jmyeet

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by jmyeet 6mo ago
There's a lot going on here. Most of it boils down to a concerted, decades-long project by half the country to defund, dismantle and destroy public education. This has infected every layer of education including what goes into textbook
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Unfortunately it's doomed as soon as you read "startup". Why? There are two possible outcomes: 1. This fails, goes away and we're back where we started; or 2. They take the bag and sell to John Deere, who then locks down
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I've seen various claims to this (eg [1][2][3]) but nobody reall knows. These may all come from one uunsubstantiated claim. It is I think widely accepted that Mythos is ~10T parameters. I've seen figures that suggest GPT-4 was 1.8
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
The "waiting for local LLMs" came up re: Apple and IMHO that's too passive for company where if someone else has a better AI assistant, it's going to be a huge problem. What if somebody cracks the problem if splitting in
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
In recent discussions about Tim Apple [sic] moving on there was a discussion about whether Apple flopped on AI, which is my opinion. Of course you had the false dichotomy of doing nothing or burning money faster than the US military like Op
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I had the exact same thought, particularly when I read there were fewer than 4M records. I really have to wonder if people truly know how powerful any modern computer is. Like I just assume any modern PC with sufficient storage can handle a
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Starship is absolutely competing with Falcon 9 in two ways: 1. If F9 is cheaper, why would you use Starship? 2. If SpaceX decides to force Starship adoption by simply halting F9 launches or making them prohibitively expensive, well the mark
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
So the source for this (which is stated and linked in the article) is something called the Zumper National Rent Report [1]. For anyone curious, this is their methodology [2]. This seems to be a measure of active listings based on advertise
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I really don't know what Elon is thinking here because SpaceX's IPO is already precarious, for several reasons: 1. It was used to rescue himself and key investors from overpaying for Twitter, which was first rescued through xAI (a
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
This was I think effective early on but now there are many systems to detect this "fraud". I say "fraud" because I honestly have zero sympathy for these companies who are doing anything but paying people a living wage to
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I think there’s a happy medium between doing nothing and burning cash faster than the US military like OpenAI. If I had to pick one company who walking that line the best, it’s Google. You can wait until improving hardware eventually solves
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
They pretty mcuh did in practice. That 2016-2018 Macbook Air had a 2010 dispaly ie 1440x900. That was ridiculous for the time, given that the Macbook Pro first got a retina display (2560x1600) in 2012. No there was no technical reason for e
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
At least the Vision Pro wasn't a $70 billion boondoggle like the Metaverse was. The flops include the mid-to-late 2010s thinness era of Macbooks. Touch Bar, butterfly keyboard, 12" Macbook, no Macbook Air. At least this got correc
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I think Tim Apple [sic] has made 3 major errors, 2 of which got corrected: 1. The mid-to-late 2010s Cult of Thinness as the last gasp of Johnny Ive was terrible for the Macbook range. Butterly keyboard, 12" Macbook, no Macbook Air, Tou
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I haven't seen anyone else mention this but... vendor financing. Being a manufacturer is capital intensive. As lithography shrinks, it has generally required building a new fab. Intel in it's heyday used to do it this way, for e
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
This was the last gasp of Johnny Ive. And yes, it was terrible. It got us ending the incredibly successful Macbook Air for the too-compromised 12" Macbook (1 port, remember?), the pointless Touch Bar and the terrible butterly keyboard
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
People may not know how long the F-35 program has been going on. It's over 30 years . Discussions about what a next generation figher would be began in the Clinton administration. From the very start it was a series of compromises to
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
I agree with you but the funny thing about this comment is that fake Internet points is how decisions are made in many areas, including casting for TV shows and movies. If you want to make it as an actor today, you need a social media foll
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
It's interesting to see how the ideas of interstellar civilization have evolved over the last almost 50 years. I'm glad it was rejected that returns should be calculated based on Earth or Trantor time rather than perceived time. I
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
These are all fixed costs not per-unit costs. If you sell 10,000 ebooks or 10 million ebooks, the costs are basically the same. And book themselves are 500k-5MB in size typically, which is a single HTTP request, basically. Actual costs of s
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Did you read that? You’re picking out one cost: printing. Scroll down to where the cost breakdown of a paperback is. More than $5 once you include distribution and retailing. Or, as some might say, more than 50% of $10.
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
My own hesitation with HM echo chamberification is federation. Nobody cares . And until you can point to a concrete benefit to end users, you should stop and think about why you’re pushing it this hard. But I don’t think this is the case w
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Sure you can. An ebook has zero cost of distribution and no middlemen. A physical book has to be typeset, printed, shipped to stores, shipped to customers, marketed in store, etc etc etc. If a physical book is sold for $10 at least half tha
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
In this day and age, I would never carry something for someone this way. It's such a bad idea. You could land in prison. Even if you're taking books, the spines might contain fentanyl. And I have no idea how you get past that. T
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Democratic politicians have been remarkably silent on the war as a policy issue. The complaints are primarily around process. Even the milquetoast War Powers Resolution, which was doomed to fail anyway, was just process. Back in the preside
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Jeffries is about as pro-Israel as any politician gets [1][2]. He absolutely supports the war. It is a war of choice, a war of Israel's choice. And no I don't care about any huffing and puffing about the War Powers Resolution. He
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Here are the lessons: 1. The Supreme Court is not some neutral arbiter of a hallowed intractable document. They are political actors. Just like history books now write about the disastrous Court of the 1850s that went completely off the rai
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
This is simple extrapolation from current demand, nothing more. And that's a borderline silly analysis because it assumes the AI bubble won't burst. The great misadventure in the Persian Gulf probably accelerates that because we&#
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
Turtle WoW was also porting their fork to Unreal Engine 5 [1] but that got cancelled ~6 months ago due to a Blizzard lawsuit. For anyone unfamiliar with WoW, private servers have been a thing for most of WoW's history. It's unclea
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by jmyeet 6mo ago
For additional context: - Carney's Davos speech (Jan 2026) evoked "workers of the world unite" [1]; - Carney's pre-election speech (Mar 2025) claimed the old relationship with the US is over [2]; and - Trump's handl

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