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by mmaunder 3y ago
I’ve been doing O2 and CO2 “tables” which are breath hold exercises for free diving. For co2 you hold for 2 mins, breathe for 2, hold for 2, breathe for 1:45, hold for 2, breathe for 1:30 and keep reducing the breathing until you’re at 15 s
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by mmaunder 3y ago
This is what nascent disruption looks and feels like. Screenwriters at the WGA stopping work to “prevent” AI taking their jobs or part of their jobs. AI music infringing on brands. You will see many Napster’s and Kazaa’s emerge and die, and
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Yeah it’s not a great brand choice.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Reducing the birth rate below 2.2 kids per family on average results in negative population growth. We’re already seeing it in many places world wide as a result of equality and education. Simply creating awareness of the global benefits is
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Always gets political. It’s humans. We’re doing it. No question about that. Less humans will mitigate it. No question. The conversation always goes to which humans or which political faction. Start with the fact that it’s us. It is us.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Degrowth is a lovely euphemism for the forbidden topic of having less kids. [insert “how dare you” meme]
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Pyramid scheme has one source of cash and that’s new investors. This has revenue from NVidia and startups adding to the system. It’s just capitalism.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Interesting situation with public markets funding Nvidia which is investing in its own customers, driving further strong financial results driving further public investment. A high risk high reward play. Nvidia is eating AI.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Yep. Just switched to PC for Davinci Resolve renders/exports and built a threadripper 64 core with 128G of RAM, 16 TB of SSD, dual RTX 4090 GPUs and dual thunderbolt 4 ports with awesome cooling for $15K. Something worse from Apple wou
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Sad but true. It’s as if the last ounce of hacker authenticity died with Kevin.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Yep. We too our whole team to DEF CON every year since 2015. (We’re an infosec team of around 40). After last year I made the call to ditch it and we took them to Banff this year and did fun outdoor stuff, spouses and partners included. Not
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by mmaunder 3y ago
The bullets in this post are surprisingly applicable to executives, and CEOs in particular. The lack of awareness of the first list is very common among new CEOs. And the second list has some solid advice to improve things.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
“Sugar man you're the answer That makes my questions disappear” RIP. Sugarman man was one of our anthems in Cape Town growing up.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Thanks for the clear line of blame.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
anon.funet.fi was an anonymous remailer popular with the phreak/hack scene that was shut down around 1996 after Mitnick was arrested and the attitude towards prosecuting hacking became far more militant.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
It’s like a startup optimizing Java applet performance as the web was taking off.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
She is his first cousin once removed, if you want to get technical about it. She’s his cousins kid.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
The negative cognitive effects of weed in its various forms are short term but very real. So continuous use deprives the user of living a much fuller life and reaping all the benefits that go with better overall brain function: financial, s
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Ask HN: Does Nvidia have any credible competition in the AI/DL space?
22 points by mmaunder 3y ago|15 comments
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Thanks for the data rich comment. Very interesting re the inversion you mentioned. Much appreciated.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
> Why is this called a whitepaper, as this is more of a documentation and architecture overview of the cluster? That’s what a marketing white paper is and does. It’s not an academic paper.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
The memory and bandwidth numbers are mind blowing. Going to be very hard to catch Nvidia. It’s as if competitors are going through the motions for participation prizes.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
As the Web was taking off in the 90s, a fight was on over privacy, with ITAR limiting strong encryption exports, 128 bit vs weaker SSL browsers, the Clipper chip, and Phil Zimmerman’s PGP. This decade, as AI is taking off, a fight is gettin
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Launching a sat from sea level through atmosphere to reach LEO at mach 24 would require heat shielding and velocities that aren’t feasible or practical even if you could find a country that wants fireballs traveling at over 50 times the spe
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Governments think this is GPS and they can build sovereign alternatives. This ain’t GPS.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Building a commercial real-time analytics system and running ops for it myself was the single hardest dev challenge I’ve ever tackled successfully. I came out of it one hell of a developer. GA real-time killed us a year later. We pivoted in
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by mmaunder 3y ago
FOD? “EFBs are (IMO) a poor substitute due to the FOD concern here, the clunky touch screen interface (which you probably have to take gloves off for), the risk of getting locked out of important things like checklist and plates by BlackBer
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Interesting use of 'impedance' as opposed to 'impediment'. I feel like you just birthed a neologism.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Right before LiveJournal there was MovableType and when MT crashed and burned because they changed their license terms to be less open source, WordPress took off. That moment was when the road forked into social media vs open source publish
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by mmaunder 3y ago
That AI will accelerate algorithmic improvements is a new factor that has not previously been taken into account. This may be too optimistic.

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