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by silverlake 2y ago
Long ago CUNY had a low admission bar and a high graduation bar. This meant, of course, that many students dropped out. In your case, students choose to pay tuition and not do the work. What is the external pressure on you or the dean or un
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by silverlake 2y ago
There’s a great podcast that delves into the Big Dig. It was an exceedingly difficult giant construction project. The original cost estimate was a made up number for political expediency. They lied knowing once they dug a big hole the sunk-
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by silverlake 2y ago
This is me without any drugs. I’m very interested in food, but I only want a few bites to taste.
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by silverlake 2y ago
My first dog was not food motivated.
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by silverlake 2y ago
The writer is a journalist, runs a media firm and podcasts. His job is to get attention. You get attention by being outrageous. The “AI will kill us all” take is covered by too many people, so he’s taking the “AI is doomed” path. No one is
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by silverlake 2y ago
The trade imbalance, like GDP, is a very crude economic measure. Do a search for “iPhone China trade imbalance” for more details. TL;DR is every iPhone is added to the trade deficit with China. However, China (Foxconn) just puts them togeth
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by silverlake 2y ago
If they pass step 2, the first technical interview is to extend the solution to add/modify features.
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by silverlake 2y ago
I used R1 hosted at NVidia here: https://build.nvidia.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1/modelcard
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by silverlake 2y ago
O3-mini solved this prompt. DeepSeek R1 had a mental breakdown. The prompt: “Bob is facing forward. To his left is Ann, to his right is Cathy. Ann and Cathy are facing backwards. Who is on Ann’s left?”
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by silverlake 2y ago
The new Prius looks good, but I love my old Prius’s spacious hatchback. With the backseat down we can stick 3 giant dogs back there. I don’t know if there’s a hybrid with similar internal space.
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by silverlake 2y ago
My new HiSense TV with Google allows to run it as a basic TV. I think this was added to Google TV in 2021. Problem solved.
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by silverlake 2y ago
> small differences were important enough to change the world unpredictable ways I completely agree with this. I’m also in my 50s but I lean techno-optimist. Whenever there’s a new hype cycle, I’m looking for those small differences that
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by silverlake 2y ago
They do not break even on food alone. All their profits come from alcohol sales.
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by silverlake 2y ago
8 minutes charging gives 8 hours of sleep tracking. Just read the watch page. They improved charging immensely.
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by silverlake 2y ago
I don’t know where you live but I get the battery swapped while I’m standing there. It’s insane that you’d rather spend $800 than be without your phone for a few hours.
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by silverlake 2y ago
Professional managers (aka not the founder, climbed up the corporate ladder the old fashioned way): Tim Cook (apple), Satya Nadella (msft), Sundar Pichai (Google), Arvind Krishna (ibm), Shantanu Narayen (adobe), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Li
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by silverlake 2y ago
The immersive videos are amazing. Stick a VR camera on the best seat at a concert, sports event, wedding, etc. People will pay for Taylor Swift or the Super Bowl. The tech is very close, the Quest is a good price, VR cameras are ~$5k. The o
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by silverlake 2y ago
I was driving in Chicago late at night when this show first aired. I was so engrossed in the story I ended up in Wisconsin.
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by silverlake 2y ago
In Battlestar Galactica the technology was purposely primitive to prevent cyber attack from Cylons. Same motivation for the MTA.
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by silverlake 2y ago
I worked on online learning for a bit. Turns out people are willing to pay for the inconvenience of in-person learning, even flying to another location. It's the only way most people can focus on a topic. Otherwise, work, kids, life in
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by silverlake 2y ago
Good info! I use an HPC with SLURM. 40k GPUs shared by hundreds of users. It works well enough. I don’t know how the market for cloud-based clusters works. Why didn’t OP use AWS or Google for on-demand training? Is it just down to cost?
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by silverlake 2y ago
Many CS PhDs work on a small piece of a larger funded project. You work normal hours, read papers in the evening, take Sunday off. It’s not a big deal. So many naive students think they are going to solve AGI. No, you’ll publish an insignif
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by silverlake 2y ago
I had a similar opinion until I worked at a bank. Think of banks as an extension of the government, deputized to monitor all transactions for illegal activity. If banks fail they get in big trouble with the gov’t. Most bank transfers in the
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by silverlake 2y ago
The heated metal can act as a battery. Another post on HN says they can recover 40% of energy from a heat source over 1000C. Seems like everyone wins here.
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by silverlake 2y ago
I think there’s a role for AI in news media. First, you still need reporters to gather information. AI can be used to speed up the final phase of writing and editing. Second, AI can provide background and context to current events. For exam
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by silverlake 2y ago
Todoist can duplicate a project, which appears to solve this problem.
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by silverlake 2y ago
You’re talking about the humane ai pin. That’s different.
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by silverlake 2y ago
The iPad Air has 8G RAM and it’s enough for my spouse to run a $B business. Office, Safari, etc. It all runs fine. Doctors in my family are fine with 8G. My mom is fine with it. In fact I could use just 8G because I ssh into giant HPCs. Fr
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by silverlake 3y ago
The weight of the 13" Air vs 15" Air vs 14" Pro is 2.7 > 3.3 > 3.4 lbs. For developers who do development on remote machines, weight and form factor are more important. I would pay top dollar for a 12" Macbook wit
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by silverlake 3y ago
At one startup they got 2 adjacent open plan rooms at a WeWork. One was the quiet room, the other was not. I worked in the quiet room and it was really nice, like a library late at night. I’d chat with the guy sitting next to me on Slack. A

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