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by oersted 1y ago
Indeed, individuals optimise for latency not throughput. They may be willing to go for high-throughput low-latency options if the cost-savings are significant, but that is often not the case.
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by oersted 1y ago
I agree with your take on public transport, but I don't understand your point. Tesla's robotaxis are not trying to replace public transport, they are trying to replace taxis, and eventually private cars. Uber made taxis more acces
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by oersted 1y ago
Thanks for elaborating on it, it’s good to learn. The trope though is more about the Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution and Royal Society era. But yeah they were never actual nobility, just upper-middle class. And indeed during the Renais
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by oersted 1y ago
You are right, not sure where I misremembered that from.
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by oersted 1y ago
Indeed, the way I expressed it was an oversimplification. I generally wanted to make the point that they were people that weren’t forced to have a tiring full-time job just to get by, and that research was not really their job, with patrona
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by oersted 1y ago
The article does state that professors did do research, but in their free time. For the examples you listed, were their famous research achievements really part of their university job description? Otherwise it’s more like Nietzsche working
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by oersted 1y ago
I do broadly agree, but want to note that the ASML machines are not necessarily the bottleneck, or at least not the final bottleneck, and their valuation reflects that. There’s a reason why only TSMC and to a lesser extent now Samsung and I
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by oersted 1y ago
Aren’t stablecoins also backed by a central authority that guarantees it will always exchange the coins for a fixed amount of cash? That’s what makes them stable right? At least the major ones like Tether. And by now we have seen many cases
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by oersted 1y ago
It's a good point, I'm wondering though what the ROI of a Javelin is throughout its lifetime, including training costs. It's not obvious that you end up better off, perhaps.
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by oersted 1y ago
Indeed that’s what I meant, it’s a good question. It sounds like the author only saw the cases where mortars or reusable drones had been successful. But I cannot imagine a mortar being more efficient even if one shot is 5x cheaper. Perhaps
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by oersted 1y ago
I don’t understand why the author has such a narrow definition of FPV drones. He talks as if reusable drones are a completely different category, that they are all toys designed for enthusiast racers… Generally he implies that a myriad arbi
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by oersted 1y ago
What I had in mind is the simple thrill of winning against other people, and being able to do it from the comfort of your computer/phone, without having to actually deal with people face-to-face. In this sense, gambling is just about r
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by oersted 1y ago
Interestingly the dataset they have on 9 year olds is about computer gaming specifically, and they show no correlation with gambling. The other dataset of 17 year olds is specifically about online gaming.
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by oersted 1y ago
Maybe I'm being reductionist, but it is rather obvious that if someone likes gambling but doesn't have access to it due to their age, they will reach for gaming as the closest substitute, sure. That doesn't mean that gaming m
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by oersted 1y ago
Wow, gotta admire the epic ambition of this conspiracy theory, they just went for it :) > The new chronology is a pseudohistorical theory proposed by Anatoly Fomenko who argues that events of antiquity generally attributed to the ancient
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by oersted 1y ago
I'm missing something, what's wrong with Kasparov? I've done some searching but didn't find much I'd consider significant... EDIT: My bad, I didn't realize he was part of the article, didn't take the time
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by oersted 1y ago
I love the Computer History Museum (this is published on their channel). The museum itself is not so special, but it's run by all these retired volunteer industry veterans that have incredible stories to tell, and they are such delight
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by oersted 1y ago
Not exactly, but yeah. OpenRouter is a unified API, directory and billing system for LLM providers. I think you are getting confused by the term "Model Routing", which to be fair OpenRouter does support, but it's a secondary
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by oersted 1y ago
micro would have been an even better choice, the UX is impressively close to something like Sublime Text for a TUI, and very comfortable for those not used to modal editors.
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by oersted 1y ago
Is an open-source library being used for this? Or can you describe the methods you use? I worked on this and related problems around extracting features from paper PDFs, we could all learn from how you did it. Generally, an About page is al
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by oersted 1y ago
This is indeed the previous generation, but it's not even that old. When I was coming out of undergrad word2vec was the brand-new thing that was eating-up the whole field. Indeed, before that there was a lot of work on applying classic
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by oersted 1y ago
Fantastic work, I was so fed up with Grammarly and instantly installed this. I'm just a bit skeptical about this quote: > Harper takes advantage of decades of natural language research to analyze exactly how your words come together
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by oersted 1y ago
Just to be clear, someone else wrote that response. It's unclear if the maintainer had the same thought process. They probably did to be fair, but the fact that they decided to throw an incoherent tantrum instead is not very helpful.
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by oersted 1y ago
I suppose that what I'm advocating is being passionate about the technical problem, and only the technical problem. Making decisions based on facts and principled reasoning, and not vague aesthetic preferences or personal animosity. Th
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by oersted 1y ago
A translation would be appreciated, OP was asking for an explanation for the general public. Even highly technical people will struggle to understand this if you use such insider jargon without clarification. Surely expansion is happening a
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by oersted 1y ago
It's surprising how we ended up with such a robust open-source OS ecosystem (pretty much every server running Linux) with such emotional people at the helm. He is clearly not being rational there, but I could see how his aesthetic tast
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by oersted 1y ago
> nowadays the ONLY way to have fun in most multiplayer games is to win by any means That’s quite the hyperbole, I play plenty of multiplayer games and I enjoy myself plenty wether I win or not. Granted, games like Dota, Counterstrike o
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by oersted 1y ago
True, actually people forget that quite good LLMs existed 2-3 years before ChatGPT, from Google, Microsoft, Facebook… OpenAI itself open-sourced GPT-2 all the way back in 2019 and had a GPT-3 API service for years before ChatGPT. The breakt
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by oersted 1y ago
They are world-class engineers of course, but it's always been clear OpenAI's core-advantage was simply the access to massive amounts capital without much expectation of a return on investment. The ML methods they use have always
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by oersted 1y ago
I agree it’s not black and white, but let’s be reasonable. When you sell to an addict the drug they crave, knowing full well that they will take it, and you switch it with deadly poison, just because it’s cheaper? I mean, it is hard to argu

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