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by akrymski 4y ago
Sounds like an assembly programmer trying C for the first time. Sure the produced assembly isn't as good as hand written. But with Moore's law, maybe it doesn't matter?
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by akrymski 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that the probability of hitting 7-figures in a consulting firm is smaller than hitting that figure as a founder of a startup.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Isn't there still Visual Basic.NET? Along with a C# version, it had all the VB UI goodies as far as I recall. MS also had some awesome tech around DCOM in VB - transparent RRC was very futuristic at the time.
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by akrymski 4y ago
Arguably the funniest comment I've seen in a while
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by akrymski 4y ago
https://archive.ph/A33Qv
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Consumers Foot the Bill for Traders ‘Manipulating’ UK Power Market(bloomberg.com)
1 points by akrymski 4y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
It’s worth noting that Suspend/Resume doesn’t work for GPU instances. Surprising given that NVidia has vGPUs capable of hibernation: https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/15.0/grid-vgpu-release-notes-mi... "vGPU
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Google Cloud now lets you suspend and resume VMs(cloud.google.com)
78 points by akrymski 4y ago|23 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
How does Llama compare to the actually open source Flan UL2?
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by akrymski 4y ago
How does Llama compare to the actually open source Flan UL2?
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by akrymski 4y ago
None of these seem to preserve identity well. I doubt stable diffusion is the right model for this. It should be easy to take a single passport photo and then it into a stylistic headshot. Maybe Pix2Pix or similar?
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by akrymski 4y ago
Good overview on Fed's response to TNB: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2019/03/fed-vs-narrow-ban...
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by akrymski 4y ago
https://archive.ph/sOlsK
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Google Is Making Breakthroughs Much Bigger Than AI(bloomberg.com)
4 points by akrymski 4y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
I was hoping a Central Bank Digital Currency would be this. But it seems to be bank-to-bank only: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/its-of...
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by akrymski 4y ago
If banks are mostly investing in things that are riskier (and so higher-return) than Fed deposits, they should be able to pay interest that is higher than the rate on Fed deposits. But in reality you get the reverse, as what the Fed is doin
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by akrymski 4y ago
https://archive.ph/WEuO8
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The Fed versus the Narrow Bank(bloomberg.com)
4 points by akrymski 4y ago|7 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
Is LLAMA actually better than Flan T5?
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by akrymski 4y ago
Have you every tried to edit the Wikipedia? Spamming it is incredible hard for humans (whether AI is involved or not) because it has a pretty good system of moderators based on the social trust model. The only way to bypass it is to effec
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by akrymski 4y ago
> any action you perform means a round trip to the server Meaning your server-side app is not stateless? Is there an instance for every client?
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by akrymski 4y ago
The Deposit Insurance Fund had a balance of $128 billion at the end of 2022, a tiny fraction of the $9.9 trillion of insured bank deposits in the United States. Now, the FDIC is attempting to sell SVB in order to pay its uninsured depositor
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by akrymski 4y ago
"Now, the FDIC is attempting to sell SVB in order to pay its uninsured depositors. At the end of 2022, more than 90 percent of SVB’s $175 billion in deposits were uninsured by the federal agency." "The Deposit Insurance Fund
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by akrymski 4y ago
Request for startups: a bank that doesn't gamble ("invest") with your deposits.
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by akrymski 4y ago
"Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks" - a "special" money printer? "U.S. banking system remains resilient ... due to reforms th
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When did SVB insiders begin to realize they were in trouble?(nongaap.substack.com)
230 points by akrymski 4y ago|233 comments
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Full-Reserve Banking(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by akrymski 4y ago|2 comments
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SVB’s Lobby Groups Fought Proposal to Bolster Deposit Insurance(levernews.com)
2 points by akrymski 4y ago|1 comments
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by akrymski 4y ago
Except the CEO and Chief Risk Officer already cashed out a year ago.
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by akrymski 4y ago
SVB had no Chief Risk Officer for much of 2022 at all, which they failed to disclose. The previous one left in a hurry after selling $4m worth of stock, along with the CEO.

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