martythemaniak

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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
Is that when you entered that era? Or did you enter it when you were a newborn in the hospital, or a kid entering school?
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
If people downvoted pedantry, everyone on HN would have negative karma. No, it's something closer to The Parable of the Green Grocer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless . The MAGAfication
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
Well, there's an unspoken rule in SV/HN circles about when the take Trump's idiocies seriously and when to ignore them. For example, "Gulf of America" and "Department of War" you're supposed to take s
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
> random blogger with high school math literacy He's actually a well-known and widely promoted political activist on X. His niche is using technocratic language and a whiff of 'analysis' to advance MAGA policies.
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
I think declaring the Straight of Hormuz a US territory will solve this problem.
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
I'm skeptical that you can derive these conclusions from those assumptions. Here in Canada they are required to post the caloric content of the hot dogs, so even a 10% change in content will be obvious. A 37% cut means they would have
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
For my current project, I tried going with a non-traditional style I personally liked, I call it "Soft Neo Brutalism". You can see it at: http://www.frost-e.com I generally wanted web 1.0 simplicity, lots of contrast,
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
The problem with this is that the list of tech that gets boring changes all time, faster than people's opinions. Kubernetes is very boring tech, but if you go through the old discussion threads on this (even from the last year or two),
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by martythemaniak 2mo ago
I'm working on an autonomous snow clearing robot: https://www.frost-e.com/ The basic idea is that instead of trying to solve the general case in robotics (ie, the humanoid companies - multiple tasks, multiple environme
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
They already do: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite Nvidia also releases their Cosmos series models.
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
I honestly wonder what world folks like you live in. The US is currently at war, repeatedly threatening several other places and engaged in several costly trade wars. From my Canadian perspective, you are a danger and a menace. China is a c
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Nvidia Cosmos 3 Edge(huggingface.co)
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
There's been a massive change to public markets in the last decade and the retail path to making money seems to have closed. I made a some money on IPOs using a laughably simple heuristic: "Is the company market cap low? Do they h
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
Well, the 90s were a time of liberalization/deregulation so definitely a moving target, but the monopolies/layer of mediation were held back by variety cultural, regulatory and legislative checks. Glass-Steagall was repealed in &#
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
Here's a view that I've not seen AI/DC proponents engage in (for example, Carmack's recent pro DC post) AI is an exciting and promising new tech, much like the web/internet in 90s and smartphones in late 2000s. Back
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
Restricting access to guns is actually a pretty mainstream thing in most of the world. I wonder if he'll ever realize that his silly definition of "freedom" is precisely what enabled the techno-oligarchy he rails against.
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
I ran across this two-part interview with Yann Le Cunn and I thought it gave a pretty good broad overview/background into JEPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYkIdXwW2AE
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
Lol, this is so Q2. Today you need the LARP Orchestror to spin up a dozen SubLARPs, then hook them up to an external ledger verifier so you can run them in a Enron loop.
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
I clicked expecting Bane Proctoring, where Bane monitors your exam and if he catches you cheating...
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by martythemaniak 3mo ago
Here's an answer for you: we need a new temperance movement. Sounds pretty ridiculous at first, but that's because people know little of the temperance and progressive movements of the late 19th and early 20th century besides &quo
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
It's dreadfuly simple - Bluesky users can choose what content they want to see - including selecting feeds, algorithms, moderation services etc. This situation is intolerable to people who believe that their right-wing views must be fo
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
This is a good observation, because this tactic is a hallmark of Putin and authoritarianism in general. What he does just lie about something where he knows it's a lie and the audience knows it's a lie, and he knows that the audie
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Honestly, are people not getting what's going on? The US is turning into a personalist regime, there is no "government" per-se, there's a dude. There are no 'rules' there's only the dude's opinion and
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
The problem is not the technology but the size and dominance of the tech sector. Current AI is a promising new technology that can do a lot great stuff, just like the internet and smartphones. But in the 90s the tech sector was tiny, and ev
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Disclaimer: I'm a robotics noob, but I've been working on robotics for a few months now. I'd say virtually all robots you've seen in the real world today rely on classical approaches - you build a rudimentary map, then u
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
In a chatbot, 17k tok/s is a neat but nearly useless showcase. In a coding agent it is a meaningful improvement. In robotics, it could be an absolute revolution. 8B models aren't useful in general, but for specific use cases they
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
No, that's a Mercedez EQE. MB is the launch partner for nVidia's alpamayo-based autonomous efforts.
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
People in the immediate future will be far less happy simply because there are enormous resources being spent to make them so. The world's first trillionaire spent the day he became the world's first trillionaire celebrating by tr
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
I think you are misreading this situation. The Musk-Thiel cluster, of which David Sacks is a major member, is one of the main groups trying to destroy the rule of law and turn the US into a personalist regime. They are doing this because th
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by martythemaniak 4mo ago
Yeah, afaik the approach people take today is always some form of bi or tri level hierarchical control, with a slow LLM doing planning and sub task management and diffusion or VLA doing the motor control at higher frequencies. Major differ

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