xilinx_guy

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by xilinx_guy 2y ago
Weird. I bought a used car in Canada last week, and paid about two thirds by check, and the rest in cash, with a bit also on a credit card, just to collect points. Cash is still good in Canada, at least for the moment. It remains popular
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
You need to use other methods to increase the return. Start a home business, and deduct the office expenses. Rent out a room or a basement and collect income this way. Also, you haven't accounted for the cash you've saved on
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
I was at a startup where they showed the hardware sales funnel with NO customers anywhere except some "possibles" at the very top of the funnel. After a couple of months of this, there was a pivot away from hardware to focus on s
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
It does seem to have the tsundere model nailed down pretty well. I encountered a fair number of errors trying to generate a response in the beginning. After a bit, the dialog starts to show some repetition and some unnatural tsundere inte
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
Ted Chiang is a really smart guy, obviously benefitting greatly from his Asian genes, but he seems to have a deliberate blind spot in his essay specifically regarding family cultural attitudes about schooling. Academic success is VERY stro
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
Methinks the man doth complain too much.
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present example #1. Detroit.
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
https://archive.is/GGuCt
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by xilinx_guy 3y ago
It's totally hilarious, how organizations are training large language models and calling them "intelligent". These overgrown & overstuffed stochastic parrots are just toys to amuse and shock the ignorant. Once the nov
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
It's pretty clear the only solution going forward is more inflation. Almost certainly the Fed inflation targets will be raised from 2% to 3% or even 4%. Inflation socializes the cost over everyone who possesses $US. Not to mention,
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
https://archive.is/tckqR
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
These are BS patents, since they magically somehow couple the eletromagnetic force to gravitation, which has NEVER been observed at the energy levels we are capable of generating with current technology. It's magical thinking, 100%.
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
Musk is being cautious. Starlink terminals on the ground work fine in Ukraine. What has been disabled are mobile terminals mounted on drones that would be used for attacks on Russian soil. That could provoke Russian anti-satellite attack
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
We obviously need a new test. The new benchmark for large language models should be "Truth" with a numeric score defined as -Log( Percentage_of_Lies_Told ). This way, a perfectly truthful model will have a numeric score of +infi
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
I would use VHDL-2008, but freely admit, it's more difficult and complex than Verilog. My reason for this choice is that you can do physical design in VHDL, since attributes are part of the language, and not grafted into pragmas like V
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
you've hit upon a thorny problem. water testing services only test for obvious things like heavy metals, leaving organic contamination (i.e. drugs, industrial chemicals, etc) pretty much untouched. There are rather disturbing maps of
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
High energy radiation breaks organic bonds all over the place, resulting in changes in color, taste, and nutrition, not to mention carcinogenic tendencies. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5820857/
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
Hackers that are seeking banking passwords will sometimes monitor hacked devices for months, until they can convert stolen credentials to cash by buying crypto. The real question is whether any of your devices have been compromised, since
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
Nah, I tried it, and it failed to generate usable code. The level of sophistication and understanding is an inch deep. It will need serious retraining in specialist subjects to be usable. Once that happens, it may indeed replace humans.
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
https://archive.ph/HgdJM
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
https://archive.ph/fbguP
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
I actually joined Twitter, because I wanted to have a front row seat to the story as it unfolds. Twitter was never that interesting before, but now it's a madhouse of humor, revenge, and right wing zeitgeist. It's amusing AF. I
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
I was never interested in Twitter before, but under Musk, it's become hilariously entertaining. If Musk can add functionality, like payments, crypto, markets, etc, I can see myself paying the $8 to subscribe. The Babylon Bee should be
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
Probably a near earth asteroid, orbiting between Mercury and the Earth's orbit. So what?
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
I've seen floating lights in a city that couldn't have been aircraft (speed and direction changes were much too high). But the obvious answer is that cities are already full of floating lights (aircraft, etc), not to mention that
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
What we all want is what we see in the Marvel films, where the Avengers can all talk to each other perfectly clearly in the middle of a raging battle. It's called "telepathy". Once Elon gets the Neuralink perfected and down t
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
A hypothesis to explain UFO diversity observations. ( Opinion ) Let me point out a few known facts and relevant observations. The Galaxy is pretty old, about 13.5 billion years. There are at least 100 billion stars, maybe 400 billion. Most
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
It's about damn time. However, having said this, I predict that almost nothing further will be learned about these objects. They may be intelligent, but I am convinced they are also disposable, and also motivated to give up as little
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
Ran some little dinky BGP program on a PC that accidently manipulated routing paths in the building (circa 1993). Suddenly hundreds of engineers and employees found their network connectivity hugely impaired, if not outright disabled. IT t
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by xilinx_guy 4y ago
https://archive.ph/7JgLB

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