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Starboard Maritime Intelligence | Agentic AI Engineer | Wellington, New Zealand | Full-time | On-Site Starboard builds mission-critical intelligence platforms for the defence, nati…

For those interested in a high-level walk through of the Anglo-Saxon period, I highly recommend “The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England” by Marc Morris. It covers…

Because memes aren't allowed on HN, you're not allowed to reply with the "akssshuallllyyy" meme, so you had to go to these lengths. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Very helpful answer, thank you!

What's the current state-of-the-art in deploying large, "self-hosted" models to scalable infrastructure? (e.g. AWS or k8s) Example use case would be to support a web application wi…

That is simply not correct. With properly implemented E2EE, you can communicate confidently over a completely insecure channel. You could post the entire data stream publicly on th…

I replied with what the thing is called, explained what it can be used for, and recommended an introductory text to learn more. If you can come up with a more helpful reply in as m…

> but those operations over what usually appears at the denominator of the derivative purely for notation purpose has always looked to me as complete magical garbage. You will be d…

As the father of two young daughters, I adore Bluey. Quite apart from how good the episodes are for adults, I really enjoy the following aspects: 1. It portrays wholesome and posit…

Doesn’t Airtable more or less do this?

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I am entirely on Meta's side here. They have done a huge amount for open source ML, and with the llama2 license they are enabling millions of small-to-very-large companies with inc…

I didn’t pick that up, but I suppose that’s fair. I’ve heard both, as I have with Celsius.

To be fair, that is actually common in physics. Elsewhere obviously not so much.

Firstly, agreed totally about identity. Secondly, signing every message wouldn’t be impractical at all, I don’t think. We’ve had the technology to do this for a long time and it’s …

"I'm lonely!" "Have a family?" "Sounds unethical..." This is an absolutely demented perspective.

Have you considered starting a family?

Thanks for compiling this data. Where did you get it from?

I am genuinely curious about this. I prefer native apps to web apps, but I have notifications disabled for every app I install except those that my wife and parents use to contact …

Well, no, only if you’re under the jurisdiction of the EU courts. They can rule against you as much as they like, but it’s not enforceable outside of the EU or a jurisdiction that …

Hey Lewis, I’m pretty interested in learning from your experience - I’ll email you at the address in your profile, if that’s ok?

Used it in its infancy for my PhD work - absolutely loved it, despite its teething problems. Also +1 for Langtangen!

If you’re a working mathematician, it’s the only way you think.