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by slaucon 1y ago
I feel like there should be some take away from the fact that we have to come up with new and interesting metrics like “Length of a Task That Can Be Automated” in order to point out that exponential growth is still happening. Fwiw, it does
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Specialization Saved Medicine. Now It's Holding Us Back(seangeiger.substack.com)
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by slaucon 1y ago
Absolutely insane that the emulator, the kernel, AND the os are just 24mb combined.
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by slaucon 2y ago
In a similar vein, I always found it interesting (although frightening) that rabies cause hydrophobia. The theory is that drinking water can wash away the virus from your saliva, inhibiting its ability to spread through bites. It makes sen
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by slaucon 2y ago
This is a fascinating idea!
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by slaucon 2y ago
Hey author here--Cochrane reviews are great. NCCN guidelines and Cochrane Reviews serve complementary roles in medicine - NCCN provides practical, frequently updated cancer treatment algorithms based on both research and expert consensus, w
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by slaucon 2y ago
Hey author here! Appreciate the feedback! Agreed on importance of portability and durability. I'm not trying to build this out or sell it as a tool to providers. Just wanted to demo what you could do with structured guidelines. I do
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by slaucon 2y ago
A progression of projects that comes to mind: 1) CI and IAC that deploy a web app running in a container 2) Add horizontal scaling and load balancer 3) Add long running tasks / scheduled task support 4) Deploys will likely break long r
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by slaucon 2y ago
Yeah, my last company paid for a subscription to this. Enjoyed using it. Don’t think there’s a massive market, but definitely lots of devs who want easy DB access and would pay $5/month.
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by slaucon 2y ago
> “By sourcing and filtering only the highest-quality and most representative data for LLM use cases, we reduced the pretraining set to just 13 billion tokens—drastically cutting the environmental impact of further training while preserv
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by slaucon 2y ago
Agreed this would be way more useful as an IDE extension.
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by slaucon 2y ago
I had the same experience, as I’m sure many others did. It’s easy to forget now how much rarer it was to find high quality and engaging educational content on the internet back then. Howstuffworks got me interested in so many different th
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by slaucon 2y ago
I’ve had to make and pay for an unfortunate number of Iridium calls. They can be crazy expensive depending on carrier, who all bill them as a call to an international line in the country of “Satellite”. Usually you pay your carrier’s fee
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by slaucon 2y ago
My understanding is that these sorts of plants do exist, but that they’re not common for the reasons you brought up. Some plants do generate power and desalinate at the same time, but they usually use excess heat for desalination and not t
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by slaucon 2y ago
what’s the new goal?
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by slaucon 3y ago
You should absolutely make that.
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by slaucon 3y ago
The rolling shutter compensation is pretty cool and isn't something I would have thought of. Did you know that would be an issue from the start or notice it only after you built the rest of the system?
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by slaucon 4y ago
what do you mean by this? how are they being deployed? disinformation campaigns or more than that?