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AdamN
4,134karma·1,341submissions·August 27, 2009
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AWS/Amazon Q - Berlin
Formerly Seattle, Nairobi, NYC:
* AWS Reliability Services (Fault Injection Service) - Region Isolation, AZ Power Outage and other tools for Chaos Engineering * AWS Developer Tools - building software teams to build software for other developers to build software * CTO at Factr - a geo/temporal research aggregation tool for international organizations and media * Founder of Kili.io - a public OpenStack for African markets based in Nairobi. * CTO at Yipit - Built the team and was initial dev (Python, Django, Ubuntu, AWS) * Way back when, I was the CTO of Forsalebyowner.com (acquired by Tribune Interactive).
Get in touch (adam@varud.com) if you have any interest in African technology, governance, Amazon, or anything in between.
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Also the tech team at NYT is co-innovating with the business and journalism sides. Their work is highly ambiguous and changing year to year as they move their capabilities forward. That can't b…
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Yes but the initial training sets did have thoughts and feeling behind them and those are reflected back to the user in the output (with errors)
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The measurements of the Heliopause are apparently new(ish) so data is coming in that is otherwise unavailable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Interstellar_medium …
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I mean yeah - there was a very interesting article recently about the usage of the airplane for political rallying used by Hitler and how ahead of time it was for him to tour the country with stopover…
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We believe in the old gods and we only read the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica as well.
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That's a big fat zero. No MAGA people are paying for WaPO (or any newspaper aside from WSJ for that matter).
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Arc lights also enabled fascism in the early 20th century. A spectacle like the Cathedral of Light and the new technologies used by the Nazi party were transformative in terms of mass rallying: http…
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AI is a means to an end - it's the end that people want (or don't want). For example people like fast and accurate spell check - they don't care whether AI did it or not.
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Shackleton's Boat Journey by Worsley (the captain) is the way to go.
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The book Outlive by Peter Attia refers to this as Medicine 2.0 (vs 3.0 which is health over an entire life). In the end though, Medicine 2.0 is very good at discrete issues like a brain tumor. It…
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There probably should be room in some of the social sciences for flexibility like this as long as it's called out right at the top as part of the experiment design so that the reader knows this i…
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There are alot of question marks around what actually happened with the library in Alexandria.
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One advantage of these types of things is how easy they are to stockpile. Aside from the nominal storage costs, none of these things degrade over time: https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-M…
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I'd prefer they just block articles that use sensationalist headlines (when possible without blocking the entire topic).
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When I was a kid a lifeguard helped me out in rough waves in the Atlantic. I was doing ok but not great and probably should have gone in earlier. I asked if he had rescued me because I wasn't r…
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They already know that some of these upcoming model builds are going to require $100MM and possibly even a billion dollars. That is just the compute costs for building a single model. Product-market…
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He wasn't prosecuted for logging in and looking around. He overtly did copyleft type things like finding ways to take copyrighted journal articles and release them into the public domain. Overz…
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Coins used to have holes in them more often so that they could be put onto a string for counting/storage.
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They're probably referring to poor (working class really) people living in outer London who have cars and are now basically frozen out of central London unless they use mass transit or pay for en…
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In Germany there are a few key milestone years that are heavily documented (forget which years) and every kid has to do that with their pediatrician. In the US it's typical to have an annual exa…
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First off - plenty of people are against coal plants for health reasons in addition to the environmental reasons. There is nobody cheering coal and blocking nuclear (and please don't bring up t…
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> you will want to learn Danish for social purposes
Are non-Danish speakers really going up to B2+ Danish, even if they live in Copenhagen for a decade? It seems like Danish people would still spe…
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It's that 'spooky action at a distance' thing. It's still never been clear to me but what's the speed of Electromagnetism (i.e. if you drop a highly magnetic object into an a…
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[OT] how long have you been in Copenhagen? Are you learning Danish or do you get by with basic Danish and just use English?
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Yeah there's this focus on cities where things are getting cleaned up but in rural areas the fertilizer and intensive agriculture makes the rivers (and fjords?) toxic. Check out the Des Moines r…
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I did a home inspection on my house and really appreciated the insights there - many hazards were identified and it makes doing a rational de-risking exercise possible.
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Yes. Please put together 100 people to finish the 100 dev-month project next month.
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Sure - but paying for that on an astronaut's pension??
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First off, just presume GDPR applies globally. Then, know your legal 'zones' and by default keep all data in those containers. Thirdly, if you need to send data from one zone to another, a…
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Based solely on age this is probably their last hurrah in space