wstuartcl

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by wstuartcl 2y ago
Aside from the main topic but related to the books, wtf happened to howstuffworks.com? "Pisces and Taurus Compatibility in Relationships: What You Need to Know" Did he sell off this domain before his death or what is going on?
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by wstuartcl 3y ago
the tests were for these local (metal direct connect ssds). The issue is not network overhead -- its that just like everything else in cloud the performance of 10 years ago was used as the baseline that carries over today with upcharges to
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by wstuartcl 3y ago
Cough wells fargo, cough
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
yeah in that regard SVB also lost hundreds of billions on trades it could have made optimally in the market with those funds (looking with hindsight). Should you look at the opportunity costs for lost potential gains in this scenario -- yea
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
A ton of capital at the ready to offer bridge loans at shark rates or for blood equity for companies panicking and impacted by the same act of gathering those funds out of SVB to crash it seems like motive -- only time will tell.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
The FDIC charter: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by the Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system. The FDIC insures deposits; examines and superv
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
SVB was a bank that mostly served corporate operations accounts for tehc nad healthcare startups and small businesses. People were not banking there for high returns. This is not at all about risky investments (ffs the bank liquidity crun
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
The other good news is that it will probably net out to costing little to nothing in the long term as they had enough assets to cover liabilities -- it was a liquidity crunch. Seems very much relevant to what the FDIC was created for -- to
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
yeah I think there are two things that will be interesting here. The real detailed timeline. How much Thiel's cohorts jumped into offer bridge loans or stopgaps to impacted companies for insane rates/equity. IMHO this feels like
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
this is why imho I see the pull out of the clients especially those that happened before the sale offer even came to term as an orchestrated ploy to tank the bank and then be in a position to offer shark bridge loans to those impacted. Thes
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
it's good then that the funds to support the deposits are coming from the bank funded fdic fund not taxes then.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
They had 13b in cash going into this year and other highly liquid assets, those evaporated as the draw downs happened. Its not like they tucked away all assets into 10 year lockups (or higher risk loans). Even the bonds they did lock up
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
I am really enjoying elixir/pheonix/liveview -- feels super fast to poc stuff out and also is not throw away as the system scales unbelievably well.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
The also have some end of life blogs -- here one is from a defunct team. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
I have not been following this closely but I thought most all of the quantum safe algorithms that had been proposed so far had been found lacking for traditional attacks very soon after they where held up as a standard contender. Has this c
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
I think is a mix, there are probably a lot of areas where it does provide value and it's getting to a point where training or tuning existing models is low hanging fruit for those areas. There is for sure another whole section of th
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
This is not my understanding, I have read at least 7 or 8 papers that seem to have for various models and techniques reduced the delta between masked and unmasked recognition to be very similar on false positive and positive rates. https:&
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
I don't know what merchant system they are using but I will say it is very common for them to have their own anti fraud detection and rejection on charges. Your specific case could be related to a huge list of possibilities (even many
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
You have been a good Bing.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
There have been pretty huge leaps over partially obstructed facial recognition algorithms in the last few years -- I think state of the art is approaching no meaningful loss of match mask vs no mask.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
The leds are placed on the chest -- seems like a miss to not place them also around the hoodie near the face. I would suspect even without strobing the over saturation would work should those leds be surrounding the face. All of that said,
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
it looks like the only thing openai does is generate a schema from a specific hand written prompt from cursory overview.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
imagine the reaction when he finds out what that house that sold for 60k thirty years ago costs now.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
+ if the Toyota engine fails in a car you tow it to a shop -- if the 172 engine fails you emergency land in the best case (or crash in the worst). There is just a whole lot more onus to work on plane engines and that should and does come w
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
This or that non-technical person finding a technical co-founder while not being realistic about the stake each provides to the company. Ideas are worthless (infinite numbers of them are forgotten every day), executing ideas is what has t
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
and it sounds like in this case, anything that was out of compliance (in any regard) was acted on by wiping the device and deregistering it on the deadline day -- read this as 1700 laptops or desktops getting wiped in one day.
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
yeah even if they are wrapping with near noop guards all over the ast/codebase as its being compiled and the secret sauce is just to tickle the guard to log at those specific points dynamically you would think this would have huge over
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
If they shoot and miss, assault or murder they get additional uplifted charges (like you list above because of the ACT not just intent). Robbing with a weapon is in itself prima facie evidence of willingness to use that weapon and why the
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
This is kind of the issue with an interested party/vendor running benchmarks like these. Be it by pure dumb luck or malfeasance you are much more likely to configure and be knowledgeable about your own product than the others and toss
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by wstuartcl 4y ago
There is always room for new ideas in filesystems. The question is are those new ideas good enough to pull eyeballs and bits? Even if the ideas are great, between the complexity of filesystems, risk associated with them and deployment o

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