vajrabum

7 ms·

1.
by vajrabum 2mo ago
The problem with this idea which is common in some circles is that most of the businesses involved are commodity or lowish margin. They likely got built either with government support or before the current margin's were a thing. Becdau
2.
by vajrabum 2mo ago
Maybe so when you factory reset the device that it sets the admin to something you can maybe read off the label? At least that way the random attacker needs physical access to your space.
3.
by vajrabum 3mo ago
I go to Texas to visit family and a visit or two to H-E-B is usually a part of that. They operate great stores, they treat their employees well (several family members have worked there) and they have great products. I love my local grocery
4.
by vajrabum 3mo ago
Is the new Outlook client a JS/Electron app?
5.
by vajrabum 4mo ago
I don't understand what is meant by "hardly possible with crypto." I've been hearing that for a long time but I've also heard so many stories about theft of crypto assets and seizures by government. In the US that s
6.
by vajrabum 4mo ago
Make the police officer like the Doctor pay for their own insurance.
7.
by vajrabum 4mo ago
I'd love to hear of any currently available commerical C compiler which has that level of issues. I would bet you'll be hard pressed to find one. C compilation is a quite thoroughly solved problem. In any case please provide an ex
8.
by vajrabum 4mo ago
I wish I believed that they have to go to the FISA court for much of anything any more. Instead they go to Palantir and the like which simply buy the data and aggregate it. Very similar to the process of money laundering. And for the data t
9.
by vajrabum 6mo ago
p is not p-hacking. p-hacking is when instead of making a hypothesis and then looking for a correlation instead you look at the data and see if there are any correlations to be found. The problem with the second is if there are lots of poss
10.
by vajrabum 6mo ago
Uh, I think they didn't use WW2 surplus anything when they build Oak Ridge and Hanford before the end of WW2. I also think given that those two plants were key bits of the Manhattan Project that they didn't cheap out on anything.
11.
by vajrabum 7mo ago
Or is this PM and executive management aiming for the no and low code users? That would fit the zeitgeist especially in the tech C level and their sales pitch to non-tech C levels.
12.
by vajrabum 8mo ago
I suspect they'll just replace the old recommendations with new ones.
13.
by vajrabum 9mo ago
Supposedly this is a roman a clef about Jesse Livermore's career. There's a lot of stuff in this book that makes sense of markets in ways that pretty much no other investing book I've ever read does. Some what I remember are
14.
by vajrabum 11mo ago
None of this is about an end user in the sense of the user of an LLM. This is aimed at the prospective user of a training framework which implements backpropagation at a high level of abstraction. As such it draws attention to training prob
15.
by vajrabum 1y ago
C'mon, moving money is not a crime but moving money that has been illegally obtained is a crime (drugs, prostitution, illegal sports book,...) as is concealing the source or target of money sent to terrorist organizations and yes it ma
16.
by vajrabum 1y ago
And even if it's not locked down hard how do you separate the signal from the noise with all the ai generated blah blah blah.
17.
by vajrabum 1y ago
Not quite the same thing but some non-negligable percentage of ads I see on Facebook are outright scams which purport to be selling musical instruments at a 'markdown'. First guitars supposedly from the Sam Ash bankruptcy sales li
18.
by vajrabum 1y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen that openai was complaining about one of their customers doing exactly that a couple of years ago. Yes, here https://aibusiness.com/nlp/tiktok-parent-allegedly-used-open...
19.
by vajrabum 1y ago
I know this is likely in the pipeline anyway and maybey not covered by this news but now we have the prospect of agentic llms hallucinating enemies and a digital finger on the trigger.
20.
by vajrabum 1y ago
American capitalism in the 2020s is no such thing. It's goosing this quarters numbers so the management can get their incentive bonuses and stock and buying buying business advantage from the legislature. It's all in Adam Smith an
21.
by vajrabum 1y ago
The platforms I've seen live on top of kubernetes so I'm afraid it is possible. nvidia-docker, all the cuda libraries and drivers, nccl, vllm,... Large scale distributed training and inference are complicated beasties and the orch
22.
by vajrabum 1y ago
I would have thought that the proof shows this problem is unavoidable. How in your view do we avoid this problem?
23.
by vajrabum 1y ago
The feds don’t generally indict unless it’s a slam dunk. That means two things. Lots of people walk and they will go after someone if they have the evidence. As a small investor I’m glad they get at least a few. Insider trading is a kind of
24.
by vajrabum 1y ago
There are laws about this sort of thing that have severe penalties attached. When I was in the Navy handling encryption gear I had to sign a paper that stated that I understood that compromise of the secrets I'd been entrusted with cou
25.
by vajrabum 2y ago
This thing compiles scratch to Javascript with a claimed 10 to 100 speedup. Here's a bit from the docs on how it works. https://docs.turbowarp.org/how And here's the source. https://github.com/Turb
26.
by vajrabum 2y ago
We're killing millions of chickens in the US mostly so that other chickens don't get the flu. It kills a lot of them and it's making dairy cattle sick too. It's also worth noting that the Spanish flu in 1918 which probab
27.
by vajrabum 2y ago
I came here to say this. I know someone who had one dose of ketamine for PTSD after a terrible fire. Worked like magic, but being a regular ketamine user is mind altering in a way that isn't good. These days there are quite a few peopl
28.
by vajrabum 2y ago
It may be easier to run apt-get install or yum install as a user but having done both I'd say that creating new OS level distro packages is a lot harder work than Dockerfiles to setup and is likely to run only on the specific system fo
29.
by vajrabum 2y ago
That is actually price fixing and illegal. Not that in the current regulatory environment that there's likely to be enforcement.
30.
by vajrabum 2y ago
Here are two papers referenced in the article. This one inspired Bill Benter https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/decision/1986-bolton.pdf And Bill Benter wrote this one in 1995 describing his system https:&#x2F

More ›