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by silverlake 10d ago
I’ve been on the fence about the P20 for a while. Some people report getting janky units. BenQ has a 3:2 monitor with 3840x2560 resolution, 120Hz refresh.
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by silverlake 1mo ago
I had this same schedule at a mediocre school in small town USA in the 80s. The AP science course started at 7:30am to give us time for lab work (e.g. dissection in biology). After school activities continued until 4:30, longer if it’s an a
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by silverlake 4mo ago
I bought a fully renovated house as my first house. Unfortunately the builder was a moron. I spent 10 years with near constant repairs. Every house on my block has the same story: different builders, same shoddy quality. I was lucky to find
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by silverlake 6mo ago
I have Codex and Gemini critique the plan and generate their plans. Then I have Claude review the other plans and add their good ideas. It frequently improves the plan. I then do my careful review.
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by silverlake 6mo ago
It’s the same as buying a house. I want to buy a house for $1.2m. I put down $200k and borrow $1m. The bank determines the value of the house. My equity absorbs a 20% drop in prices, so the bank is fairly protected. Businesses are different
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by silverlake 7mo ago
Yep, once you accept “might makes right” the laws in a democracy become polite suggestions. Oh, your town is in the way of hydropower? Too bad the gov’t has more guns than you. That’s how you get the Three Gorges Dam in China. Nevertheless,
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by silverlake 7mo ago
The true cost of labor is paid for by taxes. The bottom 50% in the US pay little to negative taxes due to government benefits. Most taxes are paid by the rich. Therefore, the true cost of labor is paid for by the rich, rather than by consum
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by silverlake 8mo ago
Since 2014 most bits of central London have seen 10-30% increase, which is below inflation and far, far below stock returns. This should persuade my wife not to buy here. Thanks!
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by silverlake 9mo ago
This resonates with me. I have a hobby where I transform classic books into hand-written papyrus as the author intended. There is something almost meditative in unspooling a 10kg scroll where the sometimes illegible ink allows me to wonder
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by silverlake 10mo ago
I don’t know. But at least you’ve identified the real problem: lazy people generating trash code. AI isn’t bad, people are.
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by silverlake 10mo ago
Enough that stacked PRs are a thing. At my job people sometimes build large features on a branch for 6 months. Then it’s a massive PR and no one can review it.
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by silverlake 10mo ago
Hi, AI apologist here. This scenario is a problem with or without AI. You can’t drop a 13k line PR you don’t understand without prior discussion. There are many ways to use AI. Your scenario (keynote speech) is a bad way to use it. Instead,
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by silverlake 1y ago
I used ET but it requires a server process also. Some machines are too locked down to allow this. Wish there was a way to kick start the server on demand.
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by silverlake 1y ago
It’s a glib analogy, but the goal remains the same. Today’s training sets are immense. Is there an architecture that can learn something with tiny training sets?
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by silverlake 1y ago
I’m actually working on just this. What’s the smallest training data set required to learn tic-tac-toe? A 5yo doesn’t need much training to learn a new game, but a transformer needs millions of samples.
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by silverlake 1y ago
Also, most of them are shockingly incompetent. It took years to assemble a list of quality service providers. I pay a little more but stuff works now.
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by silverlake 1y ago
There is a mountain of code that needs to be written that can’t be due to costs. A project that needs 100 developers may be prohibitively expensive. But 10 10x developers would be within budget. Think health care, manufacturing, government,
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by silverlake 1y ago
I tried to get Gemini CLI to update itself using the MCP settings for Claude. It went off the rails. I then fed it the link you provided and it correctly updates it's settings file. You might mention the settings.json file in the READM
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by silverlake 1y ago
I’ve been talking to wealth management firms and am truly underwhelmed. AFAICT, they charge 0.5%-1.35% for therapy and the chance to put you in high fee products. Roboadvisors are a brilliant product for most people. In fact, a simple Bogle
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by silverlake 1y ago
Here’s the real rebuttal to my overconfidence in LLMs. Thanks for the link!
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by silverlake 1y ago
No one is an expert on all the things. I use libraries and tools to take care of things that are less important. I use my brain for things that are important. LLMs are another tool, more flexible and capable than any other. So yes, grandpa
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by silverlake 1y ago
You’re clinging to an old model of work. Today an LLM converted my docker compose infrastructure to Kubernetes, using operators and helm charts as needed. It did in 10 minutes what would take me several days to learn and cobble together a b
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by silverlake 1y ago
Have you guys at Cline considered using LLMs to create summaries of files and complex functions? Rather than read a 500 line function, feed it a short comment on what the function is doing. I'd like to use a local LLM to create summari
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by silverlake 1y ago
No offense, but that video is brutally boring. Even at 1.5x speed I couldn’t get past 10 min. You should transcribe the audio and use an LLM to write a punchy sales pitch.
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by silverlake 1y ago
If you look at the full table of NAEP scores, you see the differences are not that much. 8th grade reading is 245(WV)-266(MA). That's 20 point spread, where NAEP goes to 500 pts. A 4% difference between the best and worst state is insi
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by silverlake 1y ago
You’re getting downvoted because you’re making a few mistakes. 1) Energy Star is not a mandate, it’s a certificate if you want it. 25% of dishwashers are not ES at Home Depot. 2) Dishwashers are slow for a few reasons, a big one is gov’t st
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by silverlake 1y ago
IIRC the effect size at 0.15 was narrowly for pre-teen girls on social media. Every other age, and all boys, were below 0.1 when looking at total screen time (i.e. games, youtube). Parents should check up on young girls, but most kids will
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by silverlake 1y ago
China earns relatively little per iPhone/Mac. The complex components come from other countries like Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Apple earns a hefty profit for marketing savvy, iCloud services, and perhaps financing. China makes a pittance
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by silverlake 1y ago
I think BF16 and FP16 are 1979 TFPOPs, but FP8 is 2x faster at 3958 TFLOPs. So only 10% efficiency, down from 20%. That’s not good.
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by silverlake 1y ago
Why is that a priority? I would think maintaining the reputation of a StateU diplomas would be more important for the school and graduates.

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