jfalcon

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by jfalcon 6mo ago
> I can see this kind of survival-bias stories distorting the reality. That was my take with the entire report which I think lends to an inherent bias within the data and stories. You have the entrepreneurial stories, then you have the
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by jfalcon 6mo ago
One of the things I found interesting was that you were contrasting the two sides as either/or. Like it were this meme: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTz2_fj... Memes are funny when they hold an
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by jfalcon 6mo ago
They do need hosting and now they need a very particular hosting with very particular hardware which is the bottleneck. Now here is the trick - exporting the magic that makes LLM work (transformers) into ASIC hardware to get it out of the G
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by jfalcon 7mo ago
>The real question is why would anyone want, or want to help build, such an obscenity. Power Saws and CNC mills have no autonomy. They have to be guided every inch or instruction by hand. Autonomous AI agents remove the hand. So if we
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by jfalcon 7mo ago
>A magpie is not provided food and shelter, it has to hunt, fight for territory, and build its nest. >Humans don't have some inalienable "worth". But if you can work, you might choose to trade it for some food and shelt
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by jfalcon 7mo ago
Alvin Toffler's book "Future Shock" describes what's going on within this thread. Toffler predicted that as change accelerated, we'd face the paradox of too many options (like a Cheesecake Factory menu) or, converse
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by jfalcon 7mo ago
>someone raised the question of “what would be the role of humans in an AI-first society”. Norbert Wiener, considered to be the father of Cybernetics, wrote a book back in the 1950's entitled "The Human Use of Human Beings&quot
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by jfalcon 7mo ago
You did get the memo from POTUS that loyalty is more important than intelligence, right? Un-bias intelligence in this operation is not welcomed. One is told what is "factual truth" (not facts themselves) by those who operate out
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by jfalcon 7mo ago
I left my shocked face next to the mountain of documented government abuses... Why are people thinking this is new? Your data down to your current browser session and current location have been sold as much as possible for almost 30 years.
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by jfalcon 8mo ago
Back in a time when you had to pay out the nose for long distance calling, you had outdial service through X.25 PSN or more often, as ARPANet turned into Internet, you had Telnet accessible outdials. https://cdn.preterhuman.net&#
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by jfalcon 9mo ago
>Got lots of server health messages and requests to call people back. And some more personal messages, too. That vibe is reflected in the 9/11 pager messages as well... https://911.wikileaks.org/
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by jfalcon 10mo ago
I'm sure the 5% employee tax in Seattle and the bill being introduced in Olympia will do more to smooth things over than some quirky blipvert will. I think most people in Seattle know how economics works, logic follows: while "tec
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by jfalcon 10mo ago
I get the feeling that this is supposed to be about the economics of a fairly expensive city/state and that "six-figure salary", but you don't really call it out. If it was about the technology, then it would be no diffe
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by jfalcon 10mo ago
It depends on how AI affects your economy. If you are a writer or a painter or a developer - in a city as expensive as Seattle - then one may feel a little threatened. Then it becomes the trickle down effect, if I lose my job, I may not be
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by jfalcon 10mo ago
206dev here... Oh yeah, call out a tech city and all the butt-hurt-ness comes out. Perfect example of "Rage Bait". People here aren't hurt because of AI - people here are hurt because they learned they were just line items i
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by jfalcon 10mo ago
I see it like the hype of js/node and whatever module tech is glued to it when it was new from the perspective of someone who didn't code js. Sum of F's given is still zero. -206dev
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by jfalcon 10mo ago
After reading the article and the comments, here are a few points people are missing from their analysis: - OverUtilized/UnderCharged: doesn't matter because... - Lead Time vs. TCO vs. IRS Asset Deprecation: The moment you get it
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by jfalcon 10mo ago
CUDA isn't all that and a bag of chips. It just is the Facebook/Twitter of the data science and from that LLM space. There are Tensor processors and other ASIC processing for specific compute functions that can give Nvidia a ch
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by jfalcon 11mo ago
Often people are stopped using a premise of what's called a "Terry Stop" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_v._United_States ) which permits police to briefly detain a person based on reasonable suspici
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by jfalcon 11mo ago
Can't wait for them to reproduce Atari's "ET - the Extra-Terrestrial". When a game's value is worth more in the landfill than on shelves, you know you got something special.
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by jfalcon 11mo ago
Doesn't this increase opportunity for arbitrage as it's not likely exchanges are going to be perfectly synchronized to the overall market? Also doesn't this also offer opportunities to sell pink sheets stocks in what is conc
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by jfalcon 11mo ago
"...they called me 'Mr. Glass'" - Elijah (played by Samuel L. Jackson) from 'Unbreakable'
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by jfalcon 3y ago
When it comes to meeting new people who present themselves as knowledgeable, I have a philosophy. I believe in giving them enough rope to hang themselves or parade themselves, especially in situations like screening interviews where people
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by jfalcon 4y ago
It has slowed down some on the return call - last month out of the few dozen, about half came back stating they were reconsidering the role with a few interviews and a few more than that stating it wasn't a match for them. Which is fun
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by jfalcon 4y ago
Uh... there is governance. >- Nuclear Weapons The several non-nuclear proliferation treaties and disarmament talks that have reduced the number of warheads down by about 2/3? Just because there may be more "threat actors"
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by jfalcon 4y ago
You are 100% correct. And the fact that laws on the books often do not reflect the times they're in. I'm still shocked by how we haven't put into effect a national GDPR yet at the same time that Newt Gingrich's "A
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by jfalcon 4y ago
There is a difference between a company making good products and a company that is making bad ones yet only by proxy of the revenue generated making something else. Look at GE - it just recently spun off it's healthcare business from
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by jfalcon 4y ago
I see it as the battle between the jocks and the nerds. As frankly from my few decades in the industry, who becomes upper middle management are all the people who you dislike (or they you) in high school. It's just them trying to jus
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by jfalcon 4y ago
The reality is that we need to think about how a population of people will survive when it's more efficient and easier to mechanize a job. We saw it during the pandemic as we see more of it now. They're finding ways of mechanizin
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by jfalcon 4y ago
What you are seeing is perpetuation of both the rich staying rich and those who were able to capitalize from the technologies invented between 1940 to now. The same could be said in the US at the turn of the last century (1900). The advan

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