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colinrand commented on OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform oracle.com/news/announcem... · Posted by u/tosh

colinrand · a year ago

This is super sketch for others on the platform. First hand experience from using OCI - they have severe capacity constraints and need _lots_ of heads up when you want to increase your usage of things. Auto scaling it ain't.

So if OpenAI starts drawing significant resources from their cloud hardware, good luck gettin your own. Including me :)

colinrand commented on ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn

huytersd · 2 years ago

Honestly, I think the primary problem in the US is parents completely offloading the responsibility of educating their kids onto the teacher. You need to have the appropriate push and environment at home for a successful education. You would never see that in South or East Asia.

colinrand · 2 years ago

This is a very economically driven situation in the US. Upper middles load their kids up non stop with educational stuff outside of the schools, but the lower middle on down can't afford this (it's really expensive) and school often functions primarily as child care.

colinrand commented on ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rntn

colinrand · 2 years ago

I always get very skeptical with putting more technology in the classrooms (at least here in the US). The primary problem is funding and too many kids for a single teacher. Educational innovation comes in with a bang and out with a whimper when the study turns out to be flawed, often quite severely.

I'm sure LLMs can augment learning in some settings, esp in higher ed, but putting more computer time for kids learning basics (I mean K-8 mostly) I hope is handled more carefully than things like Quizlet...

colinrand commented on Map of Space Invader Mosaics in Paris pnote.eu/projects/invader... · Posted by u/przem8k

colinrand · 2 years ago

We were there over the summer and this was such a fantastic activity for my kids. It got them looking up at the buildings and really helped draw their attention to architecture and build a better mental map in their heads of the city. Not going to comment on if having a map is good or not, but the project is amazing.

colinrand commented on LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees npr.org/2023/10/16/120615... · Posted by u/cebert

colinrand · 2 years ago

Has anyone else noticed that their connection count stays 'correct' but a significant number of people that I used to be connected to now are surfaced as recommendations for me to connect with? It's absurd! I doubt people regularly go through their networks and unconnect from people that they don't want to keep in touch with, kind of defeats the purpose. So wth?

colinrand commented on You're barely managing barely-managing.bearblog.... · Posted by u/ronsoak

colinrand · 2 years ago

I have started thinking more about the traditional relationship between labor and management whenever someone brings up the topic of managing in the modern era. (Perhaps its because my highschooler is taking US History...) What I always find missed is that modern management glosses over the fundamental clash of interests, the IC interest versus the business interest, and that it is the manager's role to guide through carrots and sticks the IC to achieve the business interests. It often take many layers of management to complete the messaging gymnastics required to guide and hide the IC workers directions. But if you don't understand labor, you're missing a big responsibility of management.

Posted by u/colinrand 2 years ago

Ask HN: How to calculate SaaS COGS for production environment when DevOps

colinrand commented on Cleaning Up Dead Bodies in AWS IAM noq.dev/blog/cleaning-up-... · Posted by u/securiy

beckler · 2 years ago

Acronyms are the worst.

I guess people do it to sound cool or something, but I once maintained a legacy project that had an acronym for a name. Not a single person working at the entire company knew what the acronym originally meant, and of course, it was never documented.

colinrand · 2 years ago

Analyst firms (ie Gartner) are a big driver of this too. Couple that with the start up / VC model which needs to create new 'categories' to demonstrate differentiation, and you have a total mess.

colinrand commented on AI real-time human full-body photo generator generated.photos/human-ge... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

dannyw · 2 years ago

The FAQ https://generated.photos/faq directly answers this: it's made by the same company as Icons8, which has a long track record. The founder is Ivan Braun, who is indeed a real person (I've known him since the Icons8 days).

colinrand · 2 years ago

Fwiw, I read the FAQ yesterday. It was either not there or else my blinders were on to not find anything.

colinrand commented on AI real-time human full-body photo generator generated.photos/human-ge... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

colinrand · 2 years ago

What I find sketchy is that it is not easy to find out who is behind this service. The norm is an about us or a link to a parent site. Briefly skimmed the legalese (ToS & Privacy) and still not clear who these people or where they operate from. The linkedin link shows 8 people working there, mostly in BD from outside the US.

I don't think there is a nefarious purpose going on, i.e. getting people to sign up and stealing their info or payments, etc. However, it contributes to the erosion of trust on the internet. You're no longer sure if you're talking to a real dog in pajamas online or an AI pretending to be one.

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