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aperrien··on Show HN: ExpenseOwl – Simple, self-hosted expense tracker
Whatever happened to the Quick Interchange Format(.qif)? It used to be common for all banks to support that. A modern variant today could just be a XML or JSON export, and I hardly see that either.
aperrien··on Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark
While descriptive, I'd think a catchier name might be in order. As a plus, that can be used to draw people away from any Oracle branding.
aperrien··on I automated my job application process
And then you run into problems on the corporate side: fake job listings to build up resume databases for comparison shopping of applicants. Regulations in this area should have to cut both ways.
aperrien··on Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
I'm designing a new PC and I'd like to be able to run local models. It's not clear to me from posts online what the specs should be. Do I need 128gb of RAM? Or would a 16gb RTX 4060 be better? Or should I get a 4070 ti? If anyone could pint me toward some good guidelines I'd greatly appreciate it.
aperrien··on Black people are receiving racist text messages about picking cotton
All you'd need to do is join dark web data to social network data. Phone numbers are common parts of those data sets.
aperrien··on Codeproject.com is switching into read-only mode
Can someone get ahold of the current owners and have them deliver a copy of the site to the Internet Archive?
aperrien··on Undark and the Radium Girls (2006)
You know, who knows what happened to the investors in US Radium? Where did their funds go, and is there a trail of other problems (or bodies) with their subsequent investments? I'd like to know who I hypothetically should and shouldn't be investing my money with, as I want the world to be a better place.
aperrien··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
What do you use for valve automation? Is it a commercial or custom part? I've been wanting to do the same myself, but I hear there's all sorts of quality issues with automatic valves.
aperrien··on AI is not a Net Positive for Society
I understand in this case the subfloor is unrestrained and unregulated capitalism.
aperrien··on AI is not a Net Positive for Society
If your subfloor is rotting away, do you replace it or put new carpeting on top of it?
aperrien··on Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico
> But still, nobody is building residential neighborhoods on the top of the Everest or in the middle of Antarctica

Nobody is permitted to build permanent habitats in either of those areas, even though they might be feasible.

aperrien··on What if public housing were for everyone?
What happens when the company lays people off, or shuts down?
aperrien··on The first human received an implant from Neuralink yesterday
This is a terribly cynical take on the world. Why strive for any progress at all, then?
aperrien··on Space Solar Power Demonstrator ends first in-space mission
One other important note is that is possible to put solar arrays in orbit that are always facing the sun, so they can deliver power 24 hours a day.
aperrien··on Archiving Steam games for fun and profit
You can download the independent installers for all games on GOG either through their website directly, or through the GOG launcher. I regularly do this to have the installers for my games on my local NAS.
aperrien··on Visualizing Pokémon Red and Blue Connections (2020)
Not to be negative, but isn't that the whole category of roguelikes? There are definitely Pokémon roguelikes out there.
aperrien··on SpaceX plans to sell shares next month at $150B valuation
A money seeking company might not want to go. But there likely will be co-op based groups that would go. Similar to this project that helped develop parts of Alaska at a time where it was considered to be nothing but snow and ice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanuska_Valley_Colony

https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/twhp-matanuska-colon...

aperrien··on Auto industry executives admit electric vehicle plans are in jeopardy
Hyundai and Kia are "tech-bro tier companies"? Just what is a "tech-bro" nowadays? I used to think it was someone who worked in tech just for the money, not caring about whether or not the underlying technology was interesting, or whether or not the technology had a deleterious effect on others. Now I'm not sure. I keep seeing the term used to vaguely describe "people in tech that I don't like."
aperrien··on Samsung announces 'Shinebolt' HBM3E memory
How soon do people think that we'll get in-memory computing chips?
aperrien··on Retro Arcade Game Ads
Is there any way to download the database locally?
aperrien··on No Fakes Act wants to protect actors and singers from unauthorized AI replicas
So... Vocaloids?
aperrien··on I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Even open source API's?
aperrien··on Safety inspector fired for finding 'too many defects'
Not punishing shareholders directly makes sense, at that level some sort of fine is probably best. But perhaps we should punish the board of directors for creating an environment where their subordinates need to look the other way when it comes to safety? They are the one who set the day to day policies and operations of the company. If enough of that happens, then maybe the board won't be as fast to push things without considering the consequences.
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The paper "Interpreting the retinal neural code for natural scenes: From computations to neurons" is available in the journal Neuron at:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...

aperrien··on Princeton ‘AI Snake Oil’ authors say GenAI hype has ‘spiraled out of control’
Or you can run your own open source AI, on your own hardware.
aperrien··on Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]
Is there a similar economics paper on interplanetary trade? The abstract seems to mention one.
aperrien··on Digital Twin Brain: a simulation and assimilation platform for whole human brain
Abstract—In this work, we present a computing platform named digital twin brain (DTB) that can simulate spiking neuronal networks of the whole human brain scale and more importantly, a personalized biological brain structure. In comparison to most brain simulations with a homogeneous global structure, we highlight that the sparseness, couplingness and heterogeneity in the sMRI, DTI and PET data of the brain has an essential impact on the efficiency of brain simulation, which is proved from the scaling experiments that the DTB of human brain simulation is communication-intensive and memory-access-intensive computing systems rather than computation-intensive. We utilize a number of optimization techniques to balance and integrate the computation loads and communication traffics from the heterogeneous biological structure to the general GPU-based HPC and achieve leading simulation performance for the whole human brain-scaled spiking neuronal networks. On the other hand, the biological structure, equipped with a mesoscopic data assimilation, enables the DTB to investigate brain cognitive function by a reverse-engineering method, which is demonstrated by a digital experiment of visual evaluation on the DTB. Furthermore, we believe that the developing DTB will be a promising powerful platform for a large of research orients including brain-inspired intelligence, rain disease medicine and brain-machine interface.
aperrien··on MatX: Faster Chips for LLMs
Perhaps some sort of memristor crossbar array that could process large array calculations efficiently? Something like that could be pretty universal, until the tech moves to spiking neural networks. And even then the knowledge you gain from advancing on that path would likely transfer over.
aperrien··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
How can I alter the 401k match rate?
aperrien··on Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator
Is there an option to add Non-Publicly Traded Securities?
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