Thrymr

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by Thrymr 8mo ago
How many bits per second does 10 Gb ethernet represent?
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by Thrymr 8mo ago
The bit/byte ambiguity annoys me in real life far more than the 1000/1024 ambiguity.
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by Thrymr 8mo ago
"Our mission is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity; our pursuit of advertising is always in support of that mission and making AI more accessible." Also, anything that benefits OpenAI or keeps our runway just a bit longer is (
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Potato: A small, data-oriented pansharpener(github.com)
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by Thrymr 10mo ago
What are the terms? It is not at all clear from the announcement. "part of this three-year licensing agreement", it _could_ mean the license cost is $1 billion, which Disney in turn invests in OpenAI in return for equity, and they
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by Thrymr 10mo ago
The author calls himself a "Real Estate Novelist and recovering healthcare consultant" ( https://substack.com/@andrewtsang ).
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by Thrymr 10mo ago
It is open source (MIT license), Claude should have a pretty good start on it already.
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by Thrymr 10mo ago
I hope Google is at least acknowledging the origin of the name, even if they are not paying royalties to Randall Monroe.
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by Thrymr 10mo ago
Considering how many other "pelican riding a bicycle" comments there are in this thread, it would be surprising if this was not already incorporated in the training data. If not now, soon.
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by Thrymr 11mo ago
How is this any different from a search engine choosing how to rank any other content, including penalizing SEO spam? I may not agree with all of their priorities, but I would welcome the search engine filtering out low quality, low effort
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by Thrymr 11mo ago
Explicitly in the article, one of the headings is "AI slop is deceptive or low-value AI-generated content, created to manipulate ranking or attention rather than help the reader." So yes, they are proposing marking bad AI content
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by Thrymr 11mo ago
And in inflation-adjusted terms, rounding to the nearest nickel now is about as significant as rounding to the nearest penny was in 1978.
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by Thrymr 11mo ago
Hazelnut politics are a big deal in Europe [0]. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/how-a-hazelnut... (archive link: https://archive.is/1UTf3 )
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by Thrymr 11mo ago
US health care outcomes are really not great, even if you are rich. Yes, you live longer than poor people in the US, but still do worse than Europeans, even those with lower incomes [0]. All while spending much more [1]. It's a system
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by Thrymr 11mo ago
> Noam Shazeer said on a Dwarkesh podcast that he stopped cleaning his garage, because a robot will be able to do it very soon. We all come up with excuses for why we haven't done a chore, but some of us need to sound a bit more pla
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by Thrymr 11mo ago
"just short nvidia" is not simple. Even if you believe it is overvalued, and you are correct , a short is a specific bet that the market will realize that fact in a precise amount of time. There are very significant risks in shor
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Hmm, now I'm curious if I could add a Home Assistant sensor to monitor my own tire pressure.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
"AI Bicycles" is a little ironic for the bike parts manufacturer Shimano, whose Sora model of derailleur has been around for years.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
"serious" at a superficial level. He never understood what he was doing, and went around smashing things indiscriminately, often in a way that was more expensive (e.g., laying off federal workers who were paid for doing nothing fo
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by Thrymr 1y ago
As of last week: https://bsky.app/profile/unusualwhales.bsky.social/post/3lwf...
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by Thrymr 1y ago
It's not like taxes because they are just making up the rules as they go along.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
It is rare that a third of the capital in the US stock market (by some recent estimates) is going for essentially the same speculative bet, though.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> It's all a question of are the founders still in power or not. Plenty of "founders" decide to sell out rather than follow their original vision no matter what. It's not even necessarily the wrong thing to do. But th
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by Thrymr 1y ago
But the whole point of the site is to demonstrate how great text-only websites are.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> I don't know what guides you're reading but I haven't touched easy_install in at least a decade. It is mentioned in the "Explanations and Discussions" section [0] of the linked Python Packaging guide. Old indee
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Who is going to be buying ships?
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by Thrymr 1y ago
Why in the world would you advocate explicitly for letting it run on production servers, rather than teaching it how to test in a development or staging environment like you would with a junior engineer?
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> I hit a small snag where Anthropic decides that running Claude as root with --dangerously-skip-permissions / yolo-mode is not allowed. You can get past this dumb nanny-state stuff by running [fun dangerous command that lets you ru
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by Thrymr 1y ago
At MIT, SIPB has managed IT better then the IT department for a long time.
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by Thrymr 1y ago
> It's much more useful to me to know what classes of problem you can solve There is somewhat less opportunity to bullshit on what problems you have solved than on what problems you can solve.

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