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amanda99

285 karma · joined December 4, 2023

Background in applied math, work in ML and software.
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amanda99··on You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?
Two things:

1. "Password" is a magic word that makes people less likely to just paste it into anything.

2. Username + passwords are two separate pieces of information that are not normally copy-pasted at the same time or have a canonical way of being stored next to each other.

amanda99··on Singapore Airlines Concorde
OK, sure, I plugged this into a sim flight planner (http://onlineflightplanner.org/). This is on a Dreamliner.

    Heathrow - Changi: 63933 kgs
    
    Heathrow - Tehran: 26957 kgs
    Tehran - Changi: 39580 kgs
So at least based on this it's not too much of a difference, only 4% more with a stop. (Tehran looked to be roughly in the middle on the flight plan between London and Singapore.)
amanda99··on Fly.io has GPUs now
I think the bigger question is how long it takes to load any meaningful model onto the GPU.
amanda99··on Why did older computers and OSes use UPPER case instead of lower case?
This is specifically about why they chose upper case, instead of lower case, given they could only pick one.
amanda99··on Australia to ban engineered stone
Had a friend who worked in construction. He said every day the workplace health & safety person would come in and show them a video of the "dumb [expletive] of the day" doing something very stupid by not following WHS rules, and suffering the consequences of it. Allegedly this helped with compliance quite a fair bit.
amanda99··on Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?
The risk with this is that you spend 10 hours learning statistics then get demotivated and never do the other 190 hours to get to the good stuff. Then quickly you forget the 10 hours of stats you learnt too as it's irrelevant and you don't use it.

For me, playing with things and doing cool & fun stuff is always the way to get deeper into something.

amanda99··on Fracking for Europe [video]
I just wanted to call out this particular statement for being FUD. It's a common "argument" from anti-nuclear folks who are just scared of nuclear waste because "but it's radioactive and I'm scared of it". Really it's just an inability to look at the facts and be rational.

I also remain mildly amazed that the adoption of nuclear is still debate worthy. I suppose there are whole generations scared beyond repair from the Cold War and nuclear weapons, so that they cannot see past that.

amanda99··on Fracking for Europe [video]
> The risks of nuclear fission by products are open ended.

This is just FUD.

The orders of magnitude worse CO2 being emitted into the atmosphere where it is in such low concentration that we'll have no chance of ever removing it from there is much worse than nuclear waste for humanity's future. At least nuclear waste is concentrated and there is very little of it, so it can be treated and handled appropriately.

amanda99··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
They are a music distributor, and they have good relationships with the rights holders and will do their legwork for them.
amanda99··on Eurostar Amsterdam to London trains cancelled for six months
Pre-Ukraine situation there used to be a train between Helsinki (Finland) and St Petersburg (Russia) that did this: border checks on a high-speed train. Definitely some of the more serious checks and visa requirements on that border as well.
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