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by sifar 2y ago
I understand, however it was a disclaimer not a "trust me". One of the main reason such metrics are not as reflective of the reality is that for developing countries, the taxes are not reported accurately. A lot of wealth is offic
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by sifar 2y ago
>> There is an insane wealth gap. Relative wealth gap in developing countries dwarfs that of the developed ones. Source: Personal observation.
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by sifar 2y ago
If you discount their JPL lab operations, it seems their revenue/expenses are ~$1Bn [0]. The investments would be able to probably cover half of that. [0] https://finance.caltech.edu/documents/23713/FS_21_22.p
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by sifar 2y ago
If you gaze long into the abyss ....
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by sifar 2y ago
is it that it cannot do or that it is not the priority ?
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by sifar 2y ago
The question is about the abstraction being understandable and predictable. All the examples you have follow that, LLMs throw that out of the window. >> Scratch that, I guess you're not using a modern microprocessor to generate m
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by sifar 2y ago
I second this book, really accessible. It taught me Abstract Algebra when I was learning it by myself.
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by sifar 2y ago
Predictions can go wrong for any number of reasons beyond one's thesis. One can be right about what but wrong about when. To bet money on that just to satisfy ones (and others) ego is foolish. To recognize that is wisdom.
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by sifar 2y ago
To interpret it more charitably, perhaps each of these things is it's own language and the activities therein akin to writing.
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by sifar 2y ago
This is a good explanation. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/ A recent bill has given relief for the domestic amortization but is still stuck in the senate. https://gop-waysandmeans.house.gov&#
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by sifar 2y ago
> Raise my eyebrows, more than a little bit. If to compute e.g. (assume for a second you do not have optimized instructions for this) you have E = D * C and C = B + A, how exactly you can compute E without first knowing C? You can't
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by sifar 2y ago
>> At $360 a year, the productivity benefit doesn't need to be huge to justify the cost, lets say you would probably want to so $500-1,000/yr in expense reduction. You also have to factor in the cost of ai's failure mo
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by sifar 2y ago
Joss !
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by sifar 3y ago
sceptre tvs are pretty affordable. Have been using it for a while - no issues. No wifi though, just hdmi and usb.
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by sifar 3y ago
What about people borrowing video games from the library ? Should we ban that too since the companies are missing on those apparent sales.
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by sifar 3y ago
>> There is no pipeline stall. There is no waiting for memory. I mean this is a bit of a hyperbole. Even if things are deterministic, the compiler might not be able to schedule things optimally, their can be pipeline interlocks or mem
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by sifar 3y ago
I believe bureaucratic structures at scale are the same irrespective of cultures.
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by sifar 3y ago
The chapter on NEON/SIMD is yet to be written.
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by sifar 3y ago
Yes, the IP as a binary counter is a historical artifact :). If you look at the first computer reports, the IP was a binary counter because the memories were linear addressable since they were made from mercury tubes - so one could only inc
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by sifar 3y ago
Thanks, hadn't come across this one before, and I feel there is some truth to this - that when the inner processes slow down or atrophy, collapse begins. However, I think the rapid collapse probably refers to what is observable on the
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by sifar 3y ago
tailor the hardware to your particular application.Depending on the complexity/fpga, your application can reside in the hardware, or even it is the hardware.
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by sifar 3y ago
Perhaps because the poster seems to be historian and not a CS practioner. From the question "Why I am asking I am writing a history of the Fast Inverse Square Root, information about which is collected at 0x5f37642f.com. Part of invest
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by sifar 3y ago
and conveniently.
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It is the act, how that experience shapes us.
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by sifar 3y ago
GrapheneOS is cool.
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by sifar 3y ago
I personally consider it more dangerous as this less attention required breeds complacency which may inevitably result in me not being able to intervene when the it makes a mistake. As opposed to being alert all time when one is driving.
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by sifar 3y ago
>>> Not having to constantly apply a ton of micro-corrections for keeping the speed, keeping the car centered, slowing down to cars in front, ... takes away a TON of mental fatigue, even if you're still supervising. you are de
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by sifar 3y ago
Physical cash is also the only thing preventing central banks from running large negative interest rates since people would simply start hoarding cash.
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by sifar 3y ago
>> They have an IP portfolio now. So developing that is done. Perhaps if you knew semiconductor IP business, you would not say this. It is never done. Stop creating or improving new IPs, and you'll become irrelevant.
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by sifar 3y ago
>> We treat our society like a zero-sum game. This and being a community is not exclusive. Asian countries are some of the worst zero-sum countries, simply by virtue of resource/person, yet simultaneously being very community foc

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