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petra commented on Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness yro.slashdot.org/comments... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute

somenameforme · 11 days ago

Tangential, but you don't need anywhere near millions to have a 'world-touring adventure'. The nice thing about the ability to earn money online now a days is that the cost of living in the overwhelming majority of the world is a small fraction of what you pay in the US/EU.

And the ability to speak English natively is already in high demand throughout most the world, meaning if you ever get tired of online work and want some people time, you can have a job in like 5 minutes, particularly if you look decent and have a college degree.

Making that jump is obviously scary, but I think many people could find much greater contentedness (not a fan of seeking "happiness", as it's something that I think should be seen as liminal, not a desired constant state) if they only realized that the world is their oyster.

petra · 11 days ago

//And the ability to speak English natively is already in high demand throughout most the world, meaning if you ever get tired of online work and want some people time, you can have a job in like 5 minutes, particularly if you look decent and have a college degree.

What typed of jobs is this referring to, besides teaching English ?

petra commented on LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove

mettamage · a month ago

> everyone can code!

I work directly with marketers and even if you give them something like n8n, they find it hard to be precise. Programming teaches you a "precise mindset" that one doesn't have when they aren't really thinking about tech professionally.

I wonder if seasoned UX designers can code now. They do think professionally about software. I wonder if it's at a deep enough granularity such that they can simply use natural language to get something to work.

petra · a month ago

Can an LLM detect a lack of precision and point it to you ?

petra commented on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites haaretz.com/israel-news/2... · Posted by u/ahmetcadirci25

StochasticLi · 2 months ago

What do you think is a proper solution? 30% being pro genocide is insane.

petra · 2 months ago

A proper solution ?

I have ideas, but their value is mostly in making me sound smart.

In reality I don't have realistic, implementable ideas on how to get out of this mess. Just wishes.

petra commented on Everything around LLMs is still magical and wishful thinking dmitriid.com/everything-a... · Posted by u/troupo

m4rtink · 2 months ago

Does anyone actually know what the real cost for the customers will be once the free AI money no longer floods those companies?

petra · 2 months ago

There's a potential for 100x+ lower cost of chips/energy for inference with compute-in-memory technology.

So they'll probably find a reasonable cost/value ratio.

petra commented on Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff psychiatrymargins.com/p/s... · Posted by u/Anon84

Throwaway42754 · 2 months ago

I have schizoaffective disorder, induced by a bad trip from marijuana. It was like the 3rd time I had tried weed, and I naively took too much.

For me psychosis feels like pattern matching going on extreme overdrive, while at the same time memory goes to shit. It's truly an awful illness, and what's worse is that the current medical treatments are bad. I've been fortunate enough where I can get by on a low dose olanzapine, but for many people they simply don't work at all.

Even though I'm doing well enough to function normally and hold down a good, well paying job, it's impossible to find a partner. If I were to have kids, I would have to go through one of the embryo prescreening services. I am strongly in support of these screening services - the disease is truly horrible.

There has been little progress on treatments for schizophrenia, the mechanism of action of these drugs has remained the same for decades. The side effects are almost as bad as the disease, which is why so many schizophrenic stop taking them. The only novel medication recently released is Cobenfy, which I have not tried yet.

Personally I am holding out hope that schizophrenia has some basis as an autoimmune disease. There was a cancer patient who had a bone marrow transplant and ended up being cured: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophre...

petra · 2 months ago

Interesting link, thank you!.

One other possible immune system link is the relationahip between the parasite toximoplasis gondii to schizophrenia.

If I'm not mistaken that's the paper about that:

https://dbc.wroc.pl/Content/39095/PDF/1031.pdf

petra commented on The FPGA turns 40 adiuvoengineering.com/pos... · Posted by u/voxadam

duskwuff · 2 months ago

Is this still an active thing? My understanding is that both Xilinx and Altera/Intel have effectively discontinued their ASIC programs (Xilinx EasyPath, Altera HardCopy); they aren't available for modern part families.

For what it's worth, Xilinx EasyPath was never actually ASIC. The parts delivered were still FPGAs; they were just FPGAs with a reduced testing program focusing on functionality used by the customer's design.

petra · 2 months ago

Intel/Altera still has this:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/eas...

petra commented on The FPGA turns 40 adiuvoengineering.com/pos... · Posted by u/voxadam

avidiax · 2 months ago

FPGAs are an amazing product that almost shouldn't exist if you think about the business and marketing concerns. They are a product that is too expensive at scale. If an application takes off, it is eventually cheaper and more performant to switch to ASICs, which is obvious when you see the 4-digit prices of the most sophisticated FPGAs.

Given how ruinously expensive silicon products are to bring to market, it's amazing that there are multiple companies competing (albeit in distinct segments).

FPGAs also seem like a largely untapped domain in general purpose computing, a bit like GPUs used to be. The ability to reprogram an FPGA to implement a new digital circuit in milliseconds would be a game changer for many workloads, except that current CPUs and GPUs are already very capable.

petra · 2 months ago

//If an application takes off, it is eventually cheaper and more performant to switch to ASICs,

That's part of the FPGA business model - they have an automated way to take an FPGA design and turn it into a validated semi-custom ASIC, at low NRE, at silicon nodes(10nm?) you wouldn't have access to otherwise.

And all of that at a much lower risk. This is a strong rational but also emotional appeal. And people are highly influenced by that.

petra commented on Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive? · Posted by u/neonate

petra · 3 months ago

Z-Library has a keyword search. Personally i didn't find it too useful, especially given Google Books exists. It's not easy to create a quality book search engine.

petra commented on How Ukraine’s killer drones are beating Russian jamming spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine... · Posted by u/rbanffy

sreekanth850 · 3 months ago

None of them caused any casualities or any damage to infrastructure. As we have multi layered defense system with L70 and Zu23 for very short range Defense agains drones and UAV, Spyder for Short Range, Akash for Medium range, s400 for Long range and high value target, exact kill rate of Guns are unknown. In press briefing, officials said that these were so effective against drones.

petra · 3 months ago

That's very impressive, especially at low cost.