kiernanmcgowan

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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
The market can stay irrational longer than Tesla can stay solvent.
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
Hey there to all the EPIC kids poking their head in this thread. Where did you all end up post-EPIC?
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
Back in college we'd buy various lab glassware from AS&S for, uh, collegiate uses of glass. Need to hold things in place and heat them with precision on a budget? This is your store.
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by kiernanmcgowan 1y ago
> We want to help these countries, and in the process, spread democratic AI I'm reading this in the same voice as Helldivers 2 "managed democracy"
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
> IIRC Elon has the biggest CPU compute cluster in the world right now Do you have a source for this? I don’t buy this when compared to Google, Amazon, Lawrence Livermore National Lab…
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
Sorcerer is an incredible film that very few know about for a handful of reasons as discussed in the article. Beautiful cinematography, excellent soundtrack, suspenseful premise. You will never forget the bridge scene. Highly highly recomme
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
The burnt rubber flavor does grow on you. Kinda like how black coffee is a bit of an acquired taste.
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
The Sirens of Titan by Vonnegut - I re-read it about once a year. It hits a nerve for me and helps me focus on whats important. "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
Random variables are neither random nor variables! They are functions that map a space of random events onto the real number line![0] When you're asking P(Heads) of a coin, its short hand for "P(event=heads) for all possible event
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
My litmus test question for LLMs is about negative mutual information. Its a weird quirk of probability theory where pairwise variables always have non-negative MI, but a set of three variables can have negative MI. Its both a non-intuitive
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
Sure - I guess I should say "domain" is an incorrect word, when "use case" is a better phrasing. LLMs have a tendency to hallucinate at a rate that makes them untrustworthy at scale w/o a human in the loop. The more
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
I've said for a bit that "something has been automated, but its on us to figure out what" since the launch of ChatGPT 3. Modern LLMs are really really useful in some domains, fun toys in others, and problem makers in most. My
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
Great stuff! I also have an axidraw that I've been using for christmas cards and the like. I've been getting more advanced each year and I'm resolved to roll up my sleeves and start using your libs for total control. SVG gene
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
A great example of the time-frequency (or space-frequency in this case) duality of fourier transforms. The math of the FT doesn't care about the "direction" that your going for the transform, so function that look similar in
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by kiernanmcgowan 2y ago
Know Your Customer - it’s a term describing how organizations like banks want to know what you’re doing so they can avoid enabling criminal activity.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
This is Financial Advice (2023) is also excellent - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA Its about the fallout of the memestock craze and where the community ends up.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
There's maybe like 10 steps of the intro prompts to get to a place where you can make a choice and if you pick wrong it makes you re-run the ~2min of "simulation". Possibly a neat concept, but a game needs to lead with the ga
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
I had one of these TVs for a while. I plugged it in once, via ethernet, to get any initial updates, and immediately unplugged it. The power button on the corner of the screen then would not stop flashing and the only way to make it stop was
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
"Twilight of the Bombs" opens with a recounting of the time period between the Gulf and Iraq wars. In this period the US discovers that Iraq was trying to build a nuclear weapons program and gets the international community heavil
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Technical Specifications for Construction and Management of SCIFs [pdf](dni.gov)
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
You'd pay an hourly rate for the machines used, so its going to vary based on the complexity of the part (eg mill time is less than lathe time). I think the average rate for my dad's shop is ~$150/hr.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
My dad has a small machine shop that specializes in producing single run parts like this. Generally speaking you'd be able to find small shops like this around the country, but machinists aren't great at advertising or having webs
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Habits in 300 Days(kiernan.substack.com)
1 points by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago|0 comments
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Have a bunch of static data that should live in a database? Just check that sucker into git and load it into memory on boot. Bing bam boom.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Because the holidays tend to throw off any sort of planning. 3x100 gives you some wiggle room between blocks and the ability to not have to manage habit forming around the holidays.
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
I defined "interesting" as I should be able to list 7 things of note when I call my parents on the weekend. This generally ended up being one of a few different actives: * Read in a cafe / the park * Try a new restaurant with
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
One thing that worked for me was to break up the year into three 100 day chunks. In each of these chunks you focus on establishing a habit that you want to have and you do that action every day. At the end of the 100 days you’ll be doing th
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Show HN: Trending podcast topics from the past week – Siev(siev.io)
2 points by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago|0 comments
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What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? [video](youtube.com)
18 points by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago|6 comments
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by kiernanmcgowan 3y ago
Did you know that Postgres has a max table size of 32TB? Its really really fun to find that out the Wednesday evening before Thanksgiving. Make sure to prune old data from your tables. This one got to this limit because it eventually got to

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