andreyf

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by andreyf 28d ago
It's not a conspiracy to say it's unwise to expect a company to drive a research & product direction that will directly impact their reduce. Some might be smart enough to realize it's the right long game, but it takes lea
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by andreyf 1mo ago
It's not that it fundamentally isn't able to produce something concise, it's that the business model of the companies developing these models rests on selling tokens...
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by andreyf 2mo ago
No, in ~6y they will count for 1% of present day consumption. The rest of the quote compares it to where we expect steel manufacturing projections. It all reads like something that seeks to influence rather than inform.
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by andreyf 7mo ago
aaronsw would be proud
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by andreyf 8mo ago
Rumor has it that they weren't trained "from scratch" the was US would, i.e. Chinese labs benefitted from government "procured" IP (the US $B models) in order to train their $M models. Also understand there to be re
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by andreyf 9mo ago
Weekly version in sheets makes more sense for me, since almost everything in my year is split logically by week — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18YsOpI4GsxKGZmpMRQcN... Generated using this JS in an actio
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by andreyf 9mo ago
Not all humans, just the ones that can't afford buy property in low risk areas, start companies to help people move, etc. and for those who can, appreciating investments galore!
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by andreyf 9mo ago
Great news, and hopefully more to come across other publications! If only aaronsw was here to see it :(
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by andreyf 1y ago
That's not the same thing at all. Especially as LLM's get smaller, WhatsApp can make a lot of money reading your messages and listening to your calls on the endpoint in order to market segment your ads while remaining e2e encrypte
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by andreyf 2y ago
As a non-benefitting fan of DEI, it always seemed like too little and/or too late [1] and the current generation of efforts have paid the cost of perceived injustice that are obviously counter-productive. This change to only having div
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by andreyf 5y ago
if someone had told me that "full of AI" was going to be an insult one day, I would have said they were too cynical about the glorious AI future, but in hindsight perhaps you are right
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by andreyf 5y ago
More likely to be a fake match so that people can't check whether records are in their database.
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by andreyf 5y ago
Was the email they offered to send the code to f**k@corpdomain.com? I tried this with my current and former employer and got seemingly the same email username "f**k", and seemingly random phone numbers. Another long-time employer
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by andreyf 5y ago
Too good to be true!
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by andreyf 5y ago
yes. worth remembering also that even with e2ee, a ad-tech-driven company could have endpoints determine marketing segments based on content of conversations ad report those to the company to better target ad spend.
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by andreyf 5y ago
> You can't walk into someone's home and touch all their stuff just because they left their front door open. There's a few big differences here: (1) the "someone" is a company with $7B/yr in revenue and dedi
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by andreyf 5y ago
"Allowing somebody else to harvest it is money straight out of Facebook's pocket." In that metaphor, Facebook owns the soil and they sell the harvest by charging for promoted posts and other forms of engagement purchasing. If
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by andreyf 5y ago
don't usually flex with tech but isn't uMatrix [1] just a little bit harder to learn and a million times more satisfying? at least on my often-used systems, I have a hard time imagining loading a website without being able to cont
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by andreyf 5y ago
after a bunch of looking, the paper that had the most detail on quality and sensors used is https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013232... ! the most accurate readily available for CO2 seems t
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by andreyf 5y ago
Those are subjective but there's a good paper on accuracy here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036013232... ! tldr for CO2 best is https://www.kaiterra.com/en/laser
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by andreyf 5y ago
and if you don't want to spend $250, the DIY version seems pretty easy, too: https://www.greenhousetoday.com/growing-spirulina/
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by andreyf 5y ago
Which science do you mean? Found a redacted study from Germany and doctors saying there's no effect on blood O2 or CO2 levels https://uihc.org/health-topics/do-face-masks-make-you-retain...
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by andreyf 5y ago
800ppm is "on the line" per what's industry recommended for an office http://www.energy.wsu.edu/documents/co2inbuildings.pdf
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by andreyf 5y ago
After looking at CR and buying quite a few others I'm pretty solid on alen.com standalone units, altho a central HVAC definitely seems more effective, esp. given that you aren't necessarily recirculating a build-up of CO2 all nigh
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by andreyf 5y ago
Precisely, and in that context, let's remember that such projection is fundamental to our psychology. Thus, this story would better serve as litany of cautionary vignettes of humans being human than a story of David v Goliath, a tale o
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by andreyf 8y ago
Universities are not top-down controlled institutions - profs have tenure (i.e. independence) and run their labs at a relatively micro scale, so whatever the criticism of tech mega-corps, it probably doesn't transfer because of those d
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by andreyf 8y ago
Why does it sound creepy? What percentage of the population, historically, have been "free" in a sense that they don't belong to an organization that exerts some sort of control over their social world? It seems there are man
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by andreyf 9y ago
There are immediate dependencies? Seems "depended on" should include sub-deps, as well.
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by andreyf 9y ago
Where is the shame coming from?
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by andreyf 9y ago
> We lost control of [Apps], it was meant to be free. That makes even less sense.

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