modriano

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by modriano 13d ago
You'd get rapidly diminishing to zero returns after the cost of university a few times over. Every dollar past that would produce no performance gain beyond that.
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by modriano 29d ago
Focus on your kids, your health, and your work? It seems like a very tall order. You've studied many notable builders, but have you studied the great dads? How much time does one have to spend to be a great dad? Do they get to pick the
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by modriano 1mo ago
As I've aged and grown as a data engineer/scientist, unsurprisingly, it has become much rarer that I encounter something new that seems like magic (ie is something with functionality that expands my understanding of what is possib
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by modriano 1mo ago
If they were only copying, for example, New York Times articles and many publishers to a disk, I don't think NYT and the publishers would have sued OpenAI. But OpenAI isn't just copying things to disk. NYT reported ChatGPT (before
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by modriano 2mo ago
Those were just CS majors before they majored in CS.
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by modriano 2mo ago
Have you ever wanted to try flying a plane or running a city or being a tycoon of roller coasters without having to invest much time, money, and energy to take flight lessons, run for political office, or work your way up through an amuseme
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by modriano 2mo ago
I don't know. If they were training on this, I feel like they would be able to get the shape of a bike frame right; it's a pretty simple polygon, and a lot of the bike frames that are getting generated would be impossible to steer
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by modriano 2mo ago
Looking at the FAQ for the data source [0], specifically this part > What methodology is used to calculate Statcounter Global Stats? > Statcounter is a web analytics service. Our tracking code is installed on more than 1 million si
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by modriano 2mo ago
Being bombed to hell and then split in half and starved of resources until 1989 really hindered Berlin's economic development. It's not the powerhouse one might expect given its cultural output and being a nation's Capitol.
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by modriano 2mo ago
You can edit OSM from its main site [0], although there's a much steeper learning curve when using the site (as you have far more freedom and it's not super easy to figure out the standard way to tag some situations). [0] https:&
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by modriano 3mo ago
So, uh, any chance us Claude subscription people are going to get the 11 days of Fable 5 access (at non API pricing) we were deprived of?
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by modriano 3mo ago
I used Fable 5 for maybe 10 hours in the window when it was available. It was much better than Opus 4.8. And I have found the Opus models to be excellent, but Fable 5 was cranking out incredible research on some data sources I wanted to pl
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by modriano 3mo ago
If you go to pcpartpicker.com, you can select components and it only shows parts that are compatible with the parts you've already selected. It made selecting parts super easy. And I was shocked at how easy it was to build a PC. It onl
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by modriano 3mo ago
Yeah, and I'm a big fan of the the hardware. I bought a refurbished MacBook Air in 2022 (M1 or M2, I don't recall) to try it on and see how I liked it. I mainly used it as a thin client to ssh to my homelab, but it was far and awa
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by modriano 3mo ago
Up until 2019, Windows was my daily driver and had been for the prior ~20. years. I had been regularly ssh-ing into Linux machines, but it didn't seem like a place I could live. Then, in 2019, I built a PC and, wanting to get more prof
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by modriano 3mo ago
I don't know. Just looking at the bike frames (specifically the fact that the AI generated bikes have rather unsteerable front forks), it's clear to me that frontier labs aren't spending much time tuning models to make bikes
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by modriano 3mo ago
Yeah, that would be my assumption too (based on my admittedly incomplete personal experience where I got my furnace running by manually spinning my draft inducer motor, which kept spinning). As exhausting the combustion products is a critic
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by modriano 4mo ago
Is there a useful abstraction that doesn't help solve a problem someone has?
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by modriano 4mo ago
The legal route can be very expensive, and it can be short circuited when the parties come to some agreement, which is harder to do when parties are unnecessarily antagonistic.
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by modriano 4mo ago
> “The tech industry proceeds in accordance with commercial logic, which is antithetical to the values of mathematics,” declaration co-author Michael Harris of Columbia University As a former physicist and current data scientist/eng
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by modriano 4mo ago
> Agricultural subsidies exist primarily due to lobbying, That's mostly true, but it's also true that we don't want to starve. There are 330 million hungry mouths in the US and we've got to keep production way above t
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by modriano 4mo ago
MSFT was pretty arms length for the first 5-6 years. I was honestly kind of impressed and it made my opinion of MSFT better. But then AI made it too attractive of a target and MSFT couldn't help but make it a place the former CEO wante
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by modriano 4mo ago
Creators can only create as long as they can sustain the costs of creating (including opportunity cost).
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by modriano 4mo ago
Maybe. I didn't see enough in the article about the repo owner/committer to make any inference about their intentions and wouldn't jump to conclude it was incompetence or malice or crafty leaking. The only real signal I saw w
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by modriano 4mo ago
Sure, it could be incompetence. It could also be an intentional strategy to tie up CISA/DHS resources, poison or obstruct CISA/DHS investigations/operations, open up systems to sunlight and journalism, or cause general chaos.
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by modriano 4mo ago
MSFT is the GOAT of enshittification, and Windows is a pretty fine example of that. The OS literally comes showing you ads by default.
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by modriano 4mo ago
Cars are also lethal weapons and around 1 out of every ~83 deaths in the US is a traffic death (~38k traffic deaths/yr, ~3M total deaths/yr). It's good to keep track of cars given how dangerous they are.
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by modriano 4mo ago
There was a way that the statute of limitations hadn't run out as the clock started when Elon became aware of OpenAI's shift to for-profit ambitions. That made it more subjective of a judgement than simply reading a calendar, so i
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by modriano 4mo ago
It's clearly not the MO that capable engineers want, but it's the MO that is getting funded right now. Reading code carefully is harder than writing code unless the code is written consistently and clearly in a way that is idiomat
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by modriano 5mo ago
> Enjoy this while it lasts, because very shortly LLMs are going to be fundamentally better at being the "idea guy" as well. Maybe for the ideas that are so far from novel that there's a corpus of training data that could

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