dmitriy_ko

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by dmitriy_ko 9d ago
Microsoft is a company where you get promoted for playing politics, not taking ownership, improving things, fixing bugs.
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by dmitriy_ko 22d ago
Latest LLMs that have good visual understanding (Gemini and GPT) are able to tell if construction work is up to code. You can give it a picture of electrical wiring, plumbing, framing and it will tell you if it's up to code with very g
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by dmitriy_ko 23d ago
R-19. You can see label in the picture.
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by dmitriy_ko 1mo ago
The current version of FSD drives better than most humans. You literally put in the destination address, press Start Self Drive, and it gets to your destination without you ever touching the steering wheel, and parks for you in the end. IMO
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Uber's Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption(wired.com)
2 points by dmitriy_ko 1mo ago|0 comments
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by dmitriy_ko 1mo ago
Uber rides are around $1.5 per mile on average. Assume Waymo car drives 200K miles over it's lifetime, 3mi/kWh EV efficiently and $0.20/kWh electricity cost. It will generate $300K over it's lifetime and use $13K worth o
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by dmitriy_ko 2mo ago
Take-or-pay contracts appear as "contractual commitments" in 10-K. They are not hidden. That's the way they are reported in all industries where take-or-pay contracts exist. There's nothing nefarious about it.
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by dmitriy_ko 2mo ago
Data centers use miniscular amount of water. Data center water use is a fake issue.
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The Growing Compute Shortage(apollo.com)
55 points by dmitriy_ko 2mo ago|96 comments
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by dmitriy_ko 2mo ago
> whats working is ML models trained on specific domains (not much different than 5+ years ago), and whats not working is a general model that humanity can let go to work on its own. As usual, AI skeptics are moving goal posts. Modern LL
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by dmitriy_ko 2mo ago
And a lot more electricity to power them.
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
It will happen after AGI singularity.
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A New Set of Housing Winners and Losers Is Emerging(bloomberg.com)
3 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|1 comments
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We need to move water from Midwest west. Let's get on with it.(desertsun.com)
6 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|29 comments
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
> poly breaker, where they have three shifts of people in protective suits that smash large pieces of silicon down with hammers Why is this done manually? wouldn't it be easy to automate?
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
Average American "cardboard house" is better insulated than average European brick or concrete house. Having heavy walls make your house feel "sturdy" but it has nothing to do with energy efficiency. A lot of houses in E
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Earthgrid aims to dig tunnels using plasma boring robot(newatlas.com)
2 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|0 comments
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Lin Zexu's Letter to Queen Victoria (1839)(cyber.harvard.edu)
78 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|79 comments
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Pro-China Agents Posed as Activists to Protest US Rare Earth Metal Mines(bloomberg.com)
14 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|2 comments
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Ray Dalio’s shrewd $10bn bet on the collapse of European stocks(moneyweek.com)
4 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
ICON has been building houses like that for a while. You can find walkthroughs of their houses on YouTube to understand what to expect. https://youtu.be/vcSaUXViD9g
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
It could be that dolphins are smarter than humans. Dolphins didn't build civilization, but it could be because they don't have flexible enough limbs for tool making. Maybe humans just got lucky with a combination of relatively hig
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
> Why would the fact that the loans are now from the government mean that universities no longer had to compete on costs? The bill ultimately goes to the student in either case. Because 17 years old student taking out the loan is not fin
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Small modular nuclear reactors produce more radioactive waste(news.stanford.edu)
3 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
Modern houses have PEX plumbing. It has some advantages over copper, e.g. it won't burst if it freezes. But the main advantage -- it's less labor to install.
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Nuclear vessel 'could be floating charging station for electric cruise ships'(world-nuclear-news.org)
2 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|2 comments
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Walmart Offers $110k Starting Pay to Lure Truck Drivers(wsj.com)
2 points by dmitriy_ko 4y ago|0 comments
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by dmitriy_ko 4y ago
Are you sure the difference is not in your head? Try to do a blind experiment. Ask someone to pour a glass of milk from plastic container and a another glass from paper container and see if you can tell which is which.
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by dmitriy_ko 5y ago
Android also allows user to control permissions on per app basis. What does iOS do that Android doesn't?
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by dmitriy_ko 5y ago
Underwater Cavity doesn't require digging a hole. It's just a concrete sphere that's lowered deep underwater.

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