Matticus_Rex

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by Matticus_Rex 1mo ago
Contrived false positives and negatives could (and should!) always be possible. That doesn't tell us anything about the natural false positive and negative rates, and a lot of people who have actively tried to use voice instruction to
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by Matticus_Rex 2mo ago
He's talking about the interconnection queue. You see the 100MW of solar they're wiring up, but not the hundreds of gigawatts in the queue.
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
That's what was thought, but maybe not -- only one of the three so far looks Epicurean, which is not what was expected. Maybe it's a fluke, but historians are buzzing a bit about whether it might be broader than expected.
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
I'm sure that level of overhead has nothing to do with the reason Belgian incomes, standards of living, and business outcomes are worse.
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
IIRC ERCOT estimated from their experience it was something like 85% on average?
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
Except there's lots of competition for creating that surplus, including from open source locally-hosted LLMs, and while it's behind the frontier it's not that far behind the frontier. The dumping -> non-competitive price
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
Generating huge consumer surpluses as a business strategy? Awesome if true.
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
You don't know the actual margins -- you only know the API rate. If their API rate has huge margins and the average subscriber isn't coming anywhere close to their limits, the subscription can be very profitable. If they're o
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
> But if you allow fracking on your “property” then you will be left with poisoned aquifers and empty of substance. So it's analogous to the mythical bogeyman version of what fracking was hyped up to be, and not how it actually turn
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by Matticus_Rex 3mo ago
It'd have been interesting for them to discuss it, but from what I understand it looks like MCAS is probably an entirely separate thing (that can also be triggered by COVID), but because of the overlap in symptoms, many people who assu
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by Matticus_Rex 4mo ago
I'm sure there are things local models are good enough at in non-coding work, but for anything complex I do not find this to be the case. I'd say local models are fairly capable of even somewhat complex coding execution. For compl
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by Matticus_Rex 4mo ago
Again, you can grant this and a huge number of agriculture subsidies still aren't justified. People have an instinctive defensiveness over farms/farmers, but anyone who has studied farm subsidies in any depth knows there's no
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by Matticus_Rex 4mo ago
Even if one grants this, it does not make the case that any particular set of subsidies is justified by that reasoning.
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by Matticus_Rex 5mo ago
If you were to keep reading in Hannah's post, you'd find the reasoning.
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by Matticus_Rex 5mo ago
Andy Masley does some plausible estimates here based on the data we have that puts 50 prompts per day at around 5kg CO2e/year: https://www.andymasley.com/writing/whats-the-full-hidden-cli... The difference between
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by Matticus_Rex 5mo ago
We use about two orders of magnitude more water (each!) on corn and alfalfa than on data centers as of 2023, and while we're ramping data centers up fast, it'll still be an order of magnitude at the 2030 data center estimates (whi
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by Matticus_Rex 5mo ago
If our water rights system required farmers to actually pay anything approaching market rates for the water they used, it actually would be a serious answer! Farmers grow alfalfa in the desert and drain the western US's aquifers and ri
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by Matticus_Rex 5mo ago
Hmm? There are a number of top AI people who make this exact point, though, and are trying to drive things toward elevating thinking. There's more that can be done, but quite a bit is a user mindset issue that's just going to have
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by Matticus_Rex 5mo ago
Was this a surprise?
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by Matticus_Rex 6mo ago
But does it work? and well?
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by Matticus_Rex 6mo ago
No, not at all. You're taxed on equity at fair market value when it vests. It's only after that when you get taxed at a lower rate on the capital gains.
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by Matticus_Rex 6mo ago
Depends on the size of the house and both the flooring and the foundation. Just before that the article mentions that a structural engineer was consulted and said it was fine, and you get a lot of mileage out of having most of the weight co
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by Matticus_Rex 7mo ago
$200M is >2% ARR at the last numbers we got from them, and would take them back... checks notes ... literally only a few days of ARR growth.
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by Matticus_Rex 7mo ago
There were something like six different stated intentions, most of which were entirely mutually-exclusive. Replacing income taxes was always the least credible of them.
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by Matticus_Rex 7mo ago
SCOTUS left it unspecified, but the refund would go to the payer, legally.
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by Matticus_Rex 7mo ago
Banning advertising would have the opposite effect; entrenched players would have a massive moat. The biggest gains from advertising by far accrue to newer entrants, not the big companies.
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by Matticus_Rex 7mo ago
Commercial speech rights are still part of the "free speech" bundle of 1A protections.
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by Matticus_Rex 7mo ago
I think we have rights to do lots of things that banning this business model would violate.
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by Matticus_Rex 8mo ago
Apparently you get dinged for using AWS even if you're using an EU datacenter. I'm sure you can define "EU sovereignty" in a way that's consistent with that, but that's not very useful.
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by Matticus_Rex 8mo ago
My wife uses this stand with her Kindle (there are more flexible/adjustable ones available): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXPJWMNY?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_... and a page-turner for the Kindle: https://www

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