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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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If pricing is per-token then in theory the vendor can offer you modes that optimize token usage or quality whereas all-you-can eat encourages vendors to satisfy you just enough to keep paying but the …
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This is really important. Unless it's straight up fraud or a safety issue, most market participants are totally allowed to ship garbage (who are we to judge?). At some point when monopoly power …
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First off range should be based off of 70mph/110kph since that's what actually matters when people talk about range (how far away from home can I get on a full tank?). And 250 miles just isn…
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Might also be smart to make the adversary think you are overselling when you actually have the capability.
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It's also good for recruiting. They're building a new supercomputer in Edinburgh and I'd imagine it's a pull for certain researchers.
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They recommend treatment because the mandate is to keep the animals alive, not whether or not it's good long term for humans. Many doctors and vets though are against the mass use of antibiotics…
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The penny doesn't matter but being off by a cent can mean there are serious problems in the workflow.
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Yeah this could end up being a good thing. We need more diversity in the computing space and this might make some space for that.
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I may be crazy but I feel like we shouldn't be giving medicine to animals with communicable diseases (unless the medicine reduces the chances of animal->human transmission). We're just r…
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lol - it's probably going to just get worse. AI will continue to generate ghetto code and nobody cares so it will just degrade even further.
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Just "I built a version control system called Jam". The free-time thing is good for a history page but the homepage needs to tell the important part (you've got history and expertise i…
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Burnham being PM is already pretty well priced in. When he walked back comments a few weeks ago they corrected and my sense is that the market understands that unless there until actual laws or budge…
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Two things need to change and this would be a hit: 1/ Find My support or similar (for parents who would give this to kids)
2/ WhatsApp?????? That is the ultimate social network so it should …
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Generally don't do this but this is apropos my recent comment about externalities here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527158 …
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If I had said 'exploitation' there would not have been engagement. At some point certain words and phrases become too much of a lightning rod to constructively use any more (Marxism, critic…
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No I got off that trainwreck a long time ago
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I doubt he listened to what she said - just a soundbite on Fox News or worse Facebook.
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It's depressing really - lost alot of respect for pg over time. Based on his writings it honestly appears that he isn't engaged with any critical writing in any of the social or political (…
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She meant impossible in that one doesn't earn a billion dollars through work alone. The only way to get there is to set up a structure that extracts a billion dollars from a market (usually by b…
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The really scary thing now is that these models are totally controlled by private companies. With encryption the smartest people in the room worked in academia and open source tooling quickly caught …
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The machine is no big deal - it's the authn/authz that matters. What can the agents do with the credentials available to them?
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Also context - there's alot of context out there and it's faster to get it from servers. It doesn't matter how good the model is if it doesn't have context from data sources.
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What do you mean 'we'? :-)
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The only problem with that nowadays might be that AI can do all the incantations that formerly acted as gates to contributors.
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It's the very definition of a culture war and in addition sadly evidence of limited intelligence. Even the most red blooded oil man wouldn't do this because this data is also useful for pet…
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In this day and age I suspect many environmental and health NGOs are going silent to mitigate backlash.
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In Down and Out in Paris and London he is very clear that he comes from some privilege and also that he actually lived the experiences he wrote about. He can't write it from the pov of somebody …
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1984 in particular is well worth a read right now. I read it at age 47 and it's not in the same vein as On the Road.
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Kind of is. The point of fiction is to speculate. Judging the characters is fine but the commenter above almost seems to take it personally that the characters are morally ambiguous people - but tha…