johnvanommen

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by johnvanommen 7d ago
A16Z stands for the first and last letters of their names, 16 is the number of characters in between.
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by johnvanommen 7d ago
> WSJ just needs to sound alarm bells so people keep paying for their crappy journalism, and thus everything they write becomes alarmist slop. The WSJ is a ghost of what it used to be.
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by johnvanommen 26d ago
TLDR: the article describes stagflation in a novel way. Yes, it’s happening, just as it did in the seventies. Invest appropriately.
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by johnvanommen 26d ago
> The US is cooked. China is the new economic and industrial super power. The US economy has outperformed every economy on earth for the last fifteen years. China is at a permanent disadvantage because the United States and Russia are th
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by johnvanommen 1mo ago
> Kind of interesting, when compared to the hubris from American frontier labs. One Man’s “hubris” is another man’s “marketing campaign.” Drama sells.
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by johnvanommen 1mo ago
Even funnier: The biggest of the "sharpening with AI" models, if you let 'em go, they'll turn you into a celebrity on accident. If you go to the Topaz AI forums on Facebook, you'll see examples of where the AI sharp
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
> Letting the kernel use SSD based swap space for something this big would be a good way to destroy its cumulative write endurance over a period of just a couple months. Optanes are a good option here, right? I bought mine for $100 for e
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
> Jacobin is more like social democrat ”The goal of socialism is Communism.” - Lenin It’s always sold as “a little bit of socialism.” Every country, every time in history. The author of this transparent propaganda is a student in a
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
> Given that you cannot force someone to hire anyone at a given wage what is the solution? The author writes for Jacobin, which promotes a failed ideology where you CAN force people to “hire anyone at a given wage.” It’s an advertisement
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
The author writes for Jacobin. Of course it’s promoting Communism.
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
> “The pattern invites us to read welfare as macroprudential policy, part of the toolkit that keeps financial openness politically survivable. Where redistribution runs vertically and broadly, the welfare state itself absorbs the shocks
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
The one thing I miss about driving to work.
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
> the moment I realized it's a kind of cloud OS The foundation of this is thirty years old: Mark Andreesen founded a company to do what Amazon did: Loudcloud. This was cloud computing, BEFORE AWS was public. Loudcloud was founded in
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
I worry that AI will be so fundamental to how we do things in the future, companies can mold human behavior via access to the AI tools. For instance, I worked at FICO. When I mention this, people wonder what they do. The average person only
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
I took the same attitude. The hardware isn’t getting cheaper, it’s getting more expensive. As I see it, an investment in AI hardware is an investment in my own future. IE, I drive my car a couple of days a week, and it’s perfectly normal to
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
> The biggest benefit for me is that it's all done locally, and I know the harness is not uploading anything or sending telemetry to someone else. Are there any articles you’d recommend for this? I have Qwen running on an HP Z8. Ver
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
This sounds like networking. Did OP invent an “intelligence router?”
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
Amazon Prime Video is exhausting in that respect. I purchased a paid account, just to make the ads go away, then discovered that even paid accounts get ads.
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
> AI is destroying the economics which allowed for a sizable middle class of artists. I was an art major and switched to CompSci purely for the money. AI "art" is often slop, but the ability to create something in seconds that
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by johnvanommen 2mo ago
That was Morrissey's stance when he was in the Smiths. I really wish he hadn't been such a luddite, it would have been great if we had some Smiths music videos that were actually made in the 80s. (OK, we did get one, "Stop
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> It may have little to do with winning a board game, and a lot to do with seeing what people will tolerate and what the thresholds are for being called out; it’s a test of one’s intimidation factor. It’s one of the most famous scenes i
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> My impression is that a lot, if not most, anime was always cheap. Lots of stills, few frames, and CGI as soon as it got remotely good enough (and often before). Like Hanna-Barbera cheap. That was my impression when I used to be moderat
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> But they do it by squeezing businesses upstream, who end up with even lower margins. I've done tech projects for supermarkets and I've done tech projects for movie studios. The thing I noticed about Disney is that they have a
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> The expensiveness in running them will eventually be solved by cheaper faster hardware. How? * Moores Law is almost over. The 5090 improves over the 4090 mostly because of quant improvements. * even if the hardware improves, there’s a
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> If that happens the AI companies will first try to negotiate with their creditors and after that likely declare bankruptcy with the creditors taking over what’s left of the assets. Due to the fact that we’ve already done this before (E
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> The big thing is, the western world has moved so much of the manufacturing to China I built my career on Solaris and it got rugpulled by Linux. That wasn’t because of software, it was because of hardware. Linux’s cost advantage existed
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> GM just did this in the last 30 days [1], and their sales are likely going to be just fine. In fact the auto industry has repeatedly automated jobs over the last 100 years, and they still make decent sales numbers. I worked at Verizon
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> Cherrypicked dates? But I'd like to hear analysis comparing the Nixon shock to the covid shock since one was monetary and one was supply and demand. Of course! * In 1971 and 2019, the M2 money supply was flooded. In 1971 by the Ni
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
I vote for number 2.
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by johnvanommen 3mo ago
> Organizing and iteration on thoughts is not trivial or easy, but it is very important! Two of the silliest things that helped me in my career: * I worked at fast food restaurants in high school. This instills a near pavlovian response

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