timschmidt

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by timschmidt 6d ago
Weather satellites have done more to increase crop yield than anything since the invention of artificial fertilizer and save more lives.
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by timschmidt 7d ago
Well, besides the big three auto makers buying up all the public transit and decomissioning it.
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by timschmidt 8d ago
> 300 billion output tokens — $22.5 million worth of compute, if charged at current Astra rates. This makes the 100 billion tokens (total in/out) I've spent on my project on the $200/mo plan seem like a deal. Wow.
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by timschmidt 11d ago
> So you dislike You said dislike. I said suspicious. One's an opinion, the other an invitation for science. > vinegar, salt, and any fermented foods that suppress microbial agents? In the gut microbiota broad system sequencing
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by timschmidt 11d ago
> most supermarket bread is stabilized, which you might not like aesthetically, but it isn't doing anything to your health That's a large assertion to make without evidence. Personally, I'm suspicious of all antimicrobial
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by timschmidt 12d ago
I don't know about others, I can only speak for myself. But I do appreciate numbers for bare models, numbers for model + harness, numbers comparing different models in the same harness, and numbers comparing several models across seve
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by timschmidt 12d ago
Harnesses can fairly easily be adapted to other models. Moving capabilities from one model to another is a more involved process requiring distillation, training, etc.
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by timschmidt 13d ago
Son, I've been building and installing custom roms since the HTC Dream, was involved in OpenMoko, and have owned nearly every open or Linux-running phone of the last 30 years back to the Sharp Zaurus and iPaqs. Your custom rom experien
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by timschmidt 13d ago
> Nobody is interested in reinstalling OS-es on their phones because the amount of effort to create an Android ISO that's as usable as what's preinstalled is truly gigantic. You've restated my thesis. > Yes, I am on the
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by timschmidt 14d ago
> It is a niche, it always was. Again, only because the platforms are locked down and there is no single standardized target for universally bootable ROMs in the way a Linux ISO can boot on any PC. Kinda sounds like you might be younger
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by timschmidt 14d ago
> 99% of people never installed an OS and never will, what's your point here? That the 1% who do build visicalc, Linux, the internet, Google, and every application and innovation that happens outside the corporate wall. The entire
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by timschmidt 14d ago
> As much as it seems beloved here, people that flash custom Android OSs are the very definition of niche users. Hmm... Let's try reframing this: "as much as it seems beloved here, people that install their own operating syste
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by timschmidt 14d ago
4 bits per 16 bytes is ~ 1/4 the cost of ECC, which is possible to implement with just an extra cycle or two of latency in the memory controller. MTE seems similarly lightweight. Costs some transistors and a percent of a percent of p
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by timschmidt 18d ago
And it's not complete until it can send and receive email.
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by timschmidt 18d ago
I'm using async on esp32 with embassy, for instance, where there's simply no room and no need for a runtime as complex as tokio.
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by timschmidt 21d ago
I was one of those affected. The official CDC numbers are underestimates, because they're only counting cases confirmed by culture. My doc asked enough questions to make sure it wasn't your typical stomach flu or food poisoning
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by timschmidt 22d ago
ITAR requires them to employ US citizens.
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by timschmidt 22d ago
They're also the folks working on the largest co2 -> methane converters in the world. Because that's how they'll need to make fuel on Mars, and no one else on earth wants to fund an expensive technology to replace an inex
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by timschmidt 1mo ago
I can think of academic practitioners with doctorates who had wildly disastrous opinions about their field of expertise too: Peter Duesberg, a Ph.D. in molecular biology / retrovirology who taught at Berkley and was a member of the Nat
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by timschmidt 1mo ago
Brings to mind this lovely quote from the Snowden documents: “The road to developing this standard was smooth once the journey began... However, beginning the journey was a challenge in finesse ... After some behind-the-scenes finessing wit
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by timschmidt 1mo ago
You're working real hard here to misunderstand his point and ignore historically relevant actions by NSA which have weakened and introduced attack vectors into previous standards, facilitating their adoption by orgs worldwide.
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class:_A_Guide_Through_the_Ame... is an excellent reference.
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
> They want to keep out the poors That's classism. Indirectly associated with racism in this country, sure. But naming the thing accurately communicates the full breadth of it's effect.
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
Same to you.
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
Yes, I'm aware. I'm also aware that Oxford Nanopore now sells a $5,150 MinION pack containing the sequencer, five full flow cells, and a sequencing kit. Admittedly it's not targeted at whole human genomes, for which Oxford
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
https://www.the-odin.com/ $599 for 30x coverage sequencing of any whole genome: https://www.the-odin.com/whole-genome-sequencing-30x/ Or purchase the equipment you need to DIY.
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
I don't much care what the man does with his free time. I'm more interested in the veracity of his statements. On that front he supplies copious references to peer reviewed research by numerous others and primary sources. Chara
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
You really like to stand up incorrect assumptions to argue against. Second time you've done so in this short interaction. Not a word yet about your motivation. Huh. You'd think anyone out here demanding others' credentials
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
> What kind of expertise should you possess to be able to comment on a lab theory? Enough. > Even if lab leak is true, what is the proposal, that we do not study viruses at all? People love to think in black and white. All on or all
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by timschmidt 2mo ago
> relatively few domain scientists support that claim I spent a decade at a national Science and Technology Research Center responsible for a twelfth of NSF's research budget. We studied biology at all scales and the algorithms it

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