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by jnwatson 4y ago
Matter (really the CSA that runs it) already uses a private blockchain for registering products and public keys of its members.
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I thought so too, until I waded into a post-quantum crypto algorithm paper. It turns out you need to understand how a quantum computer works in order to design an algorithm resistant to it.
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pyenv is my tool of choice here. It allows one to easily install multiple versions of Python from source and switch among them. It has mostly avoided feature creep, which is a big plus among all the competing solutions.
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The IRS raises the limits every year. I imagine they will raise it quite a bit next year.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You can still actively cool socketed RAM.
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Theoretically, you are correct. However, growth and non-growth companies are valued significantly different. Growth companies have a P/E multiplier, while non-growth companies can be valued like an annuity. No member of the board woul
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by jnwatson 4y ago
More importantly, in an imperfect information game, the set of strategies used to counter the consensus strategy.
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Metro being within 10 minutes of driving is quite good. Coming from the silver line, you’d be lucky if you can get within 30 minutes. Parking is such a dice roll in DC that using a car for intra-city travel is not efficient. Lots of DC res
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That was one of my repeat songs!
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by jnwatson 4y ago
"This 2021 Planning Guidance update addresses an expanded range of threat scenarios, including nation-state threats2 with much larger explosive yields. This guidance also considers nuclear devices delivered by ballistic missile or airc
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That's not FEMA's job. That's the job of the CDC.
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K8s is like 4-wheel drive. It allows one to get stuck further off the main road.
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Obviously, the message doesn’t matter for those incinerated. It applies to the folks in the outer boroughs and suburbs outside the blast radius.
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Generics are literally identical to the original drug.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The libertarian movement got co-opted just like the Republican Party. They got brainwashed by Ailes and company.
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It is also helpful to have a 3.7-billion-year head start.
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The sanctions have little impact on oil supply. Oil is mostly fungible and somebody is buying Russian oil already.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The author ignores that the source of inflation is multi-faceted. Eventually the supply chain issues and the war will be resolved, and we’ll be left with moderate inflation. The world is actually quite fortunate that there’s the beginning
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Congress is broken. The system is fundamentally flawed. The Senate by Constitutional design is undemocratic and non-representative. Coupled with the cloture rule it is an untenable system. Unless our failing voting systems accidentally ele
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by jnwatson 4y ago
General Ock is the name of the cook that makes food-porn sandwiches. There’s nothing racist about it.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That’s not Jira’s fault. That’s like blaming PowerPoint when you don’t like making presentations.
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Large enterprises need platforms, not tools. It takes a few hours to get a basic process flow going in Jira. It really isn’t hard. And I’m not even a fan of it.
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It is just a ticketing system with a very robust business process engine. Most complaints I’ve heard about Jira boil down to the horrible processes people choose to implement in it.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Regardless of the state of LaMDA, clearly a system that has “knowledge” of the external world is closer to sentience than one that does not. The external knowledge system, the optimization for “grounding”, and the mining of dialogs instead
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Sure but that’s not how laws or zoning are supposed to work. A retirement home is zoned the same as a fraternity. It is like suing your neighbor because you’d rather they have 2 kids instead of 3. Or suing the corner business because they
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Precedent itself took a beating on Friday.
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My college fraternity purchased a former sorority house turned retirement home, with the intent to turn it back into a fraternity house. Neighbors objected. We had to take it all the way to the state Supreme Court to use the dwelling as it
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The author conflates GPT-3 and LaMDA. There’s a fairly large gap between the two. Essentially LaMDA has a GPT-3 plus a couple more important systems. I agree there’s a bit of “leading the witness” in Lemoine’s interview. Until I see the ex
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When you think about human sentience simply being electrochemical gradients among neurons, you get a clear answer. I can’t believe anyone who’s involved in the technical aspects of neuroscience would believe that humans are sentient.
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I think the problem stem from the author’s definition of computation. He has defined it around the state of a Turing machine, which is vastly insufficient. The important part of a Turing machine is that of the behavior: given a certain sta

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