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by hangonhn 1y ago
The investment from Softbank is interesting because ARM is also a portfolio company of theirs. ARM has said they want to make their own chips now so Intel might be a good candidate for that.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
re: Micron - Memory is very different from logic chips. You vast number of repeating cells in memory. If any of them are bad you can just turn them off and bin them as lower capacity. You can do that to some extend with logic chips but not
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by hangonhn 1y ago
No because people never really talk about the quantity of the alternatives -- i.e. Huawei Ascent. Even if Huawei can match the quality, their yields are still abysmal. The numbers I've heard are in the hundreds of thousands vs. million
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Why is LUKS bad fro SSDs? I'm thinking of using LUKS for my USB thumb drive.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
BMW at least has the media completely exposed. There is no canister like you might find on Honda oil filters. Basically on BMWs the oil filter housing is permanent. I don't think it's a BMW specific thing. Might be a German car th
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Glorified Chromebook at this price point can be a game changer for some enterprises. We do use Chromebooks for our line employees but for our engineers, etc. we use Macbook Pros. I'm sure our IT would appreciate it if we standardized o
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by hangonhn 1y ago
I agree with that assessment but that makes me wonder if a T5 style LLM would work better than a decoder only style LLM like GPT or Claude. Has anyone tried that?
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Huge fan of Starlette too. I use it for all my projects at work. That said, for some of my coworkers, I’ve pointed them to Litestar because it’s very similar to Starlette (I think it was originally built on it) but it has dependencies injec
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by hangonhn 1y ago
To be fair, the recipient probably isn't reading it either. They're getting it summarized. LLMs are creating more work for other LLMs.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
What do you mean by avoid looking weak? Like engineers in that community look down on not using the latest features?
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by hangonhn 1y ago
But part of the provider cost is driven by the availability of money to pay, which is part of the reason why drug costs are so much higher than in the US. For example, the doctor has no strong incentive to prescribe less costly drugs since
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Completely fair point. I should have prefaced my statement with US based healthcare system is structured this way. I don't know how the dynamics are in other countries -- though I do suspect it's similar in term of information asy
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by hangonhn 1y ago
But then you're just shifting the cost somewhere else. The doctors aren't working for free. Someone is paying them. It's just not the patients in the case of free clinics. In addition, doctors aren't the only cost cente
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by hangonhn 1y ago
You basically can’t or it won't have the same effects because medicine doesn’t really follow the same dynamics as most other markets: the supplier (doctor) has an information asymmetry and thus makes most of the decisions, while the bu
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Should have gone with the XKCD Captcha: https://xkcd.com/233/ The bit at the bottom might actually work on LLMs.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
That's not all that different from all the tech companies and startups that are now suddenly AI companies because they use OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS Bedrock. People rarely ever do detailed and deep analysis of a company's value. I
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Wow. That's such an interesting observation. Two major uniquely American sports have this pattern: QBs in football and pitchers in baseball. I wonder if it is just a coincidence of history. I guess cricket has the same pattern as well?
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Highly recommend the movie "Rush" about the F1 rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt. The movie is highly dramatized but this is one of the themes.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
For some reason mosquito dunks can be shipped to California but not mosquito bits, according to Amazon. They look to be the same thing to me. Anyone know the reason? Maybe it is an Amazon data error?
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Yeah it's funny. I use it ALL the time but never knew how powerful it can be. Thanks to Ned for writing this article. Short but packs a lot of useful info.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Fountain pen requires some skill to write well. It's amazing in the hands of those who knows calligraphy and just creates extra smudges for those who are more used to normal pens.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Point 1 is such an interesting and perhaps profound observation about NNs in general (credit to both you and the original author). I had never thought of it that way but it seems to make intuitive sense.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Can you do that in the middle of the layers? And if you do, would that word be that meaningful to the final output? Genuinely curious.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
- A server to run TrueNAS using ZFS. Going to pair it with Tailscale and Nextcloud as a replacement for Dropbox. - Implementing a Convolutional Neural Network in pure Python to learn how it works. - A Open AI Whisper to an embedding model p
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by hangonhn 1y ago
I've been wanting to learn Elixir for a long time but is it worth learning it without knowing Erlang first? I'm not against learning Erlang but just curious if Erlang is a good thing to know before tackling Elixir.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
We switched completely to AWS Corretto and told our IT department to remove all Oracle/Sun Java and ban the downloads. Then promptly ignored the Oracle emails. Haven't heard from them since.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Is CUDA tied very closely to the Nvidia hardware and architecture so that all the abstraction would not make sense on other platforms? I know very little about hardware and low level software. Thanks
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by hangonhn 1y ago
This is hilarious because both Gemini and ChatGPT are shockingly good at putting together FFMPEG commands. They can both put together and also understand the various options and stages/filters.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
Conceptually similar but different implementations. Containers uses cgroups in Linux and there is also file system and network virtualization as well. It's not impossible but it would require quite a bit of work.
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by hangonhn 1y ago
They also sold GE's profitable GE biotech division to Danaher where Larry Culp was the previous CEO. The proceeds was then used to shore up the finances of GE. GE finance was spun off into Ally bank. The other part of the turnaround th

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