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My high school had one of them in the early 80s. Me and a few others were the only ones who ever turned it on. Then a friend got an Apple ][ and we never touched the PDP-11 again.

For a moment it was called Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Naming things is hard.

Naive question. How does the method in the OpenAI and Stripe flow charts differ from buying from a 3rd party seller on Amazon, which requires no agent? I don’t see what the agent i…

In the 80s and 90s I was positive that customers would revolt over the constant security issues and generally poor quality of Microsoft software. I don’t need to tell you that it d…

A site in Japanese that has tips on decorating a sushi restaurant.

Plywood is good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVxldyIa0Bg

All this is illegal: The Impoundment Control Act The Administrative Procedure Act The Civil Service Reform Act The Museum and Library Services Act The Appointments clause of Articl…

That includes -4.8 percentage points from net trade which comes from two sources: 1) Importers getting ahead of tariffs in Jan and Feb. 2) -2.3 percentage points of the net trade d…

Selling tokens is likely to be a tough business in a couple of years

Apple and the FBI were squabbling over this for a few years, and then Apple decided to end the conversation one day and implement ADP

The history of AI is big leaps followed by years of crawl.

They got so much right and still got swamped.

So the best case is that it is gambling? What are we dong?

The irreplaceable thing DE brings is the Chancery Court. No better venue for contact cases. Chancellors are very knowledgable, and no nonsense.

Right on the heels of claims of accounting irregularities by Hindenburg, Super Micro announced today that they would be filing their annual report late. Very bad look at a minimum,…

They have a way of bypassing bad cores, and over-provision both logic and memory by 1.5% to account for that. They get 100% yields this way. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16626/ce…

Goodhart’s Law. When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric

The biggest issue is that the model for births/deaths of employers was wrong and over-estimating the number of employers. This accounted for about half the revision. https://www.at…

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I did not have great luck with 405b on an M1 Max Mac Studio with 64 GB of RAM via olama. I think memory was this issue. 70b runs with acceptable speed