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by jmward01 2mo ago
If this was a competitive market some suppliers would be ramping up pc memory and avoiding the AI buildout. But instead we see all of them diverting to GPU memory and cutting production of PC related parts universally. This sure looks like
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by jmward01 2mo ago
Vox did a great video on this a few years ago. [1] Bottom line, growing cow feed in the desert is wasteful and stupid. Blaming cities and industry is just a diversion. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gN1x6sVTc
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by jmward01 2mo ago
Yesterday an article on tipping hit HN and this reminds me of it. When you remove barriers people spend freely. Start throwing stupid pause moments, the value doesn't match the advertised price because of x fee, y tax, z undisclosed se
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by jmward01 2mo ago
Tips are evil. They essentially treat service industry jobs as charity funded, destroy dining and other experiences by forcing the customer to become the manager and hide costs in a way that make the customer or the employee the bad guy and
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by jmward01 2mo ago
A challenge with news like this is there isn't an easy risk reference to put it into perspective. People only think of Chernobyl, Fukushima, 3-mile island, etc etc. We don't have something personal to relate it to to help us deter
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by jmward01 2mo ago
Every time I see a story like this I wonder what happened to the small neutrino detectors enabled by coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering [1] [2]. I'm guessing that these detectors aren't useful for a lot of the types of n
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by jmward01 2mo ago
I personally think of this like sorting algorithms. Quick sort does the same thing bubble sort does so why do we need quick sort? Pushing for efficiency drives innovation. It does this for many reasons but a big one is that putting a cap on
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by jmward01 2mo ago
The 1980's US car industry comes to mind. Nearly wiped out because they refused to make efficient vehicles. SpaceX is arguably showing how a rethink towards efficient can take over an entire industry. I am sure there are strong example
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by jmward01 2mo ago
What company? I am 100% focused on this as a concept in my own internal research.
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by jmward01 2mo ago
One major consequence of the ramapocalypse, I think, is an even higher focus on small efficient models. I personally believe that the multi-trillion parameter models are fundamentally missing things and the push to smaller, more efficient w
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by jmward01 2mo ago
This is a statistical question that can be checked by looking at other countries. The data is exceptionally clear that per-capita the US sees an order of magnitude more police killings than the majority of the world [1] [2] (side note, don&
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by jmward01 2mo ago
We shouldn't be wasting time figuring out how to make these tools usable. A healthy society requires privacy and a healthy society leads to long term safety trends. Mass surveillance as a tool, fundamentally, even if perfectly implemen
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by jmward01 2mo ago
It goes off the rails too quick too often right now for this. Sure, you got something easy in 5 files? You are building throwaway prototypes or proof of concept? Go for it. You have a real project you expect to maintain and work with others
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by jmward01 2mo ago
Technology is a fickle thing. The first production passenger car was created in 1886. The model t came out in 1908. We have had cars for 150 years, but that doesn't mean that they will be the standard for the next 150 years. In my life
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by jmward01 2mo ago
It is worth the exercise to honestly assess the maintenance, initial costs, ongoing costs, etc etc for owning your own. I did this at a company for a single server to let the ml group test fine tuning frameworks/throw crazy ideas at be
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by jmward01 2mo ago
I have no idea if this is true or not. If it is it shows a new level of incompetence for Hegseth and the current administration and clear hypocrisy in their messaging of 'america first'. It was ridiculous that we started the war b
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by jmward01 2mo ago
Quantity of regulation isn't the point. It is quality. The right regulations are the right regulations. They mitigate risks and can encourage innovation. 'too much/too little' arguments are almost universally wrong.
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by jmward01 2mo ago
I remember using muni tokens in SF. It was great and I often had a stockpile of them so that when friends/family visited I could give them out to help them get around the city. Carrying cash/something physical in general to pay fo
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by jmward01 2mo ago
No comment on the points you made, but thanks for the article No One Goes to War Over a Solar Panel' was a good read.
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by jmward01 2mo ago
A lot of people have a lot of concerns with AI, its capabilities and with how it is used now and what it will lead to in the future. For good reason. But the question is, do we have a strategy that is actually useful? If so, what is it? I t
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by jmward01 3mo ago
Agreed. It is a hard job. Decisions like this make sense but likely need to be reevaluated regularly based on how the world is changing.
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by jmward01 3mo ago
This is like US healthcare. Almost nobody in US healthcare starts of evil. Almost none of the processes start with a clear evil intent. The problem is that the only real reward is money so the processes and people that generate money stay w
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by jmward01 3mo ago
The 737 max is a great example of the rut we are in. In order to put more efficient engines on they needed more ground clearance. This has been the issue with 737 forever and why they have that odd flat scoop on the bottom of the engines. T
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by jmward01 3mo ago
I wish them all the luck in the world. Aviation is in a massive rut and needs bold new designs and innovation. That being said, what makes this company different from the others that have come before? What makes their path to success more l
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by jmward01 3mo ago
There are times where the intent is to rapidly shed energy and systems/procedures designed for that (spoilers, speed breaks, slipping the aircraft). I suspect though that implementing any kind of efficient regenerative capability durin
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by jmward01 3mo ago
If 'distillation' means training on outputs then what is the legal concept of ownership of outputs? And, more broadly, is this something that could be skirted by doing it in different countries that have different legal structures
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by jmward01 3mo ago
That is my problem. What can you trust anymore? Is there an appliance out there that can do the basics and not be a malware gateway?
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by jmward01 3mo ago
Honestly I have nothing but anger for all parties involved here. We need to treat any appliance as hostile. Vote for people that will stop this stuff. Don't buy it. This is digital assault and should be treated as such. If any of the H
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by jmward01 3mo ago
Finding a different way of thinking about a problem often leads to a breakthrough. This is what an ecosystem in nature shows us, that diversity matters in finding hard solutions. I think the great thing here is we are getting a chance to fi
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by jmward01 3mo ago
You prepare for the 9.0 earthquake that can happen once in 500 years because it is a 9.0 earthquake and if you haven't prepared your society is dead, not because you think it will most likely happen in your lifetime.

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