markhahn

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by markhahn 1y ago
haha! very droll.
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by markhahn 1y ago
We think by association. We can sometimes tighten up the process when there's a formal logical framework that applies, but it's not as natural or automatic. What writing changes is that in words, you have to make it explicit how
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by markhahn 1y ago
not sure which country "this" is, but corruption (taking bribes for harm) is quite uncommon in the US, Canada, Europe, etc.
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by markhahn 1y ago
Yes, that is correct. At least in the west, governments are actually filled with quite earnest, diligent people, not cheating. It's possible to find narrow cases where industry manages to bias government, but it's not like &quot
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by markhahn 1y ago
it's not about education, but rather attention. how much of your finite attention do you want to spend on extra things? most people already operate under extreme attention-scarcity.
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by markhahn 1y ago
isn't arsenic in rice trivial to deal with ("pasta" method)?
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by markhahn 1y ago
where "security" here means "anything not explicitly sanctioned by the vendor is prohibited"?
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by markhahn 1y ago
branding is not closing. a closed ecosystem means hermetically sealed: nothing gets in or out. matter is just treating their brand with respect. not different from any other industry standard. if you're saying "I want all indust
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by markhahn 1y ago
existing copyright law seems to say you cannot help yourself to significant parts of a work - such as to write your own sequel. I have no idea how the courts establish the degree of copying "owned" by the original author. There
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by markhahn 1y ago
really? so Suno or Midjourney can produce literal copies of works they were trained on?
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by markhahn 1y ago
why are you saying "memorize"? are people training AIs to regurgitate exact copies? if so, that's just copying. if they return something that is not a literal copy of the whole work, then there is established caselaw about
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by markhahn 1y ago
such power claims are problematic - you're not letting the HDs spin down, for instance, and not crediting the fact that an SSD may easily dissipate more power than an HD under load. (in this thread, the host and network are slow, so i
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by markhahn 1y ago
just noting that household fridge/freezers are in that power range...
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by markhahn 1y ago
electromigration is real, but is it relevant? since electromigration is basically a matter of long, high-current interconnect, I guess I have been assuming it's merely designed around. By, for instance, having hundreds of power and g
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by markhahn 1y ago
you're thinking of what, electromigration? what is the age-related failure mode you're referring to? or are you merely referring to warranty period? (which has more to do with support costs, like firmware - not expected failures.)
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by markhahn 1y ago
from a strict ML perspective, stacking, chiplets, multi-reticle are not going to help. that is, ML is about periodic shrinks producing squared improvements to device density at iso-area, and thus costs. if you have to change equipment, ML
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by markhahn 1y ago
ugh, "scraping the bottom of the barrel" makes me think this is motivated. especially after describing all the other desperate scaling techniques in the past - and that history argues for the need (almost manifest destiny in the M
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by markhahn 1y ago
I am strangely unmoved by some new SaaS which is not open-source and self-hostable.
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by markhahn 1y ago
maybe that's the hard part, and scaling isn't.
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by markhahn 1y ago
I'm heartened to see this downvoted, since it's basically tax-trolling. Yes, there are people who think tax==bad. Most people (and for a century or so) have understood that taxes are ultimately spent, and normally with a "mu
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by markhahn 1y ago
this change was a timebomb used for CBO engineering purposes: to make a particular budget appear to have a specific delayed deficit behavior.
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by markhahn 1y ago
corporate tax is already so low that we shouldn't have this kind of deduction at all: make corps pay income tax like citizens. there can still be deductions, but the idea of writing off all the costs of doing business is like people b
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by markhahn 1y ago
they're both DRAM, so have roughly the same performance per interface-bit-width and clock. you can see this very naturally by looking at higher-end CPUs, which have wider DDR interfaces (currently up to 12x64b per socket - not as wide
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by markhahn 1y ago
Woo-oriented people find this fascinating. But talk to an electrical/computer engineer about it though. To be a signal, such light needs to be both received and aimed...
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by markhahn 1y ago
Most of that actually just makes sense if you approach it from the historic,low-level, minimalist direction. But maybe if you're coming from some other, higher-comfort language...
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by markhahn 1y ago
isn't this rather obvious? doesn't everyone do this when it makes sense? obviously, it applies to other DBs, and you don't even need to store the file (just a single ssh from dumper to remote undumper). if retaining the sna
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by markhahn 1y ago
having motive doesn't mean it's not also true. or do you believe that universities should not do research?
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by markhahn 1y ago
Yes: the US administration is infested with anti-intellectuals who falsely believe that they're self-made ubermensch. So anyone else is obviously beta or worse.
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by markhahn 1y ago
I'm just curious: you really believe that all academic R&D is wasteful and non-productive?
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by markhahn 1y ago
not all sarcasm is trollery?

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