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by hosh 4y ago
Does the three sister method really need crop rotation? Were you trying it with no-till methods? What about integrated pest control?
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by hosh 4y ago
I learned “discipline” from the martial art world. Someone had pointed out to me that “discipline” shares the root word of “disciple”, so it is not really about punishment. With that meaning in mind, you don’t discipline a child so much as
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by hosh 4y ago
I guess what you said needs to be said. It’s not really play if you make someone do it. For my son, a lot of it is redirecting and guiding the things he is already trying to do. (For example, my toddler takes his clothes off, so my wife and
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by hosh 4y ago
I agree with this article, but this approach is incomplete. Animals, including humans, instinctively play to learn, both in free play and guided play. They work particularly well when the kid is young. I don’t find “play” to have a negative
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by hosh 4y ago
They may be. But consider that this is still early days. _Where_ these land are also matter. If they are on marginal lands that are difficult to cultivate, it makes a difference there. They specifically talked about smallholders rather than
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by hosh 4y ago
According to this quote: > Perennial cultivars are strongly preferred by farmers; growing them saves 58.1% of labour and 49.2% of input costs in each regrowth cycle. In 2021, perennial rice was grown on 15,333 ha by 44,752 smallholder fa
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by hosh 4y ago
What about the people practicing permaculture and regenerative agriculture? There's been a big movement there to perennialize crops, and there are well-known patterns and practices from there to work with perennials.
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by hosh 4y ago
That is not what I am hearing from tax people and some folks I know running software agencies. I posted this here because it seems to be coming in from the blindside for the HN crowd. This is still up in the air, but the growing consensus a
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by hosh 4y ago
This affects technology companies, particularly startups. There is an specific provision which considers software development as R&E, and all software development must now be capitalized. It will create a chilling effect on software dev
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Small Businesses Face Big Tax Bills from Research-Deduction Change(wsj.com)
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by hosh 4y ago
Does that home assistant have a self-hosted LLM interface that helps you with configuration and setup?
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by hosh 4y ago
If by "private cloud", we mean carving out something from a public cloud, I'm still not sure I'd want something as important and private as AI to be in a cloud facility. Even if you put together a private cloud in a data
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by hosh 4y ago
A big part of TinyML is finding alternate paths for implementing AI in resource-constrained space. We already have SoC that is functionally not so much different from modern microcontrollers. Depending on economics of scale, it isn’t that b
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by hosh 4y ago
Not if you can condense the LLM into being able to run on the embedded hardware. Article aside, reducing energy use for models is one of the research areas for TinyML.
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by hosh 4y ago
Sure, because Big Tech is trying to retain control of the market via subscriptions and rent-seeking.
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by hosh 4y ago
That’s a huge burden on the natural resources (electricity). Beyond local control, I gave other examples of embedded AI in other comments — or more specifically, what you can do with an embedded LLM. Namely, being able to have a better hum
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by hosh 4y ago
Adding an embedded LLM as a human interface for every appliance is a huge win— for consumers at least. For example, I have a dishwasher with a bunch of settings, can sense load, etc. It’s got a touch interface that works with wet hands. Or
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by hosh 4y ago
How about just being able to run a home assistant with AI support to reprogram the home assistant, without having to spend a lot more electricity? They don’t have to have superpowers to be useful.
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by hosh 4y ago
That’s weird. Being able to use AI without being beholden to Big Tech seems like a huge win to me. Especially when I want to ensure that the AI is making best effort for my local community’s best interest, and not the best interest of a lar
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by hosh 4y ago
Helm did something like in the earlier versions. Helm 3 got rid of it to the great cheering of many. It didn't ingest Docker Compose files, but it is the same architectural pattern. https://www.techtarget.com/searchitop
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by hosh 4y ago
At some point, someone will write a LLM assistant to go through all of the LLM-generated email to be able to intelligently filter out spam, summarize the rest, and highlight the important stuff. Not that I think this is good for our society
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by hosh 4y ago
There is an interesting history thesis that the Inquisition and the Renaissance are actually two faces of the same phenomena: the rise of the idea of nation-states and institutions. That is, power and authority sourced in something imperson
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by hosh 4y ago
There are some fascinating areas to explore those questions from the perspective of shamans, mystics, and yogis.
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by hosh 4y ago
MacLuhan and others have already talked about this, from way back in the radio and TV generation. I don't say this to mean, "oh, and they were wrong because everything turned out OK" If anything, we have had generations that
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by hosh 4y ago
> Should these “open collaborators” have caught the Free Team snafu before it happened? Perhaps. But the point with Docker, as with any company, is not what it does at a given moment in time, but rather its general direction over time. T
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by hosh 4y ago
Hard pass. It's one thing to use this as supplemental education, but I would not want to use this exclusively to teach my children critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity, citizenship, and character. Rather, it is d
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by hosh 4y ago
Interesting, "snap store of containers" sounds plausible. Seems like a decent business model, but also, one that is not really committed to the open source ecosystem. To go back to the question that started this out -- should we b
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by hosh 4y ago
The article talked about using the Github Container Registry, which was launched in 2020.
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by hosh 4y ago
My analysis of this: After Kubernetes became the de-facto container orchestration platform, Docker sold a bunch of their business to Mirantis. They shifted their marketing and positioning from enterprise to developers. From public sources,
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by hosh 4y ago
Sounds like Chef Habitat.

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