MPSimmons

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by MPSimmons 4d ago
That was my first thought too, but it seems like they're using two of them in the wireless version, with a C5 for wifi
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by MPSimmons 4d ago
> The asset of being able to quickly understand and produce a solution appropriate for a large technical system is now _significantly_ less scarce for businesses. Certainly, it's easier to produce solutions now, but I wouldn't
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by MPSimmons 4d ago
IMO there's more than one valid reason to make things. Some people make things from a pragmatic standpoint - they need a solution in a space where the existing solutions don't fit for some reason, and they decide to make their own
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by MPSimmons 6d ago
oh wow, I'd never heard of this. Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold - now I think I understand why I can always tell GM vehicles with LED taillights at night. I can spot them a mile awa
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by MPSimmons 6d ago
A lifespan of 2 years for intelligent creatures is heartbreaking
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by MPSimmons 6d ago
I assume someone has considered whether the apparent expansion of the universe is spaghettification as we enter an event horizon?
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by MPSimmons 7d ago
I miss the time when smaller was considered more advanced
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by MPSimmons 7d ago
FWIW (and this is not directed to you specifically but anyone reading this) the police can use biometrics to compel you to open your phone without a warrant, but they cannot force you to give up your passcode. https://www.zdnet.c
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by MPSimmons 7d ago
Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them? I don't mind folding. I think it's cool, and a nice way to get a useful space. But I have big hands, and I can't use my iphone 17 now without two
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by MPSimmons 7d ago
Why do they insist on every new phone being bigger than the phones before them? I don't mind folding. I think it's cool, and a nice way to get a useful space. But I have big hands, and I can't use my iphone 17 now without two
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by MPSimmons 9d ago
Awesome comment, thanks for the info!
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by MPSimmons 9d ago
Weather 2 doesn't seem to have been an ensemble model. Weather 3 is, so theoretically it can get more accurate outcomes by taking the probabilistic analysis of several models concurrently to determine the most likely weather conditions
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by MPSimmons 12d ago
Do you have the cheap models summarize the files? How do they get the relevant information to the bigger models?
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by MPSimmons 15d ago
You can also just grow potatoes in a cardboard box - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyW5QciFAhc
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by MPSimmons 22d ago
Out of curiosity, what do you do to distribute the weights and inference across the multiple machines?
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by MPSimmons 22d ago
Weirdly, this is controlled by the brain as part of the sympathetic nervous system: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23262-sympathetic...
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by MPSimmons 23d ago
I don't know if you could consider what the AV node in the heart does as "processing". It's more like a clock, to my understanding.
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by MPSimmons 23d ago
No, and I don't think they're meant to fool humans.
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by MPSimmons 24d ago
Ingestion, like eating?
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by MPSimmons 24d ago
I do like the Potemkin Village metaphor for things like the website in question. Given how little effort something like this takes, I imagine there are a lot more of them than I've considered before, and given the way search engines op
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by MPSimmons 26d ago
As another American, you understand that reasonable taxes applied in a progressive manner (with those who have benefitted more from society paying more) are what allow individuals to enjoy the freedoms that you want, right? Because if we do
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by MPSimmons 26d ago
The remake is on Steam
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by MPSimmons 1mo ago
Look, our culture does not reward excellence, so those people are doing the least possible to not get fired. That's kind of the whole American thing in general at this point. Nobody is doing great outside of technology workers, and eve
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by MPSimmons 1mo ago
How difficult would it have been to isolate that problem if you didn't already know the SQLite subsystem it was in? This feels, to someone relatively ignorant of the SQLite / Tailscale / Antithesis architectures as a "hi
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by MPSimmons 1mo ago
It was coined by Apple engineers who would agree to whatever Steve wanted them to do while Steve was at their desk, and then when he left they'd be distraught over what they'd agreed to. https://www.folklore.org/Re
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by MPSimmons 1mo ago
My favorite (probably apocryphal) Microsoft brain teaser question I've heard is, "If you had to move Mt Fuji, how would you do it?" I've never interviewed there, or been asked that question, but I think it would be a lot
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by MPSimmons 2mo ago
I was literally thinking this reminds me of Google+ and Buzz.
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by MPSimmons 2mo ago
I'll second this. I'm continually impressed with the breadth of coverage from Asianometry. Great channel.
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by MPSimmons 2mo ago
oh wow, an entire seedy underbelly I was unaware of. Thanks, great reply. Appreciated!
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by MPSimmons 2mo ago
>through proxies and heavily discounted token resellers Could you explain a little more about how this works? Are you saying that the Chinese run or have backdoored something like OpenRouter?

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