and overhyped, also burned through my entire Cursor allowance in my Ultra plan in a single day. Ridiculous. They just want to create FOMO and appear mysterious so companies and users will feel so s
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by ThePhysicist 4mo ago
Well you can just scale your AI employees up and down as much as you want. Companies already pay a large premium for freelancers just to be able to fire them on a whim, so spending 5-10k a month on something that more than doubles the produ
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by ThePhysicist 6mo ago
I mean even cheap keycaps won't wear out for many years for most people, so I don't think quality is a big factor. I got tons of keycaps from Ali Express which are just as good as the high quality stuff, in fact most of them are m
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by ThePhysicist 7mo ago
Yeah I mean we have a mechanism that can bypass AI models for log lines where we are pretty sure no PII is in there (kind of like smart caching using fuzzy template matching to identify things that we have seen before many times, as logs te
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by ThePhysicist 7mo ago
This is really cool! I am trying to find a way to accelerate LLM inference for PII detection purposes, where speed is really necessary as we want to process millions of log lines per minute, I am wondering how fast we could get e.g. llama 3
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by ThePhysicist 1y ago
People with such strong beliefs can be unpleasant to work with as well. Not saying you are, but there are often considerations beyond the immediate needs of developers that dictate tool choice in a company, and I find it not great if people
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by ThePhysicist 1y ago
"Every product on the Internet" - "US-only, sorry!" ... Guess it's actually not every product on the Internet, not even remotely. Is it even 1 % of all products on the Internet?
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WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook(noyb.eu)
23 points by ThePhysicist 1y ago|2 comments
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by ThePhysicist 1y ago
Sorry that this happened to you, if it's brand new or under guarantee I would just send it back. People always complain about Amazon but I buy most of my stuff there because they have always resolved such issues in my favor, even sendi
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by ThePhysicist 1y ago
Seems there are at least three Rust-based competitors for type checkers in Python now (Microsoft, Facebook, Astral), and of course there's still mypy.
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by ThePhysicist 1y ago
These companies aren't public utilities, no one would complain about a US bank not doing money exchange business with entities in the Ukraine or Belarus, why would that be different for US companies offering donations over the Interne

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