Tycho

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by Tycho 2y ago
This ASED and LSD, aren’t they services to help the state counteract an information warfare attack? Just guessing, but it sounds like a legitimate thing where they’d want capacity to uncover/expose such activities, which I’m sure adver
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by Tycho 2y ago
Not if there’s a hardware shortage.
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by Tycho 2y ago
Timing matters. A long term strategy for superior hardware might bear fruit too late.
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by Tycho 2y ago
Sorry, you missed the point - DeepSeek tried some new software ideas, they did not manage to secure the same computation capacity.
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by Tycho 2y ago
But it is a partisan issue. All these people on fat NGO salaries, all these federal workers not pulling their weight, all the welfare abuse, all these aid payments - which party do you think is keen to keep the spigot flowing? Of course, it
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by Tycho 2y ago
Yes. Why do get these replies on HN that seem to only consider the most shallow, surface details? It could well be that xAI wins the AI race by betting on hardware first and foremost - new ideas are quickly copied by everyone, but a compute
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by Tycho 2y ago
A quick search for the word shows numerous X posts using it in the last few hours.
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by Tycho 2y ago
Can’t really tell what most of you are complaining about. You can say anything on X (short of doxing and inciting violence and things that are against the law), you can follow or block anyone on X. If they ban Signal links, a competitor pla
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by Tycho 2y ago
Anyone considered doing a PhD after retiring early from their primary career? Seems like it would be a good option if you were financially set for retirement and had “a few years to kill” before accessing your savings/investments. It w
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by Tycho 2y ago
You are saying essentially that the authority in question was incredibly mismanaged and incapable if its staff would perform worse in their critical functions just because of some personnel changes at the top a few days prior.
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by Tycho 2y ago
Keynesian beauty contests maybe
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by Tycho 2y ago
In the late 90s and 2000s there was a big thing in hiphop music about “conscious rap”. At first, rappers differentiated themselves from the mainstream by emphasising that they were “conscious” in their lyrics of the harm done by perpetuatin
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by Tycho 2y ago
Why? I’m not signed in and I can read the whole post just fine.
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by Tycho 2y ago
I think the only composer who sounds at all like Chopin is Scriabin.
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by Tycho 2y ago
The robot can’t take anything out of the home or bring anything into it. The operators are not locals with any connection to the local community. They don’t need a key to my property.
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by Tycho 2y ago
Maybe - $20k is a bit steep, but I would certainly pay a large premium to have my housework done without needing to employ a stranger to actually work in my home.
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by Tycho 2y ago
He hid the corpse so that he could charge Catalina with making her disappear I think. I thought the film was highly enjoyable. It was in a grandiose and operatic style, but I just kind of accepted that, plus there was a lot of hilarity.
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by Tycho 2y ago
Are gifted children just like children who have early growth spurts? They end up average but for a while they were towering above their peers.
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by Tycho 2y ago
Why would a yacht with experienced crew suffer such a disaster near to port? Surely they would have life jackets? Radios? How unusual is this as a boat accident? (regardless of the other irregularities)
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Computer science prof discovers why whales keep washing up on East Coast beaches(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by Tycho 2y ago|2 comments
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by Tycho 2y ago
After years of dismantling Solarwinds, a ubiquitous network management software, Thoma Bravo and Silver Lake dumped $286 million of shares in December 2020, the day before the company disclosed a staggering malware breach. The “Sunburst” c
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by Tycho 2y ago
Snap out of it. The standard of living has never been so high. It’s your attitude that’s toxic.
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by Tycho 2y ago
The 'hook' of Pale Fire is this: ostensibly you're reading a long-form poem with a foreword and footnotes and editing by a friend of the poet (a poet of some eminence), but it soon becomes apparent that the editor is trying
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by Tycho 2y ago
Can you elaborate more on the parallelism aspect?
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by Tycho 2y ago
Um, yes. When the “place that some people don’t like” is all sorts of CIA-connected NGOs and you’re a member of group defined by its paranoia about privacy, then absolutely this becomes disqualifying.
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by Tycho 2y ago
It’s mysterious for healthy people to suddenly die from flu in their mid 40s, yes.
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by Tycho 2y ago
There should be a huge investigation, but since the last death was self-inflicted, and this one was due to some mysterious illness, I’m not holding my breath. I wonder if the bank accounts of coroners ever get audited.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Maybe at the limit the best essay becomes a poem: a beautiful piece of writing that explores interesting ideas, yet always leaves room for new and different interpretations, even by the same reader.
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by Tycho 3y ago
Nicholas Nassim Taleb, author of Anti-Fragile and The Black Swan. I recommend those ones. He writes about the role of uncertainty in life. Certainly less dry than a statistics handbook, and drives home a lot of important concepts.
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by Tycho 3y ago
I didn’t have much formal maths beyond 17, just a year of university statistics. I think it paid to spend some time studying linear algebra and statistics (reading Taleb’s books helped make it a more interesting journey), learning to read m

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