Viewing profile — a_conservative

I have the same questions about human mathematicians! I can't tell if xkcd #435 is still true, or if math is just as mushy as everything else seems to be. When a math proof can onl…

Aluminum is generally thought to be benign by most authorities. However, it is worth noting that humans were not exposed to aluminum in the environment until relatively recently, w…

> Management thinks they are absolutely replaceable. Even more, when the concept of "AI agent" appeared on their radars, they were the first people who they thought they're gonna r…

I've thought about this comment a lot over the past 3 days. It was the top comment in this discussion for a while. People think about the world differently. Is there really no room…

A few hundred jobs a day doesn't seem like it would even be close to what postgres could handle easily, does it? I'm thinking of the problem as using a small amount of text to repr…

Good information, Broadcom is a playa, lots and lots of acquisitions! (a quick google search turns up a very eventful history for Broadcom) > From personal experience, executives a…

I recently put 2+2 together. Broadcom has become wealthy by being Google's TPU hardware partner, including sharing their TSMC capacity with Google, and evidently now they are doing…

An example of fraud in research that contributed to the consensus. > The 2006 paper suggested an amyloid beta (Aβ) protein called Aβ*56 could cause Alzheimer’s. https://www.science…

Some of these videos are the result of FOIA requests. Please, make FOIA requests and post these videos where the police are acting so egregiously. We deserve to know the truth abou…

>> and there is no absolute zero in the system. > There maybe is. I think we call that "blind." If you go looking into that, you'll see that the reality is far far more complex [0]…

> The data was taken without license/rights/approval. It's stolen. That's incorrect. A license violation isn't theft. Theft deprives others of their property, that's not what's goi…

You could sanitize and disinfect with that alcohol! You could also make extracts of any plants nearby that were useful. Whiskey and vanilla beans are sufficient to make vanilla ext…

This sounds a lot like what SST does (which also uses Pulumi). Do you consider them a competitor? I would guess by focusing on Python that you can provide a tighter experience than…

Note that you aren't providing evidence either :) Providing evidence is tricky, because most evidence hints rather than proves, so it's very subject to confirmation bias and is eas…

Not a doctor either. Japan seems to love creating fat soluble forms of thiamine. I've been experimenting with a form of thiamine called TTFD. TTFD is synthetic, there's a natural f…

This is just a guess, but I bet if your grandma's photo books had some sort of narration or her personal notes, you would have valued them more. I've sometimes passed on sentimenta…

Don't worry about the money too much. You're trying to solve multiple equations at the same time. Focus on getting your foot in the door somewhere in a job you like. It would have …

my m4max macbook can run local inference on a medium-ish gemini model (32b IIRC). The power consumption spikes by about 120 watts over idle (with multiple electron apps, docker, et…

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I’m similar to you in this regard, but I’ve been thinking about the frailty of human knowledge lately. We get it wrong a lot. It will be interes…

I’m not saying this to try to start a fight or anything. You strike me as a kind person, so I’m going to give this a shot. I am a bit of a contrarian about lots of things. Some of …

jq has >20k stars on GitHub. I use it mostly for little cli utilities, so maybe it isn’t an exact refutation of your claim. [0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq

Thank you for taking the time to write this detailed response. I've been very busy, I don't want to just skim it and fire of a response after you took the time to write all that ou…

The unlimited data plan included with iPhones was revolutionary as well.

I wonder if the difference in experience might be related to how close one is to diabetes. A lot of people are in various stages of pre-diabetes, I've had fasting blood sugar measu…

I'm an American who grew up in the midwest.