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by chrsw 1y ago
Isn’t contemporary education just a preview of the highly competitive white collar rat race? Constant grading, judgement and ranking? And for what? For some coveted yet mind-numbing tech job so can stay one step ahead of your peers and affo
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by chrsw 1y ago
They're useful. I'm doubting they will fulfill the AI hype, they're on the road to AGI or they're going to replace human work at scale.
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by chrsw 1y ago
AI has huge potential. LLMs though? Not so much. And the timeline for AI to transform the the way we live and work should be measured in decades, not months.
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I’m going to try this
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Thanks for this. So, if I were to run GNUStep as my desktop, what would I be missing from KDE, GNOME, XFCE, etc?
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by chrsw 1y ago
No I haven’t tried the Pro. I have the RM 2, which is very nice. But it is not ideal for my older eyes. I figured I should go as big as possible.
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by chrsw 1y ago
I was hoping for a 13.3” version for reading and marking up textbooks, technical documents and academic papers. Oh well, going the opposite way probably attracts more customers.
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by chrsw 1y ago
Making drugs isn't about understanding. It's about educated guesses and lots of trial and error. Biotech funding has no patience for deep understanding. Most drug research ends up as a money sink because investors lose patience wa
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by chrsw 1y ago
I've been using the Internet since the mid 90s. Some ways it is better but in many ways it is far worse. You just have to accept that most of the things you like about the Internet, even today, won't be around much longer.
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by chrsw 1y ago
CPU design has come a long way since the 1990s. Superscalar designs, high speed memory interfaces, multi-level caches, out-of-order execution, machine level translation, JIT optimization, the list goes on. Just one feature of frontier high
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by chrsw 1y ago
1. Why is because making advanced chips is an engineering problem, not magic. It's about motivation, resources and time. China as all three. 2. If we don't want to rely on China for critical technology we need to focus on our own
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by chrsw 1y ago
China is racing full speed ahead to win in all these tech domains regardless of export controls. They will surpass us on chips just like they surpassed us on EVs. The leading edge of chip design is very complex so it will just take more tim
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by chrsw 1y ago
There's ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham. I've never read it and I'm not sure it's the best introduction but thumbing through it I don't see how you can get any more basic than that.
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by chrsw 1y ago
China taking Taiwan might finally force us to get our act together.
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In my experience, only the top 5% or so of engineers actually get to decide what to work on. Everyone else just has to churn through the backlog.
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by chrsw 1y ago
I pulled up a podcast on YouTube the other week of just two people facing the camera and their faces side-by-side the screen. I had to just use audio only. I couldn't actually look at the video. The guest on the show was using some kin
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by chrsw 1y ago
I’d rather prepare for life with China in total control of Taiwan than try and defend Taiwan from China. I believe they will take Taiwan without bloodshed, anyway. Which is why it is critical to build up the US advanced manufacturing base.
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Hardwired-Neurons LPUs as General-Purpose Cognitive Substrates(arxiv.org)
1 points by chrsw 1y ago|0 comments
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by chrsw 1y ago
Yes but it's easy to go from democracy to fascism. It's harder going the other way. It's like going from a clean house to a messy house is much easier than going from a filthy house to a tidy house.
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If (or when) China invades Taiwan we will be better off than Taiwan but I wouldn't call us "OK" at that point. That will be a major disruption. It will take decades for the US to get where Taiwan is now in semiconductor manuf
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This is way more impressive than back flips and break-dancing.
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I doubt many people will switch to Linux because of the forced switch. Most people will putter along on Windows 10 until they can upgrade. It's still too much of a disruption to swith to Linux, especially for non-technical users.
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The first sentence is confusing for me.
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1. Do we really want these jobs to come back to the US? 2. If we do, what cost are we willing to pay for it?
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by chrsw 1y ago
My rent did not go up this year, actually. And it did not go up one year during COVID either. Plus, as a renter, I took the option of renting in a cheaper (unattractive) building with no amenities in an otherwise expensive neighborhood in a
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by chrsw 1y ago
Hiring contractors to work on your house is also high cost, in money and stress. You commonly end up paying someone a lot of money who then turns around and gets underpaid subcontractors, of dubious employment eligibility status, to do the
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by chrsw 1y ago
For a while I thought owning a home wasn’t a great idea. Take on massive debt and sink massive amounts of time and money into home projects? No thanks. But the trick I missed was we just don’t build housing in this country. Especially not a
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Thinking Machines: Mathematical Reasoning in the Age of LLMs(arxiv.org)
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"last CEO" is hyperbole. But despite the competitiveness of some of their latest offerings, their trajectory is beyond concerning.
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My Firefox annoyance blocker prevented me from reading this article. In Chrome it worked by I had to dismiss an annoying popup.

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