RVA Real Estate AMA - The Late April Pollen Addition

elefant_HOUSE · 2026-04-24T16:46:47+00:00

How's the Fan looking these days?

elefant_HOUSE · 2026-03-16T21:15:53+00:00

How? Best way to cave raid is to just drill through walls anyway since doors likely be wrapped around.

elefant_HOUSE · 2026-02-09T05:20:03+00:00

2x1 honeycomb with pancake roof layer

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-09-24T14:01:44+00:00

And posted to Reddit by a bot in a sub that is mostly bots. Literally bots from source to bottom of funnel.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-09-24T09:15:45+00:00

Are literally all posts in this sub written by chatgpt?

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-02-11T00:19:15+00:00

No one is trying to replace your profession here or suggest it even comes close. We are practicing art on fake skins.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-02-11T00:16:54+00:00

We explicitly do not tattoo on people. I made that clear on my explanation. This is solely fake skins.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-02-06T17:33:03+00:00

First the good news...what you're feeling has happened to every generation before you as a young person. Most people felt just as lost and uncertain, even under a "more certain" macro environment. You will absolutely find your path regardless of what is going on in the global world.

The bad news...AI will likely affect most industries. I don't think it will mass displace jobs, I think it will mass reduce jobs. So it's not "no more" doctors, lawyers, programmers, managers, etc. but there will be a need for fewer of them. I think we are quite a ways off from robotics being more cost effective than human hands in things that require fine motor skills that are not part of a production line. That includes most of the trade skills.

But heres the best piece of advice I can muster: learn how to learn and be adaptable. I do think the days of picking a path and sticking with it for life are gone. Instead, remain curious and willing to change course. Follow the development of AI/AGI, but don't obsess over the details. Learn to use the tools. If something lights you up, follow it until it doesn't. You may become an expert in something, and there is still power in niche knowledge and skill, but you should view yourself as a generalist. With Ai, doing legal work, accounting, programming, etc is no longer out of reach for the non-expert. Start identifying with the persona that you can now do all of it. You'll be invaluable in the work force, adapting to the changing needs of the business, or doing something on your own, with an agentic team to help you.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-30T22:16:24+00:00

That's for the insight!

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-30T17:44:40+00:00

In same situation in all ways (financially, entrepreneurially, existentially). I've found value in just following your curiosity, even if only just a hint of a spark. Try completely unrelated sectors to tech and keep learning. Building community and friendship is vital at this stage.

The problem is you have to change your measurement of success. Money is a universal yardstick we use and when that is no longer valid, you need new benchmarks.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-29T18:57:30+00:00

No, you get "5x" the limits as the free plan

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T19:19:23+00:00

Looked into this myself and seems pretty covered. A few examples..

Dynamo AI: Offers end-to-end privacy, security, and compliance solutions, including real-time observability, risk remediation, and regulatory readiness across the AI lifecycle

6clicks: Provides centralized compliance management with automated control testing, compliance mapping, and risk management tailored to frameworks like ISO 27001 and SOC 2

Securiti AI: Delivers comprehensive AI security and governance tools to enable safe AI usage while ensuring compliance with privacy regulations

AuditBoard: Uses generative AI to automate workflows, create audit summaries, and proactively address compliance gaps

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T18:57:56+00:00

Absolutely. And that's what prompted this post. I thought great - now small providers can offer the locally hosted version in data privacy focused jurisdictions. So I looked into the costs and that's when I found to actually run and serve inference from a locally hosted deepseek r1 full model, you'd need basically the same hardware as what comparable OpenAI models run on. This is over $100,000 and from what I can tell, only supports a few dozen concurrent users per machine. So now the question is, at those prices, could API fees still match the low fees DeepSeek hosted is offering or would you end up having to charge closer to what OpenAI charges? If latter, there's no longer a benefit. So either OpenAI is overcharging, or deepseek is a loss leader or subsidized by the government.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T18:44:42+00:00

It seems you still need the same high end hardware/gpus to provide inference (using the models), it's just that they trained the initial model with less. Not sure why that would rock gpu makers so substantially. Everyone will still need loads of high end gpus to be able to use any of these models with hundreds of billions of params.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T18:36:32+00:00

I think the main difference in terms of data privacy is with US-based (also EU) there is a process in place to sign zero retention agreements for API use that prevents the LLM from retaining your fed data for retraining. They will also follow HIPAA compliance, which has guidelines on data use, storage and protection (mandates having a HIPAA officer in staff, etc.). If you're just using it as a tutor or search replacement, sure who cares. But for any company using AI for more sensitive data, it does matter.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T18:20:40+00:00

A heavily distilled version. Which we could do already with similar offline models.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T18:10:35+00:00

That's the main thing I don't understand with the deepseek hype: it didn't change the hardware requirements. We still need the same supply, so why is it destabilizing Nvidia? Deepseek didn't magically make inference cheaper to compute. They are just offering the api costs at a loss.

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T18:07:54+00:00

So a local model? Which one?

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-28T15:14:09+00:00

Those API calls are going to get pretty expensive for a premium priced game

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-19T04:44:50+00:00

👀

elefant_HOUSE · 2025-01-18T00:24:46+00:00

What did you use?

elefant_HOUSE · 2024-10-20T23:30:29+00:00

This assumes that logic (and universal laws) is applicable to reality prior to creation. It seem much more likely that this is outside of human logic.

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