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by berkeleyjunk 6mo ago
Thanks for this fascinating write up. I could not afford anything better when I got into my first job, and the freedom that this mediocre box provided me was unbelievable.
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Truck hunting on the Ho Chi Minh trail(historynet.com)
4 points by berkeleyjunk 6mo ago|0 comments
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Quantum Decryption of RSA Is Much Closer Than Expected(securityweek.com)
4 points by berkeleyjunk 7mo ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 1y ago
I wish someone had told Alex Blechman this before his "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" post.
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The AI Pioneer with Provocative Plans for Humanity(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 2y ago|0 comments
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Jeff Bezos backs AI chipmaker Tenstorrent(techcrunch.com)
13 points by berkeleyjunk 2y ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 2y ago
As someone who is pretty skeptical and reads the fine print, I think this is a good move and I really do not see a downside (other than the fact that this probably strengthens the nVidia monoculture).
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NOAA Is in Danger(theatlantic.com)
63 points by berkeleyjunk 2y ago|67 comments
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The White House Creator Economy Conference(whitehouse.gov)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 2y ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 2y ago
Nope. Totally different company and founded about 5 years earlier than Square.
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by berkeleyjunk 2y ago
I thought about that too, but realized that it is double counting the returns. If you look at the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method for valuing the company, the current value of the company is already the sum of the discounted cash flows fr
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by berkeleyjunk 2y ago
It is interesting how most M&A transactions trend to have a 30% premium above the trading price. I have tried to investigate why but could not find a good explanation to why this number is so prevalent.
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Microsoft doesn't want police forces using Azure AI for facial recognition(techradar.com)
1 points by berkeleyjunk 2y ago|0 comments
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Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules(arstechnica.com)
53 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|114 comments
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A Columbia Surgeon's Study Was Pulled. He Kept Publishing Flawed Data(nytimes.com)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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How Chinese hackers got their hands on Microsoft’s token signing key(helpnetsecurity.com)
3 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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Tesla’s ‘ultra hardcore’ work culture – as told by its employees(theverge.com)
21 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|14 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
The article suggests jitsi and I have had success using it in all the platforms you mentioned.
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Why layoffs lead to workers quitting(bbc.com)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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Capella’s Earth-imaging satellites are deorbiting faster than expected(techcrunch.com)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
I can see the other things but "Apple home button scandal" either does not belong in the same league or there might be something I do not know about. Can you expand a little bit on your thinking?
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
I think you have a point but part of this was self-inflicted. Instead of knowledgeable salespersons who could help with the purchase, the stores tried to cut costs and replace them with lower cost people who did not know/care as much.
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US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents(techdirt.com)
541 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|100 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
from the July 1860 issue. Wow, started reading it and I was hooked. Thank you for pointing out this gem.
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Workers rely on medieval era tech to reconstruct the Notre Dame(popsci.com)
108 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|100 comments
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Eating Disorder Helpline to Replace Human Staff with AI Chatbot(gizmodo.com)
3 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|0 comments
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
Pretty straightforward. The current value of the company is the Net Present Value of all the future expected cash flows. Basically you can take the money Apple will make in 2024, 2025, 2026 ... and reduce them to today's values by disc
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
I am not an expert in this space but dabble a bit. This comment is spot on. AMD's software is pretty bad and NVDA has captured all the developer attention with CUDA and is the basis for lot of the frameworks people use. It is not a tri
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by berkeleyjunk 3y ago
Thank you! That page certainly seems more concrete and useful.
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Fat, Sugar, Salt You’ve Been Thinking About Food All Wrong(wired.com)
2 points by berkeleyjunk 3y ago|1 comments

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