datadrivenangel
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Author of Virtual Power: The Future of Energy Flexibility
- datadrivenangelprobably a couple of dollars a month, which would be very tough to actually make work. Even facebook only makes a few hundred dollars a year per person in the US.
- Nuclear plants, like most large thermal plants, are almost always located near large bodies of water and return that water downstream so it doesn't really matter?
- and GPT4 was pretty decent at OCR, so that's weird?
- If a fix is relatively low cost and improves the software in a way that makes it easier to modify in the future, it makes it easier to change the requirements. In aggregate these pay off.
- This permission is so weirdly named and scary, and the applications never tell you why they're requesting it... on iOS it would be against the developer guidelines...
- Apple shot themselves in the foot in the late 2010s by switching to deep learning methods and making things slower and worse, with the spell checker being the worst example.
- What's nuts about that presentation is that the github frontend has gone from ~.2 to >2 Million lines of code in the last 5-6 years. 10x the code... to get slower?
- Usually there are hard limits around doing 51% of the work yourself, so you can only sub out half of it.
- You just do it at enterprise scale with all the people needed to make it enterprise legible... and a couple of setbacks and change orders later and you're at 2.5x the original budget!
- AT $250 an hour and 8 hours per day / 2000 hours per year, that's almost ~50 people years, which likely means a team of 10-12 devs working on it over 18 months with another 1-3 design and product and project people in the way making things look good until the bill arrived. Accenture is good at that. [0]
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- Except this judge is especially harsh, which suggests that he's very biased, and thus being more productive via AI seems like a bad outcome.
From TFA: "Burns approved just 2 percent of asylum claims between fiscal 2019 and 2025—compared with a national average of 57.7 percent."
- Multiple countries have detonated nuclear bombs using U-233 derived from thorium reactors! [0] Practically I agree with you that thorium is proliferation resistant and if someone is bomb hungry they won't prioritize it, but if you want to set up the bomb and all you have is thorium... The infrastructure wouldn't necessarily be significantly larger or worse than conventional enrichment.
- Thorium can be used to make weapons via the breeding cycle. It's much less convenient and straightforward than uranium/plutonium, but it is possible.
- Hire an expensive AI Software engineer to replace 2-3 lower paid employees... that will reduce staff count and boost average pay, but is it better overall?
- "On the other hand, if we can’t accept failure in our hearts, we’ve already lost. Not only do we deny ourselves the possibility of succeeding (and what is success in art but a chance to enjoy ourselves and connect with people?), but from experiencing the process and all that it has to teach us. We have to embrace it all or embrace nothing."
Words of wisdom and inspiration.
- Replicate is my preferred go to for image models and easy proof of concepts for language models, so congratulations to them!
- And he's not juggling Blue Origin that well given the delays. Still impressive to go to space, so the man deserves credit, but it likely would have been several years faster and billions less if he had been more involved.
- Usually the most advanced attacks are a few chained zero days or a zero day on top of a configuration /patching error. The worst attacks are when a zero day for wordpress or outlook comes out.
- I think there may be pushing needed, but the utility isn't obvious enough in enough places to be worth pushing. And I say this as an AI user.