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by vikramkr 5mo ago
It's very real but probably very domain specific. It got really good at a lot of traditional web dev stuff, bash, sql, and writing one off scripts to accomplish random tasks (hence all the agent stuff taking off). And they got good at
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by vikramkr 5mo ago
If I had to guess - lumber costs might be dominated by labor costs? If they don't have guest worker programs it might not be cost effective anymore as wages go up
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by vikramkr 5mo ago
That's not actually a thing. Very few trees we plant have specific male vs female plants. One of the few that does that gets brought up in this context, ginko, tends to have male trees preferred because the fruit kind of reeks. Ginkgo
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by vikramkr 5mo ago
For examples from more recent history think giant scissors used for ribbon cutting ceremonies, the golden spike used to signal completion of the intercontinental railroad, or like all the stuff related to militaries like changing of the gua
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by vikramkr 5mo ago
> TanStack is no way saver than npm. No one understands TanStack. Pandas is also in no way safer than pip. Because pandas is a library and pip is a package manager and that comparison makes no sense lmao. It sounds like you maybe don&#x2
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by vikramkr 7mo ago
For models that reveal reasoning traces I've seen their inner nature as a word calculator show up as they spend way too many tokens complaining about the typo (and AI code review bots also seem obsessed with typos to the point where in
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by vikramkr 7mo ago
Just a tier list I think
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by vikramkr 7mo ago
That's only like a 100 dollar student discount right? Seems pretty standard
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by vikramkr 7mo ago
I'm seeing a ton of comments like that one about how apple is holding ipados back but am I going crazy or wasn't the big story of iPad is last year how many updates it got to make it more of a desktop replacement? Like half the fe
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by vikramkr 7mo ago
I mean durability is as or more important than repairability and apple products have a reputation for lasting a long time and holding their value. And getting software support etc. In general I think tech nerds underestimate how much people
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by vikramkr 7mo ago
I haven't been on campus in a few years but even then paper was basically absent on campus. A class where a professor wouldn't allow tablets or laptops to take notes would be an aberration and a PITA. I remember I had to write lik
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by vikramkr 8mo ago
If you live near a community bio lab see if you can join up and take some classes to learn some basic lab techniques. And some sort of intro bio class via mooc/textbook/local college class whatever if you can but community lab is
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by vikramkr 8mo ago
I mean - steam deck was a pretty significant inflection point quite recently. Making gaming viable on linux via a popular consumer product is a huge deal and starts to kill one of desktop linux's single biggest barriers to adoption.
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by vikramkr 10mo ago
If the thing we're measuring is a the ability to write code, visually reason, and handle extrapolating to out of sample prompts, then why shouldn't we evaluate it by asking it to write code to generate a strange image that it woul
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by vikramkr 10mo ago
The difference is that the worker you hire would be a human being and not a large matrix multiplication that had parameters optimized by a a gradient descent process and embeds concepts in a higher dimensional vector space that results in a
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by vikramkr 11mo ago
And why should the workers who work on the bridge be denied happiness and satisfaction from their work? Building and creating physical stuff is incredibly rewarding in concept for so many people - especially in a culture that values/gl
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by vikramkr 11mo ago
If you want to learn it the best way is probably to come up with a personal project idea that requires it specifically? Idk how much you'd get out of a book but you could always do a side project with the specific goal of doing it just
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by vikramkr 1y ago
And what about the predictions of energy use that did pan out, like air conditioning and stuff? Also in 1999 how many personal computer companies were restarting nuclear power plants to fuel their projected energy consumption? Feels like a
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by vikramkr 1y ago
The memory on chip that's shared between CPU/GPU is the main thing, for AI stuff it's more competing with gpus and apple silicon than comparable CPUs.
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by vikramkr 1y ago
In addition to stuff like that they also handle it with rate limits, that message that Claude would throw almost all the time when they were like "demand is high so you have automatically switched to concise mode", making batch in
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by vikramkr 1y ago
People like it when an IPO pops. It's a good news story and it makes all the banks who participated happy. If it was priced perfectly it'd get reported as the stock was flat, if it's a bit underpriced then you get headlines a
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by vikramkr 1y ago
The bit about smaller facilities being exempted in the current proposals does seem like a genuine issue and a great way to end up with hundreds of unregulated inefficient small data centers exploiting loopholes and causing all sorts of issu
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by vikramkr 1y ago
Humans, as resources
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by vikramkr 1y ago
There's also a chance that the primary photosynthesiizers on each happened to be purple for a while (purple earth) and the ancestors of plants absorbed red/blue and ignored green because they were getting leftovers. Also, even now
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by vikramkr 1y ago
That's calculating value against not having LLMs and current competitors. If they stopped improving but their competitors didn't, then the question would be the incremental cost of Claude (financial, adjusted for switching costs,
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by vikramkr 1y ago
P vs NP
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by vikramkr 1y ago
I'm pretty sure almost nothing involved in building a multi billion dollar business is generalizable to even .01% of other things
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by vikramkr 1y ago
That's not up to YouTube, that's what the creator is doing.
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by vikramkr 1y ago
Any knowledge work job that can already be outsourced to the lowest bidder
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by vikramkr 1y ago
I mean obviously it depends, a lot of that 3mb is probably doing all sorts of ad and tracking stuff which, well, welcome to the internet. There's a point where trying to avoid JavaScript and build tools is just plain harder (especially

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