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by bleepblap 7d ago
Who is Devin and why do they listen to the author?
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by bleepblap 2mo ago
In many jurisdictions, "intent" is an element of the law
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by bleepblap 2mo ago
> This is intended to be read by AI Fuck this
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
And my favorite -- you need to go north from Miami to be in "the South"
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
In the west, there's no actual competitor to NVIDIA hardware. Yes, people make other chips, but nothing is a serious drop-in replacement for the nv stack. Between the networking and software, they're truly a different "thing&
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
> AI compute hardware is not a commodity. And in a shortage, commodities can command high margins. I don't see the distinction you're drawing about "commodity", but I'm happy to be wrong on that. My point was tha
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
Maybe they have something else im the books, I truly have no idea. But once you get down from the top rung of full-bandwidth cross section networking at the 100k node networking scale "AI" infra, theres no shortage of people who c
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
The concert analogy makes sense (I analogized it as "staunching the bleeding"). WRT SpaceX building data centers: I think there's a natural tension between a "low margin business" and "being risk adverse".
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
Thanks for the post. :( I had some ideas for little projects to mess around with and thought thread would've been something interesting to learn..
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
What I don't understand is how it's even a good low-margin business. Maybe I'm missing something but: Data centers (before recently) are low margin businesses because all the inputs are commodities: you buy power (joules), po
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by bleepblap 3mo ago
I'm desperate for people to make tech that's searchable. I'd like to figure out some of the thread/matter bits for my own projects and this is terribly annoying to do
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by bleepblap 4mo ago
Fucking hell how is this website so unusable.
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by bleepblap 4mo ago
Calling a CPF a "tax ID" is a bit misleading, much like calling an SSN "the way you get social security benefits". You can (even as a non-citizen) get one in a couple mins at the post office, and it's used for liter
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by bleepblap 5mo ago
> Hybrid nuclear fusion–fission power plants have been already proposed and studied in theory. I have a hand-wavy hard sci-fi universe I've been rolling around my head for years and I eventually came to the conclusion that fission-f
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by bleepblap 5mo ago
I think you're 100% correct that people won't lose the ability. There's a scary thing I see as a person who works with and recruits students and fresh graduates -- they might not have spent the time to get the skills in the f
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by bleepblap 6mo ago
Sounds backwards -- your company is getting the benefits of your increased productivity and doesn't want to pay for it. Im not sure that's Anthropics problem? It's like I was a graphic designer and my finance company said &qu
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by bleepblap 7mo ago
It's telling you chose to not answer the question and instead chose to introduce a different (straw man) question in response. At least people in the past had the integrity to acknowledge their positions head-on. One of the lamentable
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by bleepblap 7mo ago
What's the ratio of citizens to non-citizens that's okay? One citizen per every hundred or are you thinking 10-1?
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by bleepblap 7mo ago
You keep moving the goalposts that much and maybe the patriots can win the Super Bowl.
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
I know nothing about the "industry" of MRIs, but from the physics side, (everything equal) more Tesla is better - at the end of the day, harder magnetic field gets you a stronger signal
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
There are a lot of airports in the Us and 2.5 million passengers transit them daily.
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
It wasn't -- was just noting that people keep saying "MRI", when there's no 5T fields around most security checkpoints
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
Certainly, but a) not at the prices people wanted to spend to get 25,000 of them b) not at the maintenance cost for 25,000 of them c) without the software to (by someone's metric) discriminate between shampoo and bomb with enough error
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
There's a whole ton of people taking about MRI -- MRIs are a completely universe than CT/X-rays
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
Nobody or no item is getting an MRI at an airport. It's pretty common for people to conflate that with X-rays but MRIs work on a fundamentally different process and exclusively (outside of physics 101) requires liquid helium-cooled sup
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
TSA (at ohare) has a repeating thing that says 100ml or 3.2oz over the loudspeaker (never mind they are different amounts)
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
there is actually a science change that happened, and it's not (entirely) just politicians changing their mind. The big thing going from X-ray (2d) to CT (spin an X-ray machine around and take a ton of pictures to recreate a 3d image)
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
Not that your thrust is incorrect, but a CT machine (used here at airports) and MRI machines are completely different beasts in not just cost but also complexity.
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
He got a cool 50k from some memecoin for this
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by bleepblap 8mo ago
It's incredible the change over the last few years even on the hardware side. I go to the supercomputing.org conference annually and saw folks advertising "AI power distribution units". There used to be a lot of neat innovati

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