mattlutze

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by mattlutze 1y ago
If geography is a factor in the value of an asset, being able to move that asset allows you the ability to effect change in the value of it. I.e., my car might sell for x in one city, but only 0.7x in another. As an immovable asset's v
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by mattlutze 1y ago
>Also, nobody really objects to the research that leads directly to stuff private industry can use. That's not what people want to cut. That's what they're cutting.
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by mattlutze 1y ago
The expectation that one model be top marks for all things is, imo, asking too much.
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by mattlutze 1y ago
Too many people think these are funds to just run the universities. By and large, what is being withheld are funds for research. Federally-funded academic science often looks like: 1. The university + government fund/run a project
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by mattlutze 1y ago
Honestly I'm here for it, because it's an option for a market of groups that don't otherwise have the opportunity to deploy this kind of capability. Teams feelings aside :) I worked for a client once that refused to let us bu
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by mattlutze 2y ago
From a very inhuman perspective, and one I don't find appropriate to generally use: A human physical worker is a high capital and operational expense. A robot may not have such high costs in the end. Before a human physical worker can
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Customer service, entry sales, jr data/business specialist - Ada's LLM chatbot does a good enough job to meet service expectations. - AgentVoice lets you build voice/sms/email agents and run cold sales and follow ups (pr
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by mattlutze 2y ago
For $32B Google are buying Wiz's brand, existing customers and their pipeline of customers, along with the technology.
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by mattlutze 2y ago
I was wondering why like every Wiz business development person was cold-engaging me on LinkedIn and email last year.
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Russia broke treaty, law, moral foundation and democratic order for a second time in a decade to try and take all of the Ukraine. You appear to forget history, but plenty of citizens were able to leave through the back door while able-bodie
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by mattlutze 2y ago
I would love to provide recommendations and help with menu ideas. If you have a look in my profile you can get to my address and email me from there <3 My partner and I have been fully plant based since 2018 and variously play rugby and
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Significant input costs per animal calorie means there's an order of magnitude or more insects being killed to raise the animal that you ultimately end up eating, to get the same calories you'd have gotten just eating the plant so
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Harvesting crops is materially different from slaughtering animals, and calorie for calorie, plant-based nutrition involves less termination of life than getting calories from animals (if you're grouping insects and non-animal life int
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by mattlutze 2y ago
There's a few that have tried to implement this, and I want to live in none of them. The US will fare no better if it walks down this path, and honestly will likely fare worse for it's cultural obsession with individualism over co
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Tax breaks, i.e. a company extracting wealth from a community without paying into the systems that keep all the parts of that community running, forcing the community to ultimate subsidize that business's weath extraction from them.
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Ellison should be nowhere near this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnip... The man has the moral system of a private prison and the money to build one.
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Go low-tech and start printing a small local newspaper. Pay for it with ads from local businesses, and give it away for free at all those stores. Get your regional Chamber of Commerce to help set you up with connections and sales channels.
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by mattlutze 2y ago
> Larger companies will often write you off as being "not experienced" enough which is often code for "you don't look old enough for this position". It's not about age, it's about what you actually had
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by mattlutze 2y ago
For-profit companies don't have to publish papers on the SOTA they product. In previous generations and other industries, it was common to keep some things locked away as company secrets. But Google, OpenAI and Meta have chosen to let
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by mattlutze 2y ago
One of my soapboxes is that the world is full of really smart people trying to solve solved problems for the sake of having done something that feels like something. I advocate for people taking that creative energy and pointing it at parti
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by mattlutze 2y ago
> At its core, the PC movement was about a kind of tech liberty—–which I’ll define as the freedom to explore new ideas, control your own creative works, and make mistakes without punishment. The PC movement of the 90s, where it feels lik
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by mattlutze 2y ago
I changed phones, and tried to log back into my Fediverse/Mastadon accounts. The app asks me which servers I'm on—I can't find the accounts in my password manager, can't figure out which servers they were, and the ones I
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rss+readers What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?
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by mattlutze 2y ago
https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/ There's many places where the model might be used which could count as high-risk scenarios and require lots of controls. Also, we have: GPAI models pres
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by mattlutze 2y ago
If teams are hiring Junior developers to give them "grunt work," they're doing something wrong to begin with.
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by mattlutze 2y ago
Unique datasets are the moat for AI businesses. The data from these glasses is quite novel in it's perspective, context and contiguous-ness among other attributes. Versus mobile phones, Meta are making a better go at, and seem to be th
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by mattlutze 2y ago
I think you're describing one of the core motivations for these decades of research. In most places still, changes to these maps need to go through lots of people process. This implies they're slow to update, and therefore often n
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by mattlutze 2y ago
From the introduction, Since the days of Harry Beck, transit maps have mostly been created manually by professional map designers (Garland Citation1994; Wu et al. Citation2020). The primary focus was on static maps, either distributed i
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by mattlutze 3y ago
If they don't call home, then the foreign interests wouldn't be getting the data, I think? If the concern is access to inferred logistics and crane telemetrics, then the solution would still seem to be removing access to the data
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by mattlutze 3y ago
Why do we not just remove the RFID radios and cameras from the cranes, or just not allow them to call home? This is a problem that doesn't require billions in investment to solve, but rather a wire cutter.

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