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by gizmo 2y ago
Self-hosting is no big deal but NextCloud -- from what I've seen -- is not very good. Used by the German government is not the recommendation you might think it is.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Explosions are essentially about extremely rapid expansion of gasses. I don’t see how a battery, even one that is rigged to fail, can explode in an instant. Shorting out, overheating, and ultimately exploding because the battery compartment
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by gizmo 2y ago
We cannot perfectly replicate how real life worms behave because we don't have the necessary training data. We can create AI worms based on fake behavioral data, of course, but that will not result in prefect AI replicas of real world
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by gizmo 2y ago
It's on you to figure out how the world actually works instead of taking the words of people who fell into riches for gospel truth. It's a hard lesson to learn, especially if you have to pay the price of watching your startups fai
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by gizmo 2y ago
Language is fuzzy in exactly the same way. LLMs can create factually correct responses in dozens of languages using endless variations in phrasing. You fixate on the kind of questions that current language models struggle with but you forge
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by gizmo 2y ago
If you take a photo the photons hitting the camera sensor do so in a probabilistic fashion. Still, in sufficient light you'll get the same picture every time you press the shutter button. In near darkness you'll get a random noise
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by gizmo 2y ago
I think your iPhone analogy is apt. Do you want to be the person complaining that the phone drops calls or do you want to hold it slightly differently and get a lot of use out of it? If you pay careful attention to prompt phrasing you will
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by gizmo 2y ago
I asked GPT-4o and I got the correct answer in one shot: > Only one Monty Python member, Michael Palin, has been knighted. He was honored in 2019 for his contributions to travel, culture, and geography. His extensive work as a travel doc
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by gizmo 2y ago
Microsoft, Google, Facebook have all said in recent weeks that they fully expect their AI datacenter spend to accelerate. They are effectively all-in on AI. Demand for nvidia chips is effectively infinite.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Even if you disregard the Olympiad performance OpenAI-O1 is, if the charts are to be believed, a leap forward in intelligence. Also bear in mind that AI researchers are not out of ideas on how to make models better and improvements in AI ch
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by gizmo 2y ago
After thinking about this blogpost for a minute I realized the blogpost actually literally argues for doing things the hard and stupid way. Not as a metaphor for integrity or quality. Integrity isn't the point: > It had nothing to d
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by gizmo 2y ago
The iPhone is not fragile. It's astonishing how sturdy it is. Even without a case you can drop it on concrete and most of the time you get nothing more than a scuff. With a case a phone can take an absurd amount of abuse. Many people d
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by gizmo 2y ago
You're angry that IA is not run by rational pragmatists, but you don't seem to appreciate that projects like these never are. Some people live by idealism and die by idealism. I get that from the outside it looks pointless to set
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by gizmo 2y ago
You approach this from a perspective of realism. The law is what it is and IA is wrong according to the plain interpretation of the law. Except that's not how everybody lives. Some people do what they believe is right regardless of the
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by gizmo 2y ago
If the US economy keeps growing then American businesses will do well and the stock market will reflect that. It’s hard to image scenarios where the American economy shrinks while other countries have growing prosperity.
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by gizmo 2y ago
Businesses are primarily valued based on their discounted future cashflows. American businesses are worth much more than their European counterparts because investors (correctly) expect that American businesses will more aggressively seek p
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by gizmo 2y ago
I don’t think anybody gets real work done at the beach, and if you like to work outside you can use a laptop in the shade without issues. And if I have to sync my notes manually it’s easier to use pen and paper and snap a picture afterwards
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by gizmo 2y ago
What does the ReMarkable really excel at? You can make notes, but the software is not that great from what I've seen. It doesn't have end-to-end encryption so I wouldn't use it for anything important. You can read PDFs but ty
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by gizmo 2y ago
Businesses periodically have to reinvent themselves in order to survive. But it's hard for experienced executives to accept that the playbook that worked for 20 years no longer does. Businesses fail when executives refuse to accept tha
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by gizmo 2y ago
Regarding Germany and their nuclear power situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#First... France is shutting down 14 plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_i
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by gizmo 2y ago
You can't prove "who shot first" because the answer depends entirely on where history starts. People who want to argue about unanswerable questions like these don't want peace. They just seek justifications for further b
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by gizmo 2y ago
Most Americans supported or voted for presidents that bombed innocent people. Does that mean Americans therefore “deserved” 9/11? According to your moral logic any action against American civilians is tragically justified retaliation f
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by gizmo 2y ago
Resolutions to the conflicts Israel has with its neighbors are complicated for many reasons. Lasting peace requires a willingness to compromise and to stick to agreements made, which is extremely difficult politically. The moral questions a
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by gizmo 2y ago
He is a good example exactly because all exceptional executives are super unusual. Gates, Jobs, Musk, Bezos. They are nothing alike. Huang defies management best practices and doesn’t do 1:1 meetings at all.
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by gizmo 2y ago
No that’s not it. Conventional managers are very ambitious and sincerely want their business to do great.
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by gizmo 2y ago
The big thing missing from pg’s essay is how the professional managerial class has this big filter where only those who are willing to jump through hoops for 20 years get to the c-suite. In businesses of any size it’s just not possible to g
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by gizmo 2y ago
Stephen Wolfram has some Q&A streams on youtube where he answers questions off-the-cuff about the history of science. It's remarkable how much he can immediately recall and how easily he makes connections between seemingly unrelate
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by gizmo 2y ago
Real world energy use is nothing like what you see on spec sheets. And not just because manufacturers differ in how they compute TPD. And TPD is also not a good indicator for energy use at (near) idle. With underclocking/volting in the
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by gizmo 2y ago
That's very cool. I ultimately concluded that those mystery brand Chinese fanless mini pcs from Amazon (essentially laptop hardware in a tiny enclosure) offer a better deal. Minimal power usage, fast networking, real USB-C, and NVMe dr
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by gizmo 2y ago
Don't you also need ARC because of video post-processing that adds frames of latency? The TV needs to send audio back to the receiver otherwise video and audio will not be in sync anymore. Receivers/amplifiers can process audio wi

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