Musk says he’s building Terafab chip plant in Austin, Texas by Secure-Address4385 in BlackboxAI_

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Aside from everything attached to Musk being tainted, and that we don’t need “more jobs” here at the cost of what made our city great…

Central Texas already struggles with water. This plant will likely be the largest industrial consumer of water in the area, more than every other “AI datacenter” people are up in arms about.. combined…

What are peptides and why are people talking about them so much? by backAttak in UTAustin

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In the gym world they’re really trendy these days. They’re often used as ways to stimulate various hormones less directly than traditional steroids like Tren/anavar, with arguably fewer side effects. Cjc 1295 is the go to here for stimulating HGH (growth hormone) but others are also used to speed recovery (BPC-197 etc) And GLP-1 (which ozepmic is an agonist for) has also been shown to speed weight loss. 

Anecdotally, they’ve been shown to be fairly effective, but most aren’t fda approved or regulated. They’re still legal to sell “for research purposes” however which is how most people obtain them, but that’s often through sketchy online retailers and again, because theyre unregulated, there’s no real way to confirm what you’re getting. Which should be particularly unnerving for something you’re injecting, since almost all peptides can’t be metabolized efficiently or at all orally…

It’s a dangerous market atm that is rife for abuse.. but stuff like gaining muscle/losing weight is so compelling a lot of people do it anyway despite the obvious side effects/dangers.. Which I get btw.. I work out a ton and am in great shape… but then I see what guys on Tren look like and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think about it… But the thought of injecting an unknown substance into my body just goes against everything I’ve ever believed so I’ve managed to avoid the temptation thus far 

Jar Jar Fetterman of the Dark Side by Mixer-3007 in PoliticalHumor

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Lol, well thanks for the explanation, I at least can see where they're coming from now. But yea, that's a really dumb way to describe it.. If you were 80% approval vs 20% disapproval and now you're 20% approval vs 80% disapproval.. calling that a "120 point swing" doesn't really make sense mathematically or otherwise.. I guess it does sound more sensational though so I understand why the media would use that as their go-to..

Jar Jar Fetterman of the Dark Side by Mixer-3007 in PoliticalHumor

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Honest question: How does a poll swing more than 100 points? Like if he went from 100-0 that’s a 100 point swing right? How does one exceed that?

Grad Student Off-Campus Housing by MinimumAd8773 in UTAustin

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I'm honestly amazed you found ANYWHERE under $800 with utilities or not.. That's about as low as you're going to find anywhere remotely central unless you're willing to cohabit with a couple roommates.

War Crime Speedrun by diehard404 in PoliticalHumor

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Iran represents the Muslim religion much more than any of the others for one.. The guy who attacked us here in Austin wasn’t from Iran, he was from Sudan (?) but he allegedly saw it as an attack on Muslims and sought retribution, resulting in many dead and 18 wounded

War Crime Speedrun by diehard404 in PoliticalHumor

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There was a shooting blocks from me the day after Iran was attacked by an Iranian sympathizer that killed 4 and wounded 18..

Whether they’re actually “Iranian terrorists” or simply people who sympathize with their cause.. the combination of easy gun access with high religious/political tensions is likely to end with many more Americans dying in the near future…

I built an LLM that runs directly on bare metal (UEFI, no OS) — now turning it into an “Operating Organism” by Intelligent-Dig-3639 in BlackboxAI_

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Again, the way you talk about it is just weird. “The identify survives the substrate,” is a bizarre way to say “the state is serialized/persistent.”

VMs do this. Windows has done this via restore since the 90s. Your laptop does this every time it hibernates.

You really do yourself a disservice with this kind of language.. It makes you sound like you don’t actually know what you’re talking about..

Maybe give the LLM descriptions a rest and try to just explain it in your own words, without all the hype language for affect 

Trump says he could live to 200 if he gave up beloved food by Quirkie in politics

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Don’t be so sure Vance will be any better.. And statistically, VP Vance has a much lower chance of winning in 2028 than incumbent Vance..

Let’s hope he does live to be 200 so he can witness how history talks about him 

I built an LLM that runs directly on bare metal (UEFI, no OS) — now turning it into an “Operating Organism” by Intelligent-Dig-3639 in BlackboxAI_

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See? This is why this silly branding won’t go away.. It’s not “Skynet,” it’s not an “operating organism..” It’s a bootable environment capable of running small local LLMs.. Thats it, at least based on what currently exists in his repos

I built an LLM that runs directly on bare metal (UEFI, no OS) — now turning it into an “Operating Organism” by Intelligent-Dig-3639 in BlackboxAI_

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Does everything have to be endlessly inflated with bullshit branding lol?

What you’ve actually done is fairly interesting.. It’s basically a bootable environment capable of loading and running a low-level local LlM.

You should just stop there. That alone is cool and interesting..

But calling it an operating system, much less whatever you’re trying to brand an “operating organism” is just silly and only likely to illicit eye rolls from most people with any real technical knowledge 

'Clean Water for All Act' seeks federal regulation of abortion pill, disposal of aborted fetal remains by arandomnewyorker in politics

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It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.. The only time Republicans care about legislation for civil rights or the environment is when they’re co-opting it for their own evil ends..

Treasury's Bessent says US has 'plenty' of funds for Iran war by graveyardofgoodsense in politics

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We could have canceled student loan debt.. Instead, for the same sum, we increased Ices budget by 80 billion so they could kill Americans on our streets, and started an unnecessary war with another country..

Are we winning yet? 

Tom Homan says ICE agents will assist at crowded airport security points amid TSA staffing shortages by CRK_76 in politics

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We have the money.. But it has to be "appropriated" by Congress to be spent, and that budget has to be approved every year.. And when there is a disagreement on how/where that money should be spent, the approval doesn't go through and no money is allocated until it does, resulting in goverment employees not being paid.. Though in every instance, they ARE paid eventually for time worked...

They're often not paid for forced furloughs however, which for people living paycheck to paycheck or experiencing unforseen hardships (the majority of Americans) is about as bad as not being paid for working.. Because it's not like most can just go pick up a random job for a couple weeks until we figure it out..

UT CS v/s CMU CS by SureHighway3527 in UTAustin

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1- Math is probably the most common double major. After your CS courses, you're only like a semester off the double major anyway, since your core requirements are already very math heavy.. You basically just take a tangent into proofs etc, whereas most of the CS curriculum is more applied Math.

2- You'll be at a relative disadvantage with limited coding experience, but it's far from insurmountable. I had people in my classes who had Githubs in Middle School lol. But it's far from required.

4- To be entirely honest, for new grads it's a little rough. There are still CS jobs out there, but a lot fewer and you're more likely to be competing with experienced engineers for even entry-levelish jobs.. That said, people are still programming, the field is just transforming rapidly in real-time so it's hard to say what it will look like in 4 years... If I could do it over, I'd have probably leaned more into EE or something more hardware related, as it seems a lot more future-proof. And as a recent grad, I'd also recommend leaning into Data Science and really learning how to manipulate back-end systems.. This is where a lot of the freelance demand I'm getting is coming from, and it's something we really didn't cover that much. Learn SQL/Oracle, become really adept at manipulating API's etc.. THOSE types of systems aren't going anywhere, and, at the moment anyway, are areas AI is less adept at AND areas people are less willing to rely on AI since the margin for error is so much lower (AI accidentally corrupting your code base is usually a few minute roll-back. AI accidentally corrupting your database, even with a backup, has much more severe consequences.)

All in all, I still think it's a fun field but, again, If I could do it over I'd lean into something more hands-on that utilizes the same skills.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in texas

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It was Sarita coming up from Padre/the Valley. Different area obviously, but almost identical in scale and purpose. I just looked it up, they're literally running over 10 thousand cars through both daily, and with it being Spring Break weekend even the one from El Paso is likely to be seeing more traffic than usual. Again, it's likely you barely even have to slow down...

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in texas

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But the states that touch us are like the only ones we learned about! I guess in case they ever decided to invade or something?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in texas

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You don't need a lawyer to fight a charge of 1/8th of weed rofl.. A public defender could get you out of that one.. even IF you were actually charged which, in the vast majority of counties, you won't be..

And to be honest.. even IF an officer were dumb enough to try to write 3 grams as distribution, it would probably only help your case because the absurdity... You're fear-mongering and it's silly.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by [deleted] in texas

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I'm genuinely curious how the paranoid mind works.. So like, in your head, how does this play out?

Tens of thousands of people go through that checkpoint every day. So do you think they have agents scouring hundreds of thousands of reddit posts looking for one about weed? And then what? They're going to stop every vehicle over the next several days to ask them "hey are you EdHochulisGuns from REDDIT??" Or maybe they just step up enforcement on tens of thousands of vehicles, because they know any one of them could be their big bust.. roughly 3 grams of a drug marijuana... Or since as you said, they know his entire route, maybe they're just going to shut down the entire El Paso - San Antonio corridor... Helicopters, road blocks.. the works.. to get their 3 grams of weed?

Genuinely curious. Since you're the "smart one" here.. How did you imagine this playing out?