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I know this is also a legal question, but I sometimes wonder about ML-based meeting transcription and summary services. Pre-ML, if you wanted to record a meeting, the de-facto proc…

Just a note of caution: sync != backup. When I was younger and dumber, I had my own rsync cron script to do a nightly sync of my documents to a remote server. One day I noticed fil…

Wonderful work and writing, Ronan -- I'm appreciative of your careful balance between objective fact-finding and synthesis. For me, a big worry about AI is in its potential to furt…

>> The most useful, accurate, and honest LLM information I've gathered >> comes from spaces where neither extreme prevails Do you have any pointers to good (public) spaces like thi…

Evidence?

It's primarily for hobbyists. From the community discord, I know there are also serious rigs out there as well, on which some members are doing some astronomical science...

I can also recommend starfront observatories ( https://starfront.space ) for folks looking to do remote hosting. It's in a remote location in Texas with solid skies and great staff…

The good news is that training jerprint was probably cheaper than training the latest got models...

Homelessness in the US is a complex problem. I found the Soft White Underbelly interview series by Mark Laita insightful when learning more about it: https://www.softwhiteunderbell…

Just to say it explicitly, dang, you're doing a great job.

Confirmed; this is what happened to my 16" after this install. I needed to do a DFU restore (using Apple Configurator 2 -- you can download it to your hopefully spare MacBook from …

Saying a different way: for fork/join or barrier style parallel requests, stragglers set overall latency, and though the probability of any specific response being a straggler may …

> If you can plug it in, it will work Unfortunately, this hasn't been my experience. As an example, I have a display-port-based Apple cinema display, and I bought this adapter to t…

Are you sure? I think you're misremembering.

Does rsync.net backup versions of the files you store on it? If not, a pitfall with your workflow is that if you corrupt todo.txt (accidentally, or if there is a filesystem problem…

Agreed on the fantastic-ness -- the first 4-5 in the sequence in particular give you a very nice flavor of working in kernel-space, and they are doable. I taught a senior ugrad OS …

Paycheck, starring Ben Affleck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(film)

Because of compulsory misses -- i.e., the first request to an object is never in the cache.

I understand your point of view, but I have a different opinion. When I see these kinds of claims, my guess is that they are usually based on a failure analysis given a particular …

Wow, how the tides have turned! 15 years ago was: s/Google/Microsoft s/Microsoft/Linux s/Bing/Linux I never would have predicted somebody cheering for "Microsoft the underdog."

The compromise that intellectual property strives for is to encourage innovation by rewarding inventors with time-limited exclusive rights in exchange for disclosure. The world gai…

It's a complex situation, as other posters have noted. Here's another complication. Often, faculty need multiple sources of funding over the years to support their research, includ…

Good idea; I haven't done any latency studies yet, but that's a great next step... The really interesting part would be to compute latencies with minification/gzip/both either on-t…