Thrymr

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by Thrymr 2y ago
> he was one of three authors Indeed, but the other two (Charles Misner and Kip Thorne) were Wheeler's former students.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> I would be surprised if OpenAI was a whole digit percentage of their revenue. It is not publicly known how much revenue Nvidia gets from OpenAI, but it is likely more than 1%, and they may be one of the top 4 unnamed customers in their
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by Thrymr 2y ago
For me, that moment was cryptocurrency. "Vastly overhyped, driven by pure greed and speculative narratives, limited implementation and high energy cost." - all applied. I couldn't understand why so many people thought it was
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> And a moka costs $20 and lasts through a nuclear war. Good luck finding quality coffee beans after the war, unless your bunker has a coffee plantation attached.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> We can't preserve bits like books. The only reason we have any copies of "books" (i.e. long written works) from the ancient world is that they were painstakingly copied over centuries from one medium to another, by hand
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by Thrymr 2y ago
That's about as accurate as saying that John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the same person rather than father and son.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
Keynote is great if you are making a presentation for yourself and you don't need to share or collaborate on it. Otherwise, interoperability trumps features, and either Google Slides or PowerPoint is good enough and more likely to be c
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by Thrymr 2y ago
A CRT display is a "cathode ray tube", which shoots electrons, which are negative.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
Nearly everywhere in the US is below $0.40/kWh. The average nationwide is $0.17/kWh. Only a handful of cities in California and Hawaii are over $0.40 (those places have the highest gas prices too). Most people will pay less than h
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by Thrymr 2y ago
There was a G4 storm less than two months ago: https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/noaa-satellites-detect-seve...
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> You can make double or triple that in total compensation at the staff or principal level in the Bay Area. Sure, it is possible, but that is a small number of roles at a small number of companies, and the vetting process will be more in
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by Thrymr 2y ago
NumPy can _store_ arrays in either row-major (C-style) or column-major (Fortran-style) order. Row-major is the default. Index order is always row, column.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
Sure, everything is an optimization problem, the hard part is defining your cost function, especially if the borgizaf is trying to solve an ill-formed business problem.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
Wonderful that we have evolved large linear algebra models running on expensive computers to the point that they can no longer do basic arithmetic correctly.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> Best practice is to register two keys to every website. Keep one physically in a safe. Well, this sounds convenient. Keep the second one in a safe, but register a key to it for every website you use. Is this a practice we actually beli
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> TSA Precheck - literally the same thing as Clear but without the personal escort at the end. Not the same thing - TSA precheck doesn't require you to give your biometric data to a private company.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
With TSA precheck, you only have to go through a metal detector. It's a program run by a federal agency, not a private contractor that requires your retinal scans. It's also available at more US airports than Clear.
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by Thrymr 2y ago
> if every individual investor bought the S&P with leverage You could also go broke! (or at least significantly underperform historical averages.) Sure, you can make higher returns by taking more risk. That's not most people&#x2
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by Thrymr 2y ago
But basically nothing in these answers was "right". It was merely plausible. "Important information" or not, what is the point of this garbage?
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by Thrymr 3y ago
Repetition is harmful, stale answers are harmful, growing the results forever is harmful, searching for good old answers that are still valid is difficult, prioritizing newer answers means that the good old ones are harder to find, etc., et
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by Thrymr 3y ago
He started X.com which merged with PayPal, but lost control of the domain over 20 years ago and didn't buy it back until 2017 [0]. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/10/15949862/elon-musk-x-com-...
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by Thrymr 3y ago
Certainly some of these work fine to run as on-demand programs instead of services for many use cases (e.g. jekyll, rclone). I would say there are a wide variety of use cases that could have some of these running as a service on a laptop or
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by Thrymr 3y ago
I don't know about Africa, but it is not exactly controversial that China and other places had high quality steel before Europe.
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by Thrymr 3y ago
The % probability continues to grow past the distribution peak. If you have made it that long, you are still more likely to die each year you go on living.
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by Thrymr 3y ago
As linked in another thread on this story, Sam Altman said this almost 10 years ago when investing in reddit [0]: > First, it’s always bothered me that users create so much of the value of sites like reddit but don’t own any of it. So,
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by Thrymr 3y ago
> So maybe this technique will work when we all have our own locally hosted AI? None of the trillion-dollar corporations working to make AI the next big thing want us to have locally hosted (and certainly not locally-controlled) AI.
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by Thrymr 3y ago
There is no such thing as "best possible model, full stop". Models are always context dependent, have implicit or explicit assumptions about what is signal and what is noise, have different performance characteristics in training
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by Thrymr 3y ago
8 GB is barely enough for web browsing these days. What will it be like in a couple years? A MacBook will generally run fine for years, it is well worth future-proofing a bit with more memory, since it is not upgradable.
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by Thrymr 3y ago
The reliability issues are real. I have a MacBook Air that is 11 years old now, I haven't done anything but replace the battery, and it still works fine. The only real issue is that the memory is not upgradable, otherwise it would stil
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by Thrymr 3y ago
I do not think the situation is remotely comparable to the possibility of the banking system collapsing. Banks and other financial institutions exert leverage far beyond their market caps.

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