dualmindblade [he/him]

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Cake day: September 21st, 2020

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  • Or suppose you just buy the place outright, then 60-80% of the rent depending on how stingy you are and tax rate is just profit, you need not make any gains on the real estate at all, you're in the black the whole time on paper should you ever need to secure a loan, and in a 10-20 years you have a property plus the initial cash you invested. Probably the least efficient but also least risky way to go about it, you can always midway between the two strategies depending on risk tolerance, landlording is good business!



  • So you have some kind of spectrum modem with a built in router and the wired connection is solid? Assuming you've turned it off and back on again....

    Last time I had spectrum you could still configure quite a bit from the modem admin UI, usually you can access it at 192.167.1.1, though this can vary. Get in there, if you changed the password (you should have lol) and don't remember you'll need to do a hard reset on the modem which you can look up by model number. Update the firmware and/or mess with random wifi settings till it works. All of this is reversible with a hard reset, unless the firmware update fails so maybe do that last. If this fails either replace the hardware or get a separate wifi router, don't need to worry about compatibility really just get one with the same or greater Ethernet bandwidth as the model. Or you can go to the spectrum brick/mortar and wait in line and they'll replace it.

    VERY IMORTANT: when you do end up getting off spectrum and have to return the hardware, take a picture of the receipt at UPS or wherever you happen to return it. They will very likely try to fuck you and say it wasn't returned, I believe this is an unofficial internal policy. Even if you do this they may send you to collection even thought you proved to them more than once you returned it. Take screenshots and/or recordings of all interaction with spectrum agents. Then finally a strongly worded letter (registered mail) to the collection agency with all your evidence will end the nightmare. Is it worth it to spent 12 hours of work and $10 to send a registered letter so that spectrum only extracts $2 extra dollars by selling your "debt" rather than 50? I would argue that yes, it is


  • I know it's hard but I believe we ought to reserve most of our hatred for the social structures which are literally optimized for the propagation and amplification of common human evil, and which transform non evil behaviors such as seeking food and shelter and protecting your family into new and alien evils that have not existed for most of our species history. Yeah people are shitty too, but this isn't something we can change, and under a different society most of them would be a lot less shitty.

    I realize there's a difference between believing you should feel a certain way and actual feeling, and it can be hard or impossible to bridge that gap, but bringing a belief that doesn't match your actions and feelings to your attention creates a dissonance that your mind will try to resolve, it is possible to change the way you feel.













  • It really is, another thing I find remarkable is that all the magic vectors (features) were produced automatically without looking at the actual output of the model, only activations in a middle layer of the network, and using a loss function that is purely geometric in nature, it has no idea the meaning of the various features it is discovering.

    And the fact that this works seems to confirm, or at least almost confirm, a non trivial fact about how transformers do what they do. I always like to point out that we know more about the workings of the human brain than we do about the neural networks we have ourselves created. Probably still true, but this makes me optimistic we'll at least cross that very low bar in the near future.






  • Okay just thinking out loud here, everything I've seen so far works as you described, the training data is taken either from reality or generated by a traditional solver. I'm not sure this is a fundamental limitation though, you should be able to create a loss function that asks "how closely does the output satisfy the PDE?" rather than "how closely does the output match the data generated by my solver?". But anyway you wouldn't need to improve on the accuracy of the most accurate methods to get something useful, if the NN is super fast and has acceptable accuracy you can use that to do the bulk of your optimization and then use a regular simulation and or reality to check the result and possibly do some fine-tuning.


  • https://www.statesman.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/10/professor-richard-heyman-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest-arrested-fired-interfering-police/73639778007/

    The charging document notes that Heyman broke the trooper's "state-issued bike bell," which costs $62.

    And through the grapevine I've heard at least one student received notification from campus police that they are banned from campus with no mention of exceptions for educational reasons. It seems they are planning to suspend or expel at least some students.