stephen_cagle

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by stephen_cagle 5d ago
This is not them standing up for the small guy, this is them seeing their actual profit center in retail (advertisement and paid promotion) evaporating if human beings never view their listings.
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by stephen_cagle 5d ago
It's worse than that, they will block all agents and specifically make exceptions for maybe 2 search engines per country. Thereby strengthening existing players and weakening all incumbants. Cloudflare for instance does allow indexing
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by stephen_cagle 5d ago
My main problem with PE is that it is being invested in by things that I do not consider "investors" like retirement funds, teacher's pensions, annuities, etc. Many of these things have sort of implicit guarantees from the St
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by stephen_cagle 12d ago
I remember playing this on my Oculus Rift 1 I think. It was such a better game than the other games I'd played in VR that had you put it on my head in a darkened room and told me it was the newest hardware tech I would have believed yo
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by stephen_cagle 12d ago
I wonder if LLM's might be closer to the weight belt in terms of lifting? It is a tool that lets you exceed your unassisted limits. If you kept doing the other things you would be no worse for using it, but if you only train with it I
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by stephen_cagle 12d ago
If you think that is bad... Recently I discovered that even a tiny website with moderate textual content basically forces adoption of cloudflare due to incredible (~2k request per second at times) scraping by bots. It isn't even a shak
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by stephen_cagle 13d ago
My mother has: * Got me a "BearSkin" jacket from youtube's incessant advertisement. * Signed up for a $250 subscription to "The Daily Beast" when she was watching youtube tv right before bed and probably subscribed
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by stephen_cagle 19d ago
I've never done verilog professionally but I did "Digital Design and Computer Architecture, RISC-V Edition: RISC-V Edition" as an exercise 2 years ago. I would say Verilog is very much NOT a low level language. Metaphorically
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by stephen_cagle 24d ago
I've had a vague thought that I wish grocery stores would kind of standardize their bags (you have to use theirs) and just put a passive RFID in them and make them more expensive, but make them nicer, with maybe specific bags for spec
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by stephen_cagle 1mo ago
Where are you thinking of when you say that young professionals move when density goes up? That does not track with my observations.
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by stephen_cagle 1mo ago
Anthropic can't have their IPO soon enough (rumored October) if these Macs match their reported specs. Maybe $17k for a 512gig system that can do 1.2TB/s seems like a pretty good deal for a small office.
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by stephen_cagle 1mo ago
I'm curious if maybe the mistake was in assuming we needed AI for the teaching part of the process. Maybe we should focus only on having AI for the correcting/internalizing part instead? A purely deterministic grader and problem c
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by stephen_cagle 1mo ago
So, seems like the logical way to run a business would be to create a bunch of internal metrics but never let any of your reportees know what they are. Or even better, "leak" that there might be metrics (that are in reality false)
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by stephen_cagle 1mo ago
Concidently, I asked Claude yesterday whether we have crossed the point that there is more compute and memory in the cloud or in personal computers. It claims fp8 and fp16 has had higher throughput in the cloud since 2023. fp32 and general
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by stephen_cagle 1mo ago
Huh, that is an interesting thought. My belief is that a FHE scales at least linearly to the size of the memory. My belief for this is that it if didn't I could "learn" what computation you are doing by analyzing what parts o
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by stephen_cagle 1mo ago
I see a lot of comments here about how private AI is much cheaper than doing this, and that is currently true. But I am curious if anyone can think of any use cases for this as it currently stands? For every idea I can think of, I can think
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
Ouch, yeah. I hate to say it, but I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs. I hate the lack of competition in the space (Onlive, Google's goofy ass gaming thi
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
I've often wondered if all they are missing is eye tracking and the ability auto tilling manager? I'd love to be able to press ctrl, look at three windows in my zoomed out view, and then release and have all 3 of them be distribut
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
I might be misreading this, but I thought it was a reference to "Full Metal Jacket" => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoU2hlDJmFE ? Ignoring the military stuff, I feel like it is saying that this harness, alth
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
The book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl was partially about the idea of a post oil world. I remember there being mastodons they were using to wind springs and guns that had no explosive charge but instea
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
Three points: 1) I think that is a really interesting insight. I have never done the above myself, but often I don't "tinker" with things because the amount of energy it would take me to JUST GET IT RUNNING is large, and I mi
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
1) (Neutral) I'd need to see more evidence of that. 2) (Unambiguously yes) If your business does not make financial sense without tips, then it isn't a business. There are many businesses that can't currently compete with bus
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
I'm genuinely baffled that this is your lived experience. I wonder if you only look at a very restricted set of websites?
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
Seems like there is no POW "solving" if the POW in question is literally solving some sort of mathematical puzzle. It has a bounds and we can just scale the bounds depending on how much abuse we are seeing. I've never underst
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by stephen_cagle 2mo ago
Ignoring whether this is a good business, I feel like this is a pretty terrible way to judge a book. If it took off it would result in everyone just starting their book with a real hook, which only works for a small number of genres and onl
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by stephen_cagle 3mo ago
Wait, is this correct? Firefox moved from 5% to 12% in one month? That seems unlikely...
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by stephen_cagle 3mo ago
And that worked for maybe, what... half a decade? But eventually the Illuminators all transitioned to being Arcane Scribes, the cost of spells plummeted due to increased supply, and in the end only Wizards who had invested in Arcane Sanctum
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by stephen_cagle 3mo ago
Is anyone seeing this? ``` Warning Suspected Phishing This website has been reported for potential phishing. Phishing is when a site attempts to steal sensitive information by falsely presenting as a safe source. Cloudflare Ray ID: <retr
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by stephen_cagle 3mo ago
Awesome, that sounds fun. I'll do as you suggest. And good idea about spectating a match to get the flow of things. That probably will reduce 50% of friction.
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by stephen_cagle 3mo ago
Context: So I have 3 friends that I have been playing video games with for over 30 years weekly. So we would be playing half (as a team) of a 4v4. Now, we are never going to be competitive, we are basically playing to socialize. Will we be

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