theincredulousk

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by theincredulousk 6mo ago
Cultivating and leveraging fear is truly a cornerstone of Security™. I don't think the claims about capability are ridiculous. The idea that the general capability is proprietary and that it will be exclusive to the trusted partners o
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by theincredulousk 1y ago
If only the first layer of windshield was damaged how is the pilot getting hit by shrapnel
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by theincredulousk 1y ago
Sir this is a Wendy’s
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by theincredulousk 1y ago
> Small companies can have downsides, and big companies can have benefits. A virtue of scale is that it can provide resilience in an age of crisis. Nassim Taleb would argue the polar opposite of this. I like the article. Starting to make
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by theincredulousk 1y ago
This has been developing for a while... The big players have basically been competing for allocations of a set production, so NVIDIA negotiated into the allocations that some % of the compute capacity they "sell" them is reserved
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
you're right mostly, person above even created a nice diagram
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
makes sense, thank you. How'd you generate the diagrams so quickly?
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
reductionist view can be applied to what we call "thinking" and "intelligence" too. When I'm asked a question, my brain is also just picking a suitable sequence of words based on my experience (training). Talking
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
not a web person - why does the original approach not have the CORS problem? Isn't it still generating the request from the same local machine?
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
Denoting it in $ for efficiency is peak capitalism, cmv.
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
TPUs are essentially garbage compared to NVIDIA hardware. TPUs are king of nothing, but a primary ingredient in Kool-Aid
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
Not a meaningful amount :). Their “AI chips” are, for now, marketing.
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by theincredulousk 2y ago
There is nothing of value in this article
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by theincredulousk 3y ago
It's my understanding from friends in the business that the actual chips do not represent any capacity issue or bottleneck, it's actually manufacturing the devices that the chips are in (e.g. the finished graphics card).
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
still blown away that he was my calc II professor in college.
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
It's an entire book, based on a massive research project, of which that was one small result. The clickbait title of the book is because that is what sells books. "good managers are good because they're good managers" L
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
There is a leadership book called "First Break all the Rules - What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently". It's data driven by a large meta-survey and research project. One of the conclusions was that, essential
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
even type II water, which is a standard output of off-the-shelf lab water filtration systems, only has <= 5 ug/L of chlorides, sodium, silica. And Platinum is like $30 a gram. There is 1/5th of a gram of Gold in a standard desk
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
Good intuition about the importance of pure water. In professional engineering, filtering water is a sufficiently solved problem. Even for consumer use, you can buy multi-stage filters for home use that perform well enough to make water t
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
does anyone know how it works that towards the end of the video, it shows the resulting torque curve of the motor is actually negative for a decent span. Does this mean the motor actually resists rotation for that arc during every rotation
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
Maybe some irony here as IIRC Facebook started as essentially a scraping company, pulling student profiles from college websites and re-publishing it for their own profit. The scrapers have become the scrapees. The horror.
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
The largest fault in the practical (life) applications of probabilistic thinking is that estimating the odds in real-time is often impossible. Poker is a constrained environment where the odds are computable. It's a useful framework f
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
Is this site related to Knowledge Project / Farnam Street (fs.blog), a competitor, or just a ripoff??? I noticed because I read what seems to be the exact article there, with the same illustrations and everything on fs a couple weeks a
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by theincredulousk 4y ago
I had a systematic way of doing this for reverse engineering a large undocumented system. First you get first principles in mind - there is control flow (execution), data (files, databases), and communication interfaces (IPC, network, etc.
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
Haven't looked further, but I'm wondering about that. Is that the result of training to be able to explain that specific joke, or is it generalized? In the past these things have been misleading. Some impressive capability ends
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
Having single-pair vs. cat5 is kind of a bonus, for wiring simplicity and weight. I could also see the power delivery part being useful for things like sensors and other oddly placed/small powered devices. The main benefit is Ethernet
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
Yes, that is exactly what they're doing. One example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-yellen-biden-price-in... It's exactly as obvious as you think. E.g. Supply and labor input costs go up 5%, and th
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
The way things are going with micro-sats, is it not an issue of e.g. whether 1 company launches 30,000 or 100 companies launch 300? There could easily be 100 parties doing micro-sats just from the US, never mind the rest of the world. Seems
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
For all of these people "over extending" it is hard to imagine anything besides an economic implosion that causes mass unemployment among homeowners. If COVID didn't already do that, what will? What's the catalyst? In
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by theincredulousk 5y ago
Well that is exactly what happened last time it imploded - private equity sitting on loads of cash waiting for an opportunity got one. They were buying houses like they came in 24-packs from Costco. I'm not sure what the "split&q

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