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by jmward01 1y ago
Questioning why something gets down voted is a great way to get more down votes, but I gotta ask, why did this get down voted? Is this just a bot going and down voting anything that appears against the current administration? I am now takin
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by jmward01 1y ago
I often say you have to judge people based on their time and the environment around them and you need to encourage whatever good moves you see. In other words, I'll take a greedy bloodsucker over an evil greedy bloodsucker any day.
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by jmward01 1y ago
People love the idea that the pendulum always swings back but that is survivor bias. The graveyard of history is filled with civilizations where the pendulum failed to swing back the last time. I have no faith that the US is exempt from his
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by jmward01 1y ago
We have a lot of messed up rulings in the past that allow corporations to act like people but skate by when they do things as if they weren't people. I say if a corporation can have free speech like a person then they can get thrown in
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by jmward01 1y ago
Unfortunately companies have a bigger voice than people. Until that isn't the case there will always be doubts about the 'neutrality' of a particular law/policy/etc. The bigger thing here is that this particular adm
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by jmward01 1y ago
This type of architecture is definitely the future. Unlimited attn is a dead end. As a human you don't need to scan an entire book just to guess what the next word will be and LLMs shouldn't need that either.
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by jmward01 1y ago
I'd argue that is a big part of the point I am making. If you take too big of a bite the time it takes to build it optimally goes up in an NP manor. If the bites are the right size then it balances the time/resources you have comp
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by jmward01 1y ago
I have almost always found that simple code runs faster than complex code. I think this is because optimization is likely an NP problem and like all NP problems, the best algorithm we have for solving it is divide and conquer. The core thin
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by jmward01 2y ago
The big thing I would want from this is no call-home/telemetry. I want privacy so I want a vehicle that gets me from a to b.
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by jmward01 2y ago
Adding to the list above. Please, PLEASE, give me a single place I can look to see what pytorch will actually support. I would probably buy something if I could get a straight answer on what will/won't actually work.
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by jmward01 2y ago
So the real question is, who do you actually report this too if the fox is guarding the hen house? The only place that makes any sense is congressional oversight in some way but that will go nowhere except maybe a quick NPR story.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I have lived in places where you needed three keys to three different doors to get to your apartment and everywhere had bars on all the windows and I have lived in places where you could leave your bike unlocked at your front door and not w
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by jmward01 2y ago
This is victim blaming. Being aware of everything will paralyze you to inaction because you can't read a 20 page TOS just to view a website or buy a hairdryer. Like so many things in our society right now, this is a trust thing. Functi
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by jmward01 2y ago
Don't be ridiculous. They won't collude against you. They clearly will have a turf war instead with each claiming that the TOS you signed by opening the packaging (the TOS being, of course, on the inside of said packaging) gives t
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by jmward01 2y ago
I'd love something ipad size with an attached keyboard/trackpad that did the very basics of compute but on a more modern stack. I think the biggest thing that would hold me back would likely be the slow refresh rate/no color
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by jmward01 2y ago
I think there is a class of device here that is missing. Low power but forever devices that have some basic functionality. Over time I could see this taking over laptops and the like as ultra-low-power became more and more capable.
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by jmward01 2y ago
There are few things I think of as 'iconic' but the Aeron chair is definitely one of them. The first time I sat in one I thought 'Wow, this actually IS comfortable'.
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Oldest serving US astronaut returns to Earth on 70th birthday(bbc.com)
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by jmward01 2y ago
Electric will start smaller and build up to big just like everything else. The single and twin engine world is pretty dominated by structure so the gains are easy to see there. As new capabilities and designs are prooven out things will gro
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by jmward01 2y ago
The point was the other parts of the plane. No lines moving all that gas around and the pumps and the plumbing in and around the engine and the bleed air piping and the and the and the.... There are a lot of potential places to shave weigh
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by jmward01 2y ago
This appears to ignore the new technology that electric brings in: Reduced maintenance, (for aircraft) reduced weight in other parts of an aircraft, new propulsion capabilities that increase efficiency of the energy used, new performance en
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by jmward01 2y ago
I love taking ideas to extremes, but in this case I don't advocate for that. What I mean is, diversity should be sought out and thought of as a positive, but that doesn't mean you throw out what factors you believe are relevant. I
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by jmward01 2y ago
The anit-DEI stuff is predicated on an idea that there is a clear known 'best fit' for a position and it shouldn't take into account X, whatever X is. The problem is always this, nobody actually knows what a best fit really i
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by jmward01 2y ago
I got into a discussion a while ago with a friend of mine that liked to think of themselves as libertarian. No beer was involved, but going to the absurd definitely came out. He tried to take the view that the government should get out of e
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by jmward01 2y ago
I think there are a lot of different reasons. The thought that other person may not understand could be one, but also that you just don't understand well enough what to say and the mixed emotion of being proud of doing something at a h
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by jmward01 2y ago
Time plays a factor that may not be well controlled for here. As you get older the actions you have taken and the events you have participated in can impact you in new ways.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I believe companies should use every inch of leeway in existing laws to do business. It isn't evil, it is rational. However, I believe evil companies are the ones that attempt to change laws to do business. Businesses should not have a
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by jmward01 2y ago
I think an interesting use of this is potentially finding LLMs trained to have the style of a person. Unfortunately now, just because a post has my style it doesn't mean it was me. I promise I am not a bot. Honest.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I think there is a difference between having a discussion and having an argument. You are in a discussion if you are actually open to change and seeking a better understanding. You are in an argument if you are just out to change the other
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by jmward01 2y ago
We are well past the point where in a future history class a student will raise their hand and ask 'Why didn't anyone stop them?' followed by 'Why were so many people members of that party?'

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