jandrese

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by jandrese 4d ago
I think we are in the second knee of the S curve, simply because we are hitting the point where is not enough hardware in the world to throw at this problem. These AI companies have bought everything they can and yet the models keep growin
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by jandrese 4d ago
I mean for that matter why not float barges in the South Pacific for data centers? Sure it’s a dumb idea, but it’s still less problematic than launching thousands of GPUs on rockets.
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by jandrese 5d ago
Sure a lot of what I learned is not relevant, but if you asked me to guess which parts would be relevant and which would not I would have guessed wrong.
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by jandrese 5d ago
Depends on how the hiring critera for the next stage go. If HR filters out everybody with less than a 3.5GPA right from the start then the C student who knows the stuff will never even get a chance, while the cheater will have the opportun
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by jandrese 6d ago
How come I didn't know that everyone else was cheating in college? Here I was learning the content like a sucker and then being useful in my job after graduation.
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by jandrese 6d ago
The Bush administration dig themselves a pit by criticizing the Clinton administration so much for directly attacking the Al Qaeda training camps. They couldn’t turn that around without losing face. If you want to lean more search for the
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by jandrese 7d ago
The provisional government that was hopelessly corrupt and incompetent, although it is arguable that they were ever in charge in any practical sense. That government was a good example of how not to do nation building.
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by jandrese 7d ago
I do wonder if George W. would have figured out some reason to topple Iraq. He had a grudge against the Saddam regime from before he was elected. That war felt inevitable once the Supreme Court got involved in the election. I also wonder
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by jandrese 7d ago
As you note, the concept of a developer kit for a product that doesn't exist makes little sense. Why would I as a company spend the time and money developing for a product that isn't even on the roadmap?
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by jandrese 7d ago
It absolutely failed to justify its price point IMHO. If it were affordable people would be finding uses for it, but when it is that expensive you basically need a business justification for buying one. That means you won't have a ho
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by jandrese 9d ago
Ironic since the headline implies that people are downloading it specifically to avoid AI features being shoved into our document editors.
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by jandrese 10d ago
Just because you didn't allow it on your local WiFi doesn't mean it did not connect to the Internet. Your neighbors might have a guest WiFi it can use. Or maybe it has a built-in cell modem. Your data is valuable, there's
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by jandrese 12d ago
Which is frustrating because the stories that have been coming out are "the bots evaded monitoring and broke out of containment and were more than willing to commit crimes" and they're going to sell this to some corporation t
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by jandrese 12d ago
There are still blacklists that don't differentiate. They'll even list it as "verified malicious activity originating from the host", and security products that gather all IP blacklist services and take them at face val
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by jandrese 13d ago
What this says to me is OpenAI is a bunch of yahoos who don't understand the basic concept of an air gap.
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by jandrese 16d ago
Beyond what everyone else has said it could also have sonar and keep track of its position relative to the local ocean floor like an optical mouse.
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by jandrese 18d ago
It's not WoW, but the thing that kept me playing City of Heroes for longer than I should have was a weekly game night where a group of us would get together and run characters that we only ran on those nights. When news about the serve
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by jandrese 20d ago
An approach like that would be at constant war with the borrow checker in Rust. Apparently it is possible but there is enough friction that these guys went a different route.
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by jandrese 21d ago
This feels like one of those times where it is easy to vote for a policy when the effects are on a vaguer or populational level, but when you actually meet or make friends with someone affected it takes on an entirely new light. I mean this
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by jandrese 21d ago
Especially when they arbitrarily change the rules so people who did everything by the book are now “illegals”. Especially when they “lose” paperwork somewhere inside of an enormous overworked and hostile bureaucracy.
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by jandrese 21d ago
Also Congo, where we get the pleasure of hearing Tim Curry repeatedly say “The Hidden City of Zinge ”
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by jandrese 21d ago
I mean Home Alone is basically a live action cartoon.
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by jandrese 21d ago
Community notes tend to be a day late and a dollar short though.
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by jandrese 21d ago
Even if you tried to ignore ragebait the X algorithm is going to prioritize them because it is highly tuned to promote high engagement content. Any given feed is going to have white supremacy, flat Earth, climate change denial, immigrant h
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by jandrese 29d ago
When I briefly looked at Powerwalls my installer said that for a 10kW system like mine they would generally install two because of inverter limitations and because it would be a better capacity match. In the end we have a pretty generous NE
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by jandrese 29d ago
A world where the US Congress can get anything done in a week, much less something that will anger the media cartels that fund their elections and can decide who gets coverage and what kind is not anything like the one we live in.
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by jandrese 1mo ago
They don't have to destroy the books to scan them. There are techniques for doing it non-destructively, but they're slower and more expensive. It's cheaper to cut the spines off and drop the stack of papers on a flatbed sca
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by jandrese 1mo ago
Except we know they're going to digitize it, use that data to feed an AI, and never release it to the world. Legally they can't, they would immediately land in copyright claim hell.
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by jandrese 1mo ago
There was some replay protection as described in the article, but in the end the system was flawed enough that it didn't matter.
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by jandrese 1mo ago
That ~25% is compounded at every step of the way. 25% of your doctor's office. 25% of the insurance company. Plus don't forget the brokers, which are almost all overhead effectively. 25% of pharmacy. 25% of drug companies. Th

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