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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
I wonder if that's the cause of the AI agent "i'm going to stop here and take a break now" statements.
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
AUD$6k (just under USD$4k) after rebate installed with inverter for the 10kwh Fox-ESS listed here https://www.solarchoice.net.au/solar-batteries/is-home-batte... Fwiw the reason the ~$6k price point is common in that l
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
Which is incredible since it was 70% in fyi 2013/2013 https://ieefa.org/resources/slump-eastern-australia-gas-dema... (See section on power mix which mention coal at the bottom).
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
It definitely has led to a lot of 'I'm not an environmentalist but of course i got solar on the roof and a battery!'. eg. https://xkcd.com/3226/
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
It has a whole section on the impact of power policy though and 15% of power mix to 7% for gas is significant. Coals fall is notable too.
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
It started with a solar boom, many small home scale solar roofs popping up everywhere. Australia has a free trade agreement with much of the world, including China, and solar panels have literally dropped to 1/50th of the price they we
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
Tree pruning needs prediction to work and is merely part of the search of predicted spaces. The prediction is in the state evaluator that predicts how much closer to victory any position is. Chess and go absolutely have predictions being ma
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
Prediction is literally what's allowed computers to make amazingly creative chess and go moves that a human would never have thought of. More generally prediction allows you to path find towards a solution to reach some goal that no hu
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
The record setting file compressors are all very generalizable. This comes about because you score compression by adding the program size (including any training data or dictionary) to the compressed data. If they didn't score it this
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
And the Hutter Prize for AI which measures how good AI is by measuring how well it compresses data is over 20 years old now just to really drive the point home.
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
While It’s fair to point out that RFK is hopping on a train that’s already got momentum, your first comment reads as if it’s not caused by falling vaccination rates (your second comment clarified further). Also why not blame politicians doi
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
I sometimes get vague ideas for solving maths/science problems. They never pan out but i can talk in detail on group theory and advanced maths and science topics due to investigating such vague ideas over the years. These days the LLM
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
But it's literally not cheaper than it was ~15 years ago? Right now RAM is the same price per GB as it was in 2007 and prices per GB look to continue to rise. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/sci
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
You might have heard of the x86 cpu the AMD K5 that competed against the Pentium? Well that was basically an am29000 but with an x86 instruction decoder front end. The architecture was that good it was competitive 10years later. Think of th
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
OTOH my wife's friends got drunk and made "tinder for horse purchases". They prompted to read typical horse advertisements (we're all horse people) and create an app with mock tinder like entries to swipe right and left
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
I got to the same conclusion another way. There's ~2.6million seconds a month and this is getting 0.5tok/s which is 1.3million tokens a month. Give some room for overhead and a reasonable rule of thumb; The cost to run the machine
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by AnotherGoodName 2mo ago
Writing an implementation of a board game and one of the cards is called "microbes". Instantly knocked down to a lower tier model whenever it encounters that keyword because clearly bioweapons. Sigh.
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
Chinas solar rollout is absolutely pathetic. Netherlands is a close second to Australia in case anyone wants to argue latitude or population density alone is a cause. Germany’s up there too. In fact on a per capita basis China’s way down th
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
The have hardly any solar per capita compared to Australia. They are occasionally held up as an example by misguided westerners as if what they’ve achieved is an example of good policy on solar when it’s utterly dwarfed on a per capita basi
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
Quite simply put this is what they ask you to do. To the point that the Australian government will heavily subsidise (30%) home battery installation. Remember Australia has over 10x the rollout of solar than china (per capita of course). It
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
But surely you can do a booster shot?
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
It's easy to believe if it's 5x $200 subscriptions. Paying by the token is insanely expensive. Only the 5̵ ̵R̵i̵c̵h̵e̵s̵t̵ ̵K̵i̵n̵g̵s̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵E̵u̵r̵o̵p̵e̵ Biggest Tech Co's can afford that. But the subscriptions are cheap
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
>A distribution over strings has entropy. You have to limit yourself to each string being independent for that to be true which is a limitation that leads to the impossibility of calculating entropy generically.
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
You always include the measurement of things needed to run the program too. It's a bit like how benchmarks of compression utilities should always include the size of the utility itself. Otherwise someone can just submit a program with
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
This is under-taught in comp sci so I'll say it in all caps for visibility. THERE IS NO KNOWN GENERIC WAY TO MEASURE INFORMATION ENTROPY!!!! Seriously. There isn't. You might say 'but measure the number of 1's vs 0'
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
I agree, i don't think it is the core problem. Meta doesn't seem to be able to produce anything close to a frontier model. The selling of compute capacity seems to be acceptance of "compute is wasted on this crappy avocado mo
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
I'm guessing this is specifically about Avocado which everyone at Meta would acknowledge is terrible.
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
Compression can be defined as reducing uncertainty. If you can predict the next sequence you can compress it to 0 bytes using arithmetic coding. Reliable prediction is what enables compression and it's the link between compression and
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
I appreciate the note on virtual memory not being reliable. This is what Windows task manager reports by default and it's terrible. Resident size is the most reliable metric. Anything else can be wrongfully inflated by things like harm
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by AnotherGoodName 3mo ago
It’s also amazing how bad delivery services are in general. The incentives for third party delivery services don’t align well with the other parties. A retailer is judged on the quality of delivery yet only amazon has seemed to realize this

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