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by mrDmrTmrJ 14d ago
Cool - want to suggest changes to the legal code to lower the cost?
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by mrDmrTmrJ 25d ago
Can someone walk me through exactly how powerful distillation is? I've never seen a good blog post or metric establishing what % of a new model's "intelligence" can be captured. I'm not disputing the document's
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by mrDmrTmrJ 2mo ago
If the leading model companies aren't profitable long-term, how do we get the money to continually spend on more research and more compute? I get that plenty of people don't like big corporations or stock buybacks or certain CEOs,
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by mrDmrTmrJ 2mo ago
Why?
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by mrDmrTmrJ 3mo ago
I think the funniest part is the username. The_Blade, which I can only assume is a reference to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5cll43/while_you_wer...
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by mrDmrTmrJ 3mo ago
Could you write several paragraphs on this? I'd appreciate reading it.
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by mrDmrTmrJ 3mo ago
Let's say you want to make a hybrid car lighter-weight. Where is this useful? Power density and cycle life are truly impressive. Energy density is super low
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by mrDmrTmrJ 4mo ago
Google's research team invented the Transformer Architecture at the center of LLM "AI". A huge invention. California has added roughly 17GW of grid-scale batteries in the last five years. Modern GPU (NVIDIA). Modern electric
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by mrDmrTmrJ 4mo ago
Yes. The utilities want every household to pay them every month. Here in California, PG&E has a "base service fee" of $24/month. That you owe even if they sell you no (as in ZERO) electricity: https://www.pge.c
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by mrDmrTmrJ 4mo ago
Oh, I would far prefer to own Anthropic's stock than SpaceX's.
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by mrDmrTmrJ 4mo ago
Why is "ai-big loss"? My understanding is that the S-1 showed a Q1 loss of xAI of $2.47 billion in Q1. But with the Anthropic Colossus-I rental agreement at $1.25B/month or $3.75B/quarter, xAI should now be net-neutral t
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by mrDmrTmrJ 5mo ago
If you're curious, why this scenario hasn't panned out. I'd highly recommend you read: The Triumph of the City https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healt...
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by mrDmrTmrJ 7mo ago
Best part is no part
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by mrDmrTmrJ 7mo ago
To be clear, this is not a power-point program but a continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell. Two articles that cover this in depth are: 1. Revised Fold-Away Rotor Aircraft Concepts Emerge From Special Operations X-Plane Progr
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by mrDmrTmrJ 8mo ago
Awesome article. Please read the entire thing. Gary takes a well-deserved shot at the US false use of "third‑worldification" as a stand in for "our own low-trust society". This crap will only stop when there is: 1. A ton
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by mrDmrTmrJ 8mo ago
The UV light source that ASML uses for its lithography machine is technology that was acquired in the 2013 acquisition of San Diego-based Cymber. The tech stack for the advanced light source dates back to the "EUV LLC Initiative,"
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by mrDmrTmrJ 10mo ago
All sound will end up as heat.
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by mrDmrTmrJ 10mo ago
Or, we could study why public infrastructure costs radically more than the US, than other countries, then change our laws and both save billions of $ and have great new public transit!
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by mrDmrTmrJ 10mo ago
Is there a non-subscription link to read on this? (Note: My comment below is without reading the article.) Honestly, to me, one of the most exciting aspects of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO of Intel is actually spinning in his US startup portfolio. To
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by mrDmrTmrJ 10mo ago
Well, I want more multifamily housing (apartments or condos) to lower prices in good cities near pubic transit. So let me propose: a wealth tax on land! ("Georgism"). But not a tax on the "value of improvements," i.e, bu
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by mrDmrTmrJ 11mo ago
I have YouTube.com and X.com IP blocked on this computer for exactly that reason. Because I noticed I have zero self-control with the short-term video format. So now I don't touch it and consider it similar to cigarettes.
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by mrDmrTmrJ 11mo ago
It's a great question. Here are two Paul Graham (PG) quotes on Sam Altman (Sama) from 2008 and 2009. Note, PG is the founder of YC, Sam's former boss, and the one who removed Sam from the position of President of YC after first ap
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
Because, to quote your comment, "their customers are mostly unsophisticated." And, part of the appeal of the product, is they only pay out if *all of them are in the money. Hence the "lotto-like" return profile.
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
Well, if 2/3 of SpaceX's current launches are for Starlink (which deploys satellites in LEO), isn't a two-stage, fully reusable vehicle optimized for LEO deployment the thing SpaceX would want to build? In terms of "free
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
Given that renewable power power is self correlated (all the solar panels are producing at once - or they’re not, all the wind turbines are turning at once - or they’re not) - renewable energy leads to low prices when it’s produced and high
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
What an insane article. It's almost like he hasn't read Eric Hoffer. Mass movements arise when populations, that had had large increases in living standards, find their living standards are no longer rising. Hoffer cites something
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
We control nuclear proliferation by making enriched uranium (U235) very, very hard to acquire. While I'd love to see more nuclear reactors in our society. The "nuclear everything" argument breaks a core tenant of US national
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
"It does feel like a squeeze just functioning in the current - housing, and grocery market though" If housing were far cheaper and traded just at the cost of new construction. ($250/sq-ft for new build 6 story, $400/sq-f
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
Google maps Gmail Chrome Waymo Were all built within google. For most people (who do not sell software on the internet) we get a great trade from the current state of things!
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by mrDmrTmrJ 1y ago
I don't think you're pumping sea water - I think you're pumping air.

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