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by richardw 2y ago
It can be hard to force an idea. I’ve had so many that just aren’t quite a fit. Long wanted one that was a real home run and this year I’ve had to churn a ton of ideas. Finally found a couple that rock. Ideas: Build the scaffolding for an i
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And these machines were originally built at a time when everything was simpler. We’re like space aliens arriving from the future, applying our advanced tech to build an old human relic. A couple motivated people can do it. 30 years from now
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by richardw 2y ago
I’ve been here since 2008, and only saw/needed this today. I’m one of today’s 10000 :) https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by richardw 2y ago
I have a shorthand: I respect people who are looking for the right answer, rather than trying to be right. Ignores intelligence etc. A confident person who is trying to be right. Like kryptonite for your company. I try to build up my confid
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by richardw 2y ago
The direction we’re going, the AI will go to space and leave the weak, very fallible, continuously arguing, short-lived monkeys behind. After (hopefully gently) telling us that it’s ridiculous to try keep us alive where it’s going. Can’t ev
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by richardw 2y ago
I think this underestimates the benefits of focus and serendipity and new materials. There’s a non zero chance that grid scale fixed batteries get made from things like sand or liquid metal or (insert cheap thing you can heat here). Claims
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by richardw 2y ago
I’m a long time coder but a bit rusty now. Last year I built a football team optimiser using Google’s OR tools (various optional constraints like being with friends and trying to balance skill levels across teams). LLM’s can go quite far in
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by richardw 2y ago
"can" -> he has shipped at least one product. Different to "guaranteed to ship every product to 100% success". Let's try "Musk has proved he can ship more than one entirely unrelated product to the scale tha
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by richardw 2y ago
I smoked. In the end the best way to stop for me was to take up cycling because I found them fundamentally incompatible. My chest didn’t like it. This was in my 20’s and I was riding 2-6 hours a day.
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by richardw 2y ago
It would be interesting to know the fully baked all-externality cost of it vs alternatives. Tyre rubber, road maintenance, accidents, ship diesel, ports, people, trains, insurance. Anything removing a) complex, expensive moving parts or b)
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by richardw 2y ago
I think depends on how much physical exertion the soldiers needed in that day. Athletes don’t smoke (in general). Soldiers who need to march and fight with no vehicles might well be better off not smoking, when the going gets really tough.
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by richardw 2y ago
I’ve wondered if this existed, to simplify writing a system that parses and processes RSS. Frankly I’d go a bit further and spit out events, so people can code “give me the next entry” without having to mess with polling lots of rss endpoin
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by richardw 2y ago
For a short while but surely reduced access to smoking would improve performance in the medium term? Both are obviously possibilities and it would be good to know if anyone had an answer.
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by richardw 2y ago
And would still need to give Chrome access to your contacts, files etc to make it equivalent. It’s not useless, obviously it’ll be good, it’s just not the same. My original comment was replying to: “enable approximately what Apple is doing
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by richardw 2y ago
For sure many devices will have them, but the trick will be to build this local web model in a way that leverages all of the local chips. Apple’s advantage is in not having to worry about all that. It has a simpler problem and better access
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Apple might have an advantage given they’ll have custom hardware to drive it, and the ability to combine data from outside the browser with data inside it. But it’s an interesting idea.
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by richardw 2y ago
Going a touch further: make it a pluggable local model. Browser fetches the first 10 links from google in the background, watches the YouTube video, hides the Google ads, presents you with the results. Now not only can Google front the web
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by richardw 2y ago
Rather than just dump on it, I’d find it more interesting to hear how it came to be and what it’s used for internally (if so). I’ve seen surprising stuff that had rational reasons under closer investigation. Companies have cultures and int
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by richardw 2y ago
Yup, on reading the actual Theia website I realise I got it wrong. Thanks :)
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My read was different. That this is an IDE with plugins and whatnot, and they have a similarly named but entirely different offering: “Note that Eclipse Theia IDE is a separate component from the overall Theia project's related Eclipse
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by richardw 2y ago
If this has a chance of getting to 100% of the population, I think if I were the rhino I’d want to take those odds given the alternative is being hunted. And if it’s eg 50%, I’d very much want to be in the injected 50% because all poaching
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by richardw 2y ago
Yup related. I messaged you on LinkedIn.
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by richardw 2y ago
Top recipe: you force some people to have a very shit life, selection based on race. Some lawlessness is naturally bred and in some cases encouraged. You then take away the rules that made it shit but you leave the economic, societal and me
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by richardw 2y ago
In SA, barbed wire is a good start. You’ve left off electric fence, cameras, manned boom gates and security company. And security WhatsApp groups. What am I missing? Some have guns or double layers of the above. Many live in security comple
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by richardw 2y ago
Insurance/banking company I worked for has made billions from incentives. Exercise, getting preventative tests, driving slower, reducing dangerous credit behaviour. Works in their market (might not in yours) and the clientele has self
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Just one example: https://www.drive.com.au/news/byd-to-introduce-new-second-ge... They’re doing a lot of licensing to western companies.
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by richardw 2y ago
No problem. And you’re right it’s never simple. If cats weren’t there, native animals would be doing the predation. We enable cats to out-compete other animals. Islands make it easier to measure the impact but obviously this plays out simil
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by richardw 2y ago
If you’re going to quote, make it an accurate quote :) I didn’t say per year. And the amounts of animals killed by pet cats are very much not accepted as 5. Maybe you’re presented with 5. “Cats have played a leading role in most of Australi
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by richardw 2y ago
My wife and a few friends were into helping feral cats. I did a few stints. Built a shelter, helped bake cookies for sale to generate funds etc. I remember doing predator-prey models at uni. The issue is that the population will just grow u
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Or using the propeller to chase you until it is satisfied that it’s on your head.

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