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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
I’m not sure that I agree entirely with your framing here, yes, you do at some point need to correct your assumptions with external evidence. But clearly there have been many individuals throughout history who have had incredibly out sized
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
Python is mostly glue around C/C++ numerical code for the things I’ve used it for, it’s the inverse of lua. In both cases you have a language that’s easy to manipulate tacked on to one that’s fast because time spent writing code is mo
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
You’re giving trump a lot of credit that you think he’s capable of thinking of second order effects of his actions.
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
Never high and a significant number were donated to ukraine specifically because a ground launched pgm has never been a high priority for the US since the USAF exists.
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
I mean, we could, the issue is that it would be politically untenable. Controlling the straight means controlling Iranian territory, which means a ground invasion and occupation, which means ~2 million deployed personnel until you set up a
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
Never attribute to malice that which can easily be explained by stupidity.
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
There’s fan noise, but the acoustic engineers at Apple have done a very good job of making it be pretty much not noticeable to someone who has noise sensitivity (me).
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
I too have felt that pain. Funcanimation is passible for a few datapoints but it really struggles with anything meaningful in real time.
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
You know PowerPoint is just a zip archive of xml files right?
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
the only reason to use cython (in my experience) is to write quick numpy extensions without a tonne of extra baggage from having a complete compiled extension in C/C++/Rust. Often, you explicitly want to avoid the compiler offerin
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
I don’t think any of what you just said is true. Code quality matters even with testing even up to proof of correctness using formal methods, because working software is a moving target and quality is a measure of how easy / expensive
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by FuckButtons 2mo ago
I take the authors point about empires being necessarily cosmopolitan, but it’s not as though it’s a new phenomenon that people have a myopic view about what empire is or how they should operate. (Eg, Russification) Its always been true tha
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
My 2 cents: you don’t have to look at the pelican if you don’t want to.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
not only that, but what all of this misses is the fact that the specification that they used was a product of writing the software, not the other way round. It would be much, much more difficult to first write a correct specification than t
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
The only barely sane rationale that I’ve heard for wanting datacenters in space is that they would give space-x low latency signal processing capacity it would need to turn Starlink into a real time Passive SAR constellation.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
Given that their initial product was called ChatGPT I’m not sure that anyone should expect them to be able to name anything remotely sensibly.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
While you’re not wrong, this is also simply mechanical, the context window is the root problem here, if the llm doesn’t happen to have read implementation n of a thing that it needs that session, well now you have n+1 implementations.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
One would hope, though I suspect they may want to make things a bit flashier than “we made the audio transcription on the keyboard not terrible” in the changelog given the amount of work that’s gone in.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
Yeah, apple will be optimizing a model to work on ANE and then turn it into a native app. My only hope is that it has a reasonable api so that I can use that as a generic input source across iOS / macOS that’s equivalent to the ubiquit
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
Also not true, they want you to pay for a higher subscription bracket and then use only marginally more than you would have, which I think they’re doing quite effectively for most people based on my interactions.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
Nope, that’s not true, because they want you to pay for the higher subscription bracket.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
There are two major sub-fields in materials science. 1: Making materials with interesting new properties. 2: figuring out how to remove the lead from them.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
qwen 27b at q8 is slower and worse than ds4 at q2 in my experience.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
The pentagon can’t stop gold plating requirements, but that’s not just a problem of this administration. We’re still feeling the effects of the self inflicted hollowing out of the defense industry at the end of the Cold War, every defense c
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
If you look at us military procurement over the past 20 years you will find that many, many projects have been sunk because of this exact reason.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
I will never understand this mindset. What exactly do you think primary scientific research is if not collecting data on questions to which you do not know the answer? How are you supposed to get data to said questions without observing the
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
I’ve found ds4 on my mbp to be very useful, bought before ram prices became insane. It’s not writing entire applications on it’s own, it has resolved annoying networking issues on my tailnet that I had neither the time nor inclination to fi
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
Sure, but it’s equally likely that we hit a point where scaling becomes economically unviable because we can’t come up with enough algorithmic improvements to break free of the tyranny of log linear scaling. (I’m not sure how many 2x in tok
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
this is explicitly why qwen opted to use recurrent layers as the middle layers of their hybrid model.
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by FuckButtons 3mo ago
The fact that I can take it with me? That I don’t need internet to still have access to deepseek? The fact that electricity is expensive and an mbp uses ~10% of the power that an equivalent vram set up would using gpu’s. Also, in order to g

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