cromwellian

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by cromwellian 1mo ago
I'm skeptical frontier LLMs can actually do well (e.g. alpha 5%+) without fine-tuning, especially on historical market data. Presumably you support fine-tuned models?
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by cromwellian 6mo ago
Sabine got her wish. DOGE cut NSF by 40%. Tons of scientists out of work including physicists. But she'll be ok, she only needs to pimp another ad for Brilliant.com
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by cromwellian 6mo ago
NASA's budget is 0.35% of the Federal Budget. The US Government spends the equivalent of 20 years of moon mission spending on ICE. They're spending 2x that on Iran war. They blew $200 billion in PPP Loan fraud in 2020 alone. I&#x
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by cromwellian 11mo ago
I was in SF in the 90s this kind of talk is nonsense. Crime was far higher in SF back then, area near the stadium was a no-go area, there were open gang wars in SF on TV. Hell, go watch the Michael Douglas TV show “The Streets of SF” from t
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by cromwellian 1y ago
Because it is an externality. Capitalism works when there are property rights. Even educated libertarians admit that that which is not able to be given property rights must be subject to government oversight. Public safety is an externality
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by cromwellian 1y ago
Nothing to do with energy star. Modern Bosch Dishwashers use less water, wash better, and dry better, than your old 1990s washers. In the same way that people think low-flow toilets are why their sh1t doesn't flush, instead of the prol
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by cromwellian 2y ago
Those are applied-ML level advancements, OpenAI has pushed model level advancements. xAI has never really done much it seemed except download the latest papers and reproduce them.
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by cromwellian 2y ago
What do you consider a proper security clearance? One emergency approved by the President on a whim, or one that is the result of careful vetting over a 6 month process which seems to be the standard for renewals or new clearances? One of t
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by cromwellian 2y ago
The issue isn't just Musk's clearances, it's the clearances of the employees he's giving access to. With stuff like Salt Typhoon out there, and reports of Musk's college age hackers hooking arbitrary hard disks up t
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by cromwellian 2y ago
Usually drug use, financial debt to foreigners, or any criminal violations can get you rejected for clearance, especially top secret, so the only way he has this clearance is because the executive branch overrode it.
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by cromwellian 2y ago
You’re forgetting about 2 decades of US DoE funding of EUV research through EUV-LLC which ASML joined late. A lot of the early groundwork and foundational research was done by DoE including using US built synchrotron accelerators to try out
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by cromwellian 2y ago
Seems to me that what Andreessen was really mad about was the CFPB forcing his portfolio companies that committed consumer fraud to return money to their customers. He also lied about the CFPB doing debanking, they don’t have that power. Wh
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by cromwellian 2y ago
No, he’s pretty much against them and makes a new excuse each time. He would claim that no vaccine ever has gone through enough testing. He also denied HIV causes AIDS, days it’s Poppers or lifestyle. He also pushed ivermectin which studies
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by cromwellian 2y ago
I worked for Google for almost 14 years. Never did they, any other engineer, or even product manager I know of, ever suggest to snoop into cloud customer data, especially those using Shielded VMs and Customer Managed Encryption Keys for att
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by cromwellian 2y ago
Fake? Did they say anything non-factual? Seems to me they just chose to lead with the one new bit of information in the update since last time that is surprising and that people would want to know about in any new medical device: problems.
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by cromwellian 3y ago
As soon as you mentioned Comax which has no safety record at all as an alternate you undermined your credibility.
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by cromwellian 3y ago
The media has been nonstop attacked by the political right going all the way back to the 80. It started with talk radio. Before cable TV News was a loss leader mostly limited to time slots that were the least profitable for commercials and
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by cromwellian 3y ago
He’s not running for office but he sure does seem to waste a ton of time arguing politics on Twitter and getting into public battles with people. I’d also argue he technically is investing, given all of the companies he’s starting, even Ope
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by cromwellian 3y ago
? AppleTV and Apple Music are not decades ahead of anything. AirPods are way better than the existing Bluetooth headsets that were on the market.
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by cromwellian 3y ago
I wanted to see critics of Tesla, but I can't, because Musk has banned several accounts that track Tesla manufacturing defects, FSD crashes, etc. Jenn Senshiba even got banned for talking about unions it appears. Lots of others too: h
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by cromwellian 3y ago
The rest of the industry doesn’t build dozens of ships in a massive assembly line. Blue Origin hasn’t even completed a single full test prototype ship yet. And if you go look at NASA during the Space Race era of the 60s, they blew up plenty
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by cromwellian 3y ago
? Chrome shipped with a fast JS JIT, simplified UI, per-process isolation. Acting like you had to pay someone to perceive a superior user benefit to Firefox, which at the time would crash and you'd like all your tabs, is ridiculously a
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by cromwellian 3y ago
What if the guy was using paper maps? If this was 30 years ago would paper nap publisher be liable? When you are driving, you’re responsible for being aware of the road. If you drive over a dangerous road that has no visible signs of it bei
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by cromwellian 3y ago
For more hilarity, a blog post I wrote in 2006 on currying in Java using CGLib tricks: http://cromwellian.blogspot.com/2006/07/fun-with-generics-an...
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by cromwellian 3y ago
Hot take: If the Earth's core is Iron-Nickel, is it an Invar, and therefore, there's an effect too reduce earthquakes from expansion from heat movement being lower, or is the pressure alone enough to counteract that?
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Exitter by ChatGPT, switch X Tab icon back to Twitter icon(github.com)
1 points by cromwellian 3y ago|1 comments
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by cromwellian 3y ago
I was tired of hunting around for the Twitter tab because my visual muscle memory is looking for Twitter icons. I wanted to test ChatGPT's Code Interpreter, so I asked it to do the work for me. This repo is the result (including the sh
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by cromwellian 3y ago
Have you looked at what SpaceX promised NASA for HLS? They need to be able to launch it and rapidly refuel it with 13 tankers. They’ve already spent a few billion, by the time they can reliably launch 13 refueling tankers in rapid successi
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by cromwellian 3y ago
That would be a great scenario but people were hoping that about Putin and unfortunately it didn’t happen in time to save Ukraine. Also we don’t know if whoever follows Xi will be better or worse.
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by cromwellian 3y ago
Kotlin has some pretty nice StateMachine DSL libraries out there, like https://github.com/nsk90/kstatemachine

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