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I'm going to take a while guess here and say this strategy is part of their plan to get even more access to more code to learn from.

If you can see entire version histories of how code is generated, what bugs occur, what fixes are made and how they're implemented, you have the entire human and machine coding feedback loop to learn from.

I didn't see a number for cycle life. That'd be my biggest question here. You can charge in less than 7 minutes but how many times before performance (capacity) degrades?

Fascinating 20 degrees C is huge. What's a fair bit of water? At what time of day and how long did you collect water?

This is a tangent but what was your journey into VFX?

Hi OP, this looks super cool. I remember hearing about this (https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) many years ago but have never done it.

Curious, what are the prerequisites for this? Do I have to know about how kernels work? How memory management, protection rings or processes are queued? Some I'd like to definitely learn about.

Do you have a good resource for learning what kinds of hardware can run what kinds of models locally? Benchmarks, etc?

I'm also trying to tie together different hardware specs to model performance, whether that's training or inference. Like how does memory, VRAM, memory bandwidth, GPU cores, etc. all play into this. Know of any good resources? Oddly enough I might be best off asking an LLM.

I am really surprised. I would have guessed that a Nobel Prize would be awarded to advancements in the field itself. Not for inspirations from it or to tools that led to advancements. Although as I write this I'm sure there have been several prizes awarded to scientists / engineers who have developed tools to advance physics. Like radio astronomy? Still surprised though.

Dropping this one here! (no affiliation)

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

"Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with step-by-step instructions for building your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code."

Do you have a source for the vibrating windows? That is super interesting.

Also very curious to see how this compares to: https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Here is an open source tool for summarizing Arxiv papers: https://summarizepaper.com/

I'm really curious - how will this affect sites that monetize off of affiliate links and ads? It seems to me that AI summarization and overview will deter, at the minimum reduce, the number of page clicks and traffic to sites that are producing information.

I agree with the entrepreneurial DIYer aspect of it. But I do think sitting in front of screens all day screams for a longing for nature.

Also I think there might a counterculture aspect to it, which ties in to your reliance point. Growing your own food is one of the most subversive thing you can do. Get solar and a few other things, and you're completely self-reliant.

It allows one to take a shortcut to the fisherman life, in the fisherman and the banker story.

Apologies for the late reply. I have set my limits on HN use in the settings. :)

I took Permaculture New York PDC class (https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/). It was all online but many are in person.

If you reach out to me via LinkedIn (found if you go to link in my profile) we can exchange contact info. I'd prefer not to place it here.

I am surprised and not surprised to see this here. I often see themes of burnout, wanting to get back to nature, existential questions surrounding tech and similar here on HN.

I took a permaculture class earlier this year, after having researched it on the sidelines for a few years. It started from looking at sustainability, agriculture, homesteading (wanting to "leave it all behind") and blossomed into a wonderful learning experience about a philosophy where I felt a little more at home. It was great. It introduced me to a few really cool friends whose values largely aligned with mine. Anyone interested in this, please feel free to reach out.

"I played in the US Chess Open in 1978, but I am not much of a player. I did write the shitty little Chess program that Apple distributed on the Apple II demo cassette tape."

Sometimes...you meet the most interesting people on here!

This made me laugh, thank you!

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This is hilarious. Thank you for the laughs.

Is anyone else excited purely on the basis that this isn't a hardware product from Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon or some other large company?

I know little about it, but it looks great too.

This is awesome.

Sadly I agree. I've seen this a few times in Silicon Valley. You take an open source project from here, take another one from there, take some code from someone's Github, forget about the licenses (because who is going to figure it out?), and you put it all together overlaid with some nice graphics and you've got the start of a business/startup. Take that, show it to investors, and go raise a bunch of money.

I definitely understand this point. Another alternative is Python (with numpy, scipy and matplotlib) using the Pycharm IDE. It has many of the features you're talking about.

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” - Albert Einstein

How is their approach different from Tesla's?

Holy shit, this is awesome.

Can you use the Socratic method on yourself to develop better ways of thinking?

The skill you're talking about is called listening. Listening with intent. Listening with the intent to understand, not just to formulate your response.

"We typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives." - Stephen R. Covey

Also this: https://walla.by/the-wallaby-card

"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to:

Enhance the nation’s defense; Reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction; And respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance."

https://www.llnl.gov/about/whatwedo.html