johnvanommen

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by johnvanommen 4mo ago
> Indeed, Gemini really is incredible at image analysis. Yesterday I pointed it at some sloppy handwritten notes and asked it to add up the numbers in the right column, and it did it no problem. I've also used it to find out what TV
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by johnvanommen 4mo ago
> A lot of industries got bitten by greed and the sudden deflation of demand and huge unsold inventory post COVID. I’m betting that the world is about to hit a wall of inflation. https://i.ibb.co/s9Mm8w2r/IMG-0743.jp
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by johnvanommen 4mo ago
> You assume demand for AI stays flat. RAM has become an asset class, like real estate, or orange juice, or cattle, or collectible cars. It’s wild to see. I don’t know if there is an options market or a futures market for RAM. But it see
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by johnvanommen 4mo ago
> I read somewhere (don’t recall where) that Apple typically enters into contracts for RAM on a six-monthly basis and avoids longer term ones. Even in the current situation since last year, it has avoided getting into multi-year contract
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by johnvanommen 4mo ago
> If a company does something you approve of (e.g. do journalism) and something else you disapprove of (e.g. make canceling hard), is there a good way to signal both as a consumer? Leave a bad review where their social marketing team wil
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by johnvanommen 4mo ago
> Any place that allows easy instantaneous subscription by a simple web form, but makes you call and talk to a person during limited business hours for cancellation I moved into a new home. I kept the old one for a few weeks extra. Neede
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by johnvanommen 4mo ago
I keep trying to convince people that English majors and Philosophy majors will benefit the most from LLMs. English majors in particular, have been trained to be VERY exact in how they word things. That awareness of how to structure the Eng
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
Yes, this will definitely renew interest in Stadia type products.
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
What if this is the lowest that prices will ever be?
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
I believe msrp is $2000 right?
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
Possibly the best deal there is I really need to shut up, or bite the bullet and by one. If you graph the tokens per second on the 5090, your jaw will hit the floor at how cheap it is
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
Nine years after Google's seminal paper lit the fuse on AI, a total lack of manufacturing foresight has trapped over a trillion dollars of incoming capital in a hardware bottleneck. The entire sector is now facing a critical RAM starva
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
I really don’t want to give anyone ideas, but doesn’t this make the Nvidia 5090 an unbelievably good deal right now? The VRAM in the 5090 is only made by one country in the world. The 50xx series is special, because its ram is so dependent
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
If you wanted to brute force it, it might be possible to have it generate a hundred outputs and then include a second pass to automatically select the generated model that most accurately resembles the expected output. Basically leverage th
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
> So I would really appreciate a good AI/LLM tool that I can feed my sketch and parameters and it can save me hours of searching web and watching tutorials on how to extrude a circle over a curve I think this is possible, but the ‘t
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
> So like 2000 and 2008 if you worked in heavy industry. Ouch. Great point.
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
Car emissions are far lower now. I lived in CA when the air was grey in July. That ended a long time ago. A modern Honda generates something like 1% as much pollution as a car from the eighties.
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
> CA’s requirement that it gets its own blend of gas is combined with how its openly hostile towards its ever decreasing refineries and that it is impossible for a new refinery to ever open makes it’s supplies absurdly limited A big one
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
Anyone who lives in an apartment or condo will have a difficult time charging an EV in CA.
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by johnvanommen 5mo ago
> One of the explanations I've heard is that a lot of traders were caught out by how quickly the economy rebounded from COVID-19, so they're overcompensating by underreacting to the current situation. Yikes. The reason Covid wa
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by johnvanommen 6mo ago
> A lot of them were making low 6 figures 10-15 years ago, and now many of them have no hope of making that much in their careers again because companies have vastly reduced the number of those roles. I moved to the Seattle area during t
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by johnvanommen 6mo ago
> Nothing wrong with prioritizing family over art, that's pretty rad! But occasionally you can still do art, just don't be to serious about it. All my paintings are objectively rubbish, but heck I like them and didn't put
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by johnvanommen 6mo ago
> To me, this is the purpose of the creative journey. Knowing yourself better, and enjoying all of the steps involved in arriving at what is always a surprising destination. That's EXACTLY how I used to feel about creativity. I was
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by johnvanommen 6mo ago
That is a heck of a graph
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by johnvanommen 6mo ago
> The US media has completely fooled the public into thinking their town is a violent hellhole, and that a trip to the grocery store is endangering their lives. I used to live in both Seattle and Portland. I took my family to Portland la
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by johnvanommen 7mo ago
Right? It’s the obvious question: why are they using software to detect software? I can detect AI written prose in less than five seconds; I would expect a trained teacher to be able to do that as well.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
Great summary. Art Bell is another one: He was on at one in the morning, and a big chunk of his audience was calling in to the show drunk or high. 99% of the audience knew it was fake. And twenty years later, the conspiracy stories live on,
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> Society owes them care for bringing them into it, and if society defaults on this debt then society ends. Society owes you nothing. Your premise is false.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
It will - and z2 explained why, in response to my post
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> What you're forecasting is a scenario where total output has substantially increased but no one's hiring or able to start their own business. I said labor would have “lower value” after AI progresses further and further. My s

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