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You've touched on a key point: in a city, space is at a premium, so taking up a lot of it for yourself _really is_ luxury consumption.

Mmm, yes, some real parallels between Blindsight's conception of consciousness and LLM chain-of-thought reasoning.

> When emails overwhelmed me, I asked a thoughtful user who emailed frequently and seemed to know as much about the product as I did if he’d help answer the emails, so I paid him t…

Oracle's not a good comparison though, because it's getting valued as an AI compute provider as well as for its traditional business. At the end of 2021 Oracle's stock was about $1…

I guess we can imagine a pure reasoning model (if that's even the right word any more) with almost zero world-knowledge. How does it know what to look for? How does it do any meani…

Either way, it's bizarre that blame-assignation is anything other than defaults-to-owner.

Interesting idea and I do agree that contiguous is OK but total is not. I think I'd suggest a more generous Senate term limit. Three terms (18 years) would allow for someone to see…

I thought Anthropic's take on #2 was they don't think the model's good enough yet?

I mean, that's pretty normal right. The product starts out as a bit niche and expensive, and then as it scales in manufactured volume, variants & competitors become available at lo…

Given RAM shortages, I really have to wonder how long that 24GB RAM offer is sticking around...

Thanks for clarifying. Just for reference, usually folks in this situation use postfix initials rather than prefix (like how blockquotes are cited). - J.S.

I drive a 20-year-old Civic. On a trip about 18 months ago I had some Kia soft-roader hire car. I bloody hated the lane keeping (unfamiliar narrow twisty roads are bad enough witho…

It's a somewhat different kind of ring buffer, because there's just one index, but I used it in my signal processing class for a finite-impulse-response filter. Choose N to be a po…

In Brisbane I think our ticketing system cost overhead is maybe 10%? The cost of the programme rolling out new ticketing infra (the first major ticketing system upgrade in ~15 year…

It's coming to Steam in a few months, apparently.

Yes, and if they want to net-zero all their energy, not just their electricity, they will need to do some mix of: 1. electrify those applications currently served by gas 2. import …

You'll find that when the number of columns is a multiple of 6 you'll get obvious columns in the dots, and if it's +1 or -1 modulo 6 the columns become diagonal stripes (the proces…

I'll put in a good word for a chatbot hooked up to the documentation (e.g. at $dayjob we use Intercom Fin) acting as level 0.5 support. At $dayjob our customers are nontechnical so…

Surely that's plugin-modifiable in Obsidian.

I'd suggest high local wealth and economic productivity tend to correlate strongly with increased housing costs. People move there for the jobs, and the ones who do have jobs tend …

I suppose with SQLite files, you could at least in theory diff their SQL-dump representations, though you'd presumably want a way to canonicalise said representation. In a way I su…

There's just enough there to be able to do "+1 month" calculations and similar, which is really helpful for generating dates in a range.

> will get full access to all the new features Plenty of newer image processing and AI features are M-series only.

With frequent trains and close stop spacing you've plausibly got a situation where each train is entering and leaving each station at about the same time? So skip-stop might not sa…

DuckDB can read and write both SQLite and Parquet.