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the same way calculators replaced mental sums. not because it was sometimes faster, but that it was definitely more deterministic.

mass surveillance is like nuclear weapons.

it will never go away.

yep. and with the western funding model, how many hardware iterations can you do before you run out of runway?

I can say many things, but most people here will not believe me. I'd say just watch China do the 'impossible'. Then some self reflection should be in order.

yep. the word they use is probably 克制 or self-restraint. no need to raise so much cash if you can't use it.

in his article he talks about the negative aspects of getting everything you want. (all the money, brightest minds, biggest share in AI) etc. he says that these are the things that will cause a company to fail.

no different from how the mcdonalds system can turn any random person on the street to a smiling cog in the machine.

as a lifelong chopstick user, this article is for one of those fault finding crazies.

hold the chopstick however you like. so long as you don’t drop things unintentionally it’s fine.

this is how and adult sounds like in a room full of children.

the lesson to learn is - don't let the conversation die off. think of all the weird scenarios that wouldn't make google sheets work.

e.g. no access to internet (or at least VPN access via completely locked down devices) / internal email server / only open source etc.

if something doesn’t exist in this world, no amount of money will guarantee that you will get it.

if it exists in abundance like the air that we breathe no amount of conspiracy will be able to monopolize it.

finance only works in a very narrow band of environmental conditions. we are very well past that.

employers that demand long hours do so because they have no other way to appraise employee ability.

they cannot judge a brilliant insight from a slacker that would have saved thousands of man-hours rushing the wrong way.

do you really want to work for such a company?

I have purposely omitted the specifics as I also have given up trying to convince others interested in my worthwhile problem. If interests align, we will naturally meet.

I usually tell them it is more important that they should take some time (6 months - 1 year) to reflect in isolation to find their own worthwhile problems, and not get distracted by fads and drama.

I was like the author of the article, then I realized that I was solving problems that were created by other peoples' incompetence. Sure they were challenging, fun but they didn't bring anything postive overall. The incompetent people are still there - causing more problems.

So I decided to find a worthwhile problem that deserved my talent. And I did. And I am now even more happy than before.

I’m from the self-replicating self-reconfigurable systems side.

The problem with this is not about making the machines but the human intervention to make use of them effectively. You really need end-to-end automation to solve this.

If i don’t remember wrongly all this started due to john deere implementing DRM in their equipment. this is a political problem because the issue can be resolved by just buying chinese equivalents and changing patent/ip law.

it's already obsolete.

for USD699 (no ram and no storage) you can get this

6 SATA, 5 NVME drives, OCUlink and much more.

https://aoostar.com/products/aoostar-wtr-max-amd-r7-pro-8845...

even at 100% tarriffs US is still not competitive.

probably will come out within the next 5 iphone generations.

POC already out...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8404918/

NK is more of a russian client state, not chinese.

There are two parts to education. One is to impart knowledge, the other is to filter the students.

how far is the deep learning stack close to replacing them?

my favorite application of elliptic curves is this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/comments/azf0zo/im_stuck_on...

If you don't allow them to publish research work, your greatest talents will leave.

I used to work in such a restrictive environment. Nobody worth their salt stayed long.

That's not strange. There are many people who can ace exams but are not competent in applying it in their workplace.

This book is not for you.

Teaching others how to replicate solutions is very different from guiding people how to solve yet unsolved problems in the field.

This book is for the latter. For the former, you might want to look out for one in the "for dummies" series.

money isn't a map. it's a form of risk/benefit management. and USD is managed very differently from RMB.

why introduce capitalism and communism? it's like trying to use religious texts to explain astrophysics. just use science...

he will have to look further ahead.

It's not just about the man on a bicycle, it's a man on a bicycle on a flat road.

the opposite of an egoistic programmer, is the anonymous one.

then how do you credit those who do produce results? Just put money into the anonymous one's bank account.

I think it means protection from intellectual property claims in the future.

I think the reason to make it replace/removable is to reduce e-waste at EOL. Lots of companies have policies on data storage on decomissioned computers to be physically destroyed, so making it replaceable allows the machines to be repurposed after.