x0xMaximus

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by x0xMaximus 5d ago
We run Dask distributed for contents in what their chart covers (10TB+ with 4+ physical hosts) and it's a problem that can't really be discussed without well defined drive read or network latency limitations (if non-local storage)
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by x0xMaximus 20d ago
Amazon took 20% of all workers earnings for doing essentially nothing for years and years.. of course I take great joy in giving AWS as little money as possible.
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by x0xMaximus 20d ago
Do you know how much inn-n-out you can buy when saving ~$50 a day and still be in the positive! It came out of building our own ledger system and abandoning any Decimal or float operations early on.. then it sparks "I wonder how they d
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
Finally you get it. Only exception is that we run our own exchange now to do task bidding so we don’t need to deal exclusively with other companies to middleman. Core business is what’s called yield management (akin to DSP in adtech) where
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
Users/respondents lie, and many buyers/researchers are neo-luddites; most C level still come from the telemarketing days. A fun example: mobile targeting is terrible when off wifi because all survey platforms uniq identify users b
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
Buyer A is presented with the following rate card: < 10min targeting gen pop: $3 10 <= 15min targeting gen pop: $5 Of course they'll bid saying their 14 min survey only takes 9 min to complete. Buyers try to cheat pricing strateg
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
Wish we didn’t even need one
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
Exactly, it’s a beautiful thing when the market is rational https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CINT.ST/
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
Obviously, a problem not even fully addressed by L2’s datasets. Sure, but the use of proxies to masquerade the identity of users being sold to researcher buyers that paid for a different service is fraud
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
The industry is so backwards, there are residential proxy companies that are directly paid by one of the largest market research firms. I have discussed this at length https://www.reddit.com/r/Marketresearch/commen
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
Initially the annotation of biomedical literature ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25592589/ ) but left academia for commercial use where we transitioned to arbitrage the market research and ephemeral task markets. It w
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by x0xMaximus 21d ago
As AMT's largest requester for the past 10 years, this news was relayed to requesters at the same time as respondents. It's also worth noting that our lead contact, the Sr Program Manager at AWS leading AMT, transitioned to Amazon
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by x0xMaximus 27d ago
aerc is the best program I've ever used. tmux from anywhere. May TUIs never die.
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by x0xMaximus 29d ago
We had last bought 24TB+ (4x 24 racks, and some miscellaneous) of DDR5 4800 and 6400 last year while finishing a move off of AWS entirely. I tried to be responsible and prioritize a cold and warm spares of all our equipment and over allocat
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by x0xMaximus 6mo ago
I recently wrote a little on this https://generalresearch.com/detail-oriented/how-to-seed-a-cl... While we're completely at the mercy of datacenters that we can colo out racks / power / upstreams from, i
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How to Seed a Cloud(generalresearch.com)
3 points by x0xMaximus 6mo ago|0 comments
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by x0xMaximus 2y ago
Assuming this is real, I can't help but think this could push Apple to accelerate their reduction on Chinese production. Is there any other realistic way this could have leaked other than through a Chinese backdoor? Are these being mad
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by x0xMaximus 5y ago
Technical and Demographic user metrics are federated across the platform (we supply tasks to other labor markets online, essentially where bots and farms typically attack) so we leverage priors and shared similarity weights. Behavioral use
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by x0xMaximus 5y ago
As AMT’s largest requester, we have longitudinal (~3yr) worker quality data for over 85% of respondents. Feel free to DM for details
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The DOOM! Report: trend forecasting by OpenAI's GPT-3(nemesis.global)
2 points by x0xMaximus 6y ago|0 comments
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
Everything Old Is New Again https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/691091
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
No, I simply meant that a regularly scheduled direct flight to get back home is comforting. Additionally, that wouldn't be possible at the moment as US tourists can't enter Russia
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
Entered Russia 3/15 right before they closed the borders, with my tourist stay expiring on 9/15 (and visa expiring on 10/31). On 4/18 a presidential decree auto extended everything, and another extension every 3 months.
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
Hi – I'm Max from the article (long haired guy). Happy to answer any questions about what's changed since 2014... Michael Solomon [1] still my agent, and 10x has stood by me throughout my career. While I've stopped doing cons
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
If not now, then when?
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.19.20038844v... https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/1/2/e000234 https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3480.full
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
Make the data public like https://covidstudy.com
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The Open Covid-19 Study: risk and self-diagnosis population survey(covidstudy.com)
4 points by x0xMaximus 6y ago|0 comments
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by x0xMaximus 6y ago
We've been running a longitudinal self-reported diagnosis, conditions, and risk exposure study. There are many challenges in this [0, 1], but plan to keep collecting into the foreseeable future. Currently operating on a global scale, b

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