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catasaurus

31 karma · joined February 13, 2023

some full stack and some ml dev

sebastianlarson22@gmail.com

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catasaurus··on Ask HN: How optimized is human intelligence?
I mean the max efficiency for intelligence, which is pretty abstract so part of the question is what does intelligence even mean as it supersedes humans and the metrics we care about
catasaurus··on Ask HN: What's the worst that could have happened had xz gone unnoticed?
ya darknet diaries is very well done
catasaurus··on Ask HN: Best Cloud GPU Platform?
ray looks interesting, will check out

EDIT: so the main thing is technologies like Ray have a way to do these things, but I honestly just want an easy way to do this. Maybe means I will have to set up something with Ray and AWS myself and make a wrapper for that?

catasaurus··on Ask HN: Best Cloud GPU Platform?
Yeah, I understand that it is something that can be done fairly easily but I am too lazy to do so at the moment (lol). By finicky I mean like usually kind of buggy and hard-to-use web interfaces to set up some weird Jupyter Notebook that they run or SSH (hard-to-use as in something like AWS Sagemaker). I understand the use of these things but I just want to be able to use my own development environment to do everything I need to do and then send some code over to run. Preferably the pricing would be kind of serverless, just paying for the time of the compute used to run the programs that are run, not just paying for the reserved server to sit there.
catasaurus··on Twitter and Reddit API Issues
ya thats what I have found from my research but since I am desperate idk.
catasaurus··on Ask HN: How do investors make money?
Lol. I will check those articles out.
catasaurus··on Ask HN: How do investors make money?
I could understand that, but what about highly competitive markets like large cap NASDAQ and NYSE stocks?
catasaurus··on Came across this NSA Python training guide a while ago on Reddit [pdf]
The NSA declassified this a while back, it's 395 pages of an in depth python course that literally teaches everything. Does anyone know of a similar in depth guide to another language (C/C++, Javascript, etc) publicly available on the internet?
catasaurus··on Ask HN: Conspiracy Theory; OpenAI intentionally makes ChatGPT unresponsive/slow?
The paid version probably includes better servers and hardware for your ChatGPT instance, but OpenAI intentionally creating demand errors? I would think its more along the lines of they are using cheap servers to allow everyone to use ChatGPT and thus when too many people are trying to use this massive machine learning model (175B parameters), the wait time goes up and up as the models have more and more inputs to respond to.

Also most freemium platforms do try to motivate their users to upgrade to paid plans.

Spotify: No downloading music without paid plan, etc

AWS: Free tier but then you have to pay

Youtube: Ads but if you pay no ads

And on and on

catasaurus··on Ask HN: How to keep an online community from downgrading to Reddit like quality
I agree. A problem arises though when moderation goes too far and a website/forum/online community is turned into a Stack Overflow, a useful place but way to over moderated, with established users being very toxic to new ones.
catasaurus··on Ask HN: How to keep an online community from downgrading to Reddit like quality
If I had to guess why you were accused of being ChatGPT, its probably because of your tendency to write longer form answers which tends to be the style ChatGPT uses.
catasaurus··on Ask HN: How to keep an online community from downgrading to Reddit like quality
True, but then this happens: https://theconversation.com/why-do-flocks-of-birds-swoop-and...
catasaurus··on Ask HN: How to keep an online community from downgrading to Reddit like quality
Hm, thats all food for thought. Btw I don't think that you are being off-topic.
catasaurus··on Ask HN: How to keep an online community from downgrading to Reddit like quality
It can be, but the problem is that the good subreddits are only take one click for someone to join them, and thus they are not isolated at all from the broader community of Reddit and the broader community of Reddit being what it is that sub reddit inevitably degrades. But yes, some subreddits are nice.
catasaurus··on Whats Up with Nvidia
This article explains the chip market in a very good way, and articulates what I was trying to say about the A100: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2021/06/13/a-br...

Nvidia is a good chip company as a whole, but the A100 is a real problem.

catasaurus··on Trying to understand how the internals of the stock market work
Oh, reading this again. Do you mean something ChatGPT is excellent at answering? The only problem with that is that ChatGPT is really just an excellent bullshit machine, as in it is really good at making stuff up. So I would probably get some questionable information when it comes to smaller details.
catasaurus··on Day Ads – Publish Your Ad for Free
Free ads? How is that supposed to work?
catasaurus··on Whatever Happened to Ruby?
It died

I think Github and Gitlab use it though

catasaurus··on Trying to understand how the internals of the stock market work
Thank you so much! I will definitely look into all of this. So surprised that I got so many answers! Hacker news > reddit
catasaurus··on Trying to understand how the internals of the stock market work
Lol. I know I'm a new user but I'm not ChatGPT :)
catasaurus··on Trying to understand how the internals of the stock market work
lol I have never understood day trading. Everyone says day traders lose money yet somehow people make money doing it enough that they can get jobs at hedge funds and the like.
catasaurus··on Trying to understand how the internals of the stock market work
Sounds good! Thank you
catasaurus··on Trying to understand how the internals of the stock market work
Ok, I will look into that
catasaurus··on Ask HN: What sources to you use to get up to date with the news?
I just signed up. But I don't understand, is the newsletter payed or completely free?
catasaurus··on Ask HN: Why are spy satellites more acceptable than high altitude spy balloons?
Space begins at an elevation of 330,000 feet. For some reason, anything above this has been classified again, for some reason, as “outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;”. Below this, is when airspace laws and treaties begin to apply. Over US airspace, there are laws in place to allow commercial planes, and such from other countries to fly over. But for things like spy balloons, not so. It is considered invading sovereign airspace, and a violation of international law.
catasaurus··on Whats Up with Nvidia
Overpriced compared to nothing. But for a chip that was released 3 years ago, maybe it is a little bit too much? Also yes, Nvidia does have a moat with CUDA, and it would take a long time for Intel and AMD to overtake them. So for the short term, Nvidia is probably fine just charging a lot of money for their chips. But in the end, if AMD or Intel releases a chip that competes with the A100 (or any flagship chip that Nvidia currently has a monopoly on), for a lower price, it is only a matter of time before high performance computing moves to the hardware interface of choice for said company. AMD released GPUFORT two years back, an alternative to CUDA for AMD products. Nvidia can afford to be doing what it is right now because of its monopoly. But that won't always be there. I don't have a firm opinion on what they should do, I am just trying to make sense of this.