lmpdev

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by lmpdev 13d ago
Compared to what we had in 2016 with RNNs, this is effectively “AGI”
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by lmpdev 28d ago
I think we need to keep in mind that medical and pharmacy mistakes are still extremely common Recently my partner received a prescription with instructions that were over the LD50 (we caught it as it was obviously too high). We reported i
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by lmpdev 29d ago
TSMC US federal plant funding was under Biden not Trump (CHIPS act) Trump did do the initial deal though, but TSMC had to cough the money up for that TSMC wouldn’t put tens of billons of dollars in irreversible investment just to virtue sig
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by lmpdev 1mo ago
I assume they mean same t/sec as a SOTA cloud model
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
I assume they’re referring to Fable’s guardrails?
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
Yes they’re not related and are much more humane imho No Orcas, good rehab program, seal exhibit is good (no true seals), Polar bears are a bit sad though I did the seal diving experience which was great - mostly disabled California sea lio
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
In wealthy parts of the US, maybe The vast majority of the world is nothing like this From Scotland to Tasmania, most courses congregate around already wet and mostly sand/loamy soil (largely unusable for other purposes without major c
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
Is the Lake course as good as I’ve heard?
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
Seems to be mostly be a US-only phenomenon And even then, a broad generalisation It’s $10 USD/round in my area, cheaper than bowling by a mile
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Ask HN: Anyone Else Burnt Out?
12 points by lmpdev 2mo ago|7 comments
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
The answer is we don’t know for certain There are even some philosophers/mathematicians who attest to finitism (they’re not mainstream, though), but if correct would undermine our idea of fields and continuous structures more broadly
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
A parallel concept to this is from functionalism/theory of mind in Philosophy is that of Multiple Realisability
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
One thing that irks me quite a bit is when adjacent fields adopt the same acronym for different things LoRa (RF tech) vs LORA (AI optimisation technique) GLM (statistics) vs GLM (AI model)
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by lmpdev 2mo ago
The new Primary Constructors syntax is an absolute god-send for simple classes
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by lmpdev 3mo ago
What Malcolm Turnbull did to the NBN was absolutely disgraceful The reforms also resulted in a lot of people never getting FTTN/FFTC in the first place - so will forever be 5G only unless there’s a new scheme rolled out
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by lmpdev 3mo ago
Another LoRA moment
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by lmpdev 4mo ago
Jaycar in Australia still sells them Just released new packaging actually
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by lmpdev 4mo ago
I mean in the same way getting Wolfram Alpha to solve a really hard/ugly differential equation I suppose
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by lmpdev 5mo ago
I repaired some of ~10 years ago (Australia) Just low end uncustomised NUCs overheating behind the screen No idea if that’s still the case
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by lmpdev 5mo ago
Their voter base is largely dying off I don’t see them being one of the top two parties in a couple of decades unless younger generations start actually having resources/assets to conserve
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by lmpdev 5mo ago
Geoff Provest (Nationals MP) recently did the same thing commenting on an Albanese social media post pretending to be a disgruntled Labor voter
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by lmpdev 5mo ago
Not an expert but every node in an UHVDC network would need expensive equipment Point to point is just two nodes, but scaling that outward would be very expensive AC transmission is relatively cheap in comparison
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by lmpdev 6mo ago
Yeah the Blue Quandongs get pretty big Tweed Valley in NNSW so lots of water and volcanic soil Edit: turns out the Blue Quandong and the Quandong are very different species - my mistake
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by lmpdev 6mo ago
As someone who grew up with a Quandong in their backyard please don’t plant quandongs without serious planning It grew 40m in ~10 years and spanned ~200-300m^2
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by lmpdev 6mo ago
Only place I’ve ever seen it is the main stretch along Palm Beach on the Gold Coast 1st through 27th Avenues - they’re over 100 years old now funnily enough
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by lmpdev 6mo ago
I was surprised to find out they still have hardware repair technicians (extremely expensive but reliable: ~$400 per computer around 2022 iirc) But yes they’re mostly enterprise/services/mainframes not anything overly consumer
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by lmpdev 7mo ago
Someone get this in front of Tom Doak immediately
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by lmpdev 7mo ago
This seems to be largely an American phenomenon In more minor markets like Europe/Australia it seems to be a lot less leetcode and a lot more (1) experience (2) degree (3) actual interview performance
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by lmpdev 10mo ago
At this point we have several They’re all largely untestable though String theory, LQG, half a dozen others
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by lmpdev 10mo ago
Likely once sufficient numbers of boomers die off - and their property inheriting children don’t take up their parent’s views

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