sgt101

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   by sgt101 3y ago

   Openreach offer 2 SLA's to ISP's, a cheap one and one that gets service. Sky, Voda and BT buy the better SLA. I have worked in these organisations and I can tell you Openreach really doesn't give a flyin f about BT Retail&#x2
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   There was a "cable 2" future where content bundles were going to drive differentiation, but then we got Netflix, Disney and Amazon so that went out of the window. I must admit I can't see any future for consumer ISP's ap
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   BTW who else remembers the flap about Memristors and HP Lab's "The Machine" at the time. Disk and memory were definitely going to be abolished by 2020!
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   I worked at a telco when Optane was announced and launched; we had an Intel account manager and quarterly business meetings with them. I lobbied hard for some samples, but they simply would not provide them. I think that if we were represen
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   reminds me of the flocking demos 20 years ago...
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   Because they are good at stealing doesn't mean that people shouldn't try and stop them stealing or that it will be a good outcome for anyone if they successfully steal all the stuff.
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   So what you are saying is that you would like a process that was live - with everything loaded, and ready to respond to any code that you wanted it to run, as opposed to having to bring up a new Juila process for each step in the pipeline.
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   Ahh I getcha a bit. What is the usecase though - which script-type workflows? (genuine curiosity, not just asking!)
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   by sgt101 3y ago

   I mean DynamicalSystems is big - 183 subpackages... it doesn't surprise me that it requires some time to pull it in and make it available to other code.. what's the design choice that they should have made that would avoid this?
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    It seems instant to me - the package compile on first invocation is rather like installing with pip or conda, and then after that I see the plot in about 1/20th second.
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    >The TTFP is too damn high and I don't think it will ever be fixed. I just installed and ran on my macbook - took me 7 minutes to get it installed and run through to a first plot, most of that was installing and compiling the Plots
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    They wanted it to be used to used, on Nazis.
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    yeah for sure, I understand the hurt. I guess that I feel bad because I like a drink or four and I don't think I hurt anyone else but feel like I should be guilty all the time.. so I stop boozing and then I really miss it. In simpler t
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    I agree but would caveat by saying that there are a lot of things in the world that destroy people and families. A lack of romance and escape being another of them.
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    My dear brother in Christ, Hayes and Ford : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220813820_Turing_Te... 1995.
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Oh and it'll all be fine as you could get a grant and you don't need to worry about money or your kids or any of that stuff, and no one who failed at all this or ended up on the streets because of it will write a blog post and poi
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Also those craft might not be built to be "co-operative" when this kind of intervention is made...
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    They lobbed the D-21 drone into China and USSR though I think.
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Yes more flexible. Very strange though, why does it need to be reusable? It clearly is a sensible platform as it looks like the Chinese have built a similar thing, but I just don't understand what it's really doing and why it has
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Why? what's the benefit of a supersonic missile system vs a high subsonic missile platform, what are the drawbacks, cost, availability, size, handling. Also what are the drawbacks - operationally - like increased visibility, decreased
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    I am curious as to how a hypersonic aircraft can collect radio signals - the air does strange things around such a craft
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Challenging to control a drone at hypersonic speeds & low altitudes (sub orbital) I think, the behavior of the air as a plasma around the craft will mean that it will probably have to be fully autonomous, which if armed could be quite a
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Not so flexible though (not saying that an SR-72 would be either), counter measures might be feasible as well I guess.
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Worth reading this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Open_Skies
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Really interesting that HN has completely moved on from this drama to AI!
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    CZ Out at Biance(ft.com)

    3 points by sgt101 3y ago|3 comments
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Language translation is due to the huge corpus of translations that it's trained on. Google translate has been doing this for years. People don't apply softmax to their arithmetic. Again, code generation is approximate retrieval,
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    Can LLM's compute any computable function? I thought that an LLM can approximate any computable function, if the function is within the distribution that it is are trained on. I think it's jolly interesting to think about differen
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    There are no emergent properties, just a linear increase in knowledge that can be retrieved. - It can't plan - It can't do arithmetic - It can't reason - It can approximately retrieve knowledge with a natural language query (
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    by sgt101 3y ago

    I can use a 5ltr V8 to drive to school and back or a Nissan Leaf. Neither thing is evil, or good, but the choice of what is used and what is available to use for a particular task has moral significance.