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gridspy

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About gridspy

Tom Leys.

Working at Light Pattern Ltd making a game.

I'd love to talk to any fellow hacker - tom at gridspy (.com)

Based in Auckland, New Zealand

I started my own Power monitoring startup ~2010 - http://www.gridspy.co.nz

Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/11440/tom-leys

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46698242

    Random reply: 20 days ago you asked for my ChatGPT custom instructions to be more skeptical. It is : Use an encouraging tone. Adopt a skeptical, questioning approach. Call me on th…

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    Comment #46697797

    Wow, this was some slick long form sales work. I hope your SaaS goes well. Nice one!

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    Comment #46697538

    You know how to add logic on the outside of a function, by putting that function into a larger one and calling the function in the middle. However, how do you inject logic INTO the…

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    Comment #46597142

    Sounds likely it had an opening book dataset. You just needed a weird opening

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    Comment #46597126

    There is a strategy called alpha beta pruning meaning you can discard a lot of move options quickly based on the results of similar branches. That and caching similar board states …

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    Comment #46440580

    I told ChatGPT via my settings that I often make mistakes and to call out my assumptions. So now it 1. Glazes me 2. Lists a variety of assumptions (some can be useful / interesting…

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    Comment #46225615

    That's probably assuming a solar system sized to cover typical summer energy usage. You can simply over-provision solar until you have wasted capacity in summer and little to no st…

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    Comment #46213183

    Perhaps not in a 100% world, though I'll give you the point that they are useful now. In a 100% renewable world we would not be extracting or refining oil. Natural gas (used by the…

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    Comment #46073508

    The free market is an analyzable simplification of the real market, however I think the assumptions hold in this case. If a CEO delivers a certain advantage (a profit multiplier) i…

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    Comment #46072756

    They are a bridge between those with money and those with skill. Plus they can aggregate information and act as a repository of knowledge and decision maker for their teams. These …

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    Comment #45998960

    It's also a tower that has famously been deliberately un-straightend just enough to remain a tourist attraction while remaining stable.

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    Comment #45975791

    I'd imagine that as any variable that only has two states.

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    Comment #45974432

    In English, that's hard, but there are programming languages ... specialized in breaking a complex task down for computers to understand. ...

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    Comment #45958286

    Horizon Zero Dawn (the PlayStation and later steam game where you're an archer in a world of robots) There are probably a lot of open world RPGs which are all good. The linked site…

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    Comment #45958206

    Sure, but Fortnite's UI is set up to sell to you the whole time. After every match you can see unlocks. Before every match you spend time surrounded by other players with their ski…

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    Comment #45922692

    While true, at least Gabe proved you could make a profit while still remaining non-evil.

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    Comment #45922688

    I think that's more a situation where publishers demand some form of DRM so steam is trying to provide a default solution that most publishers are happy with.

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    Comment #45881351

    Sure, but you currently cannot teach AI models to generate novel art in the same way that you can teach a human apprentice.

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    Comment #45817953

    Also resolution & uniformity Color makes major compromises physically also, since it seems like the Red, Green and Blue channels are sampling from the same physical location but th…

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    Comment #45752540

    There are ads on the internet? Do you mean in that short window between installing a browser and installing the extensions?

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    Comment #45716818

    Thread exhaustion attack 1. Start connections to a server 2. Hold connections open 3. Do nothing else Server 1. Incoming connection. assign a thread. 2. Wait for request 3. Serve r…

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    Comment #45631822

    Note - Lorazepam is one of those drugs which causes dependance if you use it regularly. If you find you need it often, get a substitute which is safe to use all the time.

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    Comment #45624859

    Yeah, In application programming over the air is frankly terrifying because when it goes bad it goes really bad.

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    Comment #45599604

    If you want to stay in the bay area and leverage your experience, perhaps you want to become a technical co-founder for someone? Otherwise it might make sense to move out of the ba…

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    Comment #45599331

    I think the scammers created this time pressure by messaging and then suggesting they interview in 30 minutes from now (in real time)