bflesch

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1. 571.▲
   by bflesch 1y ago

   Let's hope you are as good at real gymnastics as you are at mental gymnastics.
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   by bflesch 1y ago

   The way you defend against an article citing "thousands of workers" by using a nitpicky criticism about grammar style makes me suspect that it raises a cognitive dissonance in your head that you are not ready to address yet.
3. 573.▲
   by bflesch 1y ago

   The way you formulated your message just made me realize that we got somehow duped into accepting the term "model" (as in "scientific model") as a valid word for this AI stuff. A scientific model has a theoretical founda
4. 574.▲
   by bflesch 1y ago

   You need to wait until someone does the exact picture you want, annotates it in their android photo library, and google uses it to train their AI models. But then they will be able to provide you the perfect result for your query, totally d
5. 575.▲
   by bflesch 1y ago

   Unfortunately the bank account trajectories are not public, because unscupulous corporations such FAANG who let thousands of engineers wade through my chat messages on their platforms might not shy away from bribing academics to improve ben
6. 576.▲
   by bflesch 1y ago

   I love the "cheating is a sign of intelligence" sound bite you provided. When AI engineers cheat we should applaud their intelligence and their lack of ethics. "Cheating (biology), a metaphor used in behavioral ecology to de
7. 577.▲
   by bflesch 1y ago

   > This is a natural part of running a benchmark, I'm sure tiny things like this will keep on getting discovered and we'll keep on fixing them. You're all extremely clever and I can't seem to understand how you missed
8. 578.▲
   by bflesch 1y ago

   Thanks for explaining it. All the best.
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   by bflesch 1y ago

   Even though Linux Foundation is only a 501(c)(6) nonprofit and not a 501(c)(3) nonprofit I wonder if all this legalese about "donation" might have very positive tax consequences for the donor.
10. 580.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    Oh, thanks for pointing that out. I got it all mixed up. But I think my argument still stands. Linux foundation is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit, see https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/bylaws So you might still be able to d
11. 581.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    I assume it's just people who do not have a graphics card
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    Look at the website linked in the vortex website footer: https://lfprojects.org/ It has all the bells and whistles of using an expensive law firm. I have no idea who exactly is behind this, but to me it does definitely not
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    Thanks, it was behind a "see benchmarks" link at the very bottom of https://spiraldb.com/ . I noticed these claims on both vortex.dev and https://spiraldb.com/vortex website, but both had no hyperl
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    MY PERSONAL BOTTLENECK between S3 and GPU is my credit card and not some new cargo module by some already-rich AI engineer and a fancy marketing website that must've cost a couple hundred grand. And if this module provides a benefit I&
15. 585.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    Big ick from my side. Manifest-style marketing blog post talking about revolutionary things but it seems their main metric is in the image above the post: "hey, we've raised $22M in funding". Landing pages of both spiral and
16. 586.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    All is well
17. 587.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    Can you attribute this technique to a specific group?
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    Thanks for sharing, I've created an OTX entry for this: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/68bf031ee0452072533deee6
19. 589.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    It's mostly about making it easy for users to opt in so they can steal the data. The theoretical AI benefits only appear once the data is stolen (pinky promise).
20. 590.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    I agree. For years we had to read HN posts about why we should not use vanity metrics but now that the corporate tech bros are making money with AI head over fist the user count is the most important metric again.
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    Neither of us made the tax rules, but they exist and we need to follow them. When I would sell to US consumers I'd also try to do it in a legally and tax compliant manner - even if it is only out of respect towards my customers in that
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    Thanks for sharing, that's news to me. They seem to have surpassed Germany as US treasury bond holder [1] but recently stopped buying bonds [2]. Do you have any information which geopolitical actor controls tether? Is it China or Russi
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    The invoice needs to state who is the seller. The payment goes to Stripe, and me and my tax accountant and the European tax authorities have zero transparency where the money goes after this. Am I buying a service from a US businessman just
24. 594.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    I can only see the title because I don't have FT subscription but I'm thankful for FT shielding me from more bad news. Ignorance is bliss ;)
25. 595.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    Yes, of course I use it a lot. It is a great hobby. But only use it because it is kind of forced upon us. It's just so inefficient nowadays. Cooking used to be for the whole homestead or for the large family. Now it is mostly only for
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    It's crazy that after all this time Tether is still a thing.
27. 597.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    Given my past experiences trying to get EU-compliant invoices for Stripe transactions this is unfortunately also how I feel about the situation. This decentralization has immediate benefits for plausible deniability.
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    This is off-topic to their grand blockchain adventures, but I need to mention it: I would love for stripe to start paying appropriate VAT on transactions between their merchants and EU citizens, I've been on their ass about it for near
29. 599.▲
    by bflesch 1y ago

    Yes, there are a lot of garbage microwave food offerings, especially popular with the US population. As a European I'm talking about quality food made with an automated process and end-to-end automation, including ingredient procuremen
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    by bflesch 1y ago

    The problem is not the robot loading the diswasher, it is the dishwasher. The dishwasher (and general kitchen electronics) industry has not innovated in a long time. My prediction is a new player will come in who vertically integrates these