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wow, that's terrible. I was a competitive swimmer in my youth, and we did similar competitions from time to time (very rarely). I've never seen or even heard of a swimmer passing o…

That's exactly the author's point: Most programming books suck. Yet he has some recommendations: But I do have this call to arms: my top five programming books every working progra…

I think this sort of technique is used in boxing and MMA: play a good defense, stay out of trouble, and let the aggressor exhaust themselves until later rounds when you feel you ma…

Our motor controller had a 100 page datasheet that was overwhelming and dense - but uploading it to Claude and then asking questions let us quickly resolve one of our issues! That'…

There is no upward mobility at the company, unless you have been in some org 5+ years. I think that's true of most large organizations.

I know of a few resources, but I'm sure there are others and would love to gather some pointers from the HN crowd. These come to mind: https://course.fast.ai/ https://www.deeplearn…

People have been comparing and contrasting successive technology innovation cycles for a long time. OP mentions railroads, but that doesn't mean there's an "effort to hitch" AI to …

When you think about the promise (or hype) of crypto/bitcoin/blockchain 10 years ago, in some sense it augured equally, if not more, transformative change/disruption than AI. Crypt…

It depends on the counter offer and your situation. I would have agreed with you, but a couple years ago I told my employer that I had a job offer kind of land in my lap (I wasn't …

governments should have been falling over themselves to buy or otherwise subsidise expensive solar PV, because the more we bought, the faster the price would fall That's quite a st…

I don't know a lot about these tools, but I've used QCAD[1] for home improvement projects, drawing schematics and layout diagrams, and been very happy with it. It seems quite power…

same :)

Recommendation for anyone wanting to get into the gory, shocking details of WWI: The podcast, Dan Carlin's A blueprint for Armageddon[1]. Over 24 hours on the topic, and I was left…

As far as I can tell, its optional dependency is Open MP, not CUDA. Doesn't seem directly dependent on CUDA.

Thanks for sharing! Very interesting. "We call it the engine block because it somewhat resembles a three cylinder motorcycle engine" (referring to the power distribution and coolin…

and cooling! Imagine the heat sink on that thing. Would look like a cast-iron Dutch oven :)

original title is: "4,000,000,000,000 Transistors, One Giant Chip (Cerebras WSE-3)" So I guess they're trying to stay true to it.

very murdery! Never even seen coffee that color :)

I enjoyed the game! There was a whole lot of civilizational collapse due to food-borne illness. Maybe throw in a comet strike, or more varied geological changes (flipping magnetic …

Anyone know what is happening, or happened, with shakti db[1]? It's been years since Arthur started this other k-variant. 1- https://shakti.com/

I'm thinking they automatically fed in bulk images, asking for product description/title, and put the result straight into their product descriptions/titles. Some of the images tri…

I think you're missing how this technology works. The basis for these models is training data. And to train anything, you need to label the data. So prompt engineering is simply us…