caycep

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by caycep 2mo ago
It's sad that this is true and yet their software is filled with bugs...
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by caycep 2mo ago
most importantly, is Ian Cutress' blog basically the new Anandtech? I miss that site...
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by caycep 2mo ago
I mean, I sure as heck can't buy a nVidia one, at least not the founder editions which are the one that fit in my case...
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by caycep 2mo ago
distillation of wheat, barley and malt is delicious, though!
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by caycep 2mo ago
honestly if they did what he said they did, it seems like it would be cheaper just to train your own model from the get go
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by caycep 2mo ago
paranoid me feels like the artificial gpu/ram/ssd shortages are a plot by the VCs to forcefully reclaim central control via new age mainframes one certainly cannot buy a PC for cheap anymore
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by caycep 2mo ago
sadly, this is happening more as medicine and healthcare become more and more corporate. Seeing this as hospitals all get acquired into these mega health systems (ostensibly to fight the now merged mega health insurance companies), that th
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by caycep 2mo ago
clearly you have never been a floor nurse at a hospital...
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by caycep 2mo ago
would it be situational re economies, though? i.e. if you have a lot of financial resources and can buy 1000 ships cheaply for the cost of propping up your steel industry to build 100 ships, should you buy 1000 ships (or the steel needed to
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by caycep 2mo ago
Is this the Indian equivalent of Allen Brain institute?
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by caycep 2mo ago
maybe not nut jobs, but I think the argument that the inherent structure that they put in place to maintain power is poor at optimizing human capital and expertise, such that they will aways make lousier decisions because they are surrounde
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by caycep 2mo ago
Granted, there is what is China is "openly saying" in terms of official warnings and such, and what they are "openly saying" in terms of what they are actually spending money on in terms of material, equipment and capabi
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by caycep 2mo ago
I think they already have that, they want to make sure it stays that way alternatively, there's a Dennis Ross piece out pointing out that China's procurement patterns over the years suggests they are not seriously thinking of inva
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by caycep 2mo ago
Wasn't there something in statistics to describe something like this? i.e. gaussian distributions vs something that's modeled on sparse occurrences, etc?
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by caycep 2mo ago
The Costco buyers are all really quite good; whatever they are doing, they manage to fine really good suppliers for most things they carry in the store. The SoCal locations all carry really good mangoes when in season, rivaling one well k
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by caycep 3mo ago
this is how Sekiguchi Genetics got started. Or maybe Weyland Yutani Corporation
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by caycep 3mo ago
Better job titles than any AI CEO could come up with!
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by caycep 3mo ago
unless they also come w/ rooftop solar? new mini splits are way more efficient than older systems as well. insulation in older homes/buildings might be an issue though
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by caycep 3mo ago
With new inexpensive mini splits that do not require ducts, one would think adoption would go up?
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by caycep 3mo ago
between this and their mucking around with game studios (no new PC versions of marquee titles like ghost of yotei etc, unceremoniously shutting down bungie and laying off artists/game devs prior to vestment etc), Playstation management
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by caycep 3mo ago
I also feel like there should be FTC or other antitrust actions against OpenAI and other hyperscalers, with nvidia being complicit, if they are cornering the market that badly on consumer RAM, SSD and other components, especially if these v
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by caycep 3mo ago
The bigger sign to me is that this is a pressure against democratized personal computing; there is a push from who-knows-who to shift the balance of power back to (essentially) mainframes and corporate computing. Need another up and coming
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by caycep 3mo ago
although, just because we can, is it something we should?
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by caycep 3mo ago
so the black market selling illicit Kuang grade Mark 11s really is our dark future...
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by caycep 3mo ago
Gen Z calls this "side questing" now...
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by caycep 3mo ago
this reminds me of Ian Goodfellow's adversarial CNN training talk a few years back.
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by caycep 3mo ago
..in Mice
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by caycep 3mo ago
or....was that a convenient cover story? https://medium.com/@owenthomas/gawker-peter-thiel-and-me-f80...
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by caycep 3mo ago
granted, I think the intended or unintended effect of being stripped down creates a lot of unexpected "perfect apps". See Michael Tsai's (I think?) professed love for TextEdit or how pretty much every celebrity/creative
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by caycep 3mo ago
not at all, that is another valid joke!

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