mmmBacon

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by mmmBacon 1mo ago
Sounds like PMH, if they exist, are essentially the Universe’s ultimate cannonball.
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by mmmBacon 2mo ago
Direct link to the job in question: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5285248008
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by mmmBacon 3mo ago
Wow this is awesome! I’ve been using ChatGPT to create TikZ diagrams because honestly it’s not trivial to create TikZ diagrams and they look really good when done well. However it can be challenging to get ChatGPT to tweak the diagrams.
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by mmmBacon 3mo ago
UofR physic grad that also worked at the LLE here. Agree Rochester schools are underrated (although admittedly a little biased). At least in the sciences you have access to lots of opportunities you don’t have at bigger name schools. They
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by mmmBacon 5mo ago
It’s ironic what you wrote because it was Carl Sagan who first developed the theory to explain the Venusian climate. I met Carl Sagan and he was not a person who dumbed down anything. He had a profound impact on planetary science on top of
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by mmmBacon 6mo ago
We are still in a regime where the growth of logical qubits is far below the point of any practical computing utility let alone at a level capable of breaking existing codes. While it’s correct to be proactive at the security end, if you t
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by mmmBacon 7mo ago
Totally. I started baking pies because it was a tradition in my family and my wife can’t cook. To make sure my kids had the family food tradition I learned to bake. Once you get a system down, like anything else, it’s not that hard. Pl
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by mmmBacon 7mo ago
The GP has a point about the state of journalism generally and the pervasive nature in which Yellow journalism is returning. One need not be anti-intellectual to find the state of reporting to be difficult to deal with and not wanting to re
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by mmmBacon 7mo ago
Midnight PRs sounds really sad. Pager duty; I mean you’re not saving people in the ER. Everything you’ve written comes off as profoundly selfish and self-centered. God forbid your 8 month old needs to be a priority over pager duty. Raisin
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by mmmBacon 8mo ago
By what metric is the US lagging? By any objective measure we can see the dominance of US technology. I think it’s most of the rest of the world that’s being left behind; Europe in particular. If what you’re saying is true the US econom
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by mmmBacon 9mo ago
Parental controls are all about illusion of control. In reality the kids all know how to get around them. Try just try to block Gmail. It’s impossible. Gmail is the gateway to kids getting on services they aren’t supposed to be on. Gm
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by mmmBacon 9mo ago
Why do you assume I don’t think that? Of course it will happen at some stage. But my comment wasn’t addressing the future, but now. Effectively ChatGPT is buying market share by not having ads; that’s clear. What’s not clear is whethe
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by mmmBacon 9mo ago
I think Google’s search and ad business are at risk. Search has become such a mess that it’s become harder and harder to use to find quality results. It reminds me of Yahoo before Google in a way. I’m using ChatCPT or equivalent for 60% o
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by mmmBacon 9mo ago
Sure, by the time China clones this generation of tin droplet ASML EUV machines at production scale, the market will have shifted to free-electron lasers.
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by mmmBacon 10mo ago
Yep you provide a great example of a word used as regional slang for the word television . The word telly is not in common usage in the United States. It’s understood here to be UK slang for TV. Your example is largely irrelevant; I wouldn
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by mmmBacon 10mo ago
Isn’t “telly” English slang for television? It’s a regional slang that’s not universally used.
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by mmmBacon 10mo ago
This is 100% incorrect as you’ve written it. The GRE is based on English vocabulary. It’s true that many words have Greek, Latin, or French roots but they are most certainly not Latin, Greek, or French.
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by mmmBacon 10mo ago
I’m old enough to remember being able to scrounge around the house for pennies and heading down to Gracie’s corner store so I could buy some Swedish fish. They were 1 cent each. Gracie counted them out and put them in a small paper bag fo
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by mmmBacon 11mo ago
Maybe the jury needed 7 hours to determine if the bread was stale enough to cause bodily harm. Perhaps the crime here is the waste of a perfectly good sandwich.
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by mmmBacon 11mo ago
Visible will always be expensive because it’s very niche and low volume. So the techniques here are only practical economically for the large volumes of light sources required for communications. This won’t extend to the visible unless t
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by mmmBacon 11mo ago
Not surprising at all to me after several summer trips to interior Alaska. The mosquitoes are so thick that you inhale them sometimes; which is so disgusting. I slathered myself in Deet (the only thing that works) and was mostly ok. Even
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by mmmBacon 11mo ago
Concur your response; you can get a 48hr transit visa on demand in China. The requirement is that you leave via the same port of entry.
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by mmmBacon 11mo ago
Do you have any data to back this claim up or are you just stating your opinion? I was routinely detained at passport control because there was a bad guy with my same name. It took some amount of time and being very polite to get me out o
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by mmmBacon 11mo ago
I run a team. So for me this is like having 2-3 extra people to just do some exploratory work and prototyping. Having actual people to do this is a luxury I don’t have and can’t justify currently. I can’t just copy-paste what comes out.
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by mmmBacon 11mo ago
I disagree. Couldn’t do what I’m doing with GPT-4 but I can with 5.
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by mmmBacon 1y ago
I am personally paying $200/month for the ChatGPT pro version. It’s the best investment I’ve made in my career in a long time. It’s like having 2-3 direct reports. The alternatives provided by my companies are too slow and aren’t a
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by mmmBacon 1y ago
The Surfliner in Southern California is a great deal. Take the business class ticket. OC to San Diego is a breeze and you can relax and enjoy all beach towns with a glass of wine. Took it from OC to Santa Barbara. It takes about an ho
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Former Meta exec blasts Bay Area tech culture(sfgate.com)
4 points by mmmBacon 1y ago|0 comments
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by mmmBacon 1y ago
Back in the 2000’s we built a complete network operating system on top of QNX for OTN based long haul communication systems. In those days we had to sign SLAs on equipment and customers fined us for downtime. QNX was bulletproof despite r
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by mmmBacon 1y ago
This is cool and it amazes me how the “big” home security companies don’t have this. My Ring cameras false detect all the time. The front will detect the flag as a person when it blows in the wind. The rear gets triggered by the pool r

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