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by spenrose 2y ago
I argue that we should start calling them "pattern processors": https://x.com/sampenrose/status/1877200883613659360
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by spenrose 2y ago
"the only partisan issue I've taken a strong stand on through the years is being pro free speech" Unless I have missed something (possible, LMK), Ben's silence on Musk's partisan use of Twitter is, in fact, a stand.
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by spenrose 2y ago
Excellent. Wish he had cited Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" from half a century ago: * https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
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by spenrose 2y ago
Something we need is no more papers titled " ... All You Need"
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Solar and Batteries for Generic Use Cases(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
1 points by spenrose 2y ago|0 comments
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Every Page Is Page One(xmlpress.net)
2 points by spenrose 2y ago|1 comments
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Measuring Developer Goals(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
1 points by spenrose 2y ago|0 comments
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How EU forced Ireland and Apple into a €13B tax defeat(thetimes.com)
3 points by spenrose 2y ago|0 comments
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What Scared Ford's CEO in China(wsj.com)
3 points by spenrose 2y ago|1 comments
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by spenrose 2y ago
Trade Wars are Class Wars: https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Wars-Are-Class-International/dp...
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by spenrose 2y ago
What We’ve Learned From A Year of Building with LLMs: https://applied-llms.org
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What We've Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs(applied-llms.org)
2 points by spenrose 2y ago|0 comments
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State of Application Security in 2024(cloudflare.com)
2 points by spenrose 2y ago|0 comments
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How to build a $20B semiconductor fab(construction-physics.com)
349 points by spenrose 2y ago|95 comments
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by spenrose 2y ago
Their board is lead by one of America's great fossil fuel executives and climate deniers: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/about/our-leadership/lee-raymo...
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by spenrose 2y ago
The most recent(?) state plan: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-11/2022-sp.p... . On page 203 you see the plan is 20GW of offshore wind, an enormous amount of storage and new solar, and sm
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by spenrose 2y ago
Got sucked into this (shakes fist). EIA.gov estimates 16.6 GW nameplate of behind-the-meter solar at end of 2023 (having grown ~150MW/m through the year; it was 14.5 in January), generating 1.7 TWh/month in December and 3TWh in hi
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by spenrose 2y ago
1. It's complicated. 2. Peak curtailment is mid-April through June: peak hydro and solar production, plenty of wind, and little HVAC load: http://www.caiso.com/informed/Pages/ManagingOversupply.aspx 3. Yes, y
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by spenrose 2y ago
California puts generation externalities on its utility bills. Texas does not. California's approach is imperfect, but Texas' ...
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by spenrose 2y ago
Off-grid solar "appears" as missing load
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by spenrose 3y ago
This is an appendix to a PhD dissertation of interview of Microsoft software engineers: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/h...
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What Makes a Great Software Engineer [pdf](digital.lib.washington.edu)
2 points by spenrose 3y ago|0 comments
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by spenrose 3y ago
A co-author of the first study is employed by Humira's maker; the second study was funded by it. Doesn't mean they are wrong, but it does suggest some skepticism is due.
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China's Carbon Emissions Are Set to Decline Years Earlier Than Expected(wsj.com)
14 points by spenrose 3y ago|2 comments
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by spenrose 3y ago
The original study is here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1... If you scroll to the "Declaration of interests", you will see that the authors are heavily entangled with
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by spenrose 3y ago
"The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain some highlights associated with the contemporary business practice of out-sourcing more and more of a companies’ activities in the belief that doing so will increase profitability.
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by spenrose 3y ago
Kudos, and I agree. Same with Capital in the 21st Century , another book I fell in love with. The one sweeping "rethink a field of intellectual endeavor" book I read in the last decade that holds up is Wootton's The Inventio
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Book Review: Elon Musk(astralcodexten.com)
25 points by spenrose 3y ago|35 comments
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by spenrose 3y ago
I learned much more from Scott Alexander's review of Ashlee Vance's 2015 bio than I did from OP: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-elon-musk
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by spenrose 3y ago
"We introduce a carefully crafted benchmark of code editing tasks and use it evaluate several cutting edge LLMs. Our evaluation exposes a significant gap between the capabilities of state-of-the-art open and closed models. For example,

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