dachworker

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by dachworker 2mo ago
I always thought I was a nerd, but I was never into super heroes or fantasy books/movies and I was never into playing Pokemon or Magic the Gathering. Star Wars didn't appeal to me and neither did Lord Of The Rings nor Narnia nor H
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by dachworker 2mo ago
This is actually at the core of our (EU) problem. Instead of thinking, "here is this new technology, how can we build new markets/products out of it", our industry leaders always think, "here is this new technology, how
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by dachworker 2mo ago
At the time it was a perfectly rational decision that followed the liberal foreign policy dogma of the time, which advocated that we tie up unstable countries with economic trade, so they become less incentivized to create havoc. Let's
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by dachworker 2mo ago
That last graph is surely AI generated.
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by dachworker 2mo ago
The abstraction is by necessity. Our puny brains have only a very small working memory. The only way we can reason about many problems is by creating multiple levels of hierarchy. That is actually the essence of what mathematics is.
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by dachworker 2mo ago
It's an economic metric, not a political statement.
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by dachworker 2mo ago
I find all this gender wars crap competely untrue in real life. I wouldn't be surprised if it was all due to sampling errors.
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by dachworker 2mo ago
My parents bought their house cash. No they were not high earners and not even median income earners. Yes the house is now worth close to a million dollars.
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by dachworker 2mo ago
Why should I not just port my kernel to Triton? What's the appeal of Scale?
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by dachworker 2mo ago
Here's a thought: maybe liberal democracy was never very free.
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by dachworker 3mo ago
Corporate taxes don't work and taxing the rich is super hard. Could this be a way for the state to suplement tax revenue?
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by dachworker 3mo ago
For the kids, sure. Incidentally, if you post anything political you must now do it with the knowledge that your identity is tied to your comment or opinion.
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by dachworker 3mo ago
I'm excited for the opportunities that an abundance of compute brings, even in the absense of AI applications. Big compute is the right direction, if we can afford it. There are always things to simulate or discover or automate in some
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by dachworker 9mo ago
My grandparents were all born in Europe between the two world wars. Actually, despite humble origins they all had a fairly prosperous life. Even though I have much more education than they did, I don't think I can ever achieve the same
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by dachworker 9mo ago
Maybe I'm weird, but does anyone else have worries about what future their prospective children would inherit? In particular things that worry me: 1. the growing geopolitcal turmoil which is likely to eventually descend into a great wa
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by dachworker 10mo ago
I'm super excited to give this one a spin. It seems like a neat idea, Triton, but simpler and with automatic autotuning. My head is spinning with options right now. I love how everyone was hyping up CUDA this and CUDA that a couple of
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by dachworker 11mo ago
The bubble will burst when all this agentic AI slop fails to deliver. Might take a while yet, because generative models are very good at aping competence and it's therefore easy to produce compelling demos.
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by dachworker 11mo ago
I love how they always style themselves experts on economics, as if there is one global economic policy that benefits everyone, equally. How cute.
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by dachworker 11mo ago
Fair point, but here's my counter: consumers won't analyze the data but insurance companies will.
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by dachworker 11mo ago
It's the British English equivalent.
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by dachworker 11mo ago
Isn't the lesson from the success of TSLA, that you don't compete on price? That's what made Tesla the first successful EV. Because unlike the rest, they didn't try to compete on price and offer a mass market consumer ve
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by dachworker 1y ago
You constructed a narrative and overlaid it over the facts. The facts are that for many decades past, it was possible for hopeful economic immigrants to abuse asylum laws, or the back then less protected border, to gain entry to the US. Nei
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by dachworker 1y ago
If you think of hiring as trying to get the best deal: best candidate for the most discounted price, what you want to do is find the proverbial gem in the rough. But AI does precisely the opposite of that. It will recommend exactly the same
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by dachworker 1y ago
He did a lecture. Not sure if you can still find it on Youtube, because IIRC, he published a paper and then redacted it. From what I can tell it was bits of old fashioned differential geometry and a whole lot of hand waving.
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by dachworker 1y ago
ML Research is ripe for such a subculture to emerge, because there are truly so many research directions that are nothing more than a tower of cards ready to be exposed. You need an element of truth to capture your audience. Once you have
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by dachworker 1y ago
My impression of NVIDIA is that internally the teams are quite independent and there's not much in terms of broad strategy. So it could be these two efforts are not related.
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by dachworker 1y ago
You can also use LLMs to write python code for FreeCAD. It kinda works, if you coach it through the whole process in baby steps.
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by dachworker 1y ago
I mean, trivially true, if you consider that AI-enhanced programming requires 1000% more code written, deleted and rewritten, countless times, by AI itself in it's feeble attempt to "reason" about the problem.
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by dachworker 1y ago
I agree with you that tech stocks are overvalued. However, there is no free cake that I can think of. You can invest in bonds but in the short to medium term they under perform compared to equities by a lot. And most industries have their
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by dachworker 1y ago
Actually you must be thinking of the most reputable banks. Because most of them will absolutely try to fleece their older customer demographic by trying to make them invest in high expense funds that perform terribly. For them to advice you

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