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krautt··on Fighting bad capitalism with good capitalism in healthcare, company idea?
must not have been clear then. what's bad about a site you can log in to and share your information so that it helps others? and provides you with information and data that allows you to make better, more well-informed decisions for you and your loved ones? that's absolutely good by any rational standard, no question about it.
krautt··on Stock markets are booming but the good times are unlikely to last
if technology continues to improve productivity, then the market will continue to rise accordingly.
krautt··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
that's a good problem to aspire toward.
krautt··on Intel's Humbling
i was a process engineer there in the early 2000's, they did crazy random shit then too! they had an 'internet tv' pc that was designed to play mp4's in 2001.
krautt··on Intel's Humbling
i worked at intel between 97 and 07. MFG was absolute king. Keeping that production line stable and active was the priority that eclipsed all. i was a process engineer, and to change a gas flow rate on some part of the process by a little bit, i'd have to design an experiment, collect data for months, work with various upstream/downstream teams, and write a change control proposal that would exceed a hundred pages of documentation. AFAIK, that production line was the most complex human process that had happened to date. It was mostly ran by 25-30 yo engineers. That in itself was a miracle.
krautt··on Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
i'm thankful there's work being done on improving version control. git is great but if you don't respect it, it will punish you.
krautt··on Launch HN: Diversion (YC S22) – Cloud-Native Git Alternative
any work done in this area is good work.
krautt··on Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior, Now Open Source
there is no technical reason why you couldn't unbolt openai interface and bolt in llama. Moreover, once you have this, you need only load the model into memory once. emulating different agents would be handled exclusively through the context window sizes that llm's expect. each agent would just have its own evolving context window. roundrobin the submissions. repeat

what's crazy to think about is what new things will become possible as the context window sizes creep up.

krautt··on The Age of AI has begun
given all the world's pain and suffering that has been caused by the GUI, i fear AI for the first time...
krautt··on Antidepressants help bacteria resist antibiotics: study
Their dna sees our over=stressed modern lifestyles as an opportunity. shouldn't surprise us i guess.
krautt··on Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?
i've built nlp apps but lack ideas. maybe we could all talk.
krautt··on Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?
you can reach me at my username@gmail. i just retired 2 months ago from a 25 year engineering stint starting in cyber and ending as a level 5 ML engineer/data plumber. we may be too well aligned though. i have no major expectations but would love a cool project and good folks to work with. money is second to that.
krautt··on China hacked HPE, IBM and then attacked clients
They are persistent. I see attacks from them on my company in the thousands every day. Some ip ranges have continued to hit us dozens of times after prolonged blocking.
krautt··on What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
how?
krautt··on What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
So it's going to get warmer, sea levels will rise. coastlines will move inland as sea levels rise. Typically colder areas will become more tropical.

Other than displacing a large number of people who live on coastlines, what's the big deal?

Insult me for my niavety if it makes you feel better, but I honestly don't know the answer.

krautt··on ‘99.9999%’ uptime – it’s an illusion
maybe if your 'app' is entropy in the universe.
krautt··on Ethics in Machine Learning: Interview with Dr. Hanie Sedghi, Google Brain
It's pretty insane when we live in a time where we are on the brink of a technology that could surpass electricity and we're still selectively acknowledging reality only when it conforms to our own biases.
krautt··on NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbidden now
yes. salesman bullshit. i think it was tensorflow that was flaky.
krautt··on NVIDIA GeForce driver deployment in datacenters is forbidden now
I've spent some time training tensorflow cnns on nvidia 1080gtx.

It works pretty well, but i couldn't reliably train production models for work on it. it's just too flaky. I mentioned this to our 'trustworthy' dell rep who suggested that a good v100 suite would surely solve all the reliability problems, what with it's greatly increased memory bus, or something...