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outside415··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
I am just happy someone is slowing the H1B and indian out sourcing down. between that and AI california tech was about to die for Americans.
outside415··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
thank god he won. someone had to do whatever was necessary.
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outside415··on ChatGPT Pro
have used it at 2 different enterprises internally, the issue is price more than anything. enterprises definitely do want to self host, but for frontier tech they want frontier models for solving complicated unsolved problems or building efficiencies in complicated workflows. one company had to rip it out for a time due to price, I no longer work there anymore though so can't speak on if it was reintegrated.
outside415··on ChatGPT Pro
this is more or less my take too. if tomorrow all Claude and ChatGPT became $200/month I would still pay. The value they provide me with far, far exceeds that. so many cynics in this thread.
outside415··on Claude for Desktop
worked fine for me on google chrome by setting it up as a search engine/site search.
outside415··on Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus
I don't have tinnitus on most of my devices at medium to high volumes. only apple devices and more recently built wireless in ear monitors. victim blaming is great though.

I personally like to pick apart all of the layers of music and hear all of the nuance/production. At low volume this is generally not possible. Not all of us have audiophile tendencies though I suppose.

outside415··on Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus
the newer generations of AirPods absolutely trigger tinnitus for me. The gen 1 AirPod Pros are the best. I really have to crank the volume to trigger it. The Gen 2 AirPod Pros are the worst. Even low volumes rip apart my ears. Constant ringing all of the time. The USB-C Airpod Pros Gen 2 are ok at low to mid volumes, can't use them at high volumes what so ever though, they also let in a terrible amount of wind noise for outdoor activity which makes them unusable since turning up the volume to mute the wind noise causes tinnitus for me.

The AirPod Pro Max also get too loud, they are ok at low to mid volumes, high volumes = extreme tinnitus.

HomePods are similar, I can only have them on at volume levels I appreciate for short periods of time or I get tinnitus.

Compare this with my old sennheisers and audeze headphones, 0 tinnitus even at extreme volumes. Similar for my in ear Mochi headphones.

Or compare the HomePods to my Panasonic Surround Sound Speakers for my TV from 12 years ago that I still use, I can make the walls shake with no tinnitus. If I turn up my homepods to a volume close to that my ears will be ringing for hours or days after. It really bums me out, I wish I understood what is changing about the technology. Like are they going from Analog to Digital and is digital more harsh or something? I don't know.

outside415··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
Only his word to go off of.
outside415··on Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn
Watch his interview with Tucker Carlson and you’ll see. He doesn’t acquiesce to government requests for moderation control, censorship, and sharing private user data so they target him. He refuses to implement backdoors as well. In stark contrast to western social media companies.
outside415··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
I am talking like IC-5/6. Senior / Staff level.
outside415··on Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable
They pay very well for senior roles . Like $700k+ tc
outside415··on Show HN: AI-Powered Stock Market Analyst with Global Coverage
It is released by both OpenAI and Anthropic each to one of their key partners(large hedge fund) with exclusive access. I have inside sources at both that have told me as much.
outside415··on Meta 3D Gen
this is why I love half life alyx. it just gets so much detail in VR space in a way that no other game ever has that makes for a truly immersive experience.
outside415··on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
A lot of people I’ve met the neurodivergent camp end up on a soup of anti depressants, adhd meds, and other random antis. All because they are treating symptoms rather than the underlying issue.
outside415··on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
those ADHD meds are exceptionally addictive and long term damaging to your body/heart/mind. be careful.
outside415··on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
well said. everything needs to be diagnosed and treated with drugs. it is better to persevere with CBT, meditation, and self discipline than to cop out to some prescriptive drug regimen because neurodivergence is viewed as something a drug company can profit of off.
outside415··on Claude 3 model family
a lot of jobs are being replaced by AI already... comms/copywriting/customer service/off shored contract technicals roles especially.
outside415··on Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle
https://tenor.com/view/woody-harrelson-crying-money-wipe-tea...
outside415··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
yeah but if you had 4090s with H100 equiv VRAM (prob don't even need HBM equiv) that wouldn't require quantizing larger models you would end up with a ton of LLM workstations at a fraction of what they charge for H100s. The demand would be high. What China was doing with the 4090s requires a great deal of technical/manufacturing prowess that doesn't apply to most.
outside415··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
they're a fast follow that competes for the middle and low end of the market. they won't produce anything that competes with NVIDIA's topend any time soon. Will take some outside competitor like LPUs or something that comes and changes the game to make a dent, that will take a while though I reckon. Hardware revolutions take years to scale.
outside415··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
imagine how impossibly sold out those cards would be.
outside415··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
based on what I've seen from IDC and Gartner in fact it will keep growing for another 2-3 years in insane fashion at least.
outside415··on Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2024
each generation of models will require larger training clusters... at least from the majors.
outside415··on The reasons people are sending back their Apple Vision Pro headsets
smol brain, smol need for parallelization of tasks across multiple monitors.
outside415··on Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle
have fun staying poor.
outside415··on OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation
what constitutes a bad bet is largely in the eye of the beholder unless there are clear parameters to help define an EV. Also different investors will have different tolerances for risk. I have extremely high tolerance for risk and have been rewarded for that tolerance with outsized gains in the market over the years that have dwarfed all of my jobs combined in income except for my most recent stint at NVIDIA.

a financial advisor would always tell you to unload all shares at each vest since you are holding more shares in the form of future vestings.they would then tell you to diversify it into ETFs in a mean variance optimized portfolio tailored to your risk appetite using standard deviation of historical returns and correlation of underlying basket of goods. this is a solid approach that produces predictable safe returns.

I would rather let it ride since I have insider information at most companies I work for and have a better understanding of future returns on that stock that the average person on the street.

I say, take average advice, receive average returns.

:)

outside415··on OpenAI Deal Lets Employees Sell Shares at $86B Valuation
I’m still holding all of my Facebook stock from around IPO time when I worked there.
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