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by richardw 3y ago
I thought it used the Apple keyboard? Or you could use your Mac with it.
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by richardw 3y ago
ChatGPT interpretation: Sure! Let me break it down for you: When we talk about "tensor ops," we're referring to operations performed on tensors, which are multidimensional arrays of numbers commonly used in mathematics and co
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by richardw 3y ago
He’s retiring, which means his knowledge is mostly lost unless he teaches. What if he spent some of his time labeling images so AI learns and the machine says “recommend reimage“ or “possible fault” for millions who don’t have your doctor.
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by richardw 3y ago
I think of it as: When people didn't know what to do in the 90's, they went into e.g. advertising or banking. They just wanted a job, advertising was big, seems fun, let's do that. Now those kinds of people "get into t
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by richardw 3y ago
Kudos. I copied a Basic version from a book or magazine into my Amstrad CPC-464 in the ‘80’s. It was magic.
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by richardw 3y ago
Well, a Mercedes he replaced every 6 months just so he didn’t have to suffer the indignity of a number plate. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/10/how-s...
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by richardw 3y ago
Exactly. Code you learned a decade ago is absolutely useful today. When I started I outsourced SQL to the DBA’s or an ORM. Not since that team! It’s been a semi-secret weapon for me because most people ignore it.
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by richardw 3y ago
One company I worked at had heavy SQL Server stored procs. I was pretty dismissive initially ("don't put business logic in the database layer!") but grew to understand that really those were the gold. The first versions wer
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by richardw 3y ago
Just turned 50, moved countries to Sydney. Send 3 CV’s and all bounced. Yet the 20-something boss I currently have (and who is brilliant) moves mountains to try keep me. I don’t code a lot (mostly architecture) but I reduce technical risk a
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by richardw 3y ago
Still a while to go. I think there's at least a couple of algorithmic changes needed before we move to a system that says "You have the world's best god-like AI and you're asking me for poems. Stop wasting my time beca
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by richardw 3y ago
> I don't think it's defensible to argue that we should build thing sub-standardly just to give people more choice That's like a village of straw men. Stop going around telling everyone they're fucking idiots. We&#x
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by richardw 3y ago
Stop with the confident silver bullets. There are effective teams using every stack out there, including serverless. The professional chooses the right tool for the job and team. This is an instance of one change between options that happen
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by richardw 3y ago
I have an unbaked theory, but the very short version is: - Animals that have peaks of energy use outcompete animals that have a steady-state energy use. Catch the animal, then rest and recover. For any given amount of energy, this means w
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by richardw 4y ago
I think the extra heat might help over time. A possible path could be ratings -> media -> pressure. On the margin if people avoid your properties it’ll impact you first when there is a downturn. Agree nothing will come of it in the cu
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by richardw 4y ago
Australia needs this. Not that it’ll help because all power rests with property owners, but at the very least some owner reviews could help change the conversation.
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by richardw 4y ago
They merely have the opportunity to build a moat. Go really fast -> build capability, brand, scale, IP and integrations and hope like hell that's enough insurance when the fast followers arrive.
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by richardw 4y ago
I can imagine clients who used one DC being impacted. But Google’s services would be designed for a single DC going down, right? Data would be eventually consistent (once they find and plug the hard drives in) but isn’t this the promise of
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by richardw 4y ago
I can imagine the response including questions. Eg “do you mean X or Y, here are the implications”. That way the machine gets better at helping us clarify our thinking. Right now it’s just blurting out a response that fits your instruction
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by richardw 4y ago
Entire product ranges are sold from China with terrible documentation, but still sell. Somehow the people who write those get paid, so I assume there’s a massive range of professional skill levels. I hope Chinese manual writers are currentl
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by richardw 4y ago
One alternative is that you overbuild and connect very widely. China has 3000+km power connections. If you do that you can connect to remote wind, which is never not blowing somewhere within 3000km of you. During the day, solar nearer the e
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by richardw 4y ago
OpenAI releasing imperfect products is exactly what they said they would do. We need society to understand what the state and risks are. The 6-month-wait shitstorm is what happens when society gets the merest glimmer of the potential. I app
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by richardw 4y ago
That sounds like Google is the the Xerox Parc of AI. Still need to execute.
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by richardw 4y ago
The point is that the cellphone is a multiplier with which every person can improve their lives. That was true before the internet (see fishermen in Africa using phones to communicate about the best current fishing spots) and even more so n
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by richardw 4y ago
I think this is an area where you have to be careful of people-like-me bias. (Apologies :) Most people in the world didn’t have most of those things, but they now largely all have cellphones. Any child with access to the internet can access
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by richardw 4y ago
I heard a great interview response from a YC-related person recently. Might have been SamA: Nobody you know (roughly) uses VR many times a week/day, not in any extended fashion. Everyone might have them but they're in a drawer so
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by richardw 4y ago
About 15 years ago I'd have a similar-enough chat with a colleague that went the same way every time we had it. It was pointless. We'd polarise the same way every time, so why waste the energy. I proposed (and he agreed) that it w
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by richardw 4y ago
So you'd need 6 of those highways converging on the middle of a city to compare to Tokyo's single train station. To make it really fun to solve, no rational city would allow that disastrous use of above-ground land, the parking f
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by richardw 4y ago
> Sorry train fans, but trains are not that great for commuting. Quick comparison: more people (3.6m) go through Shinjuku Station in Tokyo than the daytime population of Manhattan, at 3.1m. Only half of those travel into Manhattan, using
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by richardw 4y ago
Thank you. It’s amazing that +1bn people with theoretical access to the world’s resources didn’t spontaneously create 10000 sci-fi books. Similar isolation the other way around. Societies are still so isolated (language, culture, political
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by richardw 4y ago
“The grass/food that cattle eat, what would happen to it if let to decompose ?” It would decompose (once) and then natural habitat would return because we need less of that land, capturing carbon more permanently because it’s released

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