cloudbonsai

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by cloudbonsai 5d ago
No, sociologists use the term involution to describe Asian rice farmers. These farmers poured an increasing amount of labor into their tiny patches of land to extract the last bit of productivity, yet despite their hard work, they remaine
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by cloudbonsai 3mo ago
All right. Thank you.
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by cloudbonsai 3mo ago
I understand your logic ("the high CapEx is the moat"), but on the other hand, isn't it be a bit like multiple high speed railway systems trying to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles? And there are three internal players
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by cloudbonsai 3mo ago
> Obviously Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize IIRC Photobucket actually made a good amount of money through their advertising business unit ("Give free storage and get paid by ads" was their business model). Th
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by cloudbonsai 3mo ago
Can I ask what is your opinion about their core CapEx, i.e. model training? The general trend I observe is that the "shelf lives" of large language models are really short. It costs $1-10 billion to train cutting-edge models at th
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by cloudbonsai 4mo ago
I found more details on how this particular attack worked: https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/security/advisories/GHSA-... https://github.com/nrwl/nx-console/issues/3148 S
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by cloudbonsai 5mo ago
It seems that the battery lasts 35 hours with heart rate tracking, 1 month with no HR, and 11 months with power saving. Run Time Using activity functions (heart rate): Approx. 35 hours max. Using in watch mode with heart rat
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by cloudbonsai 5mo ago
That makes a lot of sense! > The x86 server CPUs, like AMD Epyc or Intel Xeon, have a lower range within which the clock frequency may vary and their policies for changing the clock frequency are less aggressive than for desktop CPUs Pro
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by cloudbonsai 5mo ago
Reading the article, it seems to boil down to the following two observations: 1. ARM64 is actually less "smart" than x64. While Intel's Core i9 tries to be clever by aggressive boosting and throttling, Snapdragon just deliver
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by cloudbonsai 5mo ago
> How do you use your 45 seconds? There is actually a clear, concise and actionable answer to this question: - Hide under the nearest table or desk (if you are at home or in the office). - Grab the nearest pole or handrail (if you are on
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by cloudbonsai 5mo ago
There was a similar case in Japan recently: alt.ai This company purported to sell AI transcription service. Raised capital from notable local VCs. Did IPO in Oct 2023. It turned out that more than 90% of its sales were fake. The CXOs were a
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by cloudbonsai 5mo ago
Bank of France "transported" their reserve by selling the gold held in New York, and subsequently buying the same amount in European market. They opted to do so because it's just more efficient. It takes a lot of efforts to p
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by cloudbonsai 6mo ago
PE is a very broad practice. It's kinda hard to make a single-blanket argument for it (it's like asking "Is Software good for society?" Yes, maybe?). So here are some positive things that I think PE funds can contribute:
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by cloudbonsai 6mo ago
I'll sketch a few points to illustrate the inner workings here: - It's hard to buy a decent company at 5x EBITDA today. A typical EBITDA multiple nowadays is like 10x-15x. (e.g. EQT bought SUSE for $3B in 2023, and the adjusted
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by cloudbonsai 6mo ago
Here is a user manual of xv that contains prenty of screenshots: https://dav.lbl.gov/archive/NERSC/Software/xv/help/xvdocs.pd... I think the "Miscellaneous Ramblings" on the final page rea
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by cloudbonsai 6mo ago
I listened to the podcast linked in the article, and my understanding of the timeline is: - The owner originally had two dogs. Both disappeared from her backyard one day. One dog returned home. The other vanished without a trace. - Eleven y
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by cloudbonsai 6mo ago
To fill in the details, here is the code used for the measurement: https://github.com/lemire/counters/blob/main/include/counter... It fetches the number of mispredicted instructions from Linux'
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by cloudbonsai 6mo ago
> There is no caching of a "utf-8 representation". No there certainly is. This is documented in the official API documentation: UTF-8 representation is created on demand and cached in the Unicode object. https:/
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by cloudbonsai 6mo ago
Internally Python holds a string as an array of uint32. A utf-8 representation is created on demand from it (and cached). So pansa2 is basically correct [^1]. IMO, while this may not be optimal, it's far better than the more arcane c
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by cloudbonsai 7mo ago
Coincidentally, Chi-kawa is a very popular anime character in Japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiikawa It's a portmanteau of "Chiisai" (small) and "Kawaii" (cute).
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by cloudbonsai 7mo ago
The evolution of software engineering is fascinating to me. We started by coding in thin wrappers over machine code and then moved on to higher-level abstractions. Now, we've reached the point where we discuss how we should talk to a m
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by cloudbonsai 10mo ago
Among the interviews, one with the former engineering director was the most eye-opening for me. https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=17236880&Fi... It appears that all the engineers -- system desig
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by cloudbonsai 10mo ago
> No data with a timestamp after May 16th was found on the camera, so it is likely that none of the data recorded on the SD Card were of the accident voyage or dive. Evidently the camera data was recorded to an external SSD card in the m
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by cloudbonsai 11mo ago
> What goes into a mount that makes it so expensive? Its essentially just a piece of metal, right? I think this graph sheds some light on your question: https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> You can take TWO screenshots, moments apart, open in GIMP, paste one over the other and choose any one of these laying modes: You actually don't need any image editing skill. Here is a browser-only solution: 1. Take two screensho
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
This is pretty cool. His design seems to be able to handle the full iGPU loads too: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/monochrome-2-my-cu... His trick is to use a number of heat pipes (that transfer the hea
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
You haven't seen the full depth yet. Suppose that you encountered with this line: print(f"{n:.2g}") What will it print? Here is the official explanation from https://docs.python.org/3.12/library&
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> I'd love to be corrected if I'm misreading this, but the reports of Kodak's death seem greatly exaggerated The basic background here is that Kodak has been pivotting at least for last 40 years. - 1980s: Kodak tried to be
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
I think I found the source paper (written in Itallian): https://pompeiisites.org/e-journal-degli-scavi-di-pompei/la-... So the archaeologists think that, after the destruction of 79 A.D., some survivors returned to Pom
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by cloudbonsai 1y ago
> https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts Honestly I'm surprised that they use such a long prompt. It boggles my mind why they choose to chew through the context window length. I've

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