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by nwatson 4d ago
I agree. If grandma grows her own tomatoes she can only try four tomato-related recipes. If she goes to the grocery store she can try thirty. The AI is enabling a lot more experimentation with software. The AI supplies the tomatoes (infrast
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by nwatson 6d ago
The choir director at my church, Michael Dodds (UNCSA), covers the early development of musical notation, "From Modes to Keys in Early Modern Music Theory" [0]. Currently on sabbatical at Cambridge. Once in a while during rehearsa
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by nwatson 7d ago
In Brazil in the 1980s the VASP (Viação Aérea São Paulo) airline put their smoking section on the right side of the single aisle, and the non-smoking on the left side of the single-aisle. The smoke stayed on the right side just fine. (jk)
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by nwatson 8d ago
São Paulo is in the "green" but they were supposedly around two weeks from running out of water for municipal distribution in 2014/2015. A city of that size without water would not do well. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by nwatson 16d ago
Did they airlift better supplies to a floating aircraft carrier somewhere in the northern Indian Ocean recently? No.
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by nwatson 16d ago
One of my jobs at work is to translate data-science-provided AI models, convert them to optimal GPU forms, and send them downstream to DevOps for deployment in a variety of contexts, all contexts adaptable from basic Docker instructions. I
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by nwatson 21d ago
As incomplete as the sentences from one of these may be, their "weave" style tickles the attention mechanisms for their most ardent supporters, and comes across as heartfelt, relatable, and ultimately a coherent stream of consciou
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by nwatson 23d ago
In the meantime Mozilla was mocked on slashdot.org and elsewhere relentlessly after the first two years of the project when nobody believed there would be any value in the effort. Hats off to the team that took around five years to get to F
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by nwatson 1mo ago
Some companies hire junior devs to adopt AI-first practices to then drag their seniors in the same direction.
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by nwatson 1mo ago
I'm hopeful that software will be applied in new areas where it was too costly before, with AI help it will be possible. Software will be cheaper, even more prevalent, lower quality in since respects, but SW engineering will still be a
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by nwatson 1mo ago
We better hope there aren't cuts to -rabies wild animal vaccines. These have cut down incidents like these in large degree, https://www.aphis.usda.gov/national-wildlife-programs/rabies... . QUOTE: The National Rab
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by nwatson 1mo ago
I've searched out this clip various times, gonna watch it again. Easily one of the best movie / TV moments since the advent of film.
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by nwatson 1mo ago
Health insurance company margins are 3% to 5%. The book America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System (2015) by journalist Steven Brill blames mostly wasteful practices in hospita
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by nwatson 2mo ago
One of my tasks is to take various AI models the data science team has produced/fine-tuned and make them runnable with optimizations on GPUs (TensorRT, vLLM, Triton Inference Server, etc.), involving conversion, deploy, smoke-test, pac
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by nwatson 2mo ago
Not quite one note, but "Open Eye Signal" (2023 remaster) by Jon Hopkins has wide spectrum background and heavy rhythms, but once the song gets going the main instrument moves between fifth -> seventh-flat -> sixth -> fif
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by nwatson 2mo ago
The boiled water (assuming even heating throughout) is what reaches boiling temperature, 100°C, which is the entire pot. Additional energy applied to the pot/water after that point turns at some rate the already-at-100°C-boiled-water i
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by nwatson 2mo ago
I opine that over-hyphenation adds clarity.
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by nwatson 3mo ago
Joe Frank ... some of the best audio out there. I wonder whether one had to grow up at a certain time for his shows to make sense, and whether they'd be lost on newer generations.
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by nwatson 3mo ago
Cost goes down significantly for subsequent years personal. Currently at less than $200 yearly.
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by nwatson 3mo ago
I'm curious, did you choose "blind pilot" as your username before or after your adoption of LLMs for projects?
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by nwatson 3mo ago
When I bought one they had "reader" lenses that were not prescription, they did well enough. I use 2.0 diopter reading glasses otherwise from Costco.
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by nwatson 3mo ago
I was in the Winston-Salem Flywheel coworking for eight years, good place. I hope the Greenvile site is as good.
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by nwatson 3mo ago
I have arthritis in my right ankle now and walking more than a mile leads to swelling, pain, and random sharp pinching during some strides. Running sets it off sooner than that. The ankle always is visibly swollen, it's obvious there&#
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by nwatson 4mo ago
Medium / large companies won't take the risk on smaller operations selling a new focused tool unless it's a major pain point. They'll pay more for less risk, assuming the PE-managed company will go out of their way with
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by nwatson 4mo ago
Equivalent PIX is very popular in Brazil for instant payments.
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by nwatson 4mo ago
In letter and spirit, yes. If you're in the club, no.
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by nwatson 4mo ago
It's probably harder to model and the results "aren't quite there yet".
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by nwatson 5mo ago
Nate B Jones videos ... YouTube channel "AI News and Strategy Daily" channel uses all of these. Every video.
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by nwatson 5mo ago
Admissible evidence probably requires parallel construction and then a warrant. The purchased data is the catalyst but not legally actionable.
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by nwatson 5mo ago
If the Claude (or similar) can't open a browser on a headless server, they typically print a URL you can copy to your browser on your local system-with-GUI. From there you authenticate and get back some kind of token, which you copy an

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