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by tomp 2y ago
But why? I mean, just put each prisoner in a separate cell, why would you need more than 1 employee per 20-50 prisoners? Ok, maybe 3, for 24 hour rotation... Make sure you never unlock more than a single cell, and keep guns, lots of guns.
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by tomp 2y ago
> Locking 1,000 people up for a decade costs ~1 billion dollars. This is a purely political decision, not an inherent cost of jailing. Your number comes down to $100k per person per year. That’s just insane. Many families earn less tha
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by tomp 2y ago
> Dismantling OpenAI is actually a business strategy for many other players now. Which ones exactly? NVIDIA is drinking sweet money from OpenAI. Microsoft & Apple are in cahoots with it. Meta/Facebook seems happy to compete with
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by tomp 2y ago
exactly. If that's how it works, why wouldn't you start every startup as a non-profit? Investment is tax deductible, no tax on profits... Then turn it into a for-profit if/when it becomes successful!
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by tomp 2y ago
For me as well… with constant human supervision. But if you try to build a business service, you need autonomy and exact rule following. We’re not there yet.
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by tomp 2y ago
The problem with all these speech-to-speech multi-modal models is that, if you wanna do anything other than just talk, you need transcription. So you're back at square one. Current AI (even GPT-4o) simply isn't capable eno
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by tomp 2y ago
What are you gonna buy? Chinese tech? Iranian tech? Russian tech? Who do you want to be able to spy on you and compromise your hardware? Unless you can spin up your own fab (hint: you can't) you're dependent on a hegemon. US/
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by tomp 2y ago
Do you think Hezbollah was buying stuff from Israel, or otherwise using Israeli supply chains? I think it's far more likely that Mossad has infiltrated whatever foreign (non-Israeli) supply chain they were using. So this can happen
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by tomp 2y ago
How frequent was that?
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by tomp 2y ago
Read it again. > behaviors perpetuated by men – even those men Blaming all men, twice! If you’re still confused, compare: > violence perpetuated by blacks - even those blacks > terrorism perpetuated by Muslims - even those M
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by tomp 2y ago
If you're picking communication protocols for your API endpoints, you're doing it wrong. The ideal API supports `/api/call.json` and `/api/call.csv` and `/api/call.arrow` as well as `/api/ca
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by tomp 2y ago
It’s not a copyright violation. Maybe not myself, but many averagely-talented artists can draw Mickey Mouse. They might even draw one for me if I ask! Or I can just find it on Google… ( technically my computer is producing it on the scre
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by tomp 2y ago
Tokens are mapped to keys, values and queries. Keys and values for past tokens are cached in modern systems, but the essence of the Transformer architecture is that each token can attend to every past token, so more tokens in a system pro
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by tomp 2y ago
They titled the article: The Elon Musk / Donald Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster If they were actually neutral, they'd phrase it more like: with technical difficulties .
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by tomp 2y ago
No, what you're describing is NeRF, the predecessor technology. The output of Gaussian Splat "training" is a set of 3d gaussians, which can be rendered very quickly. No ML involved at all (only optimisation)! They usually req
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by tomp 2y ago
Not really. First if all, most GS take posed images as input, so you need to run a traditional photogrammetry pipeline (COLMAP) anyways. The purpose of GS is that the result is far beyond anything that traditional photogrammetry (dense me
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by tomp 2y ago
Once the Gaussian Splats are computed (whether via ML or classical optimisation), they’re very efficient to render (similar to 3D meshes used in games). High fps isn’t incredible. Having said that (I have yet to read the paper), "eff
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by tomp 2y ago
Indeed, I'm certain they will do well regradless (even in public schools!) both because I am curious and hence knowledgeable, and because they will likely be curious as well (my genetics!). But there's one thing that curiosity
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by tomp 2y ago
Because they don’t distract. Nothing I hate more than my Audi loudly beeping for non-critical infos/warnings. The only appropriate time for a car to loudly beep unprompted is if I need to stop immediately.
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by tomp 2y ago
In many jurisdictions, promoted posts and ads must be clearly marked.
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by tomp 2y ago
There's a difference between speed & latency when it comes to performance. Faster-whisper can process audio faster than real-time, but AFAIK vanilla Whisper needs a few seconds long audio "frame" to do inference/STT.
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by tomp 2y ago
Depends what you mean by “fast”. I’ve tested WhisperLive, it’s basically real-time (i.e. low latency ).
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by tomp 2y ago
My favourite part of my math education, solutions were always nice. Compute the eigenvalues of a random-looking (but still integers) 4x4 matrix? Oh, it's sqrt(2), I probably didn't make an error in the calculation. Then came the a
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by tomp 2y ago
I think this is just your anti-capitalist bias showing. “Market” is meant in purely game-theoretic terms. > The vast majority of people in companies are workers. Let's stop optimizing for owner wealth and start optimizing for worke
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by tomp 2y ago
you're about right. https://smicro.eu/nvidia-hgx-h100-640gb-935-24287-0001-000-1 8x H100 HGX cluster for €250k + VAT
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by tomp 2y ago
It’s simply unrealistic to move people. A local good developer would cost ~200k in SF, but to move me and my family would take at least 2x that (to compensate for my partner’s lost income), possibly more (so that I can catch up to peers w
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by tomp 2y ago
Yes, but the problem is that the spec is such that preemptive blocking doesn't need to be implemented. That means that Java programmers have to be very careful when writing code, lest they block the entire underlying (OS) thread! Aga
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by tomp 2y ago
They're not equivalent to Go's goroutines. Go's goroutines are preemptive (and Go's development team went through a lot of pain to make them such). Java's lightweight threads aren't. Java's repeating the s
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by tomp 2y ago
Which is another not a dark pattern. Otherwise the entire existence of brands like Ferrari, Gucci, Rolex is a dark pattern! As with “social proof”, the author mistakes lying (dark) with marketing (legit).

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