rsanek

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by rsanek 4d ago
The median US commute distance is <10 miles [0], which is well within ebike or motorcycle range. You can get a new ebike on Amazon that will go up to 30mph for $500, or get a used motorcycle that will go highway speeds for ~$2500. There
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by rsanek 4d ago
What's interesting is other items, like food or housing, are also much cheaper in India.
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by rsanek 9d ago
For a more truly "web-native" treatment of math, see https://www.mathacademy.com/ . I've also heard good stuff about https://physicsgraph.com/ for physics.
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by rsanek 9d ago
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LABSHPUSA156NRUG https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS85006173 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA
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by rsanek 11d ago
For those seeking a more level-headed view, the Fed reports on foreign-owned gold monthly. Going back a couple of decades: Month Tonnes July 2006 6,606 July 2011 6,197 July 2016 5,807 July 2021 5,742 July 2026
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by rsanek 11d ago
For those seeking a more level-headed view, the Fed reports on foreign-owned gold monthly. Going back a couple of decades: Month Book value ($M) Tonnes July 2006 8,967 6,606 July 2011 8,412 6,197 J
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by rsanek 17d ago
With only ~5% of shares floated, the recent SpaceX drawdown didn't correspond to nearly as much economic value really changing as the headline numbers imply. The DeepSeek-caused Nvidia crash from 2025 is much more of a "real"
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by rsanek 1mo ago
China is much more of a "fossil fuel country" than the US. They've got a ways to go to even catch up. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-mix?tab=stacked-di...
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by rsanek 1mo ago
> You were never expected to understand every service and every database. But at least someone did and would explain it to you. This hasn't been my experience. Especially when it comes to enterprise software, eventually everyone tha
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by rsanek 1mo ago
Based on your own comments, it sounds like it wasn't really that hard to address the problem though right? Let's be real, it takes like 10 minutes to download OpenCode and point it to DeepSeek V4 Flash. That's an amazing 80-2
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The Airtable acquisition and what hypergrowth teaches you(stories.thef1rstpancake.com)
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by rsanek 1mo ago
As a proportion of total energy use, the US is ahead of China in moving away from fossil fuels by about 5 full percentage points. Most of the "energy independence" that China has is just based on burning coal. https://o
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by rsanek 1mo ago
Only as recently as last year did China stop increasing its net electric generation from coal. And if you look at all primary energy (not just electricity), their dependence on fossil fuels is something like 90%. https://ourworld
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by rsanek 2mo ago
If you want to skip the clunky csv step, you can utilize https://github.com/jasperket/clanki and push directly from AI to Anki.
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by rsanek 2mo ago
That has not been my experience, and logically it doesn't really make much sense. If you do so, you are making the problem strictly worse.
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by rsanek 2mo ago
Another case of study design not really supporting the headline. According to the paper, the comparison here was "no advice" or "AI advice": there was no "placebo" where you have advice / references from n
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by rsanek 2mo ago
What's been your experience using these models? In my experiments, while it is true that the models are less likely to outright refuse to answer "sensitive" questions, they are still very resistant to actually respond in a me
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by rsanek 2mo ago
> a Berkeley Haas study which describes how AI usage increases the intensity of work The marketing around this 'study' has been impressive. They published the HBR article [0] and other promotional material [1] over 5 months ago
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by rsanek 2mo ago
> cost has nothing to do with it > customers will flock to the cheapest inference
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by rsanek 2mo ago
If AA is to be believed then per-task it is about the same cost as Sol. Agree that it's very different from DeepSeek v4 Pro, which is ~15x cheaper than K3. https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3#price-cost
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by rsanek 2mo ago
AA results are out: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3
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by rsanek 2mo ago
Critically, that cost excludes the amortized amount the batteries will be over that period. And if you're cycling them every day like this, they're not going to last more than 15~20 years.
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by rsanek 2mo ago
> There’s a stew of factors at work behind the rise in consumer rage [including] the rise of AI customer service. I'm not really sure the problem is AI here. I've had plenty of bad experiences with human customer service agents
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by rsanek 2mo ago
I see tons of confustion in the comments on whether AI can or can't read it. Bit of a marketing miss -- they should have picked clearly different decoy vs. default actual messages.
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by rsanek 2mo ago
> Some people also use LLMs to generate flashcards. And of course, the result will be those impersonal, mediocre cards. > I won’t say LLMs are useless for this. But from my trials, I get about 1 card that’s useful to me out of 10, and
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by rsanek 2mo ago
It's a balance. Maybe a helpful analogy would be a book -- yes, reading a book is effortful, and yes, "almost everyone" does not read. Still, I think most wouldn't consider it crazy to say that reading can be "fun.&
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by rsanek 2mo ago
Based on the Intelligence vs. Cost graph, not clear to me why anyone would use Terra? Luna looks quite interesting though, happy to see OpenAI still serving the more budget-oriented side of the market (seems like Anthropic and Google have l
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by rsanek 2mo ago
This doesn't seem that big of a deal to me? I mean, in any other area where I want an assessment of a product, I'm not going to trust what the product producer says about it at face value -- obviously they're going to be bias
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by rsanek 2mo ago
So interesting to read about AI perceptions from the other side. In my mind, the problems with these drafts were moreso that the writers using AI could not (or would not) actually engage and improve them when given feedback, not necessarily
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by rsanek 2mo ago
Interesting perspective. In my experience the risk is actually that it results in alert fatigue, which means that drivers that would otherwise pay attention to such an alert no longer do.

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