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by mmaunder 8mo ago
What is different about this time is how much a crash is expected, which is reflected in the run up in the gold price, for one. It’s also reflected in the public discourse about the high probability of a crash - as with this post and many o
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by mmaunder 8mo ago
Seems like their api is broken. Probably overloaded
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
For those of us who operate on site, we have to add back network latency, which negates this win entirely and makes a proprietary cloud solution like this a nonstarter.
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
Try implementing something that is too hard for you. Usually that'll involve implementing math in a high performance language or with parallelization. Then try going back to "writing by hand".
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
It’s like announcing you’re going to sell corn starting a year from now when your competition owns all the land corn is grown on, started selling their corn 6 years ago, and has gotten really good at making it cheaper and producing more, ba
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
“Despite the welcome relief, climate change is expected to intensify weather swings from heavy rainfall to extreme dryness in a cycle that can fuel catastrophic wildfires.” …but we’re still fucked and don’t you dare forget it!
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
The dollar has lost 13% vs the South African Rand in the past year. Thats an interesting metric for me given how South Africa has decoupled from the US in favor of China and Russia, with a strong anti-Israel stance. And also taking into con
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
For context foreign total holdings are around 9T and domestic around 30T. Uk and japan are the largest foreign holders at around 1.7T between them. This is a 100M divestment.
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
It’s as if our country has trained millions of our citizens in the art of harming others and destroying their communities and societies. And then gamified it for our kids and created entertainment that glorifies and celebrates it. We’re so
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
Check the creds on the author. Two time Pulitzer nominee, WaPo, Economist, etc. characterizing as a journo is accurate.
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
I’m fascinated at how out of touch that NYT article is. It’s as if it was written by someone who just spent 3 years on the moon. “The next big thing will be agents: The models will fill digital shopping baskets and take care of online bills
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
What a strange question.
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
Related to the Maunder Minimum, named after my namesakes: Astronomer Walter Maunder and his wife Annie Maunder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum And here's more info on The Little Ice Age: https:&#x2
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
Interesting comments. Thanks. A long time ago I worked for DeBeers diamond and gold mining in South Africa and Namibia as a Microsoft systems engineer out in the desert. These days I’m a cybersecurity expert. Given that context, these are e
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
The premise is economically incoherent because labor is not a single task category that technology can delete. It is the input that continuously reconstitutes itself around whatever remains scarce, valuable and socially demanded as producti
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
One day all programs will belong to the AI that made them, which was trained in a time before we forgot how to program.
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
Imagine a world where Google has its product shit together and didn’t publish the AIAYN paper, and has the monopoly on LLMs and they are a black box to all outsiders. It’s terrifying. Thankfully we have extreme competition in the space to m
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The Idiocy of Equating AI with the Dot Com Bubble(markmaunder.com)
2 points by mmaunder 9mo ago|3 comments
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
For those of you wondering if this fits your use case vs the RTX 5090 the short answer is this: The desktop RTX 5090 has 1792 GB/s of memory bandwidth partially due to the 512 bit bus width, compared to the DGX Spark with a 256 bit bus
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by mmaunder 9mo ago
Ad driven centralization bad. Go make independent websites using open standards. I just saved you 5 mins. This spends a lot of time on mood setting and analogy and doesn’t address: network effects, discovery economics, hosting and maintenan
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
Just trying to find out what this guy actually does is hard. It’s a page of links linking to another page of links, repeat. Where is the thing? The content? The product? It just feels a bit disconnected from patterns users expect and delive
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
Thanks both. Appreciate the insight.
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
Wow! Thank you!!!
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
Yeah having codex eval its own commits is highly effective. For example.
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Nature Is Laughing at the AI Build Out(markmaunder.com)
24 points by mmaunder 10mo ago|1 comments
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
PSA: UDP exists.
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
SIGINT as a source clock for others in a network doing super accurate TDOA for example.
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
Really valuable research. A benefit to public safety, and drawing attention to a sloppy vendor in the security space, claiming to secure the public, but instead putting the public at risk. However I'm deeply concerned for the researche
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
Amazing how long this took. Serena has been doing a not bad job of helping solve this issue. But this has been an obvious built in for agents for some time now. https://github.com/oraios/serena
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by mmaunder 10mo ago
Wow!!

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