dougSF70

I went to a poker tournament with a friend recently. He plays in a lot of tournaments but is always getting eliminated because he is a somewhat risk-averse player in tournaments. From my experience with improving my…

We have put some AI/ML servers in a 100% solar-powered Colocation facility. We are now offering these machines for rent by researchers who are priced out of the market. The site design is basic but we hope to add more…

We spend a lot of time matching items in one list in another list...it's time consuming. Speaking with our fractional CFO, he said he also spends too much time match items in one list in another. So we built…

I learned that the longest time you can sprint for is ~1 minute which is why the 400M is a sprint because historically it took 60 seconds. On the other hand 800M is not a sprint, as a consequence the physiques of 400M…

This firm is the poster child for firms that only existed due to cheap money. Went public via a SPAC in November 2022 laid off all staff except executive team, 8 months later. I am sure they went public with the best of…

I have a beef with these labels especially when used in layoff announcements. For example tacklers work at tackle.io, wazers at Waze, googlers at google. Tweeps work at Twitter. Can we crowd source a list please.

Chatting with my son yesterday - who has learned some disparate languages (Spanish, Japanese, Arabic) - he spoke about the fact that in Japanese there are (at least) two verbs "to touch": there is one you use to talk…

I have acquired some 10x GPU Servers from a corporate data center that was shutting down. I am going to put them in my own data center and was thinking that I could open it up to the public on a low cost basis - I think…

I got the Chess.com "database is overloaded error message" when I went to login today. This is a new error for me, and I wonder whether is driven by the high number of layoffs or because many people decided to play more…

I set up a new google ads account. Entered all the information, rewrote the ad copy they suggested. Specified my audience, budget and entered my credit card details - a credit card I use to pay my Google Workspace…

I am not a climate scientist by any stretch. However given that all life on the planet is a direct result of the Sun and the energy we receive from it, it would make sense if that less of the sun's energy was used to…

A few years ago we were running lots of distributed compute jobs and I picked up some high spec mac pro 5.1 that people were selling off in the bay area. I could pick up a 12 core 3+ Ghz with 32 GB of ram unit for about…

Plankton and Trees are at the bottom of the food chain. Sun's energy across life time of solar system has fueled life on this planet by promoting growth of bottom of the food chain. Over the past 4.571 bn years, the Sun…