Tycho

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by Tycho 7d ago
In the long term I think my did. It meant the US had an interest in the middle east so would be around long term for Israel to lean on.
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by Tycho 7d ago
So from a fiscal perspective, it more or less pays for itself through greater career taxable earnings of the women, according to the study. (EDIT: unless of course these extra earnings were mostly transfers so-to-speak from non-mothers to m
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by Tycho 7d ago
And sad thing is they will be mostly scrolling through pictures and videos, with extremely low information density, when the could be scrolling high quality text like HN comments or a well curated X feed.
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by Tycho 8d ago
Israel is currently in the position where it can bomb Tehran, using American tech and logistical support, with complete impunity. This is the golden age of Israel.
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by Tycho 8d ago
Well under Dubya it was pretty successful. Firstly, there was never a repeat of 9/11. Secondly, they pulled off one of the most overwhelming military victories of all time against Iraq, a full-blown invasion completed in weeks with har
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by Tycho 9d ago
Does this have any relation to the singularities in black holes?
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by Tycho 21d ago
I don’t understand the 4th option, “on the fly”. It didn’t seem to be explained properly.
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by Tycho 3mo ago
The idea is that eventually the power demand for AI compute will be too great to satisfy by terrestrial means.
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by Tycho 4mo ago
Just use an LLM to make a good knowledge base for the databases. Based on schema info and production queries. An agent can use that to write queries that work.
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by Tycho 7mo ago
When people put together memos or decks in the last, even if that weren’t read very carefully, at least they reassured management that someone had actually things through. But that is no longer a reliable signal.
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by Tycho 8mo ago
> “deeply off the rails” How sheltered are you people? Scott Adams was a pretty standard non-woke boomer. Do you think that just because you don’t hear certain opinions in the workplace or the faculty or the Atlantic podcast, that they a
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by Tycho 8mo ago
I kept meaning to tune in again to his livestream before the end. It was always a good listen as he went over the news with his dry sense of humour and judgment on fact vs fiction.I liked how he kept going after they cancelled all the Dilbe
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by Tycho 8mo ago
But the driver isn’t reacting to any of the LiDAR readings, only what they can see, so what is the point?
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by Tycho 8mo ago
How do you train a model to drive with LiDAR when the human drivers who generate the training data don’t use LiDAR?
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by Tycho 9mo ago
According to the paper you posted (interesting analysis), it’s not just low-vol assets, but good quality ones. Also, they would no doubt do a lot more buying of undervalued (good quality) companies if they weren’t by this point “too big to
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by Tycho 9mo ago
When people say undervalued in this context, they usually mean it has a low price to earnings ratio. Intel is definitely not that - although it could still be a good bet if you have reason to believe their fortunes will greatly improve in t
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by Tycho 9mo ago
So, best investor ever? (Not counting people who built enterprises, just people whose trade was to invest.) I plan to buy some BRK stock. I’m sure it will be a good investment. But also, somewhat sentimentally, just to own a part of a finan
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by Tycho 9mo ago
Not quite right. The pivot was from good companies at a great price to great companies at a good price (unless you can get a great price, but that’s unlikely). Over the long run the latter is a better and more scalable strategy.
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by Tycho 9mo ago
Think of Tesla as a well-funded pharmaceutical company that has invented a cure for a widespread ailment (call it “driving”) and now is waiting on regulatory approval.
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by Tycho 9mo ago
The elegant syntax that is close to plain English sets it apart. (It’s not so pretty these days though with all these type hints and other cruft that’s been added in the last ten years.)
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by Tycho 9mo ago
Maybe it’s only visible to me https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_5a484c29-ec2d-47e1-977e-c300...
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"Empire of AI" is wildly misleading about AI water use(andymasley.substack.com)
2 points by Tycho 9mo ago|2 comments
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by Tycho 9mo ago
I posted something similar from Grok 9 months ago, although it was “flagged” for some reason. the link still works. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260083
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by Tycho 9mo ago
Sold most of my BTC off at $120k, but kept a chunk not as an investment but as a sort of emergency fund that could be useful if for some reason I ever find myself needing to transact without using cash, bank accounts or credit cards.
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by Tycho 9mo ago
The contract would obviously not be no strings attached.
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by Tycho 10mo ago
Yes. The capital is not needed immediately, but they have agreed to provide it if/when called upon in future.
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by Tycho 10mo ago
They integrated it into Google search immediately so I think a lot of people will bother less with ChatGPT when a google search is just as effective.
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by Tycho 10mo ago
Commitments here means money that people have agreed to lend them in future.
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by Tycho 10mo ago
I use Grok more than other LLMs. It’s built into X, so the use case of pressing the Grok button on a post to see an explanation for something I didn’t understand, or a fact check for something I doubted, or just more background on a subject
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by Tycho 10mo ago
It’s actually refreshing that the two bosses resigned over this. Means it’s not just an empty apology followed by business as usual with no consequences.

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