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by sunpazed 3y ago
Rolex are the De Beers of the mechanical watch world. Scarcity and exclusivity is a great way to market luxury. A Rolex Submariner in the 80s was about $1,000 — these days it’s closer to $12,000. A new Daytona is twice that. While they were
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I’ve been in product management for over 20 years, and I agree with most of what is said here. Ratios matter. CPOs end up empire building with an army of PMs. The organisation ends up with PMs owning a slice of the customer experience such
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Try a quantized model on llama.cpp — I have an M1 Max 32Gb and it’s running fairly fast in 20Gb of memory.
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by sunpazed 3y ago
See this related project: https://github.com/rvdveen/epaper-slow-generative-art
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Firstly, ethical reasons. Secondly, the act of experimenting in a model organism is a perfectly acceptable way of generating science. Rats have helped humans develop cancer drugs, HIV antiretrovirals, and even the yearly flu vaccine.
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Yes, LUTs are your friend. I used to code scene demos on the C64 back in the 90s.
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I’m writing a pinball game in assembly for the original Gameboy, and recently had to hand-craft multiply, division and cosine routines to trade off accuracy for spare cycles. Something like this would have come in handy!!
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by sunpazed 3y ago
27 million people live on a continent the size of North America! Australia’s geography and climate plays into the housing crisis. We have concentrated our population density in only a dozen or so locations (ie; major cities like Melbourne,
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by sunpazed 3y ago
OpenAI less so, small community trained open source LLMs more so. We’re already seeing this on HF with community fine-tunes on Mistral and Llama2. In the same way search transformed knowledge augmentation, LLMs will transform skills augment
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by sunpazed 3y ago
This reflects my anecdotal findings in a very narrow domain: GPT-4 consistently resolves complex SQL from natural language, whereas GPT-4-Turbo is hit-and-miss, and similar to 3.5-Turbo in performance.
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Here in Melbourne we experienced six lockdowns, totalling 262 days, with 111 days being the longest consecutive stretch. At times we couldn’t travel for more than 5km from home, and only for certain government sanctioned reasons. https:&#x
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by sunpazed 3y ago
All the individual ingredients were around for years prior to the iPhone — we had apps, music and even video on smartphones. Apples magic was to greatly simplify the user experience, and make smartphones and their content more accessible to
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Well, Metal can only allocate a smaller portion of “VRAM” to the GPU — about 70% or so, see; https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/10580 If you want to run larger models, then CPU inference is yo
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by sunpazed 3y ago
https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I’m in my mid 40s, and honestly I have more ideas than I ever had in my 20s! However, the big difference, is energy and motivation. I was a machine in my 20s, but these days a late night hacking session ends with me paying the price the fol
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I’m in my late fourties’ and have witnessed only a handful of transformative technologies in my time. Nothing in the last 15 years has given me that “tingly feeling” of excitement — you know, that feeling that we’re on the cusp of something
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Here are my kids playing my childhood 2600 from 1982 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJ0aeTJAuo
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by sunpazed 3y ago
"The medium is the message" should be the take-away here, ergo; not what Generative AI does, but how it shapes us. The Internet augmented our connectivity to one-another. Search augmented our knowledge. Generative AI is augmenting
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I can get this running on my M1 Mac Pro (CPU mode) with a few tweaks in the cv2win32.py file. I'll submit a change request.
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by sunpazed 3y ago
I actually quite like it! It’s worth a purchase
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by sunpazed 3y ago
In my last role, I built an education reviews site at scale — challenge is remaining objective given that your audience are actively airing the dirty laundry of your paying customers. Commercially it didn’t stack up, so we had to monetise t
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by sunpazed 3y ago
Mobile site scrolling horizontally within the viewport, ie; scrolling is broken for mobile break-points.
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by sunpazed 4y ago
Perhaps they’re the outlier, but Apple customer service is great. I’m only ever a few minutes away from talking to a sales or support person.
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by sunpazed 4y ago
I work for a call centre observability startup (operata.com) and my take is — call centres aren’t going away anytime soon. In fact Zoom, Microsoft, and Salesforce have all recently announced they are entering the Call Center as a Service sp
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by sunpazed 4y ago
I can’t help but recall this Cheyenne Dialysis satire whenever I watch Zuck lead a keynote; https://youtu.be/E4jQe9h5v5E
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by sunpazed 4y ago
Adobe charged me an “early termination” fee of $43.99 after 6 years of continuous subscription! https://twitter.com/sunpazed/status/1561679328995250177 Support didn’t help, so I had to vent on Twitter before they
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by sunpazed 4y ago
Search, data normalisation, equivalencies, recommendation engines, supply chain analytics and reporting, etc. Having a well defined ontology helps power lots of data products, and even build new ones.
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by sunpazed 4y ago
Our family camera was a Kodak Disc Camera. The crappy grainy quality was offset by the speed and convenience of swapping discs. Lots of family moments would have been forgotten, so the trade-off was worth it. Only problem was price (more ex
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by sunpazed 4y ago
Ah cool, I’ve replaced so many of these in the past!! If I recall, RetroKit and a few other stores sell more reliable modern PSUs.
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by sunpazed 4y ago
Both the C64 and C64C were released in Australia. Here’s my original C64C from the mid 80s for reference: https://imgur.com/a/5J9lSgK Still works perfectly.

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