mrandish

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by mrandish 4mo ago
> I can consistently get 51 cards correct every time. That's not a bug, it's a feature! Just do a "new deck order restore" with the selected card out of seq. :-) > when you know how hard the trick is, it makes it b
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by mrandish 4mo ago
When I saw the headline I immediately knew the reference. Then I skimmed that article and saw no connection to T2?
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Yeah, I worked on getting a Faro for a while when I was a teenager but gave up on it after a few months. I even got some coaching and tips from the Professor and Earl Nelson, so the issue was definitely not a lack of knowing the best ways i
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by mrandish 4mo ago
This situation is kind of like backend NIL value. His value to OAI isn't just the work he'll do "on the playing field", it's the perceptual value of "OAI just hired the guy Google paid >$2B to get back"
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by mrandish 4mo ago
You can't force someone to keep taking your money (that's indentured servitude), you can only incentivize them to stay with increasing amounts of money. Google almost certainly did do that. Probably by vesting his hiring bonus ove
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Good question. Trying to 'steel-man' MJ's approach, that was the only possible benefit vs the existing Butterfly product which I hadn't crossed out yet, so I asked the only actual radiologist here about the possibility o
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Exactly my concern too. There are techniques like synthetic aperture focusing which can correct some of these errors to some degree but they're complex and have harsh limits of their own. It's always better to not have the error
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by mrandish 4mo ago
It's true that sometimes deeply experienced professionals are less likely to discover or accept novel methods based on new approaches or technologies. Unfortunately, in this case MJ's proposed product is being deceptively presente
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I love your idea and would enjoy seeing the results of that controlled experiment. I'm also interested in the broader impact of using LLMs in place of web search for general Q&A when we want 'to know things'. It's pr
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> I would love to see some of the raw imaging data Just look at images from the Butterfly IQ3 handheld ultrasound device which has been on the market a while ( https://www.butterflynetwork.com/iq3 ). Midjourney is repackag
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I'd agree more if MidJourney had decided to announce their product plans with a white paper instead of glossy 'product vision' marketing spin and virtually no information as to how they hope to solve the vast technical leap
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Yes, it may be more of a symbolic gesture for Switzerland's own needs but it's still good to correct the historical error of prohibiting a broad range of potentially viable approaches from ever being considered.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I did see that. And it does look better. Okay, I'm sold! Sign me up for my spa visit including avocado facial peel, genital waxing and computed axial tomography ultrasound. More seriously, I assumed that CT Ultrasound image is from B
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> the real working device Could you expand on the term "working"? Do you mean like "working to slowly lower a person into water while videos of animated Figma UIs play back on a monitor?" Or do you mean some crazy kin
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> They've lost the plot, especially with the spa. Yeah, that's not just 'cart before the horse', it's more like cart before the wheel. They make a bunch of extraordinary claims yet offer zero evidence, info or ev
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by mrandish 4mo ago
And to add more background: The administration is targeting Anthropic because of the TOU / EULA conflict with the DoD from a couple of months ago. Anthropic restricts use of all their models for lethal combat planning and mass domestic
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by mrandish 4mo ago
My first computer had a 6809 with 4K of RAM and I learned assembler on that 6809, which was greatly inspired by the PDP-11 architecture. My second computer was an Amiga 1000 with a 68000, a CPU even more directly a successor to the PDP-11 t
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Several years ago I came across the first issue of "Television" magazine from 1928 and reading it blew my mind in a couple ways. ( https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37097 ) First, the overall tone is remarkably simila
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by mrandish 4mo ago
For sure, by volume the impact of the PDP-11 was almost entirely through micros and workstations because they were taking over so fast. Although, Unix and C did spread like wildfire from the PDP-11 to other minis. In fact, C was originally
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by mrandish 4mo ago
The influence was what the people who learned computing in the 70s on PDP-11s at university, went on to do with what they'd learned in the 80s. Also, the 6809 shipped in 1978. Little known fact, the Macintosh was going to be based on t
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by mrandish 4mo ago
While I just missed out on minis and mainframes (starting with early 8-bit micros and 4k RAM), as a retro fan who's read deep into the Datapoint 2200, Intel, TI saga, I agree the DataPoint is a heavy hitter easily deserving of the titl
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> It had a very clean and symmetric instruction set Indeed. Motorola's 68000 CPU took so much inspiration from the PDP-11's ISA, it was almost a spiritual successor. The 68000's 8/16-bit little brother, the 6809, wide
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I think the core problem of most self-help books is that at best, they're usually an article's worth of knowledge and insight stretched to book length for economic reasons. To be fair, some people probably do benefit from, or at l
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> I find it difficult to competently reason about a system unless I've built my own version of that system. You're in excellent company from Feynman onward. > The yak shaving was at least 50% about loading the abstractions
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by mrandish 4mo ago
I hope the crew are okay, but from the look of the aftermath and the fact there's no mention of the crew yet, I assume not all survived. Shortly after takeoff is one of the most challenging times for an incident. Low altitude, low-spee
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Fabien's site is an invaluable resource, but I think I've read it all over the years and he one has post specifically on Commander Keen, and that's focused on just the adaptive tile refresh ( https://fabiensanglard.
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> just scroll animations. Bad ones Scroll animations, post-grid floating voids, bouncy house dampening, hyper rounded... everything. These are the 50s Chevy fins of today. I've enjoyed working with some great designers over the yea
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Same experience. It was awesome watching a massive Heidelberg press print hundreds of four color, die cut boxes with blind emboss and UV coating a minute. Even after I had competent art directors working for me, I'd still sometimes tag
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by mrandish 4mo ago
> Rio de Janeiro's city government model... Because... lack of a good open weight LLM is a pressing need high on the municipal priorities list for Rio de Janeiro citizens?
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by mrandish 4mo ago
Many founders do try serial pivots until the money's gone. An entrepreneur shutting down cleanly with half the runway still in the bank would be seen by future potential funders as a net positive. It's worse to grind through all t

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