geertj

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by geertj 8d ago
This does pass the smell test. What is your evidence that DOGE has caused even one weather forecast to be less accurate?
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by geertj 1mo ago
Let me share a hot take. I am deliberately taking this somewhat to the extreme, so please attack the idea not the person. Looking for thoughtful replies and good counterpoints, rather than language zeal. Let's assume that you need to w
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by geertj 1mo ago
I would imagine this would be trained on actual historical weather data instead?
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by geertj 1mo ago
> But it’s tough to engineer much these days. Instead I find I’m PM’ing the bots more than solving problems. I’m genuinely curious about your perspective as I have almost the diametrically opposite view. I love chatting with the bots as
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by geertj 1mo ago
> So we're going to skip becoming carbon neutral and go straight to carbon negative Yes, when the effects on the environments are so bad that there can be no denying anymore because they affect everyday life of almost all people. I
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by geertj 1mo ago
Sadly I think the only solution is to invest to build more energy infrastructure and more AI, so that in the future when the shit really hits the fan we have enough energy and assistance from AI to create a scalable technology to pull CO2 o
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by geertj 2mo ago
The last thing the EU needs is a higher budget. Unelected bureaucrats that control a trillion dollar budget and have the ability to introduce legislation that supersedes national laws, what could possibly go wrong?
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by geertj 3mo ago
> But so is launching satellites Starship is trying to get launch cost down to $10 per kilogram to low earth orbit. At that cost it is not clear to me that cables are better except for short distance point to point backbones. One other
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by geertj 3mo ago
The Falcon launch business is profitable on its own, which may be what GP meant. Once you include the ~$3 billion in Starship yearly R&D the space segment goes into the red.
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by geertj 3mo ago
The word ‘crank’ is a dismissive insult. Wolfram is definitely eccentric, probably hard to work with, but also undoubtedly smart. What good does it do to dismiss him? He’s doing nothing wrong spending his own money the way he wants to. And
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by geertj 4mo ago
There does appear to be a limited walk back for dual intent visa holders (H1B and L1) “A spokesperson for US Citizenship and Immigration Services, however, told Semafor that H1-B visa holders and high-skilled workers might not be affected i
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by geertj 4mo ago
To be clear, I was asking from a personal perspective, unrelated to my role at Google.
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by geertj 4mo ago
Speaking of zoned SSDs (ZNS or FDP), are any of these available today without having to ‘call sales’? I wanted to experiment with this maybe 2 years back and there was nothing.
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by geertj 4mo ago
Yes they are crowded. There are engineering solutions to that, including formation flying based on absolute positioning and space tethers. It is a great time to be an engineer.
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by geertj 4mo ago
You are creating 20 other engineering problems but not 20 other physics problems. You cannot put those in the same bucket. It remains to be seen how efficiently those engineering problems can be solved, but none of the commentators here hav
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by geertj 4mo ago
The plan is to launch a constellation of smaller AI sats not a monolithic large data center. The calculations I have seen actually have a smaller radiator area than solar panels. Scott Manley’s has a video on this where he goes into some nu
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by geertj 4mo ago
I don’t think people are confused between the two. What’s happening is that drive by objections have no real way to assess viability. That calculation you ask for has line items in it that greatly depend on engineering optimizations that, u
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by geertj 4mo ago
The problem putting them in space solves is the approx 5X more solar energy without needing batteries for day and night cycles, along with some smaller wins due to less structural support needed due to microgravity.
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by geertj 4mo ago
If you mean whether he’s putting his money where his mouth is, he is doing that by risking the future of the company that is his biggest asset on it. It may not be exactly 3 years. But is will very likely happen.
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by geertj 4mo ago
The always on orbit exists and is called a dawn-dusk Sun synchronous orbit. It is an orbit that is always above the terminator (line between night and day) where it can face the Sun 100% of the time. This orbit has to rotate about a degree
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by geertj 5mo ago
So far only Nasdaq has changed its rules and will allow fast entry in 15 trading days. S&P has not changed its rules, not yet at least. Total indexed capital of Nasdaq is 1.4T vs 16T in the S&P500. Stated reason for fast tracking is
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by geertj 5mo ago
SpaceX reuses its boosters 20+ times. Surely the depreciation is tiny when compared to the revenue of 60M+ per launch?
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by geertj 5mo ago
I don’t think your argument holds, or at least, there is missing data. We have a different administration now, and I suspect it significantly reduced the number takedown requests, maybe by an order of magnitude. I would expect that the rema
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by geertj 5mo ago
What exactly has Elon done to limit your freedom? For me, Elon has increased my freedom because I can read about certain viewpoints that were previously censored on Twitter.
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by geertj 7mo ago
> So sometimes when some Junior dev discovers Rust and they get really obnoxious with their evangelicalism it can be very off putting. Really not sure how to solve it. It is good when people get excited about a language. It just can be v
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by geertj 7mo ago
I have not been proclaiming scary good every week for the last 10 years. In fact, I have cancelled my subscription at least two times, once on v13 and once on v14, with the reason ‘not good enough yet.’ I am telling you that for me personal
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by geertj 7mo ago
Make sure you are on AI4 hardware when you do. If you buy FSD on AI3 you’ll be limited to v13, which is is terrible. I have used both and they are in different leagues altogether.
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by geertj 7mo ago
How long ago was that? I doubt it was the v14 software. The software has become scary good in the last few weeks, in my own subjective experience.
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by geertj 7mo ago
Tesla have recently started introducing unsupervised cars cars as well.
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by geertj 8mo ago
> It stops making sense the second you ask how you’d dissipate the heat any GPU would create. The answer, as you surmised, is indeed radiators.

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