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I've searched out this clip various times, gonna watch it again. Easily one of the best movie / TV moments since the advent of film.

Health insurance company margins are 3% to 5%. The book America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System (2015) by journal…

One of my tasks is to take various AI models the data science team has produced/fine-tuned and make them runnable with optimizations on GPUs (TensorRT, vLLM, Triton Inference Serve…

Not quite one note, but "Open Eye Signal" (2023 remaster) by Jon Hopkins has wide spectrum background and heavy rhythms, but once the song gets going the main instrument moves betw…

The boiled water (assuming even heating throughout) is what reaches boiling temperature, 100°C, which is the entire pot. Additional energy applied to the pot/water after that point…

I opine that over-hyphenation adds clarity.

Joe Frank ... some of the best audio out there. I wonder whether one had to grow up at a certain time for his shows to make sense, and whether they'd be lost on newer generations.

Cost goes down significantly for subsequent years personal. Currently at less than $200 yearly.

I'm curious, did you choose "blind pilot" as your username before or after your adoption of LLMs for projects?

When I bought one they had "reader" lenses that were not prescription, they did well enough. I use 2.0 diopter reading glasses otherwise from Costco.

I was in the Winston-Salem Flywheel coworking for eight years, good place. I hope the Greenvile site is as good.

I have arthritis in my right ankle now and walking more than a mile leads to swelling, pain, and random sharp pinching during some strides. Running sets it off sooner than that. Th…

Medium / large companies won't take the risk on smaller operations selling a new focused tool unless it's a major pain point. They'll pay more for less risk, assuming the PE-manage…

Equivalent PIX is very popular in Brazil for instant payments.

In letter and spirit, yes. If you're in the club, no.

It's probably harder to model and the results "aren't quite there yet".

Nate B Jones videos ... YouTube channel "AI News and Strategy Daily" channel uses all of these. Every video.

Admissible evidence probably requires parallel construction and then a warrant. The purchased data is the catalyst but not legally actionable.

If the Claude (or similar) can't open a browser on a headless server, they typically print a URL you can copy to your browser on your local system-with-GUI. From there you authenti…

The USA military is subject to civilian control and whim and that's their contract. Gauging approaches to have best effect would involve coordination among the political, intellige…

I got an Olares One system with a 24GB (consumer not 32GB) NVIDIA RTX 5090 for less than $3k at the Kickstarter price. It comes with Olares OS which for my purposes is not all that…

I spent the early 70s and early 80s in Brazil. I left at around the time of the abertura in 1984 when we lost a semester at UnB due to the student and faculty strikes. It was conve…

Enforcement stops completely at around US$1-billion.

Sounds like "Nate B Jones" from the "AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones". He's very enthusiastic about the notion that there are "dark software houses" or something like that …

Self-hosted might be the way to go soon. I'm getting 2x Olares One boxes, each with an RTX 5090 GPU (NVIDIA 24GB VRAM), and a built-in ecosystem of AI apps, many of which should be…