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by nojvek 3y ago
We need to move away from coal as soon as we can. Coal is worst CO2 pollutant and not that energy dense. Move to a mixture of wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, nuclear - whatever makes sense. When the last coal powered plant is shut off in US
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by nojvek 3y ago
Why is Bamboo able to make 3D printers at 1/3 of the price? Most consumers are price sensitive instead of closed/open source sensitive. If Meka was cheaper, they would win.
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by nojvek 3y ago
There’s a 5th one. While not fully open source companies, they have a whole bundle of open source libraries and packages that don’t threaten their core business. Meta does OS well for their scale. React, Llama, PyTorch come to mind. For MS:
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by nojvek 3y ago
“Everything complex that works is iterations of simpler things that worked”. “Don’t judge your success by one final outcome, but the number of iterations it took to get there. Optimize for iteration”.
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by nojvek 3y ago
I only grok some parts but ‘Critique of pure reasoning’ is god level writing. I thought over it for weeks. Really loved it.
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by nojvek 3y ago
US has a big net flow of immigration to replace lost population. Surplus of houses is quite unlikely.
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by nojvek 3y ago
What is USMCA?
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by nojvek 3y ago
In US we already pool money for health insurance, like Australia, Canada, UK and the likes. It’s just that a big chunk of that pool of money goes to middle men, some of who lobby heavily to law makers and media company to tell a story that
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by nojvek 3y ago
I hope OpenAI is going to build out custom chips. If you’re gonna raise that much money, better raise the petaflops/$/watt ceiling. It’d be very said if those billions went into GPT-5 with a tiny increment to GPT-4 capabilities. L
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by nojvek 3y ago
Or change the layout entirely to clustered columnstore from row store. All databases are datastructures on disk and memory optimized for specific access and write patterns.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Every other lab is likely working very hard just so they can leave Google behind and build the next actually usable Search Engine & Portal (Browser / App Store). I’m really hoping a new player displaces Alphabet and Meta (the ad gi
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by nojvek 3y ago
The interface is weird. If it’s that fast, you don’t need to generate streaming response and fuck with the scroll bar while user just started to read the response. May as well wait for the whole response and render it. Or render paragraph a
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by nojvek 3y ago
So 2 hours at gym 5 times a week? You must be swol as Odin.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Censoring is a slippery slope. I agree with their views. Substack is not Facebook or Twitter with the most liked thing being on top. If there is a call for violence that should be nipped in the bud. I agree this should be the line. But one
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by nojvek 3y ago
Meanwhile China has built 42,000km (26,100 miles) of high speed rail. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/high-speed/rai... US is now cursed by their own success. Eisenhower jump started the highway to c
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by nojvek 3y ago
Open sourcing their code is the biggest fuck you to Apple. While I like Apple, their iMessage shenanigans is classic monopolistic bully behavior. I firmly believe that if the large tech behemoths were broken down into smaller focused compan
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by nojvek 3y ago
Seeing that wages mostly remained same but inflation shot up, I’d imagine homelessness would also shoot up. It is a paradox that the world’s richest country has such a high level of homelessness. I think in 50 years we’ll either view curren
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by nojvek 3y ago
Great site. Bookmarked it. Would be nice if I could change timeframe. Top this week, month, year, all time.
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by nojvek 3y ago
OMG. This is amazing. I legit hated reading two column pdfs on a smartphone.
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> After all, if a user doesn’t have to choose from search results, said user also doesn’t have the opportunity to click an ad, thus choosing the winner of the competition Google created between its advertisers for user attention. Google
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by nojvek 3y ago
What if it’s really not that complicated, and by adding more people you make it more complex. So complex that you need even more people to maintain that complexity? I love fly.io for rethinking some of the problems.
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What if tests are becoming harder and pointless? Do we have evidence that the set of questions asked on exams revolve around the same theme of questions? I remember doing my high school chemistry exams and one of the teachers intentionally
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by nojvek 3y ago
When many people vote with money, they have to listen. I’m not buying a Tesla precisely for that reason. Physical touch is powerful. You don’t need to look, the fingers just do what the Brian thinks.
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by nojvek 3y ago
LLMs currently are great at language tasks - summarize, generate ideas, some QA if you are okay with hallucinations. Similar with text -> image. Has many glitches. Haven't seen a major ML model rooted in physical reality, or symboli
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by nojvek 3y ago
How expensive will this be? 100T models on one chip with MCTS search. That is some impressive marketing. I’ll believe it when I see it. Great to see so many hardware startups. Future is deffo accelerated neural nets on hardware.
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by nojvek 3y ago
We started our startup on Mongo. Hit some pretty hard performance problems and eventually did a multi month long migration to Postgres (Aurora on AWS). MongoDB is only a valid choice if all you're doing is story key document pairs. The
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by nojvek 3y ago
Related https://www.theverge.com/23308394/usb-rubber-ducky-review-ha... Same idea - pretend you are a Bluetooth keyboard and send keystrokes at superhuman speeds. This exploits the auto connect to special keyboard aspe
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by nojvek 3y ago
Oh bummer. US is the biggest importer of China. Most crap we buy for Christmas and New Years - come from China. 90% of crap Amazon sells - China. Go to any store, most things are made in … China.
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by nojvek 3y ago
Phi2 trained on synthetic datasets from OpenAPI. Textbook is all you need paper also talks about using output from ChatGPT to build training models. So Bytedance gets account revoked but tons of other models are allowed. China bans US compa
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by nojvek 3y ago
Moderna and its mRNA vaccines is truly magic. Like someone born 500 years ago - if they saw what Moderna was making, they would think this is God like power. Because it is. DNA/RNA is the language of all life. Moderna is literally work

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