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by lumost 11mo ago
this is the biggest benefit of 1:1's in my opinion. Often, individuals can claim credit simply by being first and loudest. For example, and individual can highlight a problem area that someone is already working on in the team and loud
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by lumost 11mo ago
There are 100 senators controlling a budget over 4 trillion effecting more than 300 million per year. To be a senator, you must run a 10-100 million dollar political campaign and make friends with every important person in your state. Anyon
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by lumost 11mo ago
Networking gear was famously overbought. Enterprise hardware is tricky as there isn’t much of a resale market for this gear once all is said and done. The only valid use case for all of this compute which could reasonably replace ai is btc
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by lumost 11mo ago
The definition of inflation since the 1970s has changed significantly e.g. owner equivalent rent. What many people describe as inflation is the change in base cost of capital purchases which has demonstrably risen at a substantially faste
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by lumost 11mo ago
It’s one of the valid formulations of quantum measurement! However you can also look at path integral forms which produce identical predictions and still use real particles. I’m not up to date on how folks square weak measurement with path
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by lumost 11mo ago
We really need a regulation on job openings being real. Each interview costs the candidate roughly one PTO day. Mandating something like a minimum of 40:1 interviews to extended offers should correct for at least the worst offenses.
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by lumost 11mo ago
At utility scale you can have pumped hydro and other economic battery alternatives.
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by lumost 11mo ago
Ooc what issues do you encounter?
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by lumost 11mo ago
The new trick being used by some professors in college classes is to mandate a specific document editor with a history view. If the document has unusual copy/paste patterns or was written in unusual haste then they may flag it. That be
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by lumost 11mo ago
>Do note that binary trees are mostly an obsolete legacy today — they are way too cache-unfriendly. I mean you could have written similar code in C++ using std::vector or std::dequeue and get the bounds checking too. This is simply not t
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by lumost 11mo ago
We really just need official/honest guidance on Rust for what works and what doesn't. The classic example is the dodging around cyclic datastructures. Tl;DR Rust doesn't support any form of cyclic datastructure without indire
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by lumost 11mo ago
My question with these is always "what happens when the model doesn't need prompting?". For example, there was a brief period where IDE integrations for coding agents were a huge value add - folks spent eons crafting clever p
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by lumost 11mo ago
I do wonder if the US is soon to experience a regression in productivity due to compensation practices. If all accessible jobs have declining pay, when do you start to reduce effort to match?
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by lumost 11mo ago
no - this is a lesson an engineer learns early on. The time spent making the tool may still dwarf the time savings you gain from the tool. I may make tools for problems that only ever occurred or will occur once. That single incident may ha
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by lumost 11mo ago
There are a thousand "nuisance" problems which matter to me and me alone. AI allows me to bang these out faster, and put nice UIs on it. When I'm making an internal tool - there really is no reason not to put a high quality U
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by lumost 11mo ago
I think the question is whether those ai tools make you produce more value . Anecdotally, the ai tools have changed the workflow and allowed me to produce more tools etc. They have not necessarily changed the rate at which I produce valu
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by lumost 11mo ago
Many industries are stuck in either prisoner dilemmas, all payer auctions, or other game theoretic environments that make it impossible to pull back spend. If the army was 1000x more “productive” on a dollar basis- would you cut back milita
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by lumost 11mo ago
We’re talking about building 10x existing datacenter capacity to support you based ai workloads. There will be no other buyer if OpenAI goes bust.
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by lumost 11mo ago
There were a large number of of Incan markets at elevation in the Andes. If your civilization was built around the productivity of terrace farming - then people will be living at high elevation.
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by lumost 11mo ago
Most world models so far are based on transformers, no?
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by lumost 1y ago
It's typical/not difficult in major metro's - I do about 8-10k steps per day if I commute to and from my office without any lunch walks etc. Do any lunch/dinner/evening activity and you'll go over 12k. I don&#x
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by lumost 1y ago
I do wonder at times if tariffs and offshoring protection are necessary at a certain point. Forcing a labor constraint on an economy (within reason) can spur efficiency. Accepting high structural unemployment in the name of the free market
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by lumost 1y ago
The "I don't need to answer your simple questions on profit and loss statements" sentiment was odd. Likely odd enough to spur institutional investors to dig deeper or attract short interest.
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by lumost 1y ago
A breakthrough in grokking/regularization, quantized or sparse training methods, quantum optimization, or more efficient architecture could reduce infrastructure needs. Although any of these could simply advance the parrot frontier wit
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by lumost 1y ago
Everybody is doing some form of rebalancing now. Major institutions have lower trading fees and do this more frequently.
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by lumost 1y ago
I suspect this is the major reason for lifestyle premium fitness gyms popularity in recent years.
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by lumost 1y ago
It would be utterly nonsensical for the US to take this deal. The easy alternative would be to subsidize GPU datacenter buildouts on favorable terms with nvidia/accelerator providers. OpenAI/Anthropic amd everyone else could then
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by lumost 1y ago
At a certain point of inequality, the valuation is whatever the person with all the money says it is. If there are fewer than 100 people holding the reigns of capital, do you still live in a capitalist system?
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by lumost 1y ago
Growing businesses tend to consume capital. How much capital is appropriate to burn is subjective, but there are good baselines from other industries and internal business justifications. As tech companies burn capital through people time,
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by lumost 1y ago
It increasingly looks like the bill for inequality papered over with quantitative easing is going to come due at some point soon, the spark is debatable. Asset valuations are approaching feudal levels, where large portions of the population

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