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altspace··on NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
Any views on how Isaac Lab / Isaac Sim would perform on DGX Spark?
altspace··on NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
I’ve been thinking the same… I have jetson Thor and only difference I can imagine is the capability to connect two DGX sparks together… but then I’d rather go for RTX pro 6000 instead of buying two DGX spark units, because I prefer the higher memory bandwidth, more Cuda cores, tensor cores and RT cores over 256 GB memory for my use case.
altspace··on US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees
Opportunity for AI agents to deep dive into all the options and provide user friendly view?
altspace··on If you are good at code review, you will be good at using AI agents
What I took away from the article was that being good at code review makes the person better at guiding the agent to do the job, giving the right context and constraints at the right time… and not that the code reviewer has to fix whatever agent generated… this is also pretty close to my personal experience… LLM models are a bull which can be guided and definitely not a complete idiot…

In a strange kind of analogy, flowing water can cause a lot of damage.. but a dam built to the right specification and turbines can harness that for something very useful… the art is to learn how to build that dam

altspace··on Nvidia's new 'robot brain' goes on sale for $3,499
they are becoming available on arrow in limited quantities. I just ordered mine arriving this week
altspace··on I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner
Reminded me of the red cube in NYC https://publicdelivery.org/isamu-noguchi-red-cube/
altspace··on European Central Bank rises rates by 0.5%
raises
altspace··on In second largest DeFi hack, Blockchain Bridge loses $320M Ether
You’ll like stacks.co
altspace··on IPython 8.0
In VS code, .py file can work like a notebook. VS Code treats #%% as start of a cell, while being a plain comment when running the it as .py file. VS code can also convert an existing jupyter notebook to .py with this format
altspace··on Log4j 2.15.0 – Previously suggested mitigations may not be enough
Does anybody use the Jndi lookup feature at the root of this vulnerability? I wonder if it was a feature bloat
altspace··on Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
Congratulations, you definitely paid attention while watching office space
altspace··on I lasted three minutes at Amazon
Thank you for posting this. I’m glad you made the choices you did. I hope you find better working environment.
altspace··on Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces major reorganization
Yes, but nobody is running servers with those protocols for free
altspace··on Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces major reorganization
> It has unbelievable to me that we are using a for-profit platform for communication between governments and the public they serve

The internet is a for-profit platform

altspace··on More Cash Invested in Stock in 2021 Than Two Decades Combined
I’ve been wondering about same /similar thing. I keep hearing that increase in m2 supply is ok as long it goes into assets… not sure how it’s ok since cash still stays in circulation
altspace··on Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers to Kill 100k Weeds an Hour
But then you have to eat those chemicals
altspace··on Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021?
2x whatever time I think it’ll take.

Most of the time expectations matter. Only sometimes time to market really matters. At that time nobody asks for estimate

altspace··on Senators have a deal on the crypto amendment, and Treasury won’t oppose it
> Treasury Department said it would not oppose a bipartisan agreement that limits a proposal in the infrastructure bill to increase federal regulation of cryptocurrencies

Anybody else thinks there is was a simpler way to write this?

altspace··on What if Bitcoin went to zero?
If Bitcoin goes to zero, I’ll buy all of it
altspace··on U.S. Fed reverse repo volume hits record $1T
This is to balance the impact of low interest rates on money market funds to avoid them from going into negative rate territory.
altspace··on U.S. Fed reverse repo volume hits record $1T
No, Fed is Paying ~$1.37 Million in interest a day
altspace··on Why our “wandering brains” are wired to love art and nature
> we are not biologically programmed to like or this or that object, but rather inclined to enjoy the process of play, improvisation, trial, and error in all things

Yep

altspace··on Moderna to take mRNA flu and HIV vaccines into Phase 1 trials this year
Thank you!
altspace··on Moderna to take mRNA flu and HIV vaccines into Phase 1 trials this year
What is PrEP?
altspace··on Robinhood Files S-1
Yeah, FIFO only is constraining. I’m definitely waiting for them to offer LIFO and Highest Cost lots
altspace··on In 2020, two thirds of Google searches ended without a click
A lot of time I get my answer in the “people also ask”section of the google search result. The section has exactly the paragraph with the relevant information. Maybe, search results are getting better?
altspace··on John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
Are there any metrics available for secondary sale of NFTs?
altspace··on WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
Thanks for the description and links. It’s a neat approach
altspace··on WallStreetBets members adopt 3,500 gorillas in six days
Curious how that works? Parallel blockchain? But how do you “migrate”? Incremental migration?
altspace··on Ask HN: What would the implications be of Perseverance finding life on Mars?
Not much different than finding a new civilization on earth
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