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by lumost 2y ago
should they? The business needs to understand the cost trajectory of the service. But it's very easy for large organizations to be penny-wise and pound foolish. A company employees engineers in the hopes of reaping value significantl
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by lumost 2y ago
A finops person will need to understand the cost and the alternatives. This could add a lot of unnecessary friction to a necessary and reasonable activity.
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by lumost 2y ago
Archeological dating is strange, we find the earliest civilizations in places where they could and did build in stone - then suffered a drought. The drought ensures that the archeological sites weren't simply re-used for another purpos
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by lumost 2y ago
anecdotally, city life becomes a net drain when one doesn't have time for themselves. In my mid-thirties now, and keeping up with family/travel/hobbies is more than I can handle on most days. I've gone to a great number
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by lumost 2y ago
It begs the question of how many "neighbors" are actually being neighborly. I'd be surprised if industry groups weren't paying people to attend local-city meetings on their behalf.
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by lumost 2y ago
Line managers have a variety of means to motivate employees, if they are told to work 6 days a week. They will mostly imply that their team should as well. Even in cases where its illegal for them to do so.
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by lumost 2y ago
My understanding is that carbon capture at the time of emissions is extraordinarily difficult/impossible. However accelerating the carbon capture process through enhanced rock weathering and similar technologies is quite practical. The
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by lumost 2y ago
The wave of AI friend apps also seems like a semi-persistent trend. If the goal of a social media company is to fulfill a social need. Then we should expect them to try their hand at AI friends.
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by lumost 2y ago
One could take a cynical view that the collective delusion is necessary to sustain increasing wealth inequality. Americans are highly unlikely to accept such inequality if it is accompanied by large reductions in the standard of living. On
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by lumost 2y ago
The need for growth is fundamentally human, no growth only works if everyone is comfortable where they are - which is rarely the case.
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by lumost 2y ago
The paper is interesting, but it seems to focus on iteratively training models on synthetic copies of the same data. Obviously, this is going to cause problems. They did not address what happens if the model is trained on synthetic data tha
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by lumost 2y ago
The adage about South Korea is striking. What is the purpose of intense competition if the result is oblivion? Its difficult to imagine that a South Korea with 8 million people will still be South Korea.
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by lumost 2y ago
While somewhat true, I suspect that the path for these phds was both more error prone and harder than alternative pathways to the same position. My understanding is that the use of physics Phds for this role has fallen over the years as fin
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by lumost 2y ago
This seems somewhat impractical, assuredly - plans would have been made in a dark drawer for the case that an earstwhile allied country became politically unstable. On both sides of the wall - it would have been feasible for a country to at
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by lumost 2y ago
I'd have to imagine that this material is stored in glass/argon. Corrosion should be controllable over long time horizons.
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by lumost 2y ago
The final cost of an h-bomb at industrial scale was estimated at 10k in the 1960s (for low yield). However for practical purposes. One simply needs enough missiles and warheads of sufficient yield to overwhelm opposing interceptors, avoid r
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by lumost 2y ago
The recent Mistral announcement is telling, the model was trained as a "collaboration" with NVidia.
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by lumost 2y ago
The last one can be brutal. It's tough to maintain friendships with people who don't have kids, it's doubly tough to form friendships with new people who have kids. Although it's mildly easier to build acquaintances.
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by lumost 2y ago
I suspect that this also depends on field. CS has been hot for a long time now, it's also not extremely expensive to make a dent - or particularly unlikely. In Physics, we graduate an order of magnitude more Phds than there are posts f
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by lumost 2y ago
There are a small number of high-end software firms doing this. "slow-enhancement" generally translates to "maintenance". The exception to this are a few prominent mega-caps.
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by lumost 2y ago
Reading through the writer's notes. I don't disagree that there is a chasm between large successful firms and small firms over the last 15 years. The 2000 to 2010 period had nearly the opposite behavior however where startups were
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by lumost 2y ago
Oh absolutely, the article gave me quite a bit to think about. It wasn't until I sat down and tried swapping a fourier transform/representation into the conjectures that I was able to think critically on the topic. I suspect that
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by lumost 2y ago
The existence of a universal function approximator or function representation is not particularly unique to neural networks. Fourier transforms can represent any function as a (potentially) infinite vector on an orthonormal basis. What woul
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by lumost 2y ago
Prices haven't really fallen yet to my knowledge. There is a lot of resistance to letting prices fall (marking to market), and many commercial real estate deals are multi-year. RTO mandates indicate that larger employers aren't ye
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by lumost 2y ago
Is there an effective means of shorting commercial real estate available to retail or "small" accredited investors? Seems like an easy bet to take.
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by lumost 2y ago
It's totally reasonable to take both bets. It's unclear that the company betting 100B wouldn't also be the company making the 1 MM bet. If you're MSFT - you don't care who wins as long as you have cost competitive r
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by lumost 2y ago
The business model here is the same as semi-conductor fabrication/design. 2022 kick started the foundation model race, teams were readily able to raise 5-25 MM to chase foundation models. In early 2024, several of those teams began to
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by lumost 2y ago
This is common across so many industries now. The number of people stressed by student loans, childcare, and other typical expenses is extreme. It’s easy for someone to appear more productive by having fewer or no kids - but disastrous for
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by lumost 2y ago
So I was pondering, NVidia quarterly datacenter revenue is around 18.4 billion. Meaning that the raw cost input to the AI industry is somewhere around 14-24 billion dollars per year post depreciation. This is against known revenues of ~3.8
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by lumost 2y ago
Bingo - if you need the kind of person whose market rate would be 28% of your company. They are a founder, if your don’t need that person… fine, but the “this is the industry standard” line is bogus.

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