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I also do this, usually with sprite or fanta and I think its more refreshing this way


Not op but i assume he is referring to change data capture.


not the OP but pretty sure it was sarcasm and choosing ASML and Alibaba specially because they are based in countries that are not know for their lack of regulation.


Alibaba grew because of unregulated / taxfree and subsidized imported goods


So not too unlike Amazon and its tax evasion schemes.


Roger. Definitely some Poe's law here mocking regulation in earnest, so it's hard to tell.


> California will never have its own tech giants

Might be quicker to name the tech giants that aren't in silicon valley


You might want to try the Wim Hof Method. I don't believe in everthing Wim Hof attributes to his method but when it comes to immune response, there is scientific evidence that it does indeed result in an increase of IL-10, which is anti inflammatory.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034215/


> Luckily the Soviet Union collapsed and the ISS was funded as a job program for Soviet rocket scientists (out of fear they could be poached to work on ICBMs for other nations).

It's the first time that I heard this theory. Do you have any sources to read up on it?


>Using LLMs for picking military targets is just absurd. In the future

I guess the future is now then: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how...

Excerpt:

>Aviv Kochavi, who served as the head of the IDF until January, has said the target division is “powered by AI capabilities” and includes hundreds of officers and soldiers.

>In an interview published before the war, he said it was “a machine that produces vast amounts of data more effectively than any human, and translates it into targets for attack”.

>According to Kochavi, “once this machine was activated” in Israel’s 11-day war with Hamas in May 2021 it generated 100 targets a day. “To put that into perspective, in the past we would produce 50 targets in Gaza per year. Now, this machine produces 100 targets a single day, with 50% of them being attacked.”


nothing in this says they used an LLM


But it does say that some sort of text processing AI system is being used right now to decide who to kill, it is therefore quite hard to argue that LLMs specifically could never be used for it.

It is rather implausible to say that an LLM will never be used for this application, because in the current hype environment the only reason the LLM is not deployed to production is that someone actually tried to use it first.


I guess he must have hallucinated that it was about LLMs


I crosschecked with google Maps and I belive the Jindalee Operational Radar Network in Laverton is stationed there. Maybe that has something to with the interference. A 560kw transmitter is no joke.

I guess south-west Texas is most likely also military. E.g. the Naval Air Station Kingsville is not far away.


Huh I had no idea Australia had a big OTH radar network. TIL!


The difference is GPUs. A normal dual socket system serving a database or webserver use under medium load around 200-300W, One of these [1] equipped with 10xA100 can easily use in the ballpark of 3kW under load. So we are talking 10x the power usage.

[1]https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/system/gpu/5u/sys-521...


Thanks, this makes sense!



I read three books this year that really changed my life in the order that I read them.

1. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. S. Dweck helped me to rediscover my curiosity and my eagerness to evolve. I started working at the end of 2022 and I realized that during the last years of university I lost my own drive to learn. There was always something to learn for a course so i either did that or nothing. The book helped me to change that perspective.

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