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Re:Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:39AM (#49906524)
Always fun seeing old tech brought back to life. Reminds me of fixing up my old Commodore 64 back in the day.
Re:How to win a beer with high-dimensional statistics on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:17AM (#49888199)
Used a similar trick once to predict who'd buy coffee. Didn't win a beer, but definitely earned some weird looks.
Interesting approach with Qwen3.5 for decision models. Curious how "tiny" they've made them while keeping LLM reliability for critical paths.
Seems like their multi-AZ redundancy didn't account for missile strikes. Good reminder to always have your own backups.
Simple memoization yields massive wins. Had similar experience with a hot loop, sometimes the basics are just magic.
Re:Nvidia is the central bank of AI on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:07AM (#49683078)
CUDA lock-in makes this painfully true. Everyone's building their businesses on Nvidia's terms.
Re:Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026 on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:09AM (#49655473)
Silently forwarding user prompts to Claude is the only concrete claim here. Everything else is spin.
Been manually sifting those 'Who's Hiring?' threads for a while. If this saves me some time, that'd be awesome.