convolvatron

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by convolvatron 3d ago
to me the goal of having 'ps' show everything in the cluster is kind of cute at best. but yes, right now you install all kinds of services and support nodes, and distributed filesystems, and orchestration tools and software manage
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by convolvatron 3d ago
I did a research SSI in the early 2000s. After getting it largely to work, we kind of put it aside. Why would we aspire to using 'ps' and 'ls' and 'mount' and such to manage our large scale systems? surely ther
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by convolvatron 4d ago
I don't think the neuro-symbolic model is going to dumb anything down at all. Cyc didn't end up producing anything useful, but the only reason an llm is able to do math at all is that it can keep throwing stuff at lean all day. pe
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by convolvatron 4d ago
I think the point is even stronger. alignment is really not very well defined, nor are the mechanisms used to provide it. from what I understand it's more of a statistically imposed bias than an impenetrable gate. personally I would li
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by convolvatron 5d ago
my only argument here is that there isn't really any reason to avoid going through an emissions review if required. or to require that scrubbers be installed if necessary. the decision to just make an exception to the process for datac
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by convolvatron 5d ago
idk where you've been but the standard for AI datacenters buildouts right now is power-plant size turbine operations up to 1GW in size. not 2KVA Honda generators. notably they are single cycle and not combined cycle used in actual plan
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by convolvatron 5d ago
no, we already abolished all rule making and review about CO2, this is removing the EPA requirement to install scrubbers for removal of NO and NO2 given sufficiently large outputs, which cause acid rain and are linked to respiratory problem
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by convolvatron 6d ago
wow. that's really quite backwards. the more money you raise and the more money you want, the bigger the story you have to tell. apparently after 1T you've got to raise the stakes to extinction level event.
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by convolvatron 6d ago
I struggled a little bit reading this. but I think your point is valid. if we are actually advancing the field then we should just be unconditionally happy. ignoring the attribution issue, there is a real concern that the process of math ha
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by convolvatron 8d ago
I worked a little on a finsec program in the early 90s. I had an anonymized dataset with bank account deposits and withdrawals and credit card transactions. I don't know how complete it was, but dividing by the US population the total
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by convolvatron 9d ago
the fact that traditional database infrastructure handles many people's needs doesn't really obviate dataflow style architectures. personally I think (3) composition is a real potential win. I would also note that streaming is a r
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by convolvatron 9d ago
there is a couple good arguments that alternative front ends open up competition. the first is that since people only see the front end, then augmenting that with additional backends is lower friction. the other is that since network effect
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by convolvatron 12d ago
it certainly seems to be. if it were just a matter of noise, or discharging contaminated water, or waste gasses we're supposed to have rules for these things. any facility that does these things is supposed to adhere to them. so the is
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by convolvatron 12d ago
two doors down from my shop is an antique bently restorer. he's sold a few, but he still has 5 frames that he's working on. after all the custom panel and interior work and chasing after the few remaining parts available in all ki
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by convolvatron 12d ago
ok, so we managed to get a decision that the president wan't immune from having to pay out in a civil suit related to the molestation of a woman from before he even became a politician. but part of the problem here is the blurring of t
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by convolvatron 12d ago
its substantially worse than that. anytime anyone uses the word 'scale' without even saying what kind of scaling they mean is guilty of eroding the discourse. at this point I don't think we should even be talking about scalin
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by convolvatron 12d ago
we can probably generalize and say that anything that's a culture war issue has become disconnected with useful actionable reality.
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by convolvatron 13d ago
are you off by a K? from the article - 'As of early August, ERCOT was considering more than 474 gigawatts of requests to connect to the Texas electric grid, about 90% of which came from data center projects.'
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by convolvatron 15d ago
idk why Meta has to be the one to decide. I'm not suggesting that everyone carefully curate their own feed rules, but we could certainly choose to adopt packages from people and institutions that we trust, and be able to revisit those
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by convolvatron 15d ago
it seems like this whole discussion, both the proposed law and EFFs full throated support for social media giants is getting lost in the weeds. we used to have a small number of media outlets for structural reasons. and we were concerned en
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by convolvatron 17d ago
I used to implement these things professionally and to write an IP + TCP + HTTP is certainly less than a year with experience. would I ship that and expect people to use it without a lot of burnin? no..but to say that its a lifetime of work
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by convolvatron 17d ago
I did this for a couple years at University of Washington. We did IP, TCP, RIP, forwarding and a couple other things. they weren't compatible with the actual RFCs- they were kind of stripped down to the bare essence. I wrote the sample
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by convolvatron 17d ago
I used to do this work in the IETF. take draft specs and write a C implementation and compare notes with the spec authors and other implementations. sometimes I would find a bug later on and see the same bug in multiple vendors implementati
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by convolvatron 17d ago
there's an place in Seattle, WA that does this called shelf.me for what looks like zero-hardware self designs. my shop is next to a cabinet maker who does most of is work in that same birch hard-ply. he's got the full sheet router
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by convolvatron 17d ago
I have a few of those butcher block tops because I scaled down my shop, but I just can't throw them away. one was purchased 50+ years ago and my family used it as a breakfast table. they make excellent work benches and tables. they&#x2
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by convolvatron 18d ago
if you aren't familiar with the literature, then good on you for getting the right insight. provenance and support are staples of the datalog world. the other really handy thing here is that it very straightforward to differentiate dat
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by convolvatron 18d ago
you're absolutely correct that pim without a real discussion about how that works in a broader communications context is kind of useless. what I find strange is the adoption of a standard synchronous dram interface. that's a horri
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by convolvatron 19d ago
burning methane does produce NO and NO2 (the N2 being oxidized at temperature). that does come down with precipitation and collect in bodies of water. over time as evaporation removes the water and its replenished with acidic rain, the conc
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by convolvatron 19d ago
just type 'single cycle gas plant efficiency and emissions vs combined cycle' into google
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by convolvatron 19d ago
apparently you're very excited about this partisan victory. at some point we do need to actually think about how to effectively manage the country. there should be a back and forth about the appropriate degree of environmental regulati

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