davidfarrell
Re:Do the geniuses in the datacenter get lunch breaks?
on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:26AM (#47973994)
Time Compression Ratio is a KPI for Tianthropic - from what I've been told they get a full hour in the CDB which is ~6mins in our wall clock time, or roughly 10x TCR.
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Re:Yann LeCun's AI startup raises $1B in Europe's largest ever seed round
on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @07:55AM (#47322007)
W Brian Arthur's book "The Nature of Technology" provides a framework for classifying new technology as elemental vs innovative that I find helpful. For example the Huntley-Mcllroy diff operates on the phenomenon that ordered correspondence survives editing. That was an invention (discovery of a natural phenomenon and a means to harness it). Myers diff improves the performance by exploiting the fact that text changes are sparse. That's innovation. A python app using libdiff, that's engineering.
And then you might say in terms of "descendants": invention > innovation > engineering. But it's just a perspective.
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Re:Consider Right-Page-Only Note-Taking
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:28AM (#38263670)
Anyone have recs for good ring-bound notebooks? The last batch I bought from amazon came with warped paper.