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Workstations routinely accommodate much more than that. The "under $1K" price referred to a 768gb build (12x 64gb sticks on a Skylake based system), you could also do a dual-socket…

It is not "slow and expensive", although it could be "or". You can get 3 tokens / second running on DDR4 memory on a two generation old workstation system that costs ~1K, via llama…

At one point the bottleneck to the Siri iOS client was rendering the animated glowy ball.

The only thing he is actually charged with is possession of a short barreled rifle. The prosecutor's documents do not even have photographs of the portion of the firearm that would…

You might be surprised to discover that federal judges are extremely not shy about bringing up threats to their safety that involve litigants before them.

Based on their current behavior, if you become a politically targeted person, your company will be de facto removed from your control.

"We put a filesystem in your database on your filesystem which is a database, so you can serve while you serve while you serve." [inception theme plays]

The white sheet alludes to a burial shroud.

All currencies are negative sum when you only consider minting and transaction costs.

Euclid wrote in ancient Greek, so the "exact wording" in English does not exist.

You might be surprised to discover that roughly half of their population is women.

The piece itself mostly discusses Nvidia, which is an interesting company from an "AI hype" perspective in that they can only physically produce so many chips, and they are riding …

It's quite possible that the causality goes the other direction, and a baseline population of brain disorders is being ascribed to the last notable thing that happened to them (whi…

Most of the indica of "North Korean workers" are also correlates of protected hiring characteristics ("names that didn’t match their ethnicity"). If the United States federal gover…

Noncompetes are terrible and should be banned as a matter of public policy. But it's a legal atrocity that the FTC gets to, by fiat, throw out massive numbers of existing contracts…

A ton of the industrial revolution was actually motivated by that input-driven thinking. You don't decide you want an Eiffel Tower from first principles, you consider "what is the …

They released Gemini without even token red-teaming and it wasn't because they didn't put in enough hours, it was because they decided as a matter of policy that they would rather …

So from a cursory reading, these protests were originally because a quota system for government jobs, originally intended for descendants of veterans, was in the past paused, and n…

Professionals holding a Series 7 etc count as accredited investors, even if they live in a cardboard box.

If "plans" are sufficient to result in effective bioweapon production capacity then you've lost the battle already. Fortunately, they're not.

Yes, a Christian school is going to have a problem with pagan religious rituals.

Of course, staff are not subject to this, because while evidently a deadly poison to the 16 year old brain, they become an essential professional tool as soon as you acquire your t…

Monster romance.

EURISKO is basically a series of genetic algorithms over lisp code - the homoiconic nature of lisp making it effectively a meta-optimizer. Amongst many problems was that the soluti…

Drivers also supply positive externalities by engaging in commerce with associated consumer surplus. No one is driving into Manhattan for the thrill of it.