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541.
by dekhn 1y ago
No endowment grows over time to infinity; that's hyperbole (and impossible). The tax-free status - that's definitely something that could be changed by updating the laws (legislative). That sounds a lot better than the executive
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by dekhn 1y ago
Yes, it's pretty well understood at this point that news reports often greatly overstate the impact of an event compared to base rates. By playing to the "local neighborhood" and "cute kitty" angle while pointing a
543.
by dekhn 1y ago
I was responding to the "single nuke kills everybody" statement. I didn't say anything about MAD. Modern nuclear strategy does not aim to use nuclear weapons to immediately kill everybody in the US. We moved away from reall
544.
by dekhn 1y ago
Modern ICBMs don't have payloads that large. A single warhead does not eradicate the entire population of the US- if you believe so, can you articulate the mechanism?
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by dekhn 1y ago
It's not bollocks, the endowments are contributions that have constraints on their spending. They cannot legally redirect much of the endowment towards these researchers in the way you want. Instead, they use the endowment as an inve
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by dekhn 1y ago
What about people who can look at something and then draw it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wiltshire Do they have to recall specific areas, or do they perceive the entire thing as a fully instantiated mental i
547.
by dekhn 1y ago
You can easily answer this with a Google search.
548.
by dekhn 1y ago
He moved from merely asking questions to promoting an unsupported claim without any real evidence (repeatedly). he's not curious.
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by dekhn 1y ago
App Engine caused a huge innovator's dilemma for Google when it came to cloud. It only addressed a set of use cases around web application development- Folks would ask "why shoudl we build a low-margin cloud?" and I'd te
550.
by dekhn 1y ago
If I find myself reaching a point where I would need to deal with ABIs and binary compatiblity, I pretty much stop there and say "is my workload so important that I need to recompile half the world to support it" and the answer (f
551.
by dekhn 1y ago
CUDA is part of our cluster install scripts, we don't manage that with uv or conda. To me, that should be system software that only gets installed once.
552.
by dekhn 1y ago
I've programmed all those languages before (learned C in '87, C++ in 93, Go in 2015 or so) and to be honest, while I still love C, I absolutely hate what C++ has become, Go never appealed to me (they really ignored numeric work fo
553.
by dekhn 1y ago
At least on my cluster, few if any workloads are containerized. We also have an EKS where folks run containerized, but that's more inference and web serving, rather than training.
554.
by dekhn 1y ago
I hadn't paid any attention to rust before uv, but since starting to use uv, I've switched a lot of my performance-sensitive code dev to rust (with interfaces to python). These sorts of improvements really do improve my quality o
555.
by dekhn 1y ago
At this point I've seen enough from Altman to say that he's a grifter who is full of crap and is greatly overstating the future capabilities of OpenAI models. The fact that he runs the most capitalized startup ever while competin
556.
by dekhn 1y ago
We have a bunch of Google's previous future of communication (jamboard) which they eventually deprecated and now they don't work very well. I simply don't understand who is letting folks at Google work on this and release pro
557.
by dekhn 1y ago
if you apply to grad school, yes. Typically they want a GPA (which was a problem for me since I went to a school that didn't give you grades, just "narrative evals").
558.
by dekhn 1y ago
I used to work at UCSF, which has a world-class liver transplant program. Just about every year, there would be an article about a family, typically immigrants from eastern europe (or maybe asia?) who picked mushrooms that looked like edibl
559.
by dekhn 1y ago
Yes, but I'm talking about the costs of actually running a 24/7 emergency vehicle operation- even completely idle, the emergency vehicle has significant costs that they need to cover.
560.
by dekhn 1y ago
I don't know, I don't run an ambulance company- what should the cost be (either to me, my insurance company, or to the government)? Can't be cheap to fully staff an ambulance with EMTs.
561.
by dekhn 1y ago
I have been waiting for our leaders to realize we need to build seawalls (not just New York- covering both coasts). Some large contractors are going to make a lot of money.
562.
by dekhn 1y ago
I had never used SAT before (was familiar with the concept) and recently wanted to avoid thinking, so I asked gemini (after a few test prompts): """Create a MiniZinc script to find the optimal E12-series resistor values for t
563.
by dekhn 1y ago
I had an odd but successful experience with medical billing recently. My daughter went to urgent care for an urgent problem; after things were mostly cleared up, they transferred her by ambulance to an ER (even though there was no emergenc
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by dekhn 1y ago
I used to work with the guy who solved voice recognition for google and he said that to improve the quality significantly he spent so much time looking at spectrograms of speech that he could just glance at a spectrogram and perceive what w
565.
by dekhn 1y ago
If your experimental system is so delicate that it can't be reproduced in another location (by expert hands), is it really a good experimental system? To me it sounds like a terrible experimental system that is brittle and does not ge
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by dekhn 1y ago
See also: https://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf and the book "Hackers".
567.
by dekhn 1y ago
I once worked for a company that kept its passwords locked in a safe. One day, all other copies of the password were lost, and they needed it, but the safe's key could not be found. They expensed a sledgehammer and obtained the passwo
568.
by dekhn 1y ago
I'm really surprised the school and the district doubled down when they were wrong. Even if light is not always generated by combustion, B is a less wrong answer than C, and it's pretty straightforward to establish that oxygen is
569.
by dekhn 1y ago
Which is funny, because everybody knows that's toxic waste (see Toxic Avenger from the 1980s).
570.
by dekhn 1y ago
Take a look at MIT's response to the administration regarding the University Compact ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_for_Academic_Excellenc... ). You can see that MIT has an excellent understanding on how t

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