wojtek

ceo at mostlydev on github, building ai infra and

[wojtek @wojinald]

@paleoludic The problem with school is that nobody benefits from you doing your homework except you.

If work feels the same then maybe what you’re doing isn’t useful enough to others either.

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@KirkLubimov Rent-to-buy is just government for NINJA loans. They’re assuming all the risk on behalf of people who can’t convince any bank to lend them money.

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@CharlesLammam We’re part of this story. We started moving our operations to the US a few years back. But it’s not just a regulatory issue. Canadian work culture simply doesn’t measure up.

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Anyone want to tell them what happens to equity when you buy a bunch of condos above market, and then dump them below?

FDR tried this with hogs and cattle. Ended up slaughtering 14 million head—in the middle of a depression— to delay price collapse.

Taxpayers will eat this, and banks will need an even bigger bailout. The only winners here are a small well connected group of condo farmers.

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@BRVTVSMAXIMVS @ingelramdecoucy @FreddyLA7 Indiana can become its own thing. It’s got presence. Like Georgia does.

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@monkeema @ingelramdecoucy @FreddyLA7 It’s become a place again. We stop by sometimes on our way through. The Bowling Green Manhattan. Trust me. Iconic.

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@asidd0 @gweilonft @Geiger_Capital As you imply below, equal is a matter of degree. Your claim your policy preferences provide more equal opportunity. The burden is on you to prove that before you upend property rights. Asset seizure isn’t some novel theory; it’s expressly barred in the constitution.

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@asidd0 @gweilonft @Geiger_Capital It’s not an argument against X. But show me X works at small scale before we make it federal (or state) law. State and national government is not where we run experiments.

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Explosion in Doha

[wass @wassimz]

What was that Doha?

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@SimonCouverqa @mortimer_1 It’s a totally desirable outcome. They can sell what’s left to more responsible builders. These people shouldn’t continue as owners in the business.

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@mattsoltys @mortimer_1 The banks are partners in these deals. They deserve no special treatment.

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@AbionMorse @webprofusion @burkov Yeah. But not with this much of a subsidy

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@webprofusion @burkov This is $200 plans on both btw. My API costs on an equivalent workflow would be in the thousands/month.

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@webprofusion @burkov Yup. I’ve got 4-5 sets of panes running at all times chasing (and often leading) the limit at both providers. That’s like $100 a day easy with any remotely comparable API model.

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@SteveSaretsky A well seasoned central banker.

What’s money anyway, ammirite?

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@doodlestein Generally with you, but DEXA is already quite cheap, very fast (couple of minutes), produces solid images, and doesn’t require you to undress. Vendors have been trying to market DEXA for wellness for decades. People simply don’t want to pay almost anything for the service.

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The problem here isn’t technical execution; it’s physics.

You can’t compute your way into the impenetrable. It’s mathematically provable.

What you can do is produce cheap non-diagnostic images of the parts you can see. And that’s cool.

The other issue is economics. DEXA vendors have been trying to market whole body scans as a wellness/fitness tool for two decades. It’s not that expensive —certainly not as expensive as this device—and scans are already quite fast. People simply aren’t buying.

This will have a niche market at high end spas.

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@vidyamadhavan2 My trading bots use it for research. Good realtime data

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@pitdesi Heck yeah. Glad I didn’t sell when I stopped using Schwab lol.

Drinks on me. But like two people max.

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@Diabito344925 @scaling01 No idea. Ask Gemini. It’ll happily tell you.

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@spiral_archtct @AaronBergman18 The directive doesn’t actually prevent anything. Anthropic isn’t exporting the model. They provide inference and export context.

I’m certain all their employees are still (legally) using the model.