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> If coding is easy, how come programmers were in high demand, and have demanded large salaries for years (even before ZIRP)? Because programmers have generally been forced to wear…

> See all algorithms invented by Carmack The problem is very few (none?) of them actually were. He was just a wizard at applying them. This furthers the utilitarian argument.

The biggest issue is that it has become very accessible to approach AA quality in a solo setting. The jump from indie to AA is much more plausible than the jump from AA to AAA. The…

Texas has already begun to evolve around the need for interconnections. If you have the ability to construct the datacenter and power plant directly on top of the energy source, yo…

One unit of HBM capacity consumes roughly the wafer capacity that could have produced three units of DDR5 capacity. HBM dies need to be larger than ordinary DRAM dies because of ho…

> the real problem is that the website is poorly built This is almost always the problem. This is currently the problem that GitHub is having too. If they had remained with their c…

> Rather than a distinct floor component, the Fathom’s interior parts mount directly to the top of the structural battery. I'm looking forward to the IIHS test results.

In radio astronomy, more precise clocks can directly improve the quality/resolution of observations. > Data received at each antenna in the array include arrival times from a local…

> And while meatpacking companies have increased the prices they charge for their beef, there is a limit. This is because supermarkets, restaurants – and US consumers – can, and wi…

I feel like NAND process tech could become useful at solving some of these problems. A GPU where you can update the weights a few thousand times may be sufficient.

I think Luna might be just small enough to provide some kind of stepwise improvement in how it is hosted. Going from 81GB of weights to 79GB of weights can mean a 50% reduction in …

The most effective (difficult) training regimens usually avoid the middle of the distribution. You generally want to be operating at the extremes with some rotation schedule or dut…

Pareto front sounds like an interesting way to optimize, but it suffers from the curse of dimensionality just like anything else. As the number of objectives (dimensions) increases…

Approximately 80% of the homes in my neighborhood have standby generators that all need to exercise weekly. You think it would be a nightmare but you almost don't even notice when …

I think this is more of a function of the harness and the environment than the LLM. I've seen some LLM interactions over complex environments like Godot and Unity that challenges t…

MCP is most useful for extending agent loops with external tools. If you are building your own loops from scratch and don't intend to support external tools, MCP doesn't add anythi…

Perhaps never a true guarantee, but level 4 HSMs are still impressive. > The 4769 HSM has been verified to meet the FIPS 140-2 Level 4 requirements by protecting against attacks th…

This is a pretty big deal once you scale it up. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11119-023-10033-9

I think the biggest problem with RSI is the tendency of models to try and find "clever" solutions when presented with very hard problems (aka cheat). I just got done asking gpt5.5 …

The middle ground is compelling too. Join someone else's startup, but only if it looks promising. Small and medium sized businesses can represent an optimal solution once you facto…

Roughly one in five Koreans have surname "Kim". Upward of 40% Vietnamese have surname "Nguyen". "Li" is quite popular in China. Specifying "Asian last name" in this context is quit…

The LLM is like the death star. If you don't know exactly where to point it, you will likely miss your target and have no/negative effect. The further away the target, the more acc…

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