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puppymaster··on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized
I am gonna blame your OCD for the malfunctioned sarcasm detector.
puppymaster··on Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server
eh depending on what he means by 'specific set of criteria'. The vol might be lower than benchmark (i doubt it since they are pennystocks)

Pretty sure OP sharpe ratio is higher than benchmark for the last two months.

puppymaster··on Cursor hits $9B valuation
me too. and they are pushing new updates everyday. If you are a emacs/vim user claude code is really pushing what's possible with a terminal app (the loading text, custom command, auto cursor refresh)
puppymaster··on TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
not just children. just go to testosterone sub and we have been getting weekly posts from 16-18 years old looking to inject due to tik tok gym bros. They are literally destroying their body.
puppymaster··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
It's not just the cutting edge node. Arizona chips will still be shipped back to Taiwan because TSMC only do Fan-out PoP packaging there. This will unlikely change for the next 5 factories. This is a good win win for everyone. Trump gets to parrot jobs back in america slogan, TSMC gets some extra money to scale out production to 64% of their revenue customer (US based) and Taiwan gets to keep what is really, really important.
puppymaster··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
Having been in Taiwan for 10 years, comments like these totally ignore the differences in personal traits and 誠信 between Terry Guo and Morris Chang. TSMC and the entire upper management is build differently than Foxconn. After all, Arizona factory is about to be up and running no?
puppymaster··on Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout
I also dont get how this is bearish for NVDA. Before this, small to mid companies would give up on finetuning their own model because openai is just so much better and cheaper. Now deepseek SOTA model gives them much better quality baseline model to train on. Wouldn't more people want to RAG on top of deepseek? or some startups accountant would run the numbers and figures we can just inference the shit out of deepseek locally and in the long run we still come out ahead of using oenai api.

Either way that means a lot more NVDA hardware being sold. You still need CUDAs as rocm is still not there yet. In fact NVDA needs to churn out more CUDAs than ever.

puppymaster··on Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting
and probably bump fist with Jesus on your way to the parking lot!
puppymaster··on Trae: AI Code Editor from ByteDance
even their CEO from Singapore is a puppet hire. The one that went to all the senate hearing is not the one calling all the shots. He was hired just so bytedance can keep playing the soundbite 'our ceo is not from china'.
puppymaster··on Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'
it eats into all NVDA consumer-facing clients no? I can see why openai and etc are looking for alternative hardware solution to train their next model.
puppymaster··on The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing
i live in nyc. i reread this twice and still don't understand what he is trying to say.
puppymaster··on Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
you are heading the right direction. It's amazing to see seasoned engineers go through the mental gymnastic of justifying installing all those dependencies and arguing about vector db choices when the data fit in ram and the swiss knife is right there: np.array
puppymaster··on Friends don't let friends export to CSV
ditto. if it fits in the ram, file types don't matter.
puppymaster··on Google's First Tensor Processing Unit: Architecture
not to mention every not-so-serious, inference heavy ML developers just want something to work to deliver to client. That itself is a semi-moat.
puppymaster··on Spreadsheets are all you need
it's like all the current gaga over RAG and vector dbs when the real ones just use numpy to prototype
puppymaster··on Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again
having spent extensive amount of time in both countries for the last 10 years, this is just categorically not true.

Miles worse? Nah. At worst, on par maybe.

puppymaster··on I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)
Snakes on the plane is a classic and I will fight anyone who says otherwise!
puppymaster··on Spotify attacks Apple's 'outrageous' 27% commission
but thanks to Epic court case Spotify can now put a big fat banner on their app that says 'go to this link to subscribe to Spotify premium'.
puppymaster··on $450 for a School Bag?
> The moment you add an aspect of culture and social pressure... yep I personally think gender reveal, 21st birthday all out party and easter egg are senseless but here we are
puppymaster··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
yep. Figma's 'workflow' has become an api in itself. In order to compete everyone has to match the flow
puppymaster··on Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death
I read andrew roberts napoleon front and back three times and I still love the new movie. must be the odd one out.

then again I love gladiator and walked into that one knowing it's not gonna be a real representation of historical accuracy. i am always curious what other folks interpretation of Napoleon (and other rome emperors for that matter) and it's very interesting to see this is what Ridley thinks of him. Definitely a new perspective worth dinner table chat.

puppymaster··on The coolest robot I've ever built [video]
good god he built this, it's his channel so he can video it however he wants. i dont understand the point of this comment. why are you questioning the video length and supposedly intention behind it? just skip it or don't watch.
puppymaster··on Singapore: Right to own a car costs $76,000. And that doesn't include the car
not sure what you mean by screwed as some of my team members are HDB owners and we are not aware of any fiasco reg. Jurong expansion.

Anyway just want to provide additional context that housing is not for millionaires only in Singapore. Of course we can argue about the semantic of flat and house til the cows come home.

puppymaster··on Singapore: Right to own a car costs $76,000. And that doesn't include the car
Difficulty in owning a house in singapore is pretty similar to other developed countries. Like in HK, they have HDB (Housing Development Board) flats, which are government-subsidized housing, the median price is around S$500,000 (approximately $372,000 in USD). Only citizens and PRs can buy with subsidies for first time home owner. I would say around 60-80% singaporeans live on HDB housing.
puppymaster··on First blood test for dozens of hereditary cancers approved by FDA
it also gets into pretty uncomfy territory when you consider hereditary diseases that have a 40-60% percent curable rate in 5 years and most likely 90% rate in 10. Do you still abort under such circumstances?
puppymaster··on $2.70 supermarket wine wins gold medal at international wine contest
what a reductive comment. I am not going preface my reply with "i made wine" for extra cred but I do drink wine and love going to places like sicily, burgundy and ryoja just for walking around and touring wineyards.

Once every couple years this happens and somehow it invalidates all the nuance in the winemaking world. You premise of getting what taste good is the right approach. Everything else is noise is unnecessary.

There's a difference when a wineyard switches winemaster, or start using frappato to substitute for cab due to global warming. Or the 20/21 chianti classico is so different in profile than the rest of the previous years that's it's shaping up to what might be a golden vintage. or how 2020 from napa just isnt worth risking due to smoke taint. Or back in the 90s how mondavi and Michel Rolland almost ruined french wine due to everything being tailored chemi-made to be strong and oaky.

There're stories yes. There're also technicals. And experimentations. Just like every other sector from tech to fashion.

puppymaster··on eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
As a daily Google Sheet users, I am thankful and amazed by the monthly, or even daily improvement of the product for the past 5 years. Folks will be surprised how many hedge funds and quants use them for quick idea sketch
puppymaster··on If you travel to China, be aware of an exit ban
sure start your own thread. Now let's talk about China's exit ban.
puppymaster··on Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security
Hence the archive records of their yearly audit dating back to their founding year.
puppymaster··on Pixar was never a masterpiece factory
ITT: Apparently we all have different opinions about animated movies and that's okay
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