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peter_d_sherman
18,477karma·5,709submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
peter.d.sherman@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/peter-sherman-a6107a5 https://x.com/peter_d_sherman
"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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Very interesting! Yes, in this day and age, I could definitely see web pages being harder to crawl by search engines (and SEO companies and other users of automated web crawling technologies (AI agent…
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>"But an approach that’s immediately and broadly applicable today—and for which we’re releasing several new products—is based on what we call computation-augmented generation, or CAG. The ke…
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My favorite quote from the article: "Don't shoot the messenger. The person reporting the bug is not your enemy. The bug is."
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Here is what Grok says about the above (I asked it to explain it better): Grok: "⟨T⟩0: ZFC (The Material) — Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice (the standard foundation for most …
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This is a highly interesting comment from user "thoughtfullyd4c9a86b93" on the above site: >"My two cents worth — Logic is fundamental. Most of mathematics does not treat infinities …
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This looks like a reasonably good page (there possibly are better ones) for general AI chatbots, rate limits and sign-in requirements: https://fmhy.net/ai …
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(Comedy writing mode ON: ) "We need to flatten the curve..." (Comedy writing mode OFF: ) You know, to re-quote the powers-that-be and the mainstream news media... What, no takers? You know…
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>"The abstraction tower Here’s the part that makes me laugh, darkly. I saw someone on LinkedIn recently — early twenties, a few years into their career — lamenting that with AI they “didn’t re…
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>Hey Peter, Thanks! I really appreciate the thoughtful feedback and your time. I stand by what I said -- it is a really good idea! >It is a challenge as startups transition all the time in diffe…
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>"But NixOS isn't the only declarative distro out there. In fact GNU forked Nix fairly early and made their own spin called Guix, whose big innovation is that, instead of using the unwi…
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>I’m six months behind on rent, just managed to buy time after my first eviction notice, and I’m trying to get back into building without constantly worrying about when the next one shows up. Why n…
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>This started as a personal project because I wanted a clean, searchable dataset of startups across regions without jumping between multiple sources or dealing with noise I didn't want :). I l…
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>I am working on a high-performance game that runs over ssh. By 'ssh', you mean 'ssh' (library/program + protocol + encryption + decryption) on top of TCP/IP, on top o…
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>"This program generates images from text prompts [...] using the [data from] FLUX.2-klein-4B [...] and is implemented entirely in C, with zero external dependencies beyond the C standard li…
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I absolutely love it! (Now, I would have preferred a Lattice ICE40 FPGA as opposed to the Xilinx Spartan II XC2S100 FPGA, simply because the ICE40 toolchain is entirely open source ( https://…
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Random Idea: A Completely Open-Source Banking App... Consider an Open-Source Web Browser (Chromium, FireFox, ?, ???, or any open-source browser from: https://github.com/nerdyslacker&#x…
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>"This wasn’t a fully transparent codebase , though. Like many production appliances, a large portion of the Python logic was shipped only as compiled .pyc files ." Observation: One of …
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We know, minimally, from Perplexity's list above, that there exist multiple alternative DRAM manufacturers other than Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix, that have completed at least some of the barrie…
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Related: https://github.com/AngryUEFI
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That's true. Coke and Pepsi dominate the worldwide drink market, but due to the immense size of the market, there are always up-and-coming competitors. Go to your local superstore, supermarket, o…
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>"Using just two components — a high-speed [1N5711] Schottky diode and an LED — you can build a tiny “crystal detector” that responds to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and even microwave...&quo…
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I asked Perplexity.ai to list all of the DRAM manufacturing companies that it could. What follows is that list: Samsung Electronics – https://www.samsung.com SK hynix – https://…
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>"Later this year, Point2 will begin manufacturing the chips behind a 1.6-terabit-per-second cable consisting of eight slender polymer waveguides, each capable of carrying 448 gigabits per sec…