freefaler

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by freefaler 1mo ago
I think that books in the context of LLM can be super useful. The approach that works for me is using Justin's Skycak methods he mentions in his books: https://www.justinmath.com/books/ Check the shorter "Adv
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by freefaler 1mo ago
Indeed. At uni, starting in my second year, I worked as a programmer (no remote work, office at 1hr commute from uni dorm) on top of my studies. It was hard, but doable. My major was applied math, so the CS part was the easier bit, but the
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by freefaler 1mo ago
Yes, there are many misconceptions on "learning", but LLM can be useful. The approach that works for me is using Justin's skycak methods he mentions in his books: https://www.justinmath.com/books/ Check
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by freefaler 1mo ago
14 years ago, Cory Doctorow warned us about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI The modern societies run via those devices and the enforcement will move to the mostly free Internet that was "a long time a
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by freefaler 2mo ago
Yes, there was investment, but investment without free markets and capitalism doesn't work usually for end products like cars. It's not a linear function of the capital invested, it's not possible to spend your way into good
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by freefaler 2mo ago
It was the market that delivered BYD and Xiaomi. The government did his part with industrial policy and inviting Tesla to China to help start the ecosystem, but the brutal competition between Chinese auto makers following the rules of capit
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by freefaler 2mo ago
Cory Doctorow had a very profound talk about it very long time ago (10+years). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg As the internet become the place where people do a lot of things, no government (and especially no s
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by freefaler 2mo ago
There is also another benefit to books, on average they are much better than a random 3 hour podcast. If you care about what you read, you'd be getting something that the author has spend a lot of time, skill and energy to write, the
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by freefaler 2mo ago
I got this problem with my own employees, LLM are fine, but lazy slop is not permitted. Current idea is to have a clear "best practice" template for most of the research/specs/problem definition they submit and it reduce
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by freefaler 3mo ago
I have one IKEA Apstuga on my desk, sitting right next to a good CO2 monitor. Since Apstuga uses worse approach (heat) rather than light as the good sensors, it diviates around +/- 100 ppm. For example the correct CO2 is 610 ppm and I
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by freefaler 3mo ago
thanks for this link, it's a great find!
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by freefaler 3mo ago
Or may be they just need to produce more, because the demand is higher than expected and looks like it will stay high to recoup their investment?
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by freefaler 3mo ago
It's strange how people search for cartels where the basic laws of supply and demand are at work. It seems to me, that such a simple concept should be better understood, especially in any market economy, where most of the people has s
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by freefaler 3mo ago
the one on top didn't work for me, this one did: https://archive.is/oe6NR
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by freefaler 3mo ago
Cory Doctorow had a very profound talk about it very long time ago (10+years). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg As the internet become the place where people do a lot of things, no government (and especially no s
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by freefaler 3mo ago
It works with relatively good scans, when there are bad/skewed scans and especially something with many label/value pairs, that aren't nicely tucked inside sentences, the more context you have, the more you can find the corre
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by freefaler 3mo ago
I did, and also it matches what I know from history on how the flag of AU has changed so it matched several facts I knew already. Also mentioned 2 of the producers of freezes and etc in the city back during that time and I've found a s
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by freefaler 3mo ago
I live in a house that is at least 110 years old, built around the time Australia became a federation. The house has been repainted and extended several times, but it still has 3.5-meter-high ceilings, ventilation holes with intricate metal
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by freefaler 3mo ago
It's a solved problem. VoIP plus leased trunk lines by the a telco in the market you want to work at. You are limited to fixed set of numbers and you are "local" in the market you want to work at.
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by freefaler 3mo ago
https://3hcloud.com/pricing#Dedicated-servers Dedicated servers Looking for bare metal? See all available configurations here. and "here" is linked to https://3hcloud.com/contact/sales
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by freefaler 3mo ago
Also they're mostly a VPS provider with some "dedicated servers" available after you talk to sales. Hetzner is great because you can build from dedicated servers your own infra and not suffer the multi tenant issues on virtua
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by freefaler 3mo ago
Thanks Liriel how stable are they and how is 3HCloud support?
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by freefaler 3mo ago
There is a good paper about the effects: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105113772... Basically if you're in a "rent controlled" unit, you benefit, but live in a dumpster, be
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by freefaler 3mo ago
All businesses run on a profit margin. It's a resource game, thinly veiled by the money layer as means of exchange. If you make the price of buying labor by decree, the owners of the business will either buy less of it (supply/dem
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by freefaler 4mo ago
The wizardry is not in knowing the law or the case law, especially in commercial law it's mostly selling their experience because the have seen it all before and if they're good they'll show you the ways you can get abused by
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by freefaler 4mo ago
The price of their work will go down and it might not be economical to do it at all. Theirs skills (as also many IT skills) will not be needed at that scale. In the same way as typing on a typewriter was a skill that gave economic opportuni
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by freefaler 4mo ago
The price is the reason. Veblen explains that. Buying an ultra-premium EV Ferrari over a faster, cheaper is a evolutionary broadcast (Costly Signaling Theory), proving the buyer possesses such immense excess wealth that they have no practic
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by freefaler 4mo ago
Worried about is it up and what mirror to use? This is the finest resouce I've found yet: https://open-slum.org/ Tracks the uptime and other pirate libraries...
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by freefaler 5mo ago
The high seas ( https://open-slum.org/ ) ... and as a compensation donate to the author somehow or make a donation to your local library for a clear conscience.
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by freefaler 5mo ago
For any serious tool, the brand recognition is secondary. It might be a different color, but the function is the more important part.

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