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I'm always mystifed as to why the heck this is on any goverment phones in the first place? With the exception of perhaps PR wonks whos job it is to be on "the socials" (thank you PR wonks, btw).

Bookmarked (and appreciated!) solely to let me be lazy and send a link instead of repeating the same speech to other devs.

This sounds suspiciously close to the "we are in no danger except for a bank run" statement from SVB right before the FDIC took over.

They obliviously missed an opportunity to call it "Roxy" and avoid the unfortunate current name collision...

"Why are so many (of .003% of the male population)..." This feels like some kind of weird PR resurge effort to promote a fake trend into real popularity, for who or what reason I can only guess.

Not a finance guy but I think that would literally be the opposite of how banks work. They have to lend out customers money in various forms, including giving that money to other customers in the form of loans, loaning it in huge chunks to companies for larger percentage rates than they give customers who keep their money in said bank, and so forth. Not sure how a bank that kept every customers money on hand all the time would work.

We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week...

Seems to be missing references to the Dragon Houses of Greece, some of which are beleived to date back to the bronze age:

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

I always find the wording of these discoveries interesting where a certain thing started at a particular time, instead of by a particular time. The difference might seem small but I think using "by" better conveys some temporal distance of ramp-up to that technology could be considered, wherease "started at" seems quite abrupt.

If this isn't just playing "follow the leader" behind companies like Meta and Amazon, I wonder if it's related to loss of revenue from customers balking at the exorbitant rates for Jira and Confluence. I understand there's a balance between selling as wide as possible and then having to support that wider dispersal (to eventually diminishing returns) but from the outside the numbers seem rather unreasonable. I know at least two large companies who are actively looking for a replacement because of that (even with the understood compromise in features this might entail).

Didn't that happen when Google bought them?

Basically "We've got so many empty desks you'll have to share them until we have more people filling desks...".

The quote here was interesting though: Pichai said in a companywide meeting last week, according to audio obtained by CNBC. “There are people, by the way, who routinely complain that they come in and there are big swaths of empty desks and it feels like it’s a ghost town — it’s just not a nice experience.”

Personally I don't go into the office to measure up "the feel of the crowd", or to get a social experience. I do it to get work done, and only when I have to. We can coordinate social experiences outside of the office if need be. It'd be interesting to see an experiment where workmates only get physically together to do social events like team sports or the like, but work mainly remote relative to each other. I bet this would be just as cohesive to teams.

There's something unspeakably captivating watching a cowboy-dressed academic outside in the apparent wilderness with a backdrop of snowy mountains demonstrating examples of reconstructed ancient proto indo eropean language.

Should probably mention you can do this outside of Stability.ai's system (selfhosting) for those interested:

https://github.com/benrugg/AI-Render

and this one, I beleive:

https://github.com/carson-katri/dream-textures

Zodiac was great! The description of the effect on the consumers of the PCB-tainted items (not a spoiler) was spine-crawling.

I'm of the opinion that officials who declare a site is "safe for habitation" or whatever it was termed originally should personally guarentee this by habitating onsite for at least 3 months thereafter, drinking and bathing in the local water, visiting the outdoors locations, and so forth.

Ever since they decided to paywall I've been skipping them as the actually valuable content can often be found elsewhere. Even more of a reason to do so now.

I'm sure some will decry going elsewhere as inciting the move to generative AI by not generating revenue to pay writers, but I think the more honest take is that "news outlets" or "publishers" or whatever they're calling themselves these days have always been looking to cut costs any way they can, no matter the site traffic.

I'm with you there on hoping for more concentration on local training and inference, especially on something like the new Orin (open to donations, NVidia!).

I think there's still something of a financial disincentive to promote selfhost over cloud capabilities for just about every party involved except the selfhoster. NVidia loses out if they're selling a few Nano or Orin platforms relative to the much pricier datacenter cards sold in huge lots. The cloud hosters are making up for the cost of hosting in terms of end-user pricing, snarfing all that lovely customer data and likely selling analytics, and probably other measures I can't understand yet. And the large companies that fund research and initial model development want to know what's being done with their models so as to gain any possible competitive advantage. They can't necesarily guarentee that intel from a self-hoster. Almost nobody is willing to spend the time explicitly to make it easier for the individual dev at a small lab or at home to do this because that's essentially a donation and not a business expense that might yeild obvious returns.

Been asked here before, but this was interesting:

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/szqq5m/gptj_is...

It's interesting to note that the premise of DIARI is "[to] foster the development of new AI systems created by and for Black people in the US and Africa. DAIR will prioritize leadership by members of these communities and create spaces where contributors are able to do this work with psychological safety." which explicitly declares a substantive bias itself. Will this also be amplified?

Has anyone calculated what this equals in admission fees and mandatory concessions?

Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell also use this technique, making some of the most amazing paintings because they're grounded in real anatomy and references, instead "this looks about right". The artist not using photographic references can miss important details or make proportion mistakes while being deep in the act of creation but those flaws are easily visible to observers after the fact. We saw this on box art of the 80s a lot. Take a look at the dude on the original mega man box, for instance. Who stands like that?!

Let them play NES, classic games like Super Mario World. Then show them the same games on the emulator FCEUX, specifically the hex editor (for glitching the game by plonking numbers at random addresses) and then the lua scripts that give them super powers by purposefully putting values where they do specific jobs.

Same with Minecraft: Use a Pi, search for Minecraft Pi Reborn (just so it's not a crap experience like the original abandonware Pi Minecraft has become). Then show them https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started... or any of the other pi+python+minecraft projects. Use Python to check the Minecraft players location and upon sensing it's at a specific location on a particular map, move the player somewhere else. They've just created a Teleportal (randomize the destination for added mischief).

Then for bonus points use this: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/python-programming-tuto... to tie conditions inside the Minecraft game with real world buttons and lights. Wire up a button to GPIO pins that the python code checks to trigger summoning a 5x5x5 block of TNT upon command, or an LED that lights up upon some other in-game condition. There's a lot of material there, and if you're on several Pis you can network them together safely so that all three can play together on the same server without needing access to the internet. Clobbering siblings with Minecraft Python magery is a great motivator. They'll never even notice they're learning stuff even adult devs may not know.

Absolutely loved Principles so much that I bought copies for my team members and some leadership. I implemented small measures of radical transparency with the teams I managed where it made business sense as well. Wasn't always popular with fellow managers but my people absolutely trusted me (and produced accordingly).

The book is highly recommended even if you don't implement half of what he's suggesting as it's based on hard-won experience. His Principles tweets are largely expounding on what's in the Principles book if you don't want to buy it, with some regurgitation which I felt was kind of marketing driven to promote book sales. Definitely worth the read.

Not a finance guy, but from what I read and listened to, yes: "The fund combined multiple uncorrelated return strategies that are leveraged appropriately to maximize returns, while lowering risk." (from CNBC). I think this was a novel approach at the time, finetuning those gains specifically due to lack of correlation, further to specific assets within each class. Side-note, cool asset coorelation (or lack thereof) map: https://www.guggenheiminvestments.com/mutual-funds/resources...

I know at least a couple CEOs that would probably chain people to their desks, families notwithstanding, if it could be made just a little less illegal.

I don't think the industry as a whole is moving to this model any time soon, as much as I'd like it to be otherwise.

He put significant heart into the company, not to mention groundbreaking work like Pure Alpha. I'll never see a fractional cent of what he's made but I only remain impressed by what I've read by him and seen of him. Good for Ray for successfully negotiating the hell out of his exit!

Oh. My. God. Anyone else see this as a plea deal in the making for SBF, agreeing to "Help prevent the mistakes that were made"

Don't take this as advice, but I see housing prices/rents crashing once office space owners see this as a valid option and strive to outcompete other other real estate owners.

This is particularly encouraging as it kills a number of birds with one stone:

* Helps real estate owners see a way to recoup losses from empty space

* Solves the housing shortage

* Puts an end to the b.s. "CEOs say WFH doesn't work", "Offices are the new-old social hangouts" articles trying to drive office space demand back up.

Google trying to game the results with some highly publicized a/b testing is going to result in them losing market share, not people getting angry at lawmakers. This is a hilariously uninformed move on their part. Bet it gets blamed on "an intern that wrote a bad script" or some typical wasn't me nonsense.