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by nl 24d ago
There were lots on the site, which I thinks shows how weak your "which is safe" point is. If there were lots of people there AND it still happened then.. not very safe right?
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by nl 25d ago
The Chernobyl disaster wasn't caused by a single person, as you note in your comment "proposed and exercised by people without knowledge or experience."
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by nl 25d ago
> some greedy, uneducated people from the past wanted better position We don't have greedy, uneducated people who want better positions now?
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by nl 25d ago
> OpenAI would have you believe this result shows how powerful their mystery better-than-Astra model is, but the reality here is that this model needed 10,000 agents, $20M of compute, and the assistance of a whole team of people at OpenA
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by nl 25d ago
Radar altimeters are widely deployed for drones and available for less than $100, eg https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012484730308.html Ardupilot boards are $20 and support lots of different altimeters technologies:
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by nl 27d ago
It's a Navier Stokes solution. They don't need any help publishing.
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by nl 28d ago
> Does the US position come with 5 weeks paid vacation? When the US position gets hit with layoffs, do you still have comprehensive healthcare and unemployment coverage? Maybe this appeal to mediocrity in a competitive market explains Mi
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by nl 28d ago
Of course. It's the real world, there is no bright-line. But broadly if you are dealing with building something in a world with constraints (time, materials, money, speed, safety) then it's more engineering. If you are studying ho
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by nl 28d ago
Science is discovery of new knowledge (that "pesky chemistry" which is literally don't know how to do). Engineering is applying that knowledge in a effective and efficient manner. Engineering is something that money and time
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by nl 29d ago
> But the more Holmes talks to Fielder, the more he teases out her unhinged rationale, which is: The device works fine! We just had to figure out that pesky chemistry stuff! The strange thing is that Holmes has such a corporate mindset t
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by nl 29d ago
> women will only say yes to 9/10 or better men, but men will message anyone with a pulse which in turn inflates female expectations Is this a SF thing? I'm maybe a 7/10 and I've never had trouble getting dates in an
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by nl 29d ago
Who is this "we" you talk about? There are hundreds (thousands?) of dating sites. The problem isn't the technology, it's the fact it's a two sided market place, and cold starts are hard for two sided marketplaces. I
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by nl 1mo ago
Doesn't reference Dawkins' "The Selfish Gene". That explores this in a more general sense. Since they didn't reference that I questioned its perspective and didn't read further.
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by nl 1mo ago
> at the end of the day their geometric intuition is nonexistent This isn't true anymore. I use LLMs for 3D CAD using OpenSCAD and they understand geometry fine. I've had more success with Sol than with Opus (Opus 5 is around 1
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by nl 1mo ago
Constellation Software (mentioned in the article) is such an interesting company.
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by nl 1mo ago
I'm using AI to build things I wouldn't (and/or couldn't) have built before. That's the opposite of parasitic.
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by nl 1mo ago
Writing all the code is quite a long way from (your words) "better autocomplete"!
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by nl 1mo ago
Something Cherny said in early December last year is clearly not relevant anymore. By late December he said: "100% of my contributions to Claude Code were written by Claude Code"[1]. That's production software shipping to mil
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by nl 1mo ago
You are absolutely right, I apologize. I think I was talking about A100 prices (which are still only 6 years old) and conflated a few different things there. But A100 rental prices have climbed since 2024 (as far back as free account reco
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by nl 1mo ago
Have you ever read a 10K before? It seems like the author of this piece hasn't. He says: > Stock market bettors aren't sure they like these odds. The company's stock is down more than 40 percent in the last month The stock
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by nl 1mo ago
> Because he was wrong. That's how it works. > His statement was wrong. I don't care what other ideas you want to read into it, he was incorrect about AGI arriving in 2025. No Sam Altman never claimed we'd get AGI in 20
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by nl 1mo ago
> but that doesn't mean investors or companies doing all the spending will make more than they spend, i.e. the net ecosystem business model is not sustainable precisely because intermediaries are capturing crazy rent relative to act
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by nl 1mo ago
> Would they announce record losses and financial distress? Of course not, but private investors get to see their books and investors are lining up to invest.
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by nl 1mo ago
> we know deprecation cycle of DC hardware leans towards tulips i.e. <10 years (very generous) vs 20+ years for fiber layout [1] is a reasonable discussion of DC cost models, which calculates depreciation as part of the annual cost. &
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by nl 1mo ago
> that you don't know most people in the world Of course. To be clear, the claim was "all software is still built by humans coding" I know this all software claim is false because I've seen it. Proof by example. &
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by nl 1mo ago
> He was wrong that AGI was "now simply an engineering problem". > He was wrong that the path to AGI was "basically clear". Why do you say that? For context, Jensen Huang says: > "For many tasks, we could s
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by nl 1mo ago
What specifically was he wrong about in either of those? I.e, something that can be falsified. > Altman claimed that AGI could be achieved in 2025 during an interview for Y Combinator, declaring that it is now simply an engineering pro
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by nl 1mo ago
> These companies have been caught tweaking their numbers... they build data centers through holding companies, who have to absorb the costs and massive capex based financial liabilites, so that the brand-name big-tech companies get to k
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by nl 1mo ago
And with both OpenAi and Anthropic are announcing record revenue growth to the point where Anthropic is now profitable this seems like it's going to work out fine for them.
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by nl 1mo ago
> One needs look no further than Oracle to see a company in dire financial straits. Oracle had record revenue and profit in the most recent quarter. That's quite a long way from "dire financial straits"

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