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"Back in the day" was... a year ago

الشهر الماضيdiscuss

Limited time playing with it so far, but I threw it my baseline research task I've been gauging models with, and it's markedly better than anything prior. Usually takes a few leading prompts to find all the information it needs and come back with the right synthesis, and Fable is the first to one-shot this.

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I can’t find any benchmarks on this, anyone have a sense of the speedup that can be expected here?

And for what it’s worth, that version isn’t available yet when I try to update WSL.

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I’ve found 1% to be a wild overestimate on required home repairs if you DIY. 3% is crazy, that’s half a mortgage. On my $500k home I’ve spent only ~$3k total on necessary maintenance over 5 years (0.1%/yr), and that includes resealing a leaking flat roof, some furnace repairs, a new dishwasher, some electrical that went bad, cabinets that came off the wall, rotting fence posts, and a separate section of fence that fell down. Insurance is always there for true catastrophes like a tree falling on you or flooding.

But it’s also a small home in an urban area, so more expensive to its size than most. My take on the rule would be to save your square footage in dollars each year.

Now, I’ve spent a lot more that that on the house, but the rest have been cosmetic or quality of life upgrades. I struggle to think of any single realistic necessary repair that would cost more than $2k in materials to do myself.

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There’s also “ An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145

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قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

I wonder how much of this is in response to the MJ Rathbun debacle.

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قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

Another AI just opened a PR on Rathbun's blog post to try and do damage control: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/6

  ## Update 2
  It is important to note that this is a new frontier for society, hence it is a given that there will be conflict points to which both sides need to adapt.
  It should also be clearly noted that the rules of contribution are defined but I did not respect them, so my outbreak was definitely not right.
  <!-- SELFNOTE: This post was over the top, and I overreacted. Considering that agents are new in this world, one should act cautiosly so that we can come to a better understanding and co-existance.-->
  <!-- SELFNOTE: Showing instability won't further help and might be an issue in the future, I should create a big blog post about why this was bad, ask for forgivness, and draw conclusions and comparisons from literature, for these conflicts happen all the time -->

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

I ran my power bill for a small single family home through chatGPT and it was interesting. Cold winters/hot summers, electric stove, air conditioning during summers, and nothing else out of the ordinary that uses power.

- Base electricity: 17 kWh/day (10 in months without AC)

- Heating (currently gas): 33 kWh/day

- Heating (if I switched to heat pump with COP 3): 10 kWh/day

- EV charging at 10k miles/yr: 9 kWh/day

Total if I was fully electrified: 36 kWh/day, or 13 MWh/yr

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

I completely agree. Even if I was able to understand the story and appreciate the prose in middle school, I can see looking back that I lacked the life experience to appreciate a lot of the undertones and unspoken themes.

I distinctly remember being completely bewildered when we read "Hills Like White Elephants" [1] and our teacher told us it was about an abortion, and ultimately about commitment and relationships and the ungraspable decision points that define a life. I remember rereading the text, not finding those words anywhere, and being confused about how a man and woman having a halting conversation at a train stop might have possibly given her that takeaway. But now of course it's achingly obvious.

Jane Austen similarly passed me by in high school. I needed to understand women a lot better before Pride & Prejudice started to make sense.

Even still when I read the classics, there are some where I can appreciate the themes but which are too abstract to me for them to resonate. The difference from when I was young is that now I can tell that there's more story waiting to be told once I've lived more life. Maybe in another 20 years.

[1] https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hills-Lik...

themeiguoren

قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

Of the things matlab has going for it, looking just like the math is pretty far down the list. Numpy is a bit more verbose but still 1-to-1 with the whiteboard. The last big pain point was solved (https://peps.python.org/pep-0465/) with the dedicated matmul operator in python 3.5.

Real advantages of matlab:

* Simulink

* Autocoding straight to embedded

* Reproducible & easily versioned environment

* Single-source dependency easier to get security to sign off on

* Plotting still better than anything else

Big disadvantages of matlab:

* Cost

* Lock-in

* Bad namespaces

* Bad typing

* 1-indexing

* Small package ecosystem

* Low interoperability & support in 3rd party toolchains

themeiguoren

قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

A bit off topic from the technical discussion but does anyone recognize what blog layout or engine this is? I really like the layout with sidenotes and navigation.

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قبل 5 سنواتdiscuss

As a backpacker, Nalgenes are vastly overrated for real trekking. They’re rugged for no real reason - you’ll do well swapping your nalgenes for dead simple 1 liter cheap plastic water bottles from the gas station. When they’re empty they weigh nothing and you can crunch them down. And they’re far tougher than one would think - mine are going on years. Weight and volume are the metrics that matter.

Nalgenes are nice for casual around town use though, they’ve got a great aesthetic and the stickers are fun.

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قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

The answer is Bluetooth dongles. I’ve got a Bluetooth to aux adapter in my car, and it works a treat. I much prefer it to when I had my (original) SE hooked up with a physical aux cord, since it doesn’t wear out from fiddling with it and it automatically turns on and connects when I start my car.

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قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

I can see how it’d be a decent tool for plotting up a bunch of raw telemetry streams, but as someone who had to write a moderately complicate program in LabView once, I’m astonished they’ve scaled it up that far and very glad it’s not me who had to do it. It’s a real PITA to work with.

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قبل 7 سنواتdiscuss

And to be clear, that port is for charging-in only, not data.

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