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by gessha 3mo ago
General advice from a CV PhD dropout: Lean onto the interests of assistant professors at your school instead of trying to find promising RL subtopics. This way you can get time with someone who’s deep in the field and can be a guiding light
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by gessha 3mo ago
If you check eBay for V100 SXM variant, you will often see them sold in combination with a cold plate, together with a PCIe carrier board. There’s definitely a market for them.
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by gessha 3mo ago
It was always the disconnect between the people who made it work and the people who couldn’t that prevented wider adoption.
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by gessha 3mo ago
I found this message from CC so funny that I saved it: > This is a focused debugging task, but it's real work and I've been running a long time.
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by gessha 3mo ago
We need to take a peek at their diaries again
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by gessha 3mo ago
What they’re actually worth is probably something within Apple’s cash range but investors have other ideas.
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by gessha 3mo ago
It’s because of people like those that companies invent a circus full of hoops to jump through to access a random PDF that you need to do your job.
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by gessha 3mo ago
Surrounded by the barbarian warmonger nations of Canada and Mexico, the US has to increase its military budget to close to a trillion to pay for wars it definitely hasn’t been single-handedly starting since the 1970s while the USAID budget
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by gessha 3mo ago
Is capacity a static quantity?
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by gessha 3mo ago
Until your agents have their own PCs and a little army of agents. :)
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by gessha 3mo ago
That’s about the price of a workstation-class Nvidia GPU nowadays and if you splurge double, you can get a PCIe version of a data center card.
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by gessha 3mo ago
Based on your comment, I assume you use Matt Pocock’s skills, is that correct? If so, have you compared it to obra’s superpowers?
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by gessha 4mo ago
So that’s where all the used V100s are going. I’ve been thinking about making a water cooled version of those because I don’t have a rack to put these servers on.
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by gessha 4mo ago
I jest but database design is its own sub field of computer science, maybe look into their papers?
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by gessha 4mo ago
I built a very crude app sourcing comments from the HN firehose, classifying them using Gemma 4 and a prompt made from the comment guidelines. It had some amusing results. The app did a decent job at surfacing problematic comments that a mo
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by gessha 4mo ago
It could be that polarizing threads end up more actively voted on compared to “cool stuff” threads. We’re not immune to social network effects after all.
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by gessha 4mo ago
Not if you trade with the US of A :)
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by gessha 4mo ago
“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” takes a new meaning in today’s agentic coding world.
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by gessha 4mo ago
It’s the same as posting paywalls articles. There’s no need to make a new rule. If the users can’t read it, the conversation will simply devolve into title commenting.
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by gessha 4mo ago
Still not enough to establish the year of Linux on the desktop.
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by gessha 4mo ago
> You wouldn't run an engineering company with 500 engineers reporting directly to the CEO. Jack Dorsey wants to prove you wrong!
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by gessha 4mo ago
You can call something undemocratic without needing to compare it to the actual worst country on this planet.
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by gessha 4mo ago
Another idea is big players pulling out of the crypto market and putting it into the LLM market.
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by gessha 5mo ago
The idea is interesting and I’ve been thinking about tools along the same lines but Claude’s paws are all over the landing page - non-meaningful icons attached to specific concepts, not-optimized for mobile, the contrasts, etc. The bar is h
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by gessha 5mo ago
A couple more gigs and I can FIRE
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by gessha 5mo ago
Collecting user data directly by competing on price. The next step would be figuring out how that data can bring them closer to SOTA.
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by gessha 5mo ago
Generalization is a tool, not something inherently bad or evil.
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by gessha 5mo ago
Just like how the small web never disappeared, people writing will not disappear. Your ability to find them will be impeded but it won’t be impossible.
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by gessha 5mo ago
Yeah, a lot of Claude Code users(me included) found in March if rework is free or not.
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by gessha 5mo ago
The Google lover to Google hater pipeline is still going strong.

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