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by mmaunder 3y ago
That’s it. FUPS is a frequency measurement of the rate at which an AI produces “fuckups” per second, where a “fuckup” is defined as an individual non-unique production error that has a measurable negative impact on society.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
The hand wavey conflation of quantum computing with other high growth areas with practical applications, like AI on GPU, is a peeve of mine. The lab they reference is doing quantum simulation on GPU in addition to building quantum computing
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Not sure I agree with the cavity theory. I suspect it’s you, you big ole bag of salt water, acting as a capacitive ground plane for the antenna. It’s like mounting a ham or CB antenna on a car and having the metal of the car not be in direc
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Is polars not parallelizing some ops on the GPU?
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Yeah so this is AI's MovableType moment - maybe. Mojo - a will-be-open-sourced-soon-we-promise fast python alternative targeting AI - is in the same boat. Saying they'll be open source, releasing stuff, but VC backed with the ROI
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by mmaunder 3y ago
For those familiar with what Pandas and Polars is, I wanted to draw attention to this comment in this thread. Wow! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38920417
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Bloody hell!! Thanks, that's exactly the kind of comment I was hoping to see. Sounds like a bit of an Apache --> Nginx moment for dataframes. Super cool!!
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Anyone got any real-world comparison with Pandas? Like an orders of magnitude wow moment?
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Got any historical examples? I lived through it from 1984 onwards as a young programmer and can't think of any, other than perhaps the dot-com bust (I was at eToys) which didn't impede the rate of technological progress much - onl
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by mmaunder 3y ago
I think history has shown us that we tend to underestimate the rate of technological progress and it's rate of acceleration. It's tempting to look at Moore's law and use say the development of the 8080, z-80 and 6502 in 1975
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Thanks for your insight.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
A platform play like this assumes a captive market that is using the platform and who faces significant pain to leave. iPhone, Android and Windows had this. OpenAI does not because other APIs and open source models are hot on their heels. F
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by mmaunder 3y ago
This is spot on. I do a ton of cross country driving and seeing people sitting in their car charging for an hour outside a diner in a gas-station-town off a highway is super common and makes the point. I talk to them. They rationalize it. B
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by mmaunder 3y ago
I wrote my first web app on netscapes commerce server in C around 1994. It was an online aptitude test for a distance learning college. I still remember banging my head against the desk trying to figure out why it was producing a 500. Until
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by mmaunder 3y ago
YouTube science. They’re describing what happens when you stop eating carbohydrates, of which refined sugar is one. That would include rice, for example. But they keep saying “sugar” because YT and views.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Agreed. Happy new year to you and the community here. Have an excellent and lucky 2024.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Top comment suggests unionizing against AI. That would be like unionizing against the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution. Unions play (and played) an important role in improving working conditions, safety and pay, but they can’t
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by mmaunder 3y ago
This needs more eyes. Joe is a founder, not a patent troll, and Apple met with him, reconned his tech, recruited his engineers and copied his technology. He’s in the good fight.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Verified as gov site.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Thanks for commenting David! I’m based in CO too and appreciate your insight.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
This is not for their consumer cell network. It’s for this: https://www.bandwidth.com/
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Great question.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Because I practice them a lot and the dynamics of a real x-wind landing is not reproducible in a home sim. You can practice where to put the controls. But in a trainer like a 172 or DA20 you can’t practice the forces you feel pushing back a
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Yes. I passed my instrument rating earlier this year by using MSFS and X-plane integrated with PilotEdge and working my way through several I ratings on PE. Lots of additional studying by reading the entire Jepp IR book and using Sheppard f
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Check my history. Over 280 submissions going back to 2007. Welcome to HN btw.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
There was a time when many of the OGs here would write original content, not for subscribers, not to make money, but to share our ideas, facilitate our own learning, to have to defend our ideas, to go deeper, learn more, and get better at o
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by mmaunder 3y ago
You’re still in stealth but you’re asking us to meet your supercomputer and are sharing benchmarks that are unfalsifiable. Better show and tell a lot more real soon.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Another approach is to temporarily remove the fence and the gate and monitor the effects. This is far less work than doing an organization-wide audit to first determine why the fence and gate exist. Chesterton's Fence leads to the ossi
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by mmaunder 3y ago
I think you think that price is directly proportional to quality. It's not. Luxury goods are made luxury through a process of branding, pricing, and scarcity. Rolex is an excellent case study. They've been sponsoring athletes sinc
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Oh this is priceless: “ All API customers must adhere to our usage policies to ensure that our technology is used for good.” Not violating terms. Not abiding by terms of use. But good vs evil. It screeches “we occupy the moral high ground a

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