slavboj

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by slavboj 1y ago
Workstations routinely accommodate much more than that. The "under $1K" price referred to a 768gb build (12x 64gb sticks on a Skylake based system), you could also do a dual-socket version with twice that, at the cost of messing
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by slavboj 1y ago
It is not "slow and expensive", although it could be "or". You can get 3 tokens / second running on DDR4 memory on a two generation old workstation system that costs ~1K, via llama.cpp .
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by slavboj 2y ago
At one point the bottleneck to the Siri iOS client was rendering the animated glowy ball.
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by slavboj 2y ago
The only thing he is actually charged with is possession of a short barreled rifle. The prosecutor's documents do not even have photographs of the portion of the firearm that would establish whether it was configured as a "rifle&
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by slavboj 2y ago
You might be surprised to discover that federal judges are extremely not shy about bringing up threats to their safety that involve litigants before them.
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by slavboj 2y ago
Based on their current behavior, if you become a politically targeted person, your company will be de facto removed from your control.
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by slavboj 2y ago
"We put a filesystem in your database on your filesystem which is a database, so you can serve while you serve while you serve." [inception theme plays]
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by slavboj 2y ago
The white sheet alludes to a burial shroud.
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by slavboj 2y ago
All currencies are negative sum when you only consider minting and transaction costs.
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by slavboj 2y ago
Euclid wrote in ancient Greek, so the "exact wording" in English does not exist.
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by slavboj 2y ago
You might be surprised to discover that roughly half of their population is women.
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by slavboj 2y ago
The piece itself mostly discusses Nvidia, which is an interesting company from an "AI hype" perspective in that they can only physically produce so many chips, and they are riding a very thin line where their margins are very high
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by slavboj 2y ago
It's quite possible that the causality goes the other direction, and a baseline population of brain disorders is being ascribed to the last notable thing that happened to them (which has also happened to ~ the entire population at this
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by slavboj 2y ago
Most of the indica of "North Korean workers" are also correlates of protected hiring characteristics ("names that didn’t match their ethnicity"). If the United States federal government has a reason to dislike your comp
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by slavboj 2y ago
Noncompetes are terrible and should be banned as a matter of public policy. But it's a legal atrocity that the FTC gets to, by fiat, throw out massive numbers of existing contracts, because they woke up one day and decided they are su
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by slavboj 2y ago
A ton of the industrial revolution was actually motivated by that input-driven thinking. You don't decide you want an Eiffel Tower from first principles, you consider "what is the coolest thing I can make out of wrought iron&quot
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by slavboj 2y ago
They released Gemini without even token red-teaming and it wasn't because they didn't put in enough hours, it was because they decided as a matter of policy that they would rather pretend not to know the outcome of that exercise.
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by slavboj 2y ago
So from a cursory reading, these protests were originally because a quota system for government jobs, originally intended for descendants of veterans, was in the past paused, and now has been reimplemented as set-asides for politically favo
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by slavboj 2y ago
Professionals holding a Series 7 etc count as accredited investors, even if they live in a cardboard box.
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by slavboj 2y ago
If "plans" are sufficient to result in effective bioweapon production capacity then you've lost the battle already. Fortunately, they're not.
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by slavboj 2y ago
Yes, a Christian school is going to have a problem with pagan religious rituals.
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by slavboj 2y ago
Of course, staff are not subject to this, because while evidently a deadly poison to the 16 year old brain, they become an essential professional tool as soon as you acquire your teaching loicense.
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by slavboj 2y ago
Monster romance.
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by slavboj 2y ago
EURISKO is basically a series of genetic algorithms over lisp code - the homoiconic nature of lisp making it effectively a meta-optimizer. Amongst many problems was that the solution space, even for things like "be interesting and tru
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by slavboj 2y ago
Drivers also supply positive externalities by engaging in commerce with associated consumer surplus. No one is driving into Manhattan for the thrill of it.
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by slavboj 3y ago
But I don't want to price externalities - I want The Atlantic to weight in on whether particular uses of electricity or water give them the ick or not.
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by slavboj 3y ago
It is the easiest thing in the world to shut a rack off if it does not have a profitable use.
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by slavboj 3y ago
If only we had some neutral mechanism for allocating resources like electricity to productive uses! I guess we'll just have to ask the fine ladies at The Atlantic which of them are worthwhile.
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by slavboj 3y ago
I can think of at least four open consumer bugs in YouTube and Android Auto that have persisted for years.
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by slavboj 3y ago
Approximately anyone can buy a US-based REIT, even if they're ineligible to enter the country.

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