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The addiction of online sports gambling: "Like crack in the '80s"(cbsnews.com)
27 points by dzonga 5d ago|19 comments
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by dzonga 6d ago
thanks for the resources.
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Checkout offered by banks and credit unions. Alternative to OneLink(paze.com)
3 points by dzonga 7d ago|0 comments
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by dzonga 7d ago
companies like Costco, Patagonia etc are rare why ? because deliberate actions & care have been taken to go against the grain of what a company should do. just like the USA at it's founding - deliberate actions were taken etc that
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by dzonga 7d ago
companies aren't human beings with morals. companies exist for the sole reason to make money - not to make the world better - that's a side effect. but unfortunately a lot of people wanna see the world as they wish it to be, not t
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by dzonga 7d ago
once again judgment comes into play. judgement + taste is the difference maker.
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by dzonga 7d ago
I have been considering using my other laptop as a place to run my agents in production since 1. my laptop is more powerful than the vps I can rent for cheap. then just use Cloudflare tunnels to connect to the laptop.
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by dzonga 7d ago
for the downside - countless cultures have had preventative mechanism for that. if your biological child is an idiot/wasteman - then you could adopt - the Roman Empire ran on adopted children, with biological children seen as wasteman.
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by dzonga 8d ago
for a lot of teams that do pair programming etc and pairing with agents - this makes sense. hell dare I say better than the pull-request model - since you don't have to wait on people to review the code and deal with the nonsense of me
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by dzonga 8d ago
there's nothing wrong with leaving things to your kids to run. that's the point of the effort after all. warren as smart as he is was tryna go against the grain of thousands of human evolution. if you train your kids - then most l
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by dzonga 8d ago
open-ai have proven they can make good / decent models but business strategy is just spray and pray. they need to pick a lane and optimize for it. coz at their size they can't serve the application layer (a.i startups who can fine
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Nvidia and Palantir fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model which beats bigger models(thenewstack.io)
2 points by dzonga 9d ago|0 comments
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by dzonga 9d ago
very few people comprehend - how much of an asteroid level event for western AI labs this is. china has cheap abundant power, now they can make their own inference chips (which was supposed to be a chokepoint), their models yeah can be 6 mo
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by dzonga 9d ago
the open burial started when zAI served their latest model on all Chinese chips. now we r just noticing the grave getting dug deeper.
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by dzonga 9d ago
black swan events. this is one of one of those things - were in the current era either a cloud provider should provide automatic backups in another geographic zone. if you're in us-east, then your back-ups should ideally be in eu-west
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by dzonga 10d ago
yeah the performance, reliability & ecosystem of the JVM is unmatched. if you gonna work in a big team or need a project with lots of devs then yeah go for the JVM. but if you're doing things on the smaller / small scale side.
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by dzonga 10d ago
people on the ground know that small models are enough, since llms are good at directed work (i.e handholding) not the let loose go wild that the labs try to hype on. the only thing that few people are willing to admit is that humans are th
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by dzonga 10d ago
AI assisted coding all the way. for someone like me who doesn't like to write tests - I could easily have an agent write a test for me. I could lay the bricks then also have the agent do ornamental design that I'm not good at.
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by dzonga 11d ago
the tragedy is that architects (experts) prefer the modernist buildings. while common people prefer the classical buildings which makes cities more livable. the other tragedy is before 'regulations' normies designed buildings - th
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by dzonga 11d ago
if she was eating sweet potatoes how can that be ? unless she wasn't eating the sweet potatoes at all ?
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by dzonga 11d ago
I have a shitter account, I don't use the app but just the web app on safari iOS. recently with videos I can't change playback speed. so I have to use xCancel. before I just used to use Tweetdeck. but that went away or went pro.
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by dzonga 11d ago
oracle could've cruised nicely but nope greed and Larry Ellison's ego (add his son's too) - they bit off more than they can chew.
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by dzonga 11d ago
this is a welcome ruling. most of these search engine like companies including metasearch etc benefit from scrapping data on the onset, but then want to bring up TOS when they get scrapped. in the age of agents - if your agent does work on
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by dzonga 11d ago
btw does restate run on Cloudflare workers ?
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by dzonga 12d ago
in the age of agents, surely durable execution is a must. but the money being raised - what is it for ? go to market ? sponsorship & I like that temporal sponsored Crystal Palace. we've so many good durable execution engines. this
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by dzonga 12d ago
or underestimating the value of partnerships. nike thought they were the storefront. reality and history proved otherwise.
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by dzonga 13d ago
I'm not saying the bet is against Nvidia the company as in how it executes, or enters new markets. the bet is against the high margins in inference - when other capable players have entered the market as models become commoditized and
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by dzonga 13d ago
this is why people are going native / retail media. & some people i.e those with a lot of money are going to CTV as well. search ads have negative ROI. Facebook/Instagram & linkedIn work to a certain extent.
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by dzonga 13d ago
80-90% of AI costs are related to inference. Once zAI served their new model entirely on Chinese chips for free then the nVidia jig is up. who is going to pay back the money nVidia invests in AI labs, AI datacenter companies if the models a
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by dzonga 14d ago
2.5 flash was also good to use with as the llm layer for voice products. but google gonna google.

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