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by ineedasername 5mo ago
It’s not gambling, these are legitimate financial instruments designed to allow proper risk management through appropriately market-set pricing on the value of that risk mitigation, and it’s doing this in a way that democratizes risk manage
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by ineedasername 5mo ago
employees are not enthusiastic about becoming ups Employee enthusiasm isn’t really much of a factor. For better or worse, in the event of significant change of the brick & mortar day to day operations then employee continuity & in
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by ineedasername 5mo ago
Depends on how market cap is defined for the purpose of the contract. Typical definition is just against floating shares in the market * share price. Debt doesn’t factor in at all except in so far as it will influence investor confidence -&
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by ineedasername 5mo ago
Location: NJ / NYC (hybrid or remote preferred) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No What I’ve been working on lately: LLM introspection tooling and observability, mainly around token-level behavior during inference; Also experimented w
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by ineedasername 5mo ago
And $ cost is a poor metric to chase when what you really care about includes a lot more-- exposure to the whims of geopolitical forces you can't foresee or control, which have both $ cost and more.
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by ineedasername 5mo ago
Decommissioning always seemed odd absent either specific dangers or higher costs of operating than renewables. For new construction of course the costs shift dramatically, but existing plants that can continue to run would seem to provide e
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
It isn't good optics at the moment, or good politics, for a company to loudly proclaim "we're firing people because of AI taking their jobs". That doesn't mean that's what happened, it only means that whether o
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
"When others explained that Facebook and Google didn't sell customer data, they didn't believe it" I'm not sure there's a significant meaningful difference between direct selling and what they actually do, whic
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
They aren't complicit when the cheap edition isn't reprinted and instead it's "2nd, 3rd, revised" etc.
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
A poor analysis that excludes any talk of the production costs of different aspects of getting a book to market. Printing + labor in editing etc was 30% to 40% of sticker price in 1960. Today it's 10 to 15 or lower while author royties
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
Roughly half the people you'd see walking are "walking away from home". It's not a known risk factor. In fact unless they live near "nature" then being seen walking anywhere at all near their home is pretty rea
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
They publicly said they were receiving threats. And that if something happened to them, don't believe it's suicide. That's a bit different than just, you know, saying it at random, or because someone asked you how you're
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
It's a little different when the person is saying "I've received threats, so if you hear something happens to me, I did NOT kill myself!" Then, you know, bringing up suicide and it being a warning sign they're about
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
I mean, sort of? Let's put aside whatever she claims to have been working on. Then, consider, if there is a group of people more likely to be attacked by odd advanced weapons? Probably people whose work puts them into contact with with
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
Out of 50k people? These specific of backgrounds and scenarios of their death/disappearence? No. That is surprising. Any statistics you'd find about the rates of any one or more of these kinds of disappearances are going to be pop
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FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX(fortune.com)
233 points by ineedasername 6mo ago|162 comments
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
>"A handful of users in a private online forum gained access to Mythos on the same day that Anthropic first announced a plan to release the model to a limited number of companies for testing purposes, said the person, who asked not
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
Glue is not required. Gaskets and other methods exist.
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
Toss: "technically you can purchase a new phone with non-specialist tool 'cash' so we feel no need to provide anything at all"
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
If Alexander or any of his usurping ancestors has a problem then he can go ride a horse over a molehill. Oh, what, is that line a bit too soon? Tandem Triumphans!
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
For FP4, yes... sometimes... it depends. But newer Nvidia architecture eg Blackwell w/ NVFP4 does not, they perform micro block scaling in the core. For older architectures, low quants like FP4 are also often not done native, and inste
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
On thinking about the reasons this may be something at least slightly more than training on the task is the richness with which language is filled with spatial metaphors even in basic language not by laymen considered metaphor outside the f
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
>The point of the stubs Of course it is. So *you* don't have to know which cloud files are actually there. Doesn't mean backblaze can't know, and should work within that paradigm rather than not backup anything. As for
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
> Not sure there is a better launch post I didn't see one either, extremely surprised this hasn't received much attention yet.
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
Not what I meant: The other cloud storage services connected to the computer, eg OneDrive. Those files, when they are just stubs. I'm saying that Backblaze could simply not backup stubs, if the person isn't syncing the actual
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
That seems like a pretty straightforward issue to solve, to simply backup only those files that are actually on the system, not the stubs. If it's on your computer, it should able to get backed up. If it's just a shadow, a pointer
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
tl;dr: ' '
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
No, no-- I've seen the movie and I'm pretty sure it was established that the only winning move was not to play. Not ruling out the possibility I'm misremembering, there was more than one game in the movie, it could have been
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
Hi Tim, I'm not sure what role would suit me best- titles haven't fit me well over a 15+ year career, but "data science and adjacent" wouldn't be inaccurate. With a focus on translating technical findings into strat
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by ineedasername 6mo ago
consumer hardware ? That... pft. Nevermind, I'm just jealous

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