tsmarsh

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by tsmarsh 2y ago
Yes, its very much a part of my work setup. It transformed working so that for the first time I have a good working setup everywhere. Its also my preferred place to consume cinema. I have a short throw projector and sound system. I prefer t
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by tsmarsh 3y ago
I find the easiest way of explaining LLMs to laypeople is "Bulls*t Engine". If tuned well they're going to answer like a salesperson or internet troll: if they don't know they will BS before they don't answer. Its
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by tsmarsh 3y ago
I really enjoy the luxury of both. I have a MacBook Air that I use when I'm traveling or sick of being at the desk, but 80% of my computing is done at my desk with my Mac Studio. git, icloud, airplay and basically all corporate work ha
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by tsmarsh 4y ago
Look at the UK. Tipping has gotten weird in the last decade but the service culture is just missing. The service industry is what you do in high school or college because it’s the first cost that the food service industry wants to optimize.
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by tsmarsh 4y ago
'over the wire' is less obvious than it used to be. If you're in k8s pod, those calls are really kernel calls. Sure you're serializing and process switching where you could be just making a method call, but we had to do
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by tsmarsh 5y ago
I bought Ben Eater's Motorola kit and was overwhelmed, I have a whole new respect for folks that can do this.
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by tsmarsh 5y ago
Yes. But CO2 is a problem because it prevents the heat from the sun from escaping (and there is 1kW/m2 of that). Without excess “greenhouse” gasses excess energy is free to radiate into space.
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by tsmarsh 6y ago
As a turbo for cars to enable focusing on super high wH/kg storage class batteries this is interesting. But as power delivery for drones and rail guns these could be game changing.
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by tsmarsh 6y ago
Dyson fans substitute one large, slow fan, for a small fast fan and then hydraulically gear that down. Its an interesting idea. You would definitely create an uplift if air was blown through the fan and that could drive a turbine, and that
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by tsmarsh 6y ago
For me its worse when my introversion is acting up. Its like having a song stuck in your head. It really only goes away if you engage with the rest of the world.
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by tsmarsh 6y ago
I started modeling in OpenSCAD. It fit really well with my programmer mentality. The language is small, the concepts simple and you can do some really amazing things with it, far more than might be obvious from the primitives... except fill
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
There isn't one way of doing this. Quickly figuring out if the model is good, I'd start with a map. If I'm feeling fancy I'll add a schema, if I need to I'll convert to a Record. Because of the way the language work
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I work with people with multiple phds. They’re smart. Technology focused professionals and they still have problems. Computer skill must be a parretto distribution. The difference between the top 1% and top 0.5%is enormous.
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
Yeah. For example, I don't find Veggietales to be family friendly. Its a minority opinion, but I can't get it removed from my kids profiles. So now I have to talk to my children, ugh.
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
The Guardian has the motto: “Comment is free, facts are sacred” During the rush to digital a section was launched “facts are sacred” Hahhahahah No it was “Comment is free”, that is what generated clicks and ad revenue
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I work in Pharma, we're not worried yet. We've done a few trials of nano-fabs, essentially 3D printed labs where you inject the raw materials and drugs pop out the end. They kind of work, but its still a lot of work and would mean
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
Democratising manufacturing. CAD / CAM is still hard. CAM especially. You have to know a great deal about materials and tools, even order of operations to help the computer build efficient tool paths. There is a lot of scope for proces
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
The difference between solving a problem, and solving a problem for someone else for money. If I'm solving a problem for myself, if it breaks in 'prod' then "Ooops", I try and avoid that, if I'm expecting other
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
These books refocused my life's work towards drones and AI. I now know what I want to be when I grow up: an interstellar von Neumann Probe. I might even make my AI butler look like General Akbar as a nod to the series.
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I quit for a year. Then figured I’d just use facebook for the bits that work for me: local sales, peloton and fitness groups. My deal is no friends, not even my wife. No posting about me, just the group, just helping/commenting where i
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
The most interesting thing about serverless for me isn't 'web scale' its 'scale to zero'. My apps tend to be bursty, with trickles of data in between. I mostly concerned in reducing their 'idle' costs, so
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
We have been free. We were free for millennia. But... if you look at the most free animals in nature: cats, after domesticating humans and getting guaranteed safety, shelter and food. They have independently decided to sleep and murder thei
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I used to be angry at ‘polluters’ now I’m frustrated at a market/society that encourages bad behavior. Few set out to destroy the planet. If you buy fish from fishermen that drop their lines sea it doesn’t matter how many plastic straw
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
You can see this on a micro scale in Basel, CH. Buying bread in different countries, just a short walk / bike ride with unenforced boundaries and there are real price differences. For luxury goods it can be even more extreme with Sushi
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
On vacation in Copenhagen right now. OMG is it bike friendly.
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I’ve spent a fair amount of the summer cycling around european cities and you can’t get even close to kind of work out you get on a peloton. What I’m realizing is that all of the years where I assumed that because I was cycling to work that
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
Kinda? Maybe? I think its a mistake to think of a spin bike as a bike. There is peddling, and you can get most of the same experience out of a turbo, HR, PowerMeter, but then you are also putting the frame and peddles through really weird f
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I have a similar thing. For me it is exacerbated by sinus pressure. Sinus care, exercise, even losing weight all have positive effects on my perception of tinnitus. At its worse I could hear it over the sound of 2 stroke marine diesel engin
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
I think this is how Florida wanted to go. Its its time.
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by tsmarsh 7y ago
Driving an arduino from a pi is still the way to go, which is a shame. I’d have liked to have seen more PWM too.

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