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adammarples··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Because they ask for permission, get it?
adammarples··on Can you see three trees?
They mean the City of London. They capitalised the C and everything, it's a thing.
adammarples··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
The words are so easy that this is pointless, and three clicks per word means I'm not going to get to the harder ones at the end. A proper spread of very difficult words split between scientific, historical, artistic, linguistic, colloquial, old, new, colonial, etc would give a better sampling. If I know "palimpsest" I probably know "pledge" you don't need to cover much of the easy stuff.
adammarples··on The AirPods Effect
No, riding for a long time without ear protection will damage your ears. Ear plugs at least are recommended. I am not hearing anything over the wind and engine noise anyway.
adammarples··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
Sending me your AI compressed ramblings = straight in the bin
adammarples··on Iroh 1.0
Maybe. It's offering "Customized hosting and monitoring for Iroh apps".
adammarples··on The Difference Between Rest and Idleness
One idea repeated 100 times
adammarples··on Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)
Quite in this context means very
adammarples··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
Proactive is a word literally describing actions, not emotions.
adammarples··on I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit
The centre for effective altruism puts most of its efforts into mitigating the risks of super intelligent AI doesn't it?
adammarples··on The Countdown to a Major Oil Price Surge Has Begun
It is almost entirely explained by China cutting imports significantly. They are running down their inventory waiting for prices to drop again. Consumption was previously constrainted in much of Asia, for example 4 day work weeks etc. The US has also lowered their strategic petroleum reserve to new lows.
adammarples··on Claude Fable 5
My dear friend, please start with the online safety act, and continue with the recent developments regarding age verification and/or device scanning on all operating systems to check for nudity. No, nobody is talking about it here, but we should be.
adammarples··on We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued
You haven't built a data center for half a billion mate, you've just launched rockets. You still have to build the data centre! Only not from bricks, it's going to be complex modular units made of radiators and solar panels and you have to buy the gpus too, and the whole thing will be bombarded with cosmic background radiation but you can't replace or repair any part of it.
adammarples··on Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Did you see the news from Belfast today?
adammarples··on xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab
It's right in the article, there were 40bn of disclosed costs. It's still a good return, it pays for itself in 18 months, but if you build and rent data centres, then that's your business, and you're not likely to 100x in 3 years, which is the wild projection behind their valuation.
adammarples··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
Saves you a click maybe, at least it's easy to always know what ticket you're working on right in the terminal
adammarples··on Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers
This chips will still be able to process tokens in a few years and you'll still be buying them
adammarples··on Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years
Yes it did, you don't need to worry about whether the sql execution engine is spark, or snowflake, or sqlite or what, you just reason about the top level logic
adammarples··on How LLMs work
Apparently even single-celled protozoa can show learned trial and error behaviour.
adammarples··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Struggling to do named entity recognition, with lots of tagging by hand, and then seeing BERT just being able to straight up answer questions about a document. Had to sit down after that because it was past anything I could even understand.
adammarples··on The British university is dying, and it seems that almost nobody cares
It's because they depend on foreign students for their income because they are limited on how much they can charge domestic students. Recent anti immigration sentiment has caused a massive fall in foreign student numbers.
adammarples··on Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
I could easily tell apart all of my friends from the neck down, do you find that? Apart from height, size, gender, there's style, hair length and tons of things that make it quite possible.
adammarples··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
Pretty much everywhere I've worked recently enforces some kind of jira ticket number in the PR title
adammarples··on Am I Unc?
Kind of doesn't work because lots of these are gen z/alpha. They feel relieved when plans get cancelled, they cancel things day of. The should have been a few youth tells in there to trip us up instead of any tick being an unc score.
adammarples··on A Man Who Reads Books for a Living
Can you tell him to stop eliding words and paraphrasing that would be great. Also [speaks French] instead of translating or giving French subtitles.
adammarples··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Someone makes a trade at a lower price. That's all a crash is. It's a crash in price, nothings actually happening to the stock or the token or the money.
adammarples··on SpaceX's IPO is a disaster waiting to happen for your pension fund
Really because the entire world's economy is only about 120Tn. One internet provider is about 5% of that?
adammarples··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Really do you care that your daughters are being advertised beauty products at the exact moment that they delete a photo because it's likely that they're feeling low self esteem at that moment? Because that's a service that you used to be able to buy from Meta.
adammarples··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
If morality is only a consideration after similar pay and benefits are secured, then it's not really a high enough consideration to call the person moral
adammarples··on Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for Julia
Jupyter is not a pure python thing, the Ju already stands for Julia, py for Python and the r for R
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