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acchow
2y ago
I was always perpetually tired until my late 20s so I just slept in every class and took naps at my desk at my job too.
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2y ago
While Reddit is often helpful for me (Google site:reddit.com), it's nice to toggle between reddit and non-reddit. I hope LLMs will offer a "-reddit" model to switch to when needed.
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acchow
2y ago
Your mother-in-law probably never uses bluetooth, video games, Adobe suite, etc.
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2y ago
As long as I’m weight lifting consistently, I have no post-lunch lethargy. If I pause for a few days, I almost pass out after lunch. This is consistent. Must be related to the glucose-insulin response
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2y ago
> They would need a trillion dollars in capital to have a chance imho. All AMD would really need is for Nvidia innovation to stall. Which, with many of their engineers coasting on $10M annual compensation, seems not too far fetched
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acchow
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There are people who think they never write bugs?
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acchow
2y ago
Given the billions of years of compression involved, these structures could occupy any number of latent spaces with all sorts of different meaning.
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acchow
2y ago
Does that 10% markup account for the Uber/lyft driver tip?
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acchow
2y ago
What about the 2nd generation of mule, then 3rd? If the probability of viability keeps dropping generation after generation, eventually it will delete itself?
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2y ago
Of course we are not separate species since successful interbreeding did happen (when the populations interacted).
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acchow
2y ago
A la "chicken tax" (A 25% tariff on light trucks)
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> “ It was unclear if the driver would be cited.” They admitted to being on their phone. This is an easy choice
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acchow
2y ago
No. For the easy 99.999% of driving they keep very little of the training data. Basically you want to minimize manual interventions (aka disengagements). When the driver intervenes, they keep a few seconds before (30 seconds?) and after tha
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Every product at Costco is vetted or experimental. Either way, you’ll always be happy because if you don’t like it they have their eternal refund policy (refund at any time without a time limit) The product return rates are also tied to cus
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The parents that actually care need to get together and decide collectively on timeframes for phone use so the kids can text/social with time limits. Then enforce it with on-device parental controls. Maybe 45 minutes before school each
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As much as I enjoy the original Blade Runner, it really does not feel like a masterpiece the way 2049 does. Note the usage of quotes from Nabokov's Pale Fire during the baseline test. A few I liked: Do you feel that there's
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2y ago
Nvidia expects to ship 420k Blackwell chips this year.
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The electricity consumption in the cloud is not really important. The H100 rents for about $4.5/hr consuming 0.7kWh in that hour which will likely cost them less than 7 cents.
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acchow
2y ago
No, they already adjusted for inflation. In nominal dollars, a home in 1955 would be under $10k https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
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2y ago
Twitter is a software company. Elon doesn't seem to be an actual software guy. Instead, he has an incredible knowledge of rockets and electric cars. He probably takes his rocket knowledge and under-estimates software complexity.
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They don't have to cough up any money. The 2018 compensation package they agreed upon is in stock options with vesting in 12 tranches, tied to stock price performance https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-announ
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2y ago
They are stock options. The money comes from the open market if he decides to sell the shares, and the shares themselves come from share dilution if he decides to exercise the options.
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2y ago
It seems the internet has decided some narrative about Elon Musk which is not true, and people go around repeating it. If you talk to actual employees, especially early and senior employees, you find that Elon Musk is absolutely pivotal to
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> Fumbling with your phone sounds like a silly statement but so did fumbling with your wallet. I don't think people want to look away from their phones to do anything, least of all pass a retina scan. You don't even need to swi
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Which is actually VNC under the hood.
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AI is skipping software integrations the same way cell phone towers (and Starlink) skipped phone wire deployment.
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> In the 1850s, just before the cable, the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, would routinely ship chronometers between London and Boston every few weeks, to keep the American time standard synced with London It is absolutely mind boggling ho
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This is known as a confounding bias. A quality study should try to eliminate the obvious ones, but of course there may still he an infinite number of hidden confounding variables.
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What about after the transition is complete? Surely managing a… managed service… is less costly?
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Macs are still on a different level. You can even wipe the entire SSD on a mac and STILL you have the ability to reinstall macOS without putting in any disc or USB stick. It's just always there waiting
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