aamargulies

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   by aamargulies 23d ago

   Qwen3.5-4B would be a good (better?) candidate. It uses a gated, deltanet hybrid, so your KV cache stays nearly flat as context grows, important for RAM-constrained environments like the Pi.
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   by aamargulies 29d ago

   I was playing around with Opus 5.0, experimenting with creative writing tasks and this came out of one of the characters' mouths: "... and the reason he was doing this — the reason, the entire load-bearing reason, the twelv
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   by aamargulies 1mo ago

   Chicago is there! Look in the cities dropdown menu. getting sources is the trick… I’ve made some discoveries about how to ‘reverse-engineer’ a city.
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   by aamargulies 1mo ago

   Automatic local events aggregator https://whatson.town/
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   by aamargulies 3mo ago

   I asked Claude which tools it would most want to add to a machine we were working on. #1 was DuckDB.
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   by aamargulies 5mo ago

   Here's my version with a key spline improvement. I should really write this up... #include <stdbool.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <arm_neon.h> /* Author: aam@fastmail.fm * * Apple M4 Max (P-core) variant of s
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   by aamargulies 9mo ago

   Hey, show some respect, you’re talking about the first ever winner of the prestigious FIFA peace prize!
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   by aamargulies 1y ago

   I knew that FSD was nonsense when I tried to use Tesla's autopark feature under optimal conditions and it failed to park the car satisfactorily.
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   by aamargulies 1y ago

   https://youtu.be/aY985qzn7oI?si=PeS4Fn8G_6T7Iu79 Angela Collier has the final word on physics and crackpots. Hilarious.
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    You’re being facetious, but Peter Singer made this exact point about “ordinary people being evil” in a famous philosophy essay in 1972. https://youtu.be/KVl5kMXz1vA?si=F__kWUXkcu4h-5iI
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    OK, nerd sniped. I bought an OpenGarage and then saw that it had MQTT integration. So... installed MQTT and got that working. Then asked how hard would it be to hook this up to Alexa and get voice control working? Not toooooo hard ... worki
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    I was lucky enough to attend a lecture given by Dr. Sacks circa 1988. He was a resident speaker for the University of California campuses and had come to UCSC to talk about Awakenings and other topics. He was such a sensitive, kind, gentle
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Acaster’s brilliant, funny bit on this: https://youtu.be/x73PkUvArJY?si=eRB3RIuR7rjXvw_i
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    https://www.amazon.com/Lumenier-460mAh-45c-Lipo-Battery/dp/B... Done.
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Yes. His most important point though is that things will not get better until a sufficient mass of public political pressure is brought to bear on the issue.
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    The poor keep voting against their own interests and installing Republican/Tory governments that work to actively increase inequality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4daYJzyls https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Wealth inequality is tipping our country into oligarchy.
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Here's perhaps a better link: Robert Reich refutes the top 12 myths about taxing the rich: https://youtu.be/pnoLAMHwf2I?si=SApa_u3PGUZ-Y150
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Yes.
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    A common objection is that the rich will 'just move' to avoid taxes. However, he goes in depth in his response, pointing out that the source of the wealth can't move, you tax that at the source. https://youtu.be&#x
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Gary Stevenson, former top Citibank London trader, has a YouTube channel centered on taxing the rich as a solution to wealth inequality. Highly recommended. https://youtu.be/jFHGiq063rA?si=N64KIhk8ezl7tEEm
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Topics like these are a footnote in the fight against wealth inequality, a fight we’re losing to the rich. Gary Stevenson is doing hero’s work on this subject and it is the whale in the room for everyone’s financial well-being. https:&#x2F
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    Perhaps this is a case of the opposite of love being indifference not hate.
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    This isn't the first time Texas has done something like this. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/was-an-innocent-man-exe...
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    I took Nature of Math from Lehrer in the 90s. He said on the first day of class that the class was for non-STEM majors and if any of us were science majors he’d find us and kick us out. I was a science major and I said to myself “Adam, I do
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    I had an interesting experience in an Invertebrate Zoology lab class one summer. We students were brought into a lab, given specimens to draw, and the only instructions we received were 'You have 30 minutes to draw this. Go.' Ther
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    by aamargulies 2y ago

    sum of i: 0,n = n(n+1)/2 not n(n-1)/2
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    by aamargulies 3y ago

    This reminds me of the story of one of the only times Newton was known to have laughed: “According to Henry P. Macomber's paper "Glimpses of the Human Side of Sir Isaac Newton," the great scientist worked with secretary Humph
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    by aamargulies 3y ago

    ‘United’ States?
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    by aamargulies 3y ago

    Wait, does this not leak the state that Springfield is in? That’s always been a ‘secret’ the Simpsons kept hidden and is the subject of other gags!