Ologn

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by Ologn 4mo ago
SK Hynix stock went up over 9% - today. Up 72% in the last month. 323% in the last six months. 978% in the past year. Micron up 3% today, 76% last month, 292% last six months, 863% in the past year. I bought Micron in mid-March when it d
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by Ologn 4mo ago
Tangential to the theme, here is the HN post about the (AFAIK) first public success of deep learning techniques with SuperVision's AlexNet. You can read what their prognosis on the future success of deep learning was (hint: same progn
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by Ologn 5mo ago
With Gemini 3, I wrote an Emacs Lisp which can tell if a number is prime or not using only primitive recursive functions. That was done at the end of last year, and none of the frontier LLMs were able to do it earlier in 2025. I had some t
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by Ologn 8mo ago
Stock market last 365 days: S&P 500 - up 16% Nvidia - up 25% ICLN (global clean energy ETF) - up 46% Micron - up 246% Seagate - up 270% Western Digital - up 342%
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by Ologn 9mo ago
Dijkstra's notions about provable functions are probably more important during these times where LLMs are churning out hallucinated code.
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by Ologn 9mo ago
I am on the free tier of Gemini 3. With some intervention on my part, I got it to build, in Emacs Lisp, a primitive-recursive function for determining if a number is prime (by mu-recursive I mean a function built from the building blocks o
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by Ologn 10mo ago
It's The Mythical Man Month idea. Programming software is a different thing than working on an assembly line, or a call center, or in retail sales. You're much better off having four programmers who are worth paying $200k a year
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by Ologn 10mo ago
Yes...NVDA closed at $188.15 yesterday, a price it was never at until October. It did hit $212.19 last week, but retreated. After spring 2023, Nvidia stock seems to follow a pattern. It has a run-up prior to earnings, it beats the forecas
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by Ologn 11mo ago
From spring 2019 to July of this year, I worked at IT at a Fortune 100 retailer. The project I worked on was enormously successful in terms of revenue growth. I, and people on my team had a huge nationwide impact, which started when we wer
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by Ologn 1y ago
> If so, why wouldn't OpenAI or Anthropic etc get there first given their resources and early access to leading technology? innovator's dilemma
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by Ologn 1y ago
It lists 118698 installs of firefox-esr. https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox-esr
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by Ologn 1y ago
NVDA had a surprise earnings on May 24, 2023, closing at $305 and opening at $385 (before the 10 for 1 split). Pretty much every earnings day since then has been the same - the numbers come out, they beat what they estimated, the stock goe
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by Ologn 1y ago
It sure wasn't when AlexNet won the ImageNet challenge 13 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611830
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by Ologn 1y ago
The ten most valuable S&P 500 companies are, in order of market cap: Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Broadcom, Tesla, Berkshire Hathaway, and Walmart. A commonality to most of them (and to a l
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by Ologn 1y ago
> I've been reading this website for probably 15 years, its never been this bad. People here were pretty skeptical about AlexNet, when it won the ImageNet challenge 13 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by Ologn 1y ago
Cisco stock (which I thought about buying in 1992 and didn't, unfortunately) doubled in 1990, tripled in 1991, doubled in 1992, and kept going up every year - in 1995 it doubled, in 1998 it doubled, in 1999 it doubled. So it had a lon
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by Ologn 1y ago
Nvidia's trailing P/E ratio is 53 (stock hitting a new high today). Its forward P/E ratio is 38. A year ago both its trailing and forward P/E were higher. So the stock is relatively a bargain compared to what it was a
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by Ologn 1y ago
Yes. In 2021, Nvidia was actually making more revenue from its home/consumer/gaming chips than from its data center chips. Now 90% of its revenue is from its data center hardware, and less than 10% of its revenue is from home gp
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by Ologn 1y ago
The book Androids by Chet Haase talks about how the early Android team had a lot of ex-Palm people on it.
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by Ologn 1y ago
Most human ten year olds in school can add two large numbers together. If a connectionist network is supposed to model the human brain, it should be able to do that. Maybe LLMs can do a lot of things, but if they can't do that, then
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by Ologn 1y ago
People have different opinions about this, but I think one problem is there are different questions. One is - Google, Facebook, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek etc. have put a lot of capital expenditure into train frontier large language models
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by Ologn 1y ago
If I look at Nvidia stock from mid-June of last year, or the IYW index (Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google) - NVDA is down 10%, IYW is down maybe 2-3%. It doesn't feel like I'm in the middle of a huge bubble like, say, the beginn
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by Ologn 2y ago
By the late 1960s, software projects had finally reached a certain size, and the particularities of managing these large projects were discussed at NATO software engineering conferences, and codified by Fred Brooks in 1975 in the Mythical M
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by Ologn 2y ago
Yes, the average VP at JP Morgan makes less than $200k. The VP title at banks does not mean what it means at other companies.
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by Ologn 2y ago
I learned how to do some things in a Unix shell in 1989, like cat, sort, uniq, and piping them together. Now it is 2025, and I am still doing those things, on the Linux box I am typing on now, or some servers I log onto, or in the shell of
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by Ologn 2y ago
With regards to what they're saying, the first thing to do is reverse the perspective. The applicant is hearing a yes or no, so if it's a no they want to know what they did wrong to improve themselves. From the interviewer's
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by Ologn 2y ago
Samsung has its own bootloader. Some people get it to work with AOSP/LineageOS, but it is an extra pain. So I avoid Samsung for LineageOS. This is a list of support devices https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ I
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by Ologn 2y ago
Last week there was a "Switched Back to Windows After over 10 Years on Linux" thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42496032 ), and this story shows one of the reasons I prefer Linux to Windows.
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by Ologn 2y ago
I am saying several different things. For your question, the farther out in the future, the more uncertain it is. The stock analyses from the middle of last year which talked about the threat of AMD in a more immediate tone were obviously
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by Ologn 2y ago
> Expectations are priced in, and others probably have more information than you anyway. I have always made money on the stock market. I bought Nvidia in December 2022 and then again in April 2023. Yes the information was out there - an

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