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by randcraw 2y ago
> As long as you're okay renting. Ann Arbor property values and property taxes are reasonably ridiculous and Ypsi is getting there. In fact, A2 housing prices are simply insane. Even a 1000 sq ft hovel without garage sells for upwa
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by randcraw 2y ago
In Ann Arbor the name of the game is small startups, often derived from U Michigan professors. There are enough of those you can make a career there, though it's wise to expand your network to include other towns within 30 minutes (li
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I don't think so. Instead of SEO, I think we'll soon see 'LLMO' dominating such uses, where LLM summaries are reshaped by vendors and etailers to misrepresent facts in ways that favor them over others. I suspect this ca
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by randcraw 2y ago
I disabled AI entirely on my ipad running 18.2.1 but it still indicates almost 3 GB storage in use for AI. The author suggests iOS will let you overwrite that space if needed, but I'm not so sure.
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> LLMs are the new compiler, and the world of software is going to get a lot more bespoke. This is true only if your data sources and sinks are accessible, well documented, and their governing app is cooperative, such that your LLM codin
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Doomscrolling == Channel Surfing. "Doom" doesn't have to describe the content. It could be your state of mindlessness as you thoughtlessly iterate through your standard set of net waypoints and the content that's spoon
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More precisely, that unreasonable man must add sufficient extraordinary value to his product to convert complacent users into willing defectors. Thus you must convince users that 1) FB is clearly inferior to your product (e.g. many importan
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by randcraw 2y ago
Yeah, this is a great idea. Filtering the ranked output would be even better, especially if you could also exclude content by class (or keyword), as in... rank by significance: NOT politics; NOT Trump; NOT republican; NOT democrat
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by randcraw 2y ago
That sucks. I thought only Ferrari did that. Reportedly, Jay Leno said that their unsporting attitude is why he owns no dancing horses. Now that Porsche is behaving just as badly, I wonder if he'll swear off and sell off that marque
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A nice overview. In short, I would describe an AI Engineer as someone who integrates existing AI tools and libraries into a reliable system that is fielded in a production environment. They also must know how to tune AI components and ass
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If this strategy infects CS degree curriculums widely, employers looking for more than mere coders will overlook CS majors and instead look to engineers, which is where most computing professionals came from academically before about 1980.
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The insane price tags on 911s might have something to do with that.
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For more background (2022): https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/04/busybody-hun... "The busybody makes it their business to know everything and anything – they want to know as much as possi
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I think this is also why LLMs score so well on many tests for professions -- much of the learned subject matter is expected later to be regurgitated rather than used in the synthesis of new ideas or the scientific inquiry of mechanisms of a
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by randcraw 2y ago
Check out the reviews on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195888801-why-machines-l... (Far better than Amazon's.)
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The dangers are not in AI, per se. Like nuclear fission and fusion, the danger is in how the technology 1) may be misused by corporations that are clueless to or disinterested in the damage it can inflict, and 2) surely will be dis-regulat
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by randcraw 2y ago
After he was demoted at DeepMind for poor performance as a manager, that is. Suleyman is no technologist. He's a marketing promoter. He attended one year of college before dropping out to help sell DeepMind. You have to wonder what&
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For those whose browsers lack WebGL2 (like Brave), here's a map of the trail: https://keepcalmandpedalonblog.com/the-eastern-divide-trail-...
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At 67, I'm in the middle of the pack, and I'll be tuning in and dropping out in just the next few months.
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Tech that will change your life in 2025(wsj.com)
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by randcraw 2y ago
So true. But I'm hoping that the need to resurrect the dead will propel me into discovering a whole other side to living with mechanized transport. Riding is certainly rewarding (and challenging) but wrenching is another dimension en
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by randcraw 2y ago
Very cool! Thanks!
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It's been sitting for 25 years... during which I bought two more bikes, a 2004 Yamaha FZ1 and a 2015 Ducati Diavel. Don't ask me why. Apparently owning an excess of bikes is my penance for... some past sin.
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I'll play that by ear, begin with some solo long afternoon hikes and overnights, then take stock. The lack of others on off-season weekdays may require a plan B. It'll probably depend on the location. I think I'll also loo
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Shame about the F2. I'm a big fan of the 600Fs. Mine's a 1986 Ninja 900. My first step: make sure the crank turns. :-( I drained the tank before storing it so the carbs shouldn't have gummed. But I'm sure that afte
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As someone about to retire, I'm looking to develop passions that involve more physical activity than computerdom allows, like: - Fix up a 30 year old motorcycle that's been just sitting far too long. Maybe resurrect a classic bik
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Right. "You have been blocked", is what I get. But this works: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-next-great-leap-in...
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Require employers of each H1-B to submit (along with the hire's w-4 that they send to Uncle Sam that already includes the job's wages and benefits), the position description in the job ad, the candidate's resume, and the matc
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Conversely, look at the multitude of labor-saving devices mankind has invented throughout history. We have minimized physical exertion whenever possible, including exercise. The explosive rise in popularity of taking a very expensive shot
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Excellent and fascinating article. The only way this will end is intervention by federal law enforcement, perhaps by formally proscripting DNS servers to route visitors to a law enforcement site that reports that IP address as a criminal e

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