jgord

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by jgord 4mo ago
Im surprised they haven't doubled down on deep drill geothermal.
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by jgord 4mo ago
imo, theres a reasonable chance we will have functioning fusion reactors before these are turned on.
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by jgord 4mo ago
Their VanDyke Brown looks more like a Burnt Sienna to my eyes, but that might just be my screen. You may also enjoy the Chromatopia book : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40554590-chromatopia The author produc
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by jgord 4mo ago
Do we need a cryptocurrency for trading / donating LLM compute tokens ?
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by jgord 4mo ago
Googled it : > Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month (approximately $15 billion annually) to use the computing infrastructure at the Colossus and Colossus II data center clusters in Memphis, Tennessee. This massive infrastr
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by jgord 4mo ago
by inference .. do you mean renting GPU compute ?
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by jgord 5mo ago
gorgeous piece of human-computer engineering art. superb. totally usable in contexts where comic sans might be seen as kind of mocking.
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by jgord 5mo ago
Australia is proposing a CGT tax of 30% on "capital gains" .. essentially taxing the _income_ from wealth. This is more of a fair comparable to reason about when comparing taxing wealth and taxing wages. In nerd-speak, taxing the
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by jgord 5mo ago
without reading .. my immediate guess is that one hand is needed for maintaining upright balance, while the other hand grasps something important ?
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by jgord 5mo ago
it would be nice if they declared War against global climate change.
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by jgord 5mo ago
imo, 2D is maybe 70% of the problem to solve. We build and we think about buildings in 2D, possibly because its simpler/cheaper, possibly because of gravity corraling us into spaces with flat levels. Computationally 2D is simpler, les
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by jgord 5mo ago
We lived close to the Formula One track in Melbourne for a time. They gave out free tickets to locals, as a kind of compensation for the noise and construction disturbance, so my young son and I enjoyed a day of rummaging around and seeing
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by jgord 5mo ago
What freedoms do we value ? freedom of speech, freedom of compute, freedom to own assets, to sell our work or give it away, bodily autonomy, freedom to travel, to read to learn ? Amid the massive hype of the Web3 Crypto era, there was a k
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by jgord 5mo ago
Joanna, if your reading this, welcome back .. really miss your blog ! In my ideal future, Joanna would write about things like : - how do we secure LLMs leading up to AGI, presumably they can bypass our best attempt at airgap firewalls
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by jgord 5mo ago
Fitting lines to 'xray' scans of buildings - turning pixels into vector art. Lets say you have a complex industrial plant, or datacenter you want to upgrade. You scan it with lidar and get a pointcloud and 360 panorama images. Thi
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by jgord 6mo ago
concur .. better to have a 40-buck fx82 for daily math and use Desmos for graphing, than fork out 250 to 300 for a super-duper calc they wont use.
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by jgord 6mo ago
Economic inequality was relatively low in 60s 70s, and economic growth was high in late 80s and late 90s. That seems to be a good backdrop for human flourishing, not just in science/tech but also in art, music, film etc. Recommend P
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by jgord 6mo ago
Recommend "Halt and Catch Fire" series, if you haven't already seen it. Its set slightly earlier in the PC rush. The magic of that era, I think was that there was this new explosion of technology and a smart teen could figure
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by jgord 6mo ago
I naively assumed they have a gravity sensor, so will generally have an approximate up vector ?
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by jgord 6mo ago
Supercool .. the universe of possibilities really exploded when Borland came out with Turbo Pascal compiler, Turbo C++ and TurboVision. Compiler performance was superb and the manuals were a work of art - I just wished I had kept all of min
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by jgord 6mo ago
I think we have almost "fully ethical meat" now - engineered from tofu and other plant material. ps. Im by no means a saint in this regard, but I have moved to soy milk and eat much less red meat generally, both out of self-intere
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by jgord 6mo ago
If you have kids you will need to intervene to give them a good math science education. Fortunately there are some great resources, far better than the average colorful school textbooks : - aops.com and their BeastAcademy cartoon series - a
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by jgord 6mo ago
why is that ?
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by jgord 6mo ago
B2B SaaS to host 3D scans of DataCenters and industrial plants. https://quato.xyz Basically a google streetview tour of your Datacenter or large industrial plant. You can do some nice things like draw 3D linework to trace the pa
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by jgord 7mo ago
Regardless of whether this particular mission is perfectly planned, this is precisely the kind of thing that will help humanity outgrow the dark age of war, inequality and climate mismanagement. It is a noble endeavor - science, engineering
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by jgord 7mo ago
Did Meta spend around 60Mn lobbying for age verification to be forcibly added to every OS install ? If not, who has been paying to lobby for these age verification laws ? That seems a question that we should have an answer to. Forcing an ag
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by jgord 8mo ago
I wonder when peak demoscene occurred .. some of those mini code demos seem artistically and technically innovative.
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by jgord 8mo ago
I posit that periods of relatively high creativity [ in art science music literature ] coincide with periods of relatively low inequality. ie. if everyone is working so hard to pay rent / college, nobody has time to work on side projec
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by jgord 9mo ago
highly recommend xsv by BurntSushi [ csv parser / wrangler written in rust ]
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by jgord 9mo ago
Investors are not investing in small startups much, perhaps due to high interest rates. Now is a great time to invest in small startups applying ML to realworld problems, and will result in a lot of useful new tech being built. Id make a lo

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