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da fuq?! Haven’t seen this kind of shit™ on IRC since the good ‘ol days of AustNet (now dead right?) when IRC was way more popular than it is today 🤣 #IRC #Porn

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In-reply-to » Secret To AI Profitability Is Hiring a Lot More Doctorates As tech giants struggle to profit from AI, a growing industry of specialized AI training firms is emerging by hiring doctors, radiologists and other experts to develop commercially viable applications. The $20 billion data services sector, projected to grow 20% annually, is attracting major investment by focusing on high-value, specialized AI applications.

Secret To AI Profitability Is Hiring a Lot More Doctorates

Umm no! It’s figuring out how to build an auto-complete that doesn’t require a nuclear power plant! Oh wait 🤔 we did that like 50 years ago already 🤦‍♂️

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Over the holiday break I was looking at one of my old projects, µLinux. Turns out I did a fine job realy and have decided to revive the project 🥳 – Just getting the build/tests woring on my Mac Studio (Apple Silicon). Check it out! 👌 #µLinux

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Was just catching up on all the LinkedIN garbage that is well umm garbage 🗑️ One was from a candidate I interviewed, so I had to reply to that 😅 – Anyway…. Saw this random post in my “notifications”:

How do land that job with a Unicorn

First off, you’ll have to define what da fuq a “Unicorn” is! 🤣 My understanding a Unicorn is a mythical creature with a horn on its head and wings 🪽 🤦‍♂️

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In-reply-to » Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

@bender@twtxt.net I reviewed my solution and it’s pretty much spot on! 🤣 the order of magnitude performance is anywhere between 1-10ms

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In-reply-to » Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

@bender@twtxt.net are one of my assumptions off?

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In-reply-to » Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

  • Page size 1MB
  • Median 50 pages per query
  • 80% pages cached
  • 200us SSD reads
  • 100us Memory reads
  • Query time:
    • (50x0.80x100)+(50x0.20x200)‎ = 6,000
    • 6000us
    • 6ms

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In-reply-to » OpenAI Releases 'Smarter, Faster' ChatGPT - Plus $200-a-Month Subscriptions for 'Even-Smarter Mode' Wednesday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced "12 Days of OpenAI," promising that "Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo..." And sure enough, today he announced the launch of two things: - "o1, the smartest model in the world. Smarter, faster, and more features (e.g. ... ⌘ Read more

PhD level science questions? (+1)
niftydude an hour ago
A PhD level science question is a question that can only be answered by scientific research and experimentation.

And no, by “research”, I do not mean googling.

Literally the whole point of a scientific PhD is to perform experiments and study to answer a specific research question that no one has looked into yet.

Whilst ChatGPT can probably can answer “PhD-level science questions” with the same generation of plausible bullshit it answers all questions, I very much doubt ChatGPT can answer PhD-level science questions with any sort of accuracy.

It can’t do that without performing experiments (that in some cases might be complex enough to last years).

Just more of the marketing BS silicon valley seems to be full of these days. Remember when California was actually making products that benefited society as well as making money?

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

I like to think of it like this. It takes approximately five months of power, relatively speaking to power, the human brain vs. multiple megawatts hell even multiple gigawatts of power to power even some of the most modest and yet surprisingly complex AI models.

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

There is something about human intelligence that we don’t quite yet understand, and it isn’t in the complexity or increasing the number of parameters to the order of billions 🤣

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

In other words, I don’t think we can realistically even come close to emulating, emotion, depth, and creativity

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In-reply-to » If there a name for those of us who dislike AI generated imagery, or for the dislike of AI generated imagery in general? A composite German word would do! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This random comment from another Slashdot article pretry much sums up my view on so-called “AI”:

Elevator music
Tony Isaac 20 minutes ago
If you derive your income from producing “elevator music” you might indeed be in danger of losing that income to AI. Also, bumper music–music used to fill otherwise silent gaps between segments of a podcast or radio show–might be a candidate for AI takeover.
But if you produce real music–music with depth and emotion–your job isn’t going anywhere.
How can I be so sure? I’ve seen the kind of code AI writes. I’ve seen the kind of prose AI writes. Both are amazing, for something computer-generated. But neither would be mistaken for the work of someone skilled or proficient in the art. Music won’t be any different.

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In-reply-to » Bitcoin Reaches and Surpasses $100k USD Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing. Slashdot was pretty early on Bitcoin. Thoughts, nocoiners?

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net da fuq?! Already?! 😱 Who’s pumping this shit?! 🤯

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In-reply-to » Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls "Post Open" to "meet goals that Open Source fails at today" ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net why are so many banging on against Bruce Perens in the comments of this Slashdot article? 🤔 what has he done?

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Problem 2: Your SSD-backed database has a usage-pattern that rewards you with a 80% page-cache hit-rate (i.e. 80% of disk reads are served directly out of memory instead of going to the SSD). The median is 50 distinct disk pages for a query to gather its query results (e.g. InnoDB pages in MySQL). What is the expected average query time from your database?

Share your solution via Twtxt and how you arrived at it and I’ll share my solution tomorrow!

#napkin-math

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