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A couple of years ago, my wife (around 40 at the time) was struggling to sleep (she had very light sleep and woke up in the middle of the night for no reason). She tried most of th…

Great! I just spent the past 4 days in Helsinki for vacation (writing this from Silja ferry to Copenhage). Really lovely city , Allas pool Sauna is really a "something else" experi…

Maybe at some point it may even get the ternary conditional operator or a proper exception handling syntax. Those things that Golang defenders say "dont make sense" until it's impl…

That was my first thought. In my experience, particularly with trading firms (the ones doing real science based prediction trading, not TA bullshit) do not publish ANYTHING at all,…

Lol. As a Mexican "brown" I would feel safer from police in China than in the US.

I think for profit Health Insurance is a straight 100% scam. The only service where you pay a company for a service and when you need that service they spend as much money as possi…

>. In this case AI will be responsible for building better models, making people who own datacenters the winners. We need SETI@home for Open Weight models yesterday...

I dream of some kind of "adjustable" ASIC layers, that have the most "computation demanding" layers as ASICs plus a bunch of configurable R+W circuits (FPGAs?) that can be written …

Too bad the things that really matter don't make "sense" (mostly people talk about economic sense when talking about this). Increasing the temperature of the earth , and water usag…

I dont remember why I was kind of barred from lobsters , but I applaud all this behavior you mentioned. In the end, that's how normal clickes of friends/interest groups form (or fo…

Oh but it really is. An LLM is no magic wand. It's a model as its name rigthly indicates. Those of us who have worked in modeling and simulations know two principles of models: - g…

>It's also, frankly, quite lonely. Programming with an LLM is an intensely solitary activity. > You and the machine, going back and forth, refining and prompting and reviewing. I j…

Come on, ALL companies are psychopaths in their behavior. Their only objective is to make money to shareholders. So anything that gets in their way is fair game. They are relentles…

> I can’t understand how we got to this place with “app culture" Thie assertion is extremely funny to me. Historically we come from an "app culture". Back in the day, around 2000 o…

This is when I wish Jobs was still in charge of Apple. I never quite liked him, but I like Altman way less. And Jobs would CRUCIFY the whole openAI team for this. It would be beaut…

Have you seen the clown they elected in the US? Also, ive heard in Ukraine they elected a comedian as president.

Isn't the US famous for not even signing a lot of world treaties like climate accords and others? This is an interesting subject and conversation, but it's moot having it in these …

I wonder how would a RAID0 array of either disks or even nvme improve the performance of this.

This is something that would benefit from Intel Optane memory. Too bad it was killed at the time.

I will be delighted to try. I have a 128gb macbookpro m4 waiting for this.

I remember around 2 years ago give or take, we used it at a company for A/B testing. The UI was sensible enough. But fast forward to a couple of weeks ago, I opened an account and …

I'm currently watching Better Call Saul for the first time with my wife. The fact that they used old ladies for the Ad, and that it is evident they are reading from a prompt (fake-…

Good, hopefully in 10-15 years we will have mostly self-driving cars for most ground transportation requirements.

They definitely havent. Tech side of companies is a Cost Center. And the main question the CEO/CFO makes to the CTO every week is "how can we reduce our AWS bill?" , even before th…

Reminds me of an American guy who I met in the UK around 2005 when I was doing my PhD (he was doing his 2nd PhD!!!). He refused to open a "cloud" email account (Google, Hotmail, et…