tony_cannistra

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by tony_cannistra 2y ago
hey now - that's like, 86% accurate. ship it!
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by tony_cannistra 2y ago
I shudder to imagine an AI tuned with individual ad-tech fingerprints, especially one without our knowledge –– and yet, I'm certain it's already mostly developed. I already have a hard time trusting ChatGPT, etc., but mostly for f
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by tony_cannistra 2y ago
> No one is going to push back against OpenAI meaningfully. Couldn't, perhaps, one of the more famous people on Earth be responsible for "meaningfully" taking OpenAI to task for this? Perhaps even being the impetus for leg
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by tony_cannistra 2y ago
Very interesting interview, but aside from that – what a true joy to read an article with so many words I'd never even seen before!
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by tony_cannistra 2y ago
I had the same experience, except I was definitely not a Phil major. He had a "class for every major" where we read chapters of the book he was writing (Toolkit for Thinking) and basically gave him feedback. It was an amazing stra
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
That's the way it seems to me as well. Curious too about the business implications. My guess is that they wanted to bite the bullet and commit to provisioned capacity but wanted to do so in a way that didn't require massive overpr
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Yeah this makes sense. I do wonder though how it changes the dynamics around provisioned capacity, if at all.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Yah, that's what I'm saying. In those low periods they could just scale down the infra, but perhaps there's a constraint that doesn't allow for that. This lets them not waste it.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Yeah, that's another good explanation.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Totally. There are other explanations (like wanting to offer a discount), but my mind initally went to "they have a lot of provisioned compute that they pre-paid for, and they want higher-utilization when API request rates are low.&quo
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Suggests to me that they have a LOT of compute that they can't, or have decided not to, scale down. Interesting way for them to keep the infra up and cover costs.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Don't mean to single you out at all, but I find this comment to be a great example of how the "ML Hype" is perceived by a certain segment folks in our industry. The development of this chip shows that it doesn't (and sho
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
My partner is from one of those small Colorado ski towns too, and I feel the same exact way when we visit it. It's really sad.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Take a minute to consider what a small mountain or beach community that you appreciate would be like if development became more flexible in the ways you're considering. Would you actually want to go there anymore? Exactly.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
I'm not going to argue the point that housing supply is woefully inadequate - you're right about that. But, at the same time, these city and town governments have an obligation to sustain a reasonable amount of housing for their r
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Hell Yeah.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Honestly it's wild that they publish live prices online. Can they be _that_ confident that they're under-cutting competitors all the time?
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Thank you. Indeed we are like-minded folk – I've followed nearly the same method, for much the same reasons.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I'm curious – how did you decide where to put down roots, after all that travel? Someplace you visited and liked? A relationship or job?
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
For those Americans among us, there is an interesting short Patagonia adventure film about this in Scotland called "Right to Roam." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmhR_EgK8Y
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Certainly true.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
"And in any case, these effects are based on hypothetical scenarios. Our Sahara scenario was based on covering 20% of the entire desert in PV solar farms, for instance, and though there have been ambitious proposals, anything on
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
As a somewhat interesting aside, the transmission line associated with this project (the "SunZia" project) has been a bit mired in a web of (legitimate) complexities, mostly related to environmental protection and Indigenous sover
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
I'm just not that compelled by that argument. If cars are at the center, then so are a hundred other things that are impacting biodiversity at least as much. I'm really not trying to be a car stan here, I don't really care ab
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
I don't really know. I live in Washington, though, and we sure have a lot of man-made storage ponds.
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
This is most definitely the case. It has also caused enormous problems for places where flooding was already a threat, by removing the natural buffering capabilities that places like wetlands have. In fact, a whole field (stormwater enginee
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Unseenlabs is an example: https://unseenlabs.space/
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
Road ecology is a very interesting and important field, particularly the modeling of animal interactions with road crossings - all very interesting and important. The rhetorical title is absurd, however, and I'd argue even Ben Goldfarb
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Apple to pause selling new versions of its watch after losing patent dispute(nytimes.com)
76 points by tony_cannistra 3y ago|3 comments
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by tony_cannistra 3y ago
> generate lifelike bird sounds to enhance the samples of underrepresented species. These can then be used to train audio identification tools used in ecological monitoring That's a pretty neat idea. "feature generation" b

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