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by mlmonkey 6mo ago
You need to think beyond first order effects. Saudis want to get rid of Iran, for Shia-Sunni reasons. Israel wants to get rid of Iran because of the 3 Hs. Enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that; that's why KSA and Israel mended fe
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by mlmonkey 6mo ago
People often call this war "dumb". IMO: this war is just the next step in the 1200-year old Shia-Sunni conflict. The Sunnis hate the Shia, and vice versa. Ever since 1979 when Khomeini came to power, the Sunnis have been on edge.
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by mlmonkey 6mo ago
For those interested, the raw images are here: 2024: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/crab-nebula-2024/ 1999: https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/crab-nebula-1999/
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
> Then I lock down Claude Code’s permissions to only edit these two files and run run.sh. No direct Python execution, no pip installs, no network access, no git push, etc. How does one run Claude Code without network access?
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
If only they had given him a Nobel Peace Prize .....
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
It's been a problem for nearly 2 decades. Think about it: suddenly, in the middle of the desert in Afghanistan/Iraq/Syria/Niger/Djibouti a bunch of people start using a fitness tracker every morning (and the cluster
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
A friend of mine got two such "fake" candidates for a coding interview. His experience reminded me of those "Nigerian Prince" emails from 20 years ago. These two gentlemen had western names (like "Brandon Smith&quot
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
When I was at a FAANG, we used to joke that when senior leadership is totally out of ideas, they announce a hackathon. It was a way for them to continue the charade of being "leaders" without having any ideas.
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
It looks like the company (Cognition) is actively hiring (20+ job openings last I checked). That doesn't sound like a "flop" to me...
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
Are these the Pixel Buds, or the "Pixel Buds Pro" ??
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
Agreed. I mean, where did the COVID mRNA vaccine come from? Which company makes the GLP-1 inhibitors like Ozempic and Mounjaro? Are these American companies?
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
Thank you! I was unaware of that mode. Does it amplify the sound a bit?
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by mlmonkey 7mo ago
Not to threadjack, but this is a question that I've had for a while and I've been looking for the right forum to ask: are there any "open source" earbuds? I would like to take a pair of earbuds and invert the noise-cance
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
> In the subpoena, ICE requests that Google not “disclose the existence of this summons for indefinite period of time.” And they expect Google to pass it on to these people?
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
I read the first 5 paragraphs which were all "Noam", "Noam", "Noam" and then lost interest. The letter should have started by first acknowledging the heinous crimes committed against innocent children.
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
Very well written. Thank you for putting down your thoughts so succinctly; I'm often at a loss for words when I try to express the same thoughts in a coherent manner.
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
> If only Bill Gates . . . had had my mom to go to for advice, they could’ve saved themselves a lot of grief. That's assuming Bill Gates didn't know what he was doing. Sadly, it sounds like he knew exactly what he was doing.
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
Recently, I have given up on writing unit tests, instead prompting an LLM to write them for me. I just sit back and keep prompting it until it gets it right. Sometimes it goes a little haywire in our Monorepo, but I don't have to accep
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
> We build Claude with Claude. How long before the "we" is actually a team of agents?
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
Unlike most normal people in the world, I was never taught how to tie shoelaces. And not because my parents and siblings did not try; but because I was too obstinate and wanted to do it my way! Needless to say I implemented a complicated kn
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
I'm shocked, shocked! that there's gambling going on here ...
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
What about the dog who barked before the (landline) phone started ringing?
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
Elon doing some financial engineering to engineer a 1T valuation for himself? :-D
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
It looke like he's unfit for the position, and was using ChatGPT to burnish his reports etc.
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
In theory, one should be able to use OpenSCAD to come up with fancy surfaces to 3-D print, right? I'm just dipping my toes in 3D printing, with a recent acquisition of a Bambu P2S
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
Trade != Immigration
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by mlmonkey 8mo ago
Just drive north on 19th Ave, between, say, Brotherhood Way and Sloat, and look at the fencing on your right. Keeps getting filled with grafitti.
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by mlmonkey 9mo ago
Why not run every submitted paper through GPTZero (before sending to reviewers) and summarily reject any paper with a hallucination?
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by mlmonkey 9mo ago
Here, "SEA" = "Seattle Tacoma International Airport" in the state of Washington, USA.
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by mlmonkey 9mo ago
Those windmills in the East Bay are decades old. And the Mojave solar concentrator is being shut down, from what I've heard. The article here starts with: Last year China installed more than half of all wind and solar added globally.

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