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by wisty 1y ago
They can have a very even load if they use their nodes for training when the customer use is low, so that massively helps. If they have 3x as much hardware as they need to serve peak demand (even with throttling) this will cost a lot, unles
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by wisty 1y ago
The OP said something about how the human body doesn't make "intelligent" decisions. I was being cheeky, not using the best word for the job. Evolution is not really passive, it's a combination of mutation (which is not
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by wisty 1y ago
Evolution should make intelligent choices for us but there's thousands years where a few extra pounds meant surviving a famine. Also I bet it will kill a few people with eating disorders. As long as you're in a 1st world country a
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by wisty 1y ago
Yeah, it's mostly either students or academia who admire their hobo kings. It's kind of like a sport like tennis. If you're in the system, you think that the world number 150 tennis player is amazing, but they barely make eno
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by wisty 1y ago
I'm partly just explaining what Trump supporters think. The lump of gdp fallacy in which an urban Cafe is equal to a factory is maybe something I think is an issue? Trump supporters disagree with economists on Carbon taxes, low tarrif
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by wisty 1y ago
If only politicians mattered why doesn't Trump sack virtually everyone in DC? The government is a large organisation and its middle management is both vast and powerful. And this huge middle management is obliged (arguably) to listen t
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by wisty 1y ago
Why suggest math PhDs unless it's in bad faith? Wouldn't economics and sociology PhDs have both more room for bias in their work, and tend to have power over the economy and society? "Experts" have a lot of sway over the
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by wisty 1y ago
They think urban intellectuals have a fair bit of power. And the basis for that power is that they are supposedly right about things.
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by wisty 1y ago
They think urban intellectuals have a fair bit of power. They also think they are not always correct, not always unbiased, and possibly not always honest; and the bias tends to be towards either things that benefit the urban elite, or &quot
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by wisty 1y ago
Um, I'm pretty sure a 24mm shot on a full frame camera will look the same as an iPhone shot, but only if you crop the full frame shot (ignoring pixels counts). Yes, you could get the same photo of the guy in the centre on the iPhone, b
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by wisty 1y ago
I'm not at all fluent at Rust, but I think c++ is not just complex, but every c++ project is complete in a different way.
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by wisty 1y ago
Sometimes frameworks are a little too magic. Think raw sql vs a magic orm. No I'm not saying don't use an orm, but when everything ends up as magic meta configuration it's sometimes too much. Sometimes making things a little
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by wisty 1y ago
People are single but romance scams exist. Scammers are good at the scam. They are good at telling the right lies, they often work in teams (lead finders, closers, and everything in between), use automation where appropriate, etc. A single
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by wisty 1y ago
True, though it was only in some universities and there are boom / bust cycles. Universities weren't picky in the 60s. Now they are cut-throat.
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by wisty 1y ago
I think this is just overblown? I went to Japan in 2019, before the pandemic, the previous peak and not far off the current numbers of tourists. Maybe I went at a quiet time, but white people were as rare as hens teeth. There are 37 million
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by wisty 1y ago
Also, peer review started in the 1960s. Einstein published a single peer reviewed paper Also woth noting that Higgs claimed that the publish or perish climate of the 90s would have made his work in the early 60s impossible.
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by wisty 1y ago
So it sucks to have iPhones?
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by wisty 1y ago
Yeah, my issue is that I suspect an LLM based app may be easily "jailbroken" (since they tend to be highly agreeable due to their training) and turned into an enabler rather than a helper. Even if some LLM therapists are good, wit
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by wisty 1y ago
> Therapy isn't supposed to scale. It's the relationship that heals. My understanding is that modern evidence-based therapy is basically a checklist of "common sense" advice, a few filters to check if it's the ri
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by wisty 1y ago
I'm more talking about fairness than environmental issues, but it still is valid to say CO2 has more or less peaked and will decline faster due to population declined.
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by wisty 1y ago
Consumption matters not wealth. Wealth is just paper ownership, it's consumption that is wasting scarce resources. And the super rich simply can't consume that much. Bezons isn't eating a thousand times as much as a millionai
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by wisty 1y ago
This is just tiny foil hat thinking though. It seems far more likto me that Elon was just a trifle overconfident in himself.
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by wisty 1y ago
Also theano, keras ... nvidia made it easy to develop on so that's what people use.
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by wisty 1y ago
OK, so Elon has tried to invest a lot of money in mass transit, but wasn't able to get a breakthrough like he did with Tesla?
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by wisty 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
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Hybrid Still Isn't Working(hbr.org)
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by wisty 1y ago
A lazy physics teacher can make every question a math question in disguise. If a physics teacher is worried that a better calculator will make their test trivial, maybe they need to teach physics instead of testing math. A lazy humanities t
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by wisty 1y ago
In WWII, a joint Australian / British force carried out an attack, posing as Japanese fishing boat, and sailed right into Singapore harbour to place explosives on the vessels there. They flew a Japanese ensign, wore sarongs and wore ta
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by wisty 1y ago
Also the slide deck is often dual purpose. Often it's an OK presentation, and an OK document for people who need you to break it into paragraphs and explain each paragraph. Yes, Tufte hated this, because presentations should be present
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by wisty 1y ago
You can't stop people hiring someone who looks similar from sitting the exam, or messages in morse code via Bluetooth. It's hard to stop a palm card. But it stops a casual cheater from having ChatGTP on a second device.

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