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by tompccs 1y ago
Thank you for your kind words!
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by tompccs 1y ago
Appreciate the feedback! Agent is definitely an area I'm looking to improve with persistence and make it truly personalised.
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Show HN: We tried to build a job board that isn't awful(teeming.ai)
32 points by tompccs 1y ago|56 comments
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by tompccs 1y ago
The difference to the dot com bubble is that the unprofitable companies are privately held and the public companies are extremely profitable and have finally found something to soak up their ridiculous profits other than stock buybacks. How
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by tompccs 1y ago
If you want to live in a uni-polar world, you should support companies like Palantir which bolster American hegemony over global security. If you would prefer to live in a multi-polar world, with multiple superpowers vying for supremacy, th
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Short Google(tompccs.github.io)
8 points by tompccs 1y ago|6 comments
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by tompccs 1y ago
The environmental story about AI is extremely boring and I wish it would stop being brought up. Every technological development since the industrial revolution has increased human demand for energy in some way. It's only the environmen
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by tompccs 2y ago
Congratulations on launching! I have some experience with accounting software and its use in various types of business (not just startups). Xero (rather than Quickbooks) is dominant in the UK and it has a lot of problems. However, I think y
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by tompccs 2y ago
Quite amazingly - I never realised how good photo quality was in the 1930s (and presumably earlier too). Look at these examples which were immediately digitised (one of a WWII reenactment scene which enhances the effect) - they don't l
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ChatGPT and the Enshittification of Google(tompccs.github.io)
7 points by tompccs 2y ago|1 comments
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by tompccs 2y ago
"Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II" Covers the invention of radar, "big science", involvement in the Manhattan project. https://www.amaz
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by tompccs 2y ago
Indeed, it is surprising that you would be able to pull this stunt on such a huge buyer as McDonalds. Here's an alternative theory that will disappoint the readers of Jacobian - potatoes are a commodity and commodity prices drive infla
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by tompccs 2y ago
My understanding of GDPR law is that the fine is up to EUR 20M per breach. I have some experience with the data protection culture in Germany and it's frankly excessive at times. It's incredible that this was able to happen at thi
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by tompccs 2y ago
"Modelica is an object oriented language to model cyber-physical systems." Literally the first sentence.
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by tompccs 2y ago
To be clear - nothing in the article or my comment mentions Chinese students, whose numbers have stagnated or if anything gone in reverse. Most students now come from India, and the fastest growing regions sending students are now South Asi
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by tompccs 2y ago
This is a back door channel to illegal immigration, nothing more. The students never turn up to courses and go to live with relatives in cities miles away. The bloated UK university sector (your experience of a UK university, if you have it
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by tompccs 2y ago
Don't give in to the temptation to write this off as a trite statistic. If the aviation industry never existed and all those miles were done by road, that's more than 170,000 additional deaths in the US since 2009 [1]. You may arg
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The Official Internet Website of HRH the Prince of Wales (1999)(web.archive.org)
1 points by tompccs 2y ago|0 comments
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by tompccs 2y ago
if savings rates in the UK were as bad as they seem to be in the US then I admit I would be tempted. However, a shock at the wrong time can cause those "safe" T-bills to suddenly be much less than what was paid for them. Something
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by tompccs 2y ago
See my edit. What protects you from the fund being mismanaged?
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by tompccs 2y ago
Unless something very different in the US is available to what I can get in the UK, I think this is very dangerous advice. If I put £100 in a savings account with 4% interest, I can withdraw that £100 (plus interest) at any time. If I buy p
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by tompccs 2y ago
NPL - the National Physics Laboratory in Teddington, London, also invented packet switching, the foundational technology for the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
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by tompccs 2y ago
Yes but the cost is much higher as is the risk of being caught and arrested.
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by tompccs 2y ago
I said this over a year ago elsewhere: Electronic engineers spent decades overcoming thermal noise floors so that humans could communicate over vast distances with small amounts of energy. AI researchers, in a few short years, undid all tha
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Colorectal cancer incidence in teens up 300% since 1999(news.ddw.org)
69 points by tompccs 2y ago|49 comments
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by tompccs 2y ago
That's SaaS
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by tompccs 2y ago
You can't compare running a clinical trial for a drug targeting a communicable disease in the developing world to trials for treatments of complex diseases in rich countries where you need serology, histopathology and radiological endp
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by tompccs 2y ago
All other things being equal, an expansion of housing stock which tracked population growth would keep prices steady. The big shift is immigration expanding the pool of working-age people, and longer lifespans increasing the time it takes f
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by tompccs 3y ago
Environmental activists are almost entirely responsible for the killing of nuclear energy in the 1970s. Much of the blame for climate change lays at their feet.
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by tompccs 3y ago
Not defending the practice, but this guy writes the modern equivalent of pulp fiction. I doubt his readers care much, and he has no publisher to tick off. So what it comes down to is whether or not the people he stole from have a strong cas

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