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by lumost 1y ago
At some point Americans became convinced that the process of organizing hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure and millions of people on the task of manufacturing products was “easy.” 50 years on, and fthe generation that knew ho
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by lumost 1y ago
I suspect the thermal system would look very different from a terrestrial component. Fans and connectors can shake loose - but do nothing in space. Perhaps the server would be immersed in a thermally conductive resin to avoid parts shaking
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by lumost 1y ago
I used to build and operate data center infrastructure. There is very limited reason to do anything more than a warranty replacement on a GPU. With a high quality hardware vendor that properly engineers the physical machine, failure rates c
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by lumost 1y ago
In the 2000s startup workers tended to do better financially and be better than their peers at large firms such as HP, Delll, Cisco and others. Even discounting equity, the compensation was higher. These individuals went on to start firms u
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by lumost 1y ago
You can add trip advisor, wayfair, kayak, and others to that list. There is probably a bias at this point that experienced employees who are good are unlikely to work for the prevailing wages at these companies unless they are unable to ea
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by lumost 1y ago
As a Bostonian, I’d blame Bain capital and other east coast VC firms for the current state of the Boston tech scene. Firms largely lacked growth capital unless they adopted thesis driven strategies such as velocity sales. Chasing scale thro
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by lumost 1y ago
Every organization is dysfunctional, the only question is whether its more functional than the alternative. This applies to private enterprises (metaverse anyone?) as well as the government. After 50+ years of budget cuts, what makes us thi
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by lumost 1y ago
I forsee a lot of high skilled labor exiting high risk fields over the next few years. Many of the high end blue-collar jobs of north America are very low end in south America due to the relative risks involved e.g. mine workers.
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by lumost 1y ago
What makes entropy interesting is that you can describe many physical processes through analysis of the systems degrees of freedom. This pattern repeats regularly despite the systems being radically different. So you can interpret entropy
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by lumost 1y ago
We don’t know what the marginal cost of inference is yet however. So far, users are demonstrating that they are willing to pay more for LLMs than traditional web experiences. At the same time, cards have gotten >8x more efficient over th
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by lumost 1y ago
The agent/model being used makes a huge difference. Cline with Claude 3.7 is ridiculously expensive but useful. Copilot is vaguely ok.
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by lumost 1y ago
Tokens are an awfully convenient way to describe an event.
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by lumost 1y ago
10% will sway some purchases, and exclusively removes American autos from the “Value” category. As someone who drives a Japanese car, I don't disagree with the premise - but its worth double clicking on whether there is a motivation fo
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by lumost 1y ago
There is always a platform/complexity moat. Eventually the costs to build exceed reasonable startup costs. Were starting to see this in leading vendors where so many different things are done well that it would be difficult to replic
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by lumost 1y ago
As a great story, it can have multiple meanings. I first read it at the start of the pandemic and it felt prescient as a description of what its like when civilization falls apart. People carry on their day to day, at first subtle things st
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by lumost 1y ago
There are many reasons to believe a theory may not be forthcoming, or that if it is available may not be useful. For instance, we do not have consensus on what a theory should accomplish - should it provide convergence bounds/capabilit
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by lumost 1y ago
There is a common thread in the 1991 gulf conflict that Iraq was going to sell oil in alternative currencies. The entire 1991 conflict is actually quite confusing, the majority western cold war apparatus moved to Saudi Arabia to fight the w
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by lumost 1y ago
If a paper is difficult to replicate in a high volume field.. will it ever be replicated? The question we should be asking is how many fraudulent papers are there in the field? I’ve even worked in places where some ML researchers seemingly
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by lumost 1y ago
As always, the results depend on the user. For a small toy project, the r results are usually incredible. For a large mature production app - the results are borderline useless. Every year the ai gets significantly better.
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by lumost 1y ago
Was there an event? I stayed at the historic Boulderado hotel for 350/night 13 years ago when Airbnb was getting started.
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by lumost 1y ago
I wonder how much of this is “don’t hat the player, hate the game.” As a society, we decided that academics must get funding outside of their department. We also chose that funding bodies liked blockchain for reasons unknown. There is pr
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by lumost 1y ago
Curiously, medieval societies struggled with “usury”. Effectively being a wage earner was a tough game as you might owe rent, have a bad month, or end up overly indebted. Most wage earners eventually became indentured servants or worse. Thi
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by lumost 1y ago
The tax is 145% on Chinese imports. To preserve relative margins companies need to increase prices by 145%. Obviously, you are not going to buy the extra yard camera that was 100 dollars last week but will soon be 250. The tariffs are effe
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by lumost 1y ago
If economic activity is linear with co2 production, the crash would need to be the most extreme economic depression in history to have an impact eg 75% reduction in global GDP. A 75% reduction in food production would surely cause the large
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by lumost 2y ago
not if x is the set of all Real numbers. All points could have been infinitely close to each other at the big bang, and the universe could still have been infinite in size.
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by lumost 2y ago
Rotation implies a great many observables and properties of the universe. There would be a cosmic axis, which implies a cosmic center and a cosmic north. Both concepts that are problematic in an infinite universe. If the universe is in fac
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by lumost 2y ago
My honest take? Vibe coding makes a senior engineer 2-4x more productive depending on the project. Very large projects see diminishing returns down to 0% productivity gain or negative. I can probably supervise 10 concurrent vibe coding sess
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by lumost 2y ago
I'd love to see some small scale experiments in geoengineering. Despite multiple climate agreements, over my life time - I have not seen any actual progress on climate change outside of technological advancement. Technology such as win
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by lumost 2y ago
I suspect that we'll see a lot of variations on this, with the open models catching up to SOTA - and the foundation models being relatively static - there will be many new SOTA's built off of existing foundation models. How many o
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by lumost 2y ago
Its almost at the point where I move off open ai. I use chatgpt pro for concept validation, its important that I can get something approximating an average peer reviewer so that I can look around corners and feel out what is more or less im

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