Typical single mode fiber runs around 0.68 c (function of refractive index of the fiber).

I'm not clear on how optical transceivers are supposed to be phoning home. They are in a metal case, sliding into a metal sleeve at chassis ground potential.

Realtime traders were said to be using free-space laser or microwave links to outrun fiber latency, but you need to be able to operate without the delays of interleaved coding.

But insofar as I can tell, that original 404 Media story largely amounts to "my friend heard from another friend that they're doing it with RARE books". Â\_(ãf)_/Â

Why would LLMs benefit from scouring RARE old books? What benefit would the rarity serve, when likely the texts are reprinted in umpteen subsequent editions that - to put it bluntly - nobody wants?
Are they buying an original copy of Samuel Pepys diary (first printings $4000) when they can get the umpteenth reprint for 17 cents? So yes, they're "destroying an old book" but rare? Why would they pay for rare?

You know how I know? Because I've been trying to unload a cache of 'rare old books' for a decade and nobody wants them.

1935 Platt & Munk Indian Series 3 pics â" Iâ(TM)ve only ever seen sets of 8, this is 16
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Maximilian I., der Grosse (2 pics) 1876
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Massive Norwegian Bible 1891?, rough shape, 7 pics gorgeous rebinding candidate, probably 14â x 10â x 4â?
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Worldâ(TM)s Great Classics, The Federalist Papers 3 pics, 1901
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Roman London â" 1926? 1 pic (contents on web at https://archive.org/details/in... )

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William the Silent 2 pics, 1911

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Knightâ(TM)s History of England, 4 vols, first American Edition, 2 pics 1880

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Guizotâ(TM)s Concise History of France 1881? 2 pics (Curiously, different than the version in the Library of Congress in that itâ(TM)s missing the printing date (see pics) â" LoC version here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/c... )

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A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe 1927 4 pics great maps.

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England and Germany 1740-1914 3 pics, 1918

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Schillerâ(TM)s Thirty Yearsâ(TM) War â" 3 pics â" 1897?

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History of the United States, vol 1 ,Ridpath 2 pics 1911

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Operation Greenhouse â" briefing pamphlet, 2 pics 1951 âoeRestrictedâ

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Home Life in Far Away Lands (textbook) 1928 clearly loved

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Simondâ(TM)s Travels in Switzerland Vols I and II , 1822

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5000 New Answers to Questions 2 pics 1933

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Union Now With Britain, 1941 4 pics

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Advanced Geography 2 pics textbook 1925

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Christian Stockâ(TM)s Hamiletisches Real-Lexicon 3 pics, 1890s?

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Thoresbyâ(TM)s Letters 4 pics Vol I and II, 1822

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Praediekener 2 pics, 1760

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On the Field of Glory 1906

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A Primer of the War for Americans 1914 2 pics

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Sabotage! The Secret War Against America 1942

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Vore Husdyr 2 pics 1902

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Maori & Settler 1900? 2 pics

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The History of England 2 pics Vol V, 1910?

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Gregg Speed Studies, Anniv Edition 2 pics 1929

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Parallel Source Problems in Medieval History 1912, 2 pics

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Swedish New Testament 1886 4 pics

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A History Of France, Arlington edition 5 pics 1881

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A History of Western Europe 3 pics 1904

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  Auswahl von Predikten 1829 2 pics

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World Politics at the End of the 19th Century â" 1902

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Republic or Empire: The Philippine Question by Wm Jennings Bryan SIGNED BY WM JENNINGS BRYANT 1899 2 pics

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Psalmebog 1833 3 pics

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Danish-English Dictionary 3 pics, 1845

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Collection of New Testament Histories 1805 3 pics

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Slips of Speech 1922 3 pics

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Biblehistorie 1888 no cover 1 pic

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Contes et Recits 1896 2 pics

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A Handbook of the War for Readers, Speakers, and Teachers 1918 1 pic

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FM21-100 Basic Field Manual 1 pic July 1941

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Look to Jesus 1904 2 pics

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Seven Chances (play) 1924 2 pics

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Sherwin Cody Nutshell Collection of Books 1927 3 pics 12 books (2 maps pictures NOT included in this set)

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Minneapolis and St Paul Street Maps including streetcar lines â" year not yet determined

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I take native Hawaiian religious objections seriously. These are people who take a fatalistic "Pele will take what she wants, it's pointless to try to stop her" attitude toward lava flows running over their houses that seems utterly insane here in Iceland. We'll buy up every available water pump on the international market and walk on active-flowing lava fields to save a harbour for a couple thousand people. We'll keep running tourist sites right next to a volcano that erupts every couple months by building multi-story-high berms around it with giant bulldozers and cooling anything that tries to overtop to make the berms even higher. And it totally works . But Hawaiians will sit back and watch incredibly slow-flowing flows with easy diversion paths take out everything they hold dear. At best they'll point to some primitive failed attempts in like the 1940s as a reason to not try, but then when pressed, it often comes back to: "Pele will take what she wants to take."

Another example: geothermal drilling on the Big Island. Massive protests. Massive resistance, way beyond the token NIMBY resistance here. Meanwhile Hawaii continues to generate most of its electricity from oil, at great cost. Hawaii is the only other place (outside of Iceland) to have accidentally drilled into a magma chamber. In Hawaii they treated it as a major incident and immediately shut down the well. When we did it? Our reaction was, "WOW, we can produce REALLY hot steam from THIS well!", made it into a production well, and started planning to drill more.

I guess one major difference here is that in the early Icelandic cosmology, volcanoes weren't the product of a high-ranking creator goddess, but rather, Surtr, who was practically a demon and was fated to destroy the world. It's good to resist Surtr!

Except his complaint is not.

Yes, it literally was. The main public complaint of the weavers was that they spent their entire life learning their art, and then their bosses come in with a machine that they teach to replicate the patterns that they developed, churn out cheap "slop" versions of them, and fire them.

And here we're talking about profits, despite their huge scaleup expenditure. Theirs and OpenAI's margins on serving inference are ~40%.

It's almost impossible for a company undergoing a massive scaleup rate to turn a profit, let alone growing 10X annualized for 3 1/2 years running, but Anthropic pulled it off.

He lost me at "Power BI".

Ugh...what a POS.....it's the modern equivalent of MS Access....it gives people who can't code or design enough tool to create something they force others to use which causes time suck and damage along the way.

So what? What is the point you are attempting to make here?

To quit being a bunch of pussies....

These windows DO open, don't they?

I mean, there's always portable units you can use.

Please enough with the excuses....sit and swelter if that's what you want, but geez....get used to it, this isn't going away you know.

Fine...then sit there and swelter like it is the 1800's....I really do't give a fuck if people make excuses instead of solutions.

Slight warning....get used to it, this isn't going away you know....

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I guess not.

I'm pretty sure what's actually happened here (that is, I heard through the grapevine, read some of the notes, have seen conversations between established mathematicians who are using it at the moment) that someone has built a natural language interface to Lean.

It would be interesting to know what the numbers look like in terms of schools that are actually doing something at least modestly Apple-specific vs. ones basically reusing chromebook-focused plans on Apple hardware.

Anything you hand out is going to be 'a platform' and normalize it for the students(not necessarily a point in its favor; people tend to resent the deliberate limitations of hardware that IT has been told to at least try to make less useful for porn and cheating); but there is a potential difference in versatility and vendor flexibility between people actually adopting some macOS stuff and people concluding that chromebooks have been getting more expensive at an alarming clip, without feeling any less cheap, so Apple is now genuinely competitive even if you are just going to slap managed chrome on there and reuse your existing, chromebook focused, IT and curriculum stuff.

Today, someone from the IT group at the local 2-year college, said that Computer Science enrollment is down 34%.

India recently had a leak of the NEET exam, and invalidated the results. There have been suicides as a consequence: NEET exam leak (BBC)

Apple made these to use up the backlog of slightly defective processors.