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by mlsu 2y ago
I mean that's the whole business of a short seller. Take a big short position, then spread the bad news. Hopefully, it's true: the stock drops, and you make a mint. If you fail to spread the news, or you don't get the facts r
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by mlsu 2y ago
kids certainly are riding them like motorcycles. there are a few young whippersnappers that ride around doing crazy wheelies at high speed in my neighborhood shakes fist (good for them, kids need more ways to rebel nowadays)
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by mlsu 2y ago
Extinction is permanently destroying genetic information. An analogy might be spending 100,000,000 years and countless trillions of kJ to train a neural network, and then simply rm -rf the weights. On the concrete example of corals, scienti
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by mlsu 2y ago
> What does it mean now? ... > An aggressively performative focus on social justice. > In other words, it's people being prigs about social justice. And that's the real problem — the performativeness, not the social justi
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by mlsu 2y ago
I’m sympathetic to both sides of the ranting here. It is simultaneously true that (1) man made climate change exacerbates these things (2) california state and local government is a bottomless wellspring of incompetence And also, it is tru
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yes, but this speculation is grounded on the possibility of extracting future rents. Which is an assumption about future relative scarcity. We’ve all decided that it’s totally fine to artificially limit the supply of real estate. Speculatio
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by mlsu 2y ago
Total speculation, but I think it may be possible for transformer models to internalize a deep understanding of animal language, and possibly generate animal language. For some reason I also believe that they may never be able to translate
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by mlsu 2y ago
No. People put solar panels on their homes, but crucially, they still receive power from the grid when their solar panels are not producing electricity . People who don't have solar panels pay for electricity at 11:00AM. That's l
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by mlsu 2y ago
Sorry, capex for crypto -- let alone llm (datacenters must be on 100% of the time to pay nvidia) -- is way too high. It must see high utilization for amortization to be favorable. You only see crypto in areas that have really cheap, 24&#x2F
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by mlsu 2y ago
The most sensible solution in the short term is to keep the distribution that we have in place and aggressively invest in large solar plants coupled with very large battery systems to ease the duck curve. Individual homeowners can do their
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by mlsu 2y ago
This is fine and all, but each individual having a solar panel introduces a lot of issues. Your energy bill is about 1/4 or 1/3rd distribution. As you take less power from the grid because of the solar on your roof, that proportio
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by mlsu 2y ago
Another thing that happens with Spotify playlist is that someone will post something like: "epic hip hop bangers" Song 1-13 will indeed be epic hip hop bangers. Then song 14 is some random guy's track, which picks up the pl
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by mlsu 2y ago
This is pretty typical. The first step of CAD is learning simple solid modeling (i.e. producing 3d parts from sketches, features, etc). The next step is assemblies and motion. Writing a solid modeling CAD engine is impressive, but kinematic
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by mlsu 2y ago
And your insurance works with a mechanic: How much is this oil change going to cost? -- Can't tell ya. you have insurance though, right? I have Geico. The oil change was $25 last year. Let's just do it, you're telling me it&#
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by mlsu 2y ago
Things kinda changed for me when I realized that 'discipline' actually should refer to scope. what's fun about side projects is that the scope is unconstrained. you work on whatever you want to work on. you change scope at an
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yes, and it should be treated as a front-and-center limitation. Generative text models can kinda ape creativity, because the amount of creativity in the training data is so huge. They still are interpolating across text and cannot generaliz
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by mlsu 2y ago
I (a novice) have been toying with web apps for a little bit now with Axum, Tera/Askama, and HTMX. I'm doing something very similar. I find that it works well for my simple apps but then complexity gets tough when I start to have
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by mlsu 2y ago
Glorious! I think I'll follow in your footsteps. STM32F7 with 320k but with bare metal Rust :)
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by mlsu 2y ago
I finally read Nabokov's Pale Fire. It is far and away the best book I have ever read. I think about it multiple times a week unprompted and I'm sad because I am certain that I will never find another book like it.
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by mlsu 2y ago
Hah! Awesome post. I have to say my favorite as a kid was the white radar screen with the "38" on it. Maybe I should have gone into UX?
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by mlsu 2y ago
Eh, sorry if this wasn't clear, but obliteration is intended to have a specific meaning in my post. I'll clarify here. Obliteration is like when "you," your conception of "your self" as an entity in the world c
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by mlsu 2y ago
I'm interested in what people think about this. Maybe offer some constructive criticism instead of restating what I said and adding lol at the end?
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by mlsu 2y ago
The experience of passive consumption (cable TV, tiktok, etc, pointed out in another comment here) is essentially the experience of psychological obliteration. When you get sucked into reels, you go from "here" to "there,&quo
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by mlsu 2y ago
On a philosophical note. Bitcoin's entire value prop is based on proof of work. At the end of the day, for something to be work, it must have some type of use. The usefulness is philosophically part of the definition. So, if this power
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by mlsu 2y ago
This is a reason why buses are not as cheap as they seem at first glance. Often times, buses are favored because they require low capex (adding lines is easy, politically palatable, etc). But in practice, on really busy bus lines with high
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by mlsu 2y ago
Yeah, I think we agree here. I thought your comment -- what is "slop" vs what is "not slop" got to what is "ai" and what is "not ai" in an interesting way.
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by mlsu 2y ago
This is an interesting comment. Let's extend it further. The pop industry is a: - machine - which takes authentic human meaning - and produces essentially a stochastic echo of it ("slop") - in an optimization algorithm - to p
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by mlsu 2y ago
People cannot discriminate. They must spray and pray because the algorithm demands it of them. Thus, both sides (employer and employee) lose, because every applicant and every institution becomes flattened, generalized. It used to be, apply
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by mlsu 2y ago
Not to mention that the military lost the location of the jet after he ejected and they asked the public to give tips on its location. It was missing for like a day before they found it. Lots of tweets to the effect of "how tf do you l
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by mlsu 2y ago
And I mean, it uses 4 watts idle. If you power it off overnight for 12 hours you've saved... half a glass of orange juice worth of energy.

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