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totoglazer··on Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor
A) very cool to learn about that term.

B) that page must be ChatGPT authored, right?

totoglazer··on Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?
Found it to be a really unpleasant experience using Airalo in Europe on an iPhone. Maybe user error, but everyone in our group had confusing issues. Lots of problems with the phone forgetting the home number meant it was hard to get messages with iMessage, and no SMS caused a big mess with local businesses and with 2 factor/fraud detection. No phone number was also an issue a few times. I don’t know what we did wrong, but it was really frustrating.
totoglazer··on Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin
I don’t think it’s budget, i think it’s about the churn. They want an assembly line of blockbusters at a predictable cadence. If you need a good plot it adds a lot of uncertainty into which script, how long it will take to write, etc. much easier to just take whatever the best thing laying around on the deadline day and keep moving forward.
totoglazer··on AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
What’s the story with that bot? Always thought it was cool. Was that all smoke and mirrors?
totoglazer··on The Era of the Autodidact Is Here (2018)
[2018]
totoglazer··on Evolution of the Double Edge Blade (1990)
I used them some for a month, and off and on since. I had high hopes, but find the shave worse quality, more difficult, and nicked myself some. Went back to Gillette.
totoglazer··on The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I
That energy is still being consumed if it’s happening on device. It’s just more spread out, and potentially less efficient.
totoglazer··on Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
It’s common in boating, for sure!
totoglazer··on Field experimental evidence of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality
Note this paper was published in September 2023.
totoglazer··on Mypy 1.6
The continued growth and maturity of typing and LLMs like GitHub copilot finally make IDEs powerful for python. Excited about the future of the language.
totoglazer··on MemGPT – LLMs with self-editing memory for unbounded context
Not to denigrate the person you’re responding to, but to add some context: That paper got a decent amount of attention already. Probably one of the more notable in the literature over the last month. Plus compared to the past year everything is slow now.
totoglazer··on I helped select the Nobel laureates in physics
Although it sounds like that’s just a ratification of an already selected winner.
totoglazer··on How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?
Also for ampersand! https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2520...
totoglazer··on CT scans of coffee-making equipment
Such a cool idea, and attractive images. However I’m kind of disappointed they mostly picked things that are fairly simple, transparent or openable, and look exactly the way you’d expect them to inside. I assume some combination of cost & size drove this.

A vintage espresso machine with 1 group head would be more novel, for example.

totoglazer··on Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules
CUDA is the basis for the entire “AI revolution.” Their entire stock price now is from the extreme demand for A100/H100 to power AI and other supercomputing needs. That’s possible because the software stack (CUDA drivers, etc) are incredibly powerful at turning the silicon into value. AMD also has ok hardware, but almost no adoption due to software. If they give up the software the huge advantage they have will erode.
totoglazer··on Modern CSV version 2
~$1000 USD based on the quoted Whatsburger/USD cross rate.
totoglazer··on PDF Tool – Modify PDFs in the browser without uploading
Preview.app is surprisingly good at a lot of this. Someone should clone it for Linux/Windows.
totoglazer··on A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
No way. Half goes to overhead. 600k/4 people/4years = 38k/person/year.
totoglazer··on “How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress
Exactly. The cynical view: If you were any good you wouldn’t need the master’s degree. If you were good and wanted to learn more you’d do a PhD. But you didn’t learn what you were supposed to in undergrad, or could not get/do a job, or need a visa. So you paid a bunch of money to some school that wouldn’t let you into undergrad or a PhD, but will take your cash for a full fare professional masters degree mill. I’ve seen this in industry and in academia.
totoglazer··on “How is your thesis going?” Students’ perspectives on mental health and stress
Isn’t this a pretty universally held opinion?
totoglazer··on Goodreads has no incentive to be good
Isn’t that how literally every one of these is implemented for the last decade?
totoglazer··on Solar will soon eclipse other forms of energy generation
It’s definitely a problem. However reducing annual global fossil fuel usage by 70% is still huge and worth doing today.

In terms of the Northern Europe winter, wind, offshore wind, and solar from Africa will hopefully make up a lot of the shortfall.

totoglazer··on Demand and ETR Forecasting at Airports
This is such bullshit. I’m sure they A/B test and find that outright lies helped with whatever metrics. However I too don’t trust the apps, including Lyft, to represent pickup times at all accurately. That’s assuming good faith on the drivers, which I’ve found to be very dubious.
totoglazer··on A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
It’s not the best written or typeset. However I think that’s a quote from Armstrong?

> Armstrong, however, said that Maricopa County will need to resort to herbicides, which may pose their own risks. “I don't believe that we'll be able to remove stinknet just by pulling it. We're going to need some chemical methods as well.”

totoglazer··on Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
I also want to run my job on 5 DGXs for a month, not 1 DGX for 5 months.
totoglazer··on Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs
There’s demand in GCP for H100s so they offer them. I doubt Google itself is a big user.
totoglazer··on It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out
It’s been available on Azure in preview. Pricing is double the 8K model.
totoglazer··on LSD: Not Even Once
This happened to a teenager I know. About 6 months ago. They’ve been hospitalized several times for suicidal thoughts, self harm, etc. Really messing them up, I fear for the rest of their life.
totoglazer··on Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought
Ah yes, clearly no human has ever survived without eating meat.
totoglazer··on RedPajama: Reproduction of LLaMA with friendly license
This tweet is misunderstanding the papers.
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