ericpauley

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by ericpauley 4mo ago
Staying out of the larger discussion, but: > The smartest model in the world still draws pelicans riding bicycles worse than a five year old. The bicycle is something that humans are famously bad at drawing: https://www.washin
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
The uncomfortable fact about the mentioned Wisconsin winters is that inside dew point tends to be quite low.
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
Really cool stuff. Out of curiosity what made you select PowerDNS (and in general a commodity DNS server) vs. developing a custom DNS server integrating your logic (using https://github.com/miekg/dns for instance).
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
AI;dr
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Understanding Data Collection, Brokerage, Spam in the Lead Marketing Ecosystem(arxiv.org)
2 points by ericpauley 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
Are these payback periods factoring in opportunity cost? If not the game is already lost. If so periods that long are so sensitive to alternate asset returns that they could easily be infinity.
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
You and Matt Levine would get along: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/matt-levines-money...
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
This is far from a universal truth: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal... Real estate is only a clearly good investment if you ignore opportunity cost.
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We Keep Tricking Ourselves into Thinking A.I. Is Conscious(nytimes.com)
6 points by ericpauley 5mo ago|0 comments
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
Title is somewhat incorrect: more than 60% of the U.S. is facing drought, making it overall the worst in decades. The data do not show that the drought in each area is the worst in decades.
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
Title claims "due to plains drought" but the article text largely attributes this to increased planting of soy for its lower fertilizer requirements (related to Strait of Hormuz).
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
This is potentially the most usful AI slop blog post I've ever read.
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
Phenomenal piece. I particularly appreciate how transparently the ideas generalize to AI coding without ever having to explicitly say it.
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
What component in particular goes substantially beyond CRUD?
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
The GDP-relative amount of US debt held by foreign investors has actually gone down on since 2014: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HBFIGDQ188S
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
Food groups seem like such a strange way to quantify this, especially given that production of several of the food groups is a net macronutrient destroyer. The macronutrient story is far more telling. For instance my math says (based on 17B
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by ericpauley 5mo ago
Couldn't some of the use cases presented for this be accomplished with ZSETs? I get the performance angle, but it seems that this could have been accomplished without the new API surface by selectively optimizing ZSET storage for dense
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
Has that task accomplished anything yet?
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
“from the world’s largest meat and dairy companies” Title length limits are tough but this is pretty critical context.
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
Off by an order of magnitude. Average TBO (which airplane engines routinely exceed if they don’t rust out) is 2,000 hours assuming piston, or about 300,000 miles for a Piper Arrow at cruise speed.
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
Going to have to disagree on the backup test. Opus flamingo is actually on the pedals and seat with functional spokes and beak. In terms of adherence to physical reality Qwen is completely off. To me it's a little puzzling that someone
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
I've been using the same Patagonia Black Hole backpack for nearly a decade, every day include bike commutes (and crashes). The longevity is frustrating at this point because I'd really like a larger one but can't bring myself
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
Strong disagree on Pinnacles being underwhelming. The California condors acord woodpeckers and alone are worth the visit. The caves are also very cool if you go when they're open.
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
If sshd is OOMing on 64GB something else is going on…
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by ericpauley 6mo ago
Thoroughly enjoyed reading this, especially the author’s repeated obsession on the door vs. curtain innovation…
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by ericpauley 7mo ago
Yeah this seems silly. You can do the same thing in git (add and commit with the conflict still there)! Why you would want to is a real mystery.
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by ericpauley 7mo ago
Insisting on saying VoIP to the Mint rep instead of WiFi Calling (the term used by Apple, Google, Mint, and practically everyone else) is asking for a bad time.
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by ericpauley 7mo ago
Yes, but Waymo also has to drive on the road with those drivers, and these stats include crashes that are their fault. Diligent drivers get hit by drunk/distracted drivers all the time.
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by ericpauley 7mo ago
As GP noted the issue is that even better versions than competed in MaxSAT are likely in the training data or web resources.
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by ericpauley 7mo ago
Sure, but that doesn’t explain the volume of these complaints. I think the more likely answer is the pitiful sycophancy of some models as demonstrated in BSBench.

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