- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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better to be inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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On July 5, 2023, Bluesky announced it had raised $8 million in a seed funding round.[44] The seed round was led by Neo, a firm with partners like Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi and former Twitter PM Suzanne Xie, and included other investors such as Joe Beda (co-creator of Kubernetes), Bob Young of Red Hat, Amjad Masad of Replit, Amir Shevat, Heather Meeker, Jeromy Johnson, and Automattic.[44] Bluesky plans to use the funds to grow its team, manage operations, pay for infrastructure costs, and build out the AT Protocol technology that it runs on.[44]
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Ali Partovi (Persian: علی پرتووی; born 1972)[1] is an Iranian-American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of Code.org (which he founded with his twin brother Hadi), iLike, LinkExchange, an early advisor at Dropbox, and an early promoter of bid-based search advertising.[2] Partovi currently serves on the board of directors at FoodCorps.[3] He is currently the CEO of Neo, a mentorship community and venture fund he established in 2017.
LinkExchange, holy poo poo i'm old
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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In fact, i'm brave enough to say it: its too easy to use a computer and all software should be harder to use.
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Feb 19, 2024 00:07
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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goddamn so i looked up the original earnings call transcript these articles are based on and it's just completely feral
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Operator
Our final question today comes from Brad Zelnick from Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.
Brad Zelnick
Thanks very much for taking my question. Larry, my question actually follows on your answer to Kirk's question because I think it's so important. In talking to one of your GSI partners we heard about a global public sector solution that they referred to as government in a box where Oracle in partnership with likes Starlink, the Tony Blair Project, our building solutions on top of OCI including [Absence Check] and even Cerner. So, literally run the entire country's digital operations. So, hoping you can add even a little bit more color about what you're doing here. How big an opportunity it is because it just seems like it's such a powerful example of the entire Oracle Cloud Stack coming together in a very meaningful way?
Larry Ellison
All right. It is really, really - it is very interesting. And we've gone into the National Government and State Government applications in a very, very big way to give you an idea a little glimpse of what we're doing. Yes, because we can't deliver these cloud regions to medium-sized countries.
So, for example, Serbia is standardizing on - or these Oracle Cloud regions for their National Government. We're automating their healthcare and people know that we're in the healthcare business. What they might not know is in cooperation with Starlink we're able to deliver an Internet service to - for the entire country.
The rural part of the country, by the way, we can deliver the Internet and we have delivered the Internet. Let's say Kenya or Rwanda very inexpensively using Starlink and our sovereign cloud regions to backhaul the Internet traffic. So, you can bring every school in Serbia online the Internet connectivity even if they're rural doesn't matter. Every school, every hospital as is true of Rwanda, that's true of Kenya.
We can do it very, very cost-effectively and one of the applications we have for agriculture, we actually do a national map of the country where we can show you each of the farms in the country, what they're growing - this farm is growing coffee, this farm is growing maze, this farm - what's part of the fields are getting enough nitrogen, which part of the fields are getting enough water? What corrective actions you need to take to increase your agricultural output?
We're doing that again in concert with Elon Musk and SpaceX to do this kind of mapping to provide this AI-assisted and then these maps are AI-assisted help them plan their agricultural output and predict their agricultural output, predict markets, the logistics of the agricultural output during all of those things as next-generation national application.
And it is one of the most exciting things we're doing, of course, we do procurement and accounting and human resources and recruiting for the government, we do all of those applications. But in some of the newer applications, regarding food security. Making sure all the schools are online. Rural growth schools are online. That rural hospitals are online. It's automating those rural hospitals. It's automating their vaccination program, their healthcare program across the board. These next-generation applications are very attractive.
I'll tell you one other crazy thing that we do. It's another generative AI application. If you want to join the EU, it took Serbia eight years to harmonize their laws to be able to join the EU. Albania is facing the same thing. But with generative AI, we can read the entire corpus of the Albanian laws and actually harmonize their laws with the EU and probably more like 18-months to two years rather than the eight years it took Serbia. So, there are all sorts of interesting new AI applications out there that people you've probably never heard of before or at least I hadn't heard of before, until this last 12 months. Now that we've worked on and we're now in the process of delivering.
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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if i were a giant amoral tech company collecting huge amounts of granular farming data on an entire country's farming sector and using it to provide shiny but ultimately useless glass dashboards to that country's central planners for free, i would also use that data to frontrun the commodities market derivatives for that country's crops. i mean, i wouldn't, that's a lot of risky financial work for me, a giant amoral tech company, i'd just sell that data feed to goldman sachs or whoever already has a profitable business manipulating commodities markets.
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Mar 14, 2024 19:18
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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what is that man doing to his <div>
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Apr 9, 2024 18:11
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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wait isn't palmer lucky a huge nazi? why is carmack defending the huge nazi? didn't john carmack make a series of popular video games about killing nazis?
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Apr 15, 2024 04:01
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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lollin at the original code chunk
code:
float Q_rsqrt(float number)
{
long i;
float x2, y;
const float threehalfs = 1.5F;
x2 = number * 0.5F;
y = number;
i = * ( long * ) &y; // evil floating point bit level hacking
i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 ); // what the gently caress?
y = * ( float * ) &i;
y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 1st iteration
// y = y * ( threehalfs - ( x2 * y * y ) ); // 2nd iteration, this can be removed
return y;
}
i'm less interested in the magic number than wtf is going on with threehalfs
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Apr 18, 2024 00:43
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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probably trying to get the compiler to keep it around rather than generating 1.5 in a float register every method invocation
i'd be mildly surprised if even the garbage C compilers of the '90s couldn't constant fold that away
starting to suspect this carmack guy isn't even all that great of a programmer
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- shackleford
- Sep 4, 2006
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i understand the screencapped part perfectly fine (he wrote some web garbage in the dotcom era), it's the part of the tweet that got left out that got me
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Couldn't afford a Cisco T1 router, so wrote an emulator based on a white paper.
what the gently caress does that mean
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