James Ostheimer

physics, astronomy and data

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

btw i am jostheim on linkedin and github… don’t do the meta stuff

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

left when elon took over, back for the downfall, what a moron

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

.@Frigidaire my oven racks no longer fit my oven, the oven warped which seems like an enormous quality control issue

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

who is doing #stablediffusion of how to videos? So i could prompt “how to replace the carburetor on a Poulan chainsaw?” and i get a customized how to video. Plenty of training data on youtube.

[Hamel Husain @HamelHusain]

Well, I guess the bird site is going to be lit on fire soon, so what other social media platform should I be using to keep in touch with ML people and such?

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

@jamesdensmore followed by my presentation “neither snowflake or duckdb will fix your orgs incentive misalignment” 😀

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

this, technology is never the real issue

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

@BrianRoemmele so they just calculate Pi non-stop or something? what a wasteful design. my background is in physics so i’ll just accede to you given your background, I am astonished that ARMs take full power all the time

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

A quick look at nvidea-smi says this is simply not true, my 1080 ti uses 70W at 0% and 205 W at 100%.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Reality check 98.771% of your CPU/GPU cycles do almost nothing—most of your multi-cores are idling yet are STILL consuming energy.

If mining took the trillions of idle CPU/GPU cycles YOU would get paid and very little new net energy used.

This could have been ETH proof-of-work.

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

@BrianRoemmele Same thing with the cpu, if you are doing processing you are using energy… I am not sure exactly what an idle processor does, but I do know a lot of progress has been made in lowering energy usage when inactive. I don’t think there is a there there.

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

@BrianRoemmele If you ask your GPU to do calculation it will use more power, that is simply thermodynamics.

[Danilo J. Rezende @DaniloJRezende]

This model can answer any question, about anything. You "just" need to know the right prompt

def model(prompt):
set_seed(prompt)
ans=''
while uniform() < 0.5:
ans += str(uniform() < 0.5)
return ans

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

the college debt forgiveness has been acutely good at identifying people to block. i had debt, i paid it off and i am for forgiving debt. education should be free, instead it is gate keeping lower incomes out of growth

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

causality is hard… there are so many confounders here my guess is Scrum was never the real problem

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Skype went all-in on Scrum 2011-12 right as WhatsApp overtook it in market share.

I asked the WhatsApp founder Jan Koum if they used it at all. His response:

“To be honest i have no idea what this Scrum garbage is and we never uttered the word Scrum when i was at WhatsApp.”

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

@UHaul_Cares your upacks arrived 4 hours after their window and caused me to spend $600 on movers to stand around only to then have me have to move everything… i want my $600 and time back

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

Mission Driven, hope everyone remembers that blog post…

[. @WallStCynic]

2.9%…?! $COIN

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

Since it is only a week away now:

Big life news for me.

I am moving back to my old stomping grounds of Charlottesville VA (remote work FTW). Happy to talk with folks in the Virginia area about AI, Data Science and such so feel free to reach out!

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

Sentient

[Julian Togelius @togelius]

The nonsense continues. Step by step.

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

Zach is making web3 look real, real bad… I am just eating popcorn.

[James Ostheimer @jostheim]

@titusandtate this was a special episode… the him, one of dem ones, and who got the dog in em’ is a timeless debate