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Aside from the main topic but related to the books, wtf happened to howstuffworks.com? "Pisces and Taurus Compatibility in Relationships: What You Need to Know" Did he sell off thi…

the tests were for these local (metal direct connect ssds). The issue is not network overhead -- its that just like everything else in cloud the performance of 10 years ago was use…

Cough wells fargo, cough

yeah in that regard SVB also lost hundreds of billions on trades it could have made optimally in the market with those funds (looking with hindsight). Should you look at the opport…

A ton of capital at the ready to offer bridge loans at shark rates or for blood equity for companies panicking and impacted by the same act of gathering those funds out of SVB to c…

The FDIC charter: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by the Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s fina…

SVB was a bank that mostly served corporate operations accounts for tehc nad healthcare startups and small businesses. People were not banking there for high returns. This is not a…

The other good news is that it will probably net out to costing little to nothing in the long term as they had enough assets to cover liabilities -- it was a liquidity crunch. Seem…

yeah I think there are two things that will be interesting here. The real detailed timeline. How much Thiel's cohorts jumped into offer bridge loans or stopgaps to impacted compani…

this is why imho I see the pull out of the clients especially those that happened before the sale offer even came to term as an orchestrated ploy to tank the bank and then be in a …

it's good then that the funds to support the deposits are coming from the bank funded fdic fund not taxes then.

They had 13b in cash going into this year and other highly liquid assets, those evaporated as the draw downs happened. Its not like they tucked away all assets into 10 year lockups…

I am really enjoying elixir/pheonix/liveview -- feels super fast to poc stuff out and also is not throw away as the system scales unbelievably well.

The also have some end of life blogs -- here one is from a defunct team. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering

I have not been following this closely but I thought most all of the quantum safe algorithms that had been proposed so far had been found lacking for traditional attacks very soon …

I think is a mix, there are probably a lot of areas where it does provide value and it's getting to a point where training or tuning existing models is low hanging fruit for those …

This is not my understanding, I have read at least 7 or 8 papers that seem to have for various models and techniques reduced the delta between masked and unmasked recognition to be…

I don't know what merchant system they are using but I will say it is very common for them to have their own anti fraud detection and rejection on charges. Your specific case could…

You have been a good Bing.

There have been pretty huge leaps over partially obstructed facial recognition algorithms in the last few years -- I think state of the art is approaching no meaningful loss of mat…

The leds are placed on the chest -- seems like a miss to not place them also around the hoodie near the face. I would suspect even without strobing the over saturation would work s…

it looks like the only thing openai does is generate a schema from a specific hand written prompt from cursory overview.

imagine the reaction when he finds out what that house that sold for 60k thirty years ago costs now.

+ if the Toyota engine fails in a car you tow it to a shop -- if the 172 engine fails you emergency land in the best case (or crash in the worst). There is just a whole lot more on…

This or that non-technical person finding a technical co-founder while not being realistic about the stake each provides to the company. Ideas are worthless (infinite numbers of th…