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by akiselev 3y ago
This a commercial operation with tiny pools, not a natural sanctuary with a giant habitat for them to freely roam. It’s not a choice between likely death after five years or a cozy life. It’s a miserable existence in solitary confinement in
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On the Reign of Cleopatra(acoup.blog)
22 points by akiselev 3y ago|3 comments
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by akiselev 3y ago
The archaeological evidence for pants might not have survived but we're pretty certain that humans started wearing clothing 80,000-230,000 years ago because that's when body lice, adapted to living in clothing, genetically diverge
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by akiselev 3y ago
Can’t wait for the Terminator puppetshow
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by akiselev 3y ago
You're just moving the goal posts. Sequoia has already stumbled.
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Sequoia balance their SBFs with solid, profitable bets. SBF was such a bad bet with so little due diligence that I don't think this is going to be true going forward and probably hasn't been for a while. They were running o
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Sequoia still has a braintrust that makes it profitable to associate with. That's why this single fiasco is so damaging: the braintrust has proven to be a farcical joke. The guy was playing video games while on their funding cal
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by akiselev 3y ago
Don't forget Sequoia Capital now too, after the SBF fiasco [1]. Though maybe their reputation hasn't quite reached the gutter yet. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20221109050305/https://www.sequ
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by akiselev 3y ago
Season six of Black Mirror due out next month!
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by akiselev 3y ago
Try using InstructXL for embeddings. It’s got a more complex prompt structure for generating embeddings which might be more useful
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by akiselev 3y ago
Yeah the network bandwidth is insane. Each A100 in an 8x A100 (80GB) pod [1] has its own 200 gigabit NIC ! Including storage that's nine 200gbps interfaces for almost two terabit of total internal bandwidth. The newer H100s each hav
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by akiselev 3y ago
Aptly named the "silver" alert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Alert
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by akiselev 3y ago
Maybe, maybe not; self focusing [1] is an active area of research. Optics is one area where secret projects have been shown to be way ahead of what is publicly available [2] so I wouldn't be surprised if they've figured out some s
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Morocco’s Tree-Climbing Goats(nationalgeographic.com)
3 points by akiselev 3y ago|1 comments
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by akiselev 3y ago
> People say Microsoft isn't the same as 20 years ago, that they are not pure evil, but this is proof... People haven't been paying attention since their consent decree expired over a decade ago.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Ecosystems are as much a burden in embedded development as they are a blessing. Either you put in the time to support much of it across all your Tier 1 platforms or you punt on the problem, defeating the purpose of using a language with an
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by akiselev 3y ago
There are plenty of libraries: from low level hardware abstraction layers to high level libraries like you'd find in the Arduino ecosystem. Those closer to the former (the HALs) require more understanding thus more reading, the latter
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by akiselev 3y ago
Frontend developers can barely be arsed to read the short React docs once a year to catch up on any updates. There is no way in hell we're going to be able to function in an industry with thousand page data sheets and programming manua
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by akiselev 3y ago
You can easily extend the PR workflow to local git: just check that it's run inside a git repo and error out if there are any unstaged changes. Add a --dangerous flag for non-git repo use cases where data might be lost. You can use the
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by akiselev 3y ago
Hammerhead BBQ time! This is Texas' answer to Japan's fugu fish cuisine!
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by akiselev 3y ago
Yep from what I’ve read I’ll have to do the full body in a single shot after spending several hundred man hours sanding down the old paint job and prepping the surface. I’m hoping in Southern California’s weather I won’t have much problem w
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by akiselev 3y ago
That sounds fascinating and complicated. I scratched my car a few years ago and decided I wanted to DIY a chameleon paint job instead of taking it to the shop (the car is worth less than the paint job if I pay retail). I’ve been slowly acqu
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500 years ago, from where it may have spread to other regions, simultaneously acceler
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by akiselev 3y ago
Is there any evidence that’s actually true? Being emotional doesn’t immediately change someone into a brain dead moron especially when someone seethes for a long time before acting. Any would be attacker who knows the security even exists w
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by akiselev 3y ago
You can try skypilot: https://skypilot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ It handles storage, setup, etc for machine learning work loads across several providers - which helps a lot if you need one of the instances that ra
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by akiselev 3y ago
Honestly the Vogons were only the third worst poets in the universe. If you can read awful human poetry like anything by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings, they won't faze you.
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by akiselev 3y ago
That’s why the babelfish translates brainwaves rather than sounds, which is especially important for communicating with our nonverbal alien neighbors.
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by akiselev 3y ago
It’s not exactly safe to handle, it’s just not acutely fatal until it’s supercritical. Plutonium forms an oxide that easily flakes off so handling any sized demon core is full of danger. Bump it against something, scratch it, or even if the
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by akiselev 3y ago
Think about how much water a person uses per day compared to how much salt. The former is measured in liters, the latter in grams. Desalination produces far more brine than humans could ever need.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Talk to your doctor. Genetic tests ordered via your physician may be covered by patient privacy laws in ways that 23andme customers aren’t. Read the fine print though because you get what you pay for.

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