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by Jedd 2y ago
> ... models that have no chance of competing with ... I've not seen any proper evaluations for Granite against, say, Llama or Mistral. Until we do it's probably too early to say they can't compete, at least in some areas
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by Jedd 2y ago
I've managed to avoid ollama and just toyed with lmstudio. It's non-free software, but extremely easy to get into, uses llama.cpp under the hood, cross-platform, yada yada. There's https://jan.ai/docs as well
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by Jedd 2y ago
I recall the brief storm that came up ~ 7 months ago with: 'Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted' ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37702095 ) ... and thought something significant will definitel
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by Jedd 2y ago
> Take away the tourists and they have no economy and no jobs. That's not strictly true, and it's (stopping all tourists) not what they're advocating. A third of their GDP comes (directly) from tourism, which suggests some
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by Jedd 3y ago
The link provided - to one side of the story - is perhaps slightly partisan in its description of events. Drew's response at https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-en... comes acros
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Those specific numbers were about a plug-in hybrid. So with gas power. Where are you seeing that? I can't find 'hybrid' in TFA at all. Admittedly it's a bit confusing that Americans stick with miles, and are also t
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by Jedd 3y ago
I see your point, but if the USA didn't encourage the company to set up fab shops domestically, then it wouldn't be receiving those taxes either - but in that scenario it also wouldn't be receiving the indirect benefits of
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by Jedd 3y ago
> ... but is it _really_ necessary to "gift" some of the most capable and productive companies ... As I understand it, the gift is, for the most part, what we'd call 'funny money' - no one's really handing
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by Jedd 3y ago
'Losing' makes it sound like a recent change of heart. Is this the same government that twenty years ago prosecuted Microsoft for breaching antitrust laws? And less than a year ago hit up Microsoft for ~$30B worth of unpaid taxes?
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by Jedd 3y ago
What does 'put their liability on' mean to you? Because I suspect it does not mean what I think you think it means. (Typically the EULA of all those non-Postgres systems are 'this is sold as is, no warranty as to suitability
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by Jedd 3y ago
photogrammetry - is the key word you're looking to search on. There's quite a few advanced solutions already (predating LLM/ML)
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by Jedd 3y ago
Adding to ShamelessC's answer - the other option is to wait for quantised versions of this model. A q4 will be around 70GB, and probably acceptable. A q5 or higher would be preferred, but we're still a good way under the 260GB.
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by Jedd 3y ago
Are you aware how Macs present memory? Their 'unified' memory approach means you could run an 80GB model on a 128GB machine. There's no concept of 'dedicated GPU memory' as per conventional amd64 arch machines.
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by Jedd 3y ago
I'm suggesting that if Bill sends an internal-to-Microsoft email that says 'we're now 100% focused on security and will be forever', that this may not be a position statement we could 100% rely on to accurately describe
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by Jedd 3y ago
You're describing one of the benefits of virtualised cattle, not necessarily or exclusively 'cloud'.
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by Jedd 3y ago
Perhaps. Though once you conceptualise it as a social contract, there's no longer any paradox. It's only if your mantra is 'maximum tolerance, regardless' that you have yourself a paradox. (Note - I'm not suggesting
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Seven years before that, in 2002, Bill Gates ... And just four years before that , Bill was being recalcitrant in front of the US government, with utterances like: ' I don’t know what you mean “concerned.” ' It's possib
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by Jedd 3y ago
The 'but then we're as bad as ..' argument will be presented, and maybe a reference to the Paradox of Tolerance (aka the Popper Paradox). I read a nice(r) interpretation of the paradox a while ago - loosely the claim was ma
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by Jedd 3y ago
> If one tries this approach I'd recommend pumping into a holding pond, ideally up hill from the land to be irrigated. Tanks would be absolutely massive for a crop on any meaningful scale, especially if its big enough to be putting
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by Jedd 3y ago
Sure, cucurbits and solanaceous crops and prone to humidity / water induced fungal attacks. Tomatoes are better watered at ground level (refer other thread about drippers) or even just flood irrigation. Tomatoes are actually pretty rob
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by Jedd 3y ago
Yes, sub-surface, or drip close to root zone, is perfect -- however that's really expensive, in terms of capex as well as maintenance, harvesting, etc. Drip systems tend to require a) a lot of pressure, and b) a very consistent press
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by Jedd 3y ago
> If you don't irrigate during the day in hot climates most crops will die That is clearly not true. Most crops are fine with watering after sunset / before sunrise.
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by Jedd 3y ago
In addition to the ways described in sibling responses to this question - diesel pumps suck, solar (submersible) pumps push. In practice you can't suck more than about 8 metres (in theory it's a bit more), and while there are ways
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by Jedd 3y ago
The margins are doubtless so narrow that it's not feasible, but pumping during the day into a storage tank, and irrigating at night (while evaporation is relatively low) would be a way to slightly improve soil (though not aquifer) rech
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by Jedd 3y ago
Here in Australia we're often led by technological visionaries. > In 2010, Turnbull called 100Mbps internet "a gigantic torching of taxpayers' money." In 2013 then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott said a download speed of 2
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by Jedd 3y ago
> How completely unnecessary. I think you mis-typed "I find this unnecessary". It's additional information, located in the area on your display that you should be regularly scanning, as opposed to the gear lever that you c
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by Jedd 3y ago
> Ultimately everywhere that has wired power should be able to get fiber, if right of ways were reasonable. That's quite a caveat, but still doesn't get you to 'fiber is feasible everywhere'. Where I am (about 250km n
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by Jedd 3y ago
Possibly parent is assuming that because IQ is a distribution with 100 at the center, any movement results in a shift of that median. Potentially you could interpret this as suggesting a tacit (mathematical) increase elsewhere, but I don&#x
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by Jedd 3y ago
Printing didn't require a lot of power. The Romans didn't have the precision (though arguably could have acquired that skill) to build decent steam engines, but more importantly they had no use for that power. The most compelli
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by Jedd 3y ago
> One important finding, researchers say, is that there is no one-size-fits-all recipe when it comes to the four-day workweek. Didn't we already know this is the case with a five-day workweek? Five days is such an arbitrary situatio

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