obmelvin

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by obmelvin 1mo ago
I agree with the diminishing returns on spend, but worth noting that when on an Enterprise seat and paying API rates, I'd say that you can easily spend above 200/mo before seeing the curve begin to flatten Obviously there are a to
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by obmelvin 1mo ago
I'm quite curious. Friends I've talked to have been very pessimistic about accurately measuring blood sugar via a watch. If they are actually able to get an optical measurement which is good enough for MoM or WoW trends, I'd
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by obmelvin 1mo ago
I don't see the point of focusing the conversation on Mexico City. You may be far enough from the fault line to have plenty of time to react, but not everyone does (as you acknowledge). You may not have tsunamis, but that doesn't
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by obmelvin 1mo ago
Before one can action one needs time to read and process whether the alert is for earthquake, tsunami, child abduction, etc
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by obmelvin 1mo ago
I can't edit, but realize GP said 'project', so my comment would've been more helpful to the parent of that comment.
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by obmelvin 1mo ago
FWIW, that project appears to be a passion project from someone who has gathered materials. It is NOT real JPL simulator code.
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by obmelvin 1mo ago
In most cases that would indicate an organizational failure. However, if something is trillions of miles away, and wrong commands could break communication etc, I'd probably just stick with the most experienced person as well.
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by obmelvin 2mo ago
It can also be less
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by obmelvin 2mo ago
You discount people's blogs based on them having a non-western name? Maybe I've misunderstood your comment, but the domain is just their name.
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by obmelvin 2mo ago
To be clear, I'm talking about high word error rate with parakeet vs whisper, not post processing and cleaning up my speech. Re: being faithful to what was said, one small example, Whisper will often put ellipses when I pause.
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by obmelvin 2mo ago
Parakeet is certainly faster on my machine (m3 max), but I can't stand using it over Whisper for dictating my prompts. It makes a lot more mistakes, possibly because (like you mentioned) large portions of the speech will pause / s
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by obmelvin 2mo ago
I get your point completely. I was (naively, I suppose) pretty surprised when I realized how low most people's threshold is to add a logo and claim a client/brand. I've seen VCs very much encourage this (and shadier) behavior
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by obmelvin 2mo ago
I've seen a lot of companies list logos if just a single engineer or team is using the product.
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by obmelvin 3mo ago
Physical machines can be confusing too :) When I was in Italy last summer, I couldn't figure out how to pay with my card at the machine in a small town, where you'd park to walk into an ancient city on a hill*. I asked two Italian
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by obmelvin 5mo ago
It isn't ones duty to develop for everybody. If someone makes something for their own use case and shares it, that's fine.
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by obmelvin 7mo ago
I believe they just mean setting the model back to 4.5
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by obmelvin 8mo ago
And people have economic issues in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. People of all ethnicities all over the world steal. Plenty of immigrants work extremely hard and don't steal. I truly can't believe my st
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by obmelvin 8mo ago
People steal due to economic issues, not their ethnicity.
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by obmelvin 9mo ago
I could've made my comment more clear. Definitely missing a statement along the lines of "and then after creating, you click 'set up billing' and link the accounts in 15 seconds" I did edit my message to mention I h
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by obmelvin 9mo ago
I don't understand the multiple posts / comments I've seen about this. I google `gemini API key` and the first result* is this docs page: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/api-key That docs page
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by obmelvin 1y ago
During peak hours (4-9pm daily) in San Diego you can be paying nearly $1/kWh (generation + transmission cost) to SDGE, so at least in certain areas, the running cost is very much relevant even for consumers.
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by obmelvin 2y ago
Agreed. They accomplished a lot with distillation and optimization - but there's little reason to believe you don't also need foundational models to keep advancing. Otherwise won't they run into issues training on more synthe
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by obmelvin 2y ago
You're arguing with me about points I haven't made.
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by obmelvin 2y ago
I haven't made any claims about the recent sightings. Some have clearly been planes and people are just looking up more. My original point was and is that there are many laws restricting what the military is able to do domestically.
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by obmelvin 2y ago
1) there was a very public delay to shoot down anything even remotely above people. They just aren’t going to shoot something down over a city From the WSJ article I mentioned: “ Federal law prohibits the military from shooting down drones
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by obmelvin 2y ago
The military isn’t allowed to shoot down drones in the US. There was a WSJ story last month about drones flying over Langley for 2 weeks. All the general could do is stand on the roof and watch
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by obmelvin 2y ago
Fair :) I was overlooking that this latest computer could be an older intel machine that didn't receive the latest OS, thus won't still still have years of security only updates.
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by obmelvin 2y ago
Why can't your dad keep using his existing computer? Sure, if you make your living on the computer the new laptops are great. But if he's just checking email, photos, etc - I don't know why his computer needs to become a pape
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by obmelvin 2y ago
Apple had good reasons for both transitions. In the scheme of 'forced upgrades' these are about as good as you're going to get. Also, if the OPs dad is using the computer for so little that it would last another 30 years, the
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by obmelvin 2y ago
Yes, I'm not claiming that is true formal reasoning, but it is certainly more of a chain of thought than was previously being done and does indicate that some questions require more and less "thought"

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