K0balt

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by K0balt 9mo ago
Probably just closing the airspace for the space alien emissary.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Slow population growth or even stable population is dramatically different from population decline. Usually slow growth is the ideal. But even a modest decline shifts extreme burdens onto wage earners. OTOH, it’s great for buying up propert
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Population decline is disastrous for sprawling developing nations like the United states. It’s bad for fully developed nations as well, but it’s cyanide for developing countries. Infrastructure build out requires a strongly growing populati
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by K0balt 9mo ago
What’s with the name? Is this somehow porn-adjacent?
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I’d love to hear an actual counterpoint, perhaps there is an alternative set of semantics that closely maps to LLMs, because “text prediction” paradigms fail to adequately intuit the behavior of these devices, while anthropomorphic language
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Exactly this. Their characteristics are by design constrained to be as human-like as possible, and optimized for human-like behavior. It makes perfect sense to characterize them in human terms and to attribute human-like traits to their hum
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Yeah, it’s not exactly great lol. Could be the vision behind the project though, from an aspirational standpoint. But yeah, it kinda implies it will be more like ollama or vLLM.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Just explicitly prioritize separation of concerns, with strict API modularity between them. Breaking everything into single concern chunks with good APIs. It’s less about re-use, and more about containment . Documentation, and testability.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
All part of the crusade to reduce USA relevance and soft power. Sad to see, but understandable from the point of view of BRICS bros. They’re having a moment, to be sure.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
That’s where it really shines. I have a backlog of small projects (-1-2kLOC type state machines , sensors, loggers) and instead of spending 2-3 days I can usually knock them out in half a day. So they get done. On these projects, it is an
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I think the author is using local-first as in “your files stay local, and the framework is compatible with on-prem infra”. Aside from not storing your docs and data with a cloud service though, it’s very usable with cloud inference provider
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by K0balt 9mo ago
It absolutely can be pointed to any standard endpoint, either cloud or local. It’s far better for most users to be able to specify an inference server (even on localhost in some cases) because the ecosystem of specialized inference servers
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Equal to the 2x3090? Yeah it’s about equal in every way, context windows included. As for useful at that scale? I use mine for coding a fair bit, and I don’t find it a detractor overall. It enforces proper API discipline, modularity, and hi
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by K0balt 9mo ago
lol. No, I’m definitely winning the search transaction! I got way more than I paid for!
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by K0balt 9mo ago
At the time I was very naive. I actually thought it was my civic duty lol.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Mmmm, not really. I have both a4x 3090 box and a Mac m1 with 64 gb. I find that the Mac performs about the same as a 2x 3090. That’s nothing stellar, but you can run 70b models at decent quants with moderate context windows. Definitely us
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Welcome to the club. I inadvertently traveled with not one, but two large box cutters in my carryon satchel for at least 20 flights before I discovered them while searching for some swag. I put them in there for a booth setup in Vegas years
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Your calculations are based on cooling to 20c, which is exponentially harder than cooling to 70c where GPUs are happy. Radiators would be roughly 1/3 the size of the panels for 70c.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I think you may be thinking of cooling to habitable temperatures (20c). You can run GPUs at 70c , so radiative cooling density goes up exponentially. You should need about 1/3 of the array in radiators.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Yes. Spot on. The good thing is that it makes better code if modularity is strict as well. I’m finding that I am breaking projects down into clear separations of concerns and designing inviolate API walls between modules, where before I mi
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by K0balt 9mo ago
It seems to be fantastic up to about 5k loc and then it starts to need a lot more guidance, careful supervision, skepticism, and aggressive context management. If you’re careful, it only goes completely off the rails once in a while and th
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by K0balt 9mo ago
>>interactions that descended into discussing "eternal transcendence". Perhaps this might be a common "failure mode" I wonder if it’s a common failure mode because it is a common failure mode of human conversations
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by K0balt 9mo ago
They sound shiny and mysterious?
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Lol. Good luck with that.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Slightly misspelled or otherwise poorly listed items, and check auctions for “ending soonest” at awkward hours.
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I think that edge-ai (speech, camera, various preprocessing features) will keep a relatively powerful computing device in your pocket, even though most likely everything will be done in the cloud on AI. Camera quality and screens will stil
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by K0balt 9mo ago
I wonder if this is custom hardware, or a Chinese phone they have managed to write some drivers and patches for?
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by K0balt 9mo ago
A month or two of isolated outages should not be a crisis in a developed nation with resources and infrastructure. The fact that the Texas outages killed anyone is a testament to the fact that the USA is, apparently, a developing nation, po
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Can you give some examples of? I can imagine that under the right circumstances you might succeed in blowing up some transformers or even a turbine, but it seems like you’d be up to speed within a month or two on the outside? Or am I missi
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by K0balt 9mo ago
Of -reported- incedents, 1 in 4 women report having been the victim of significant physical harm by an intimate partner, as do 1 in 7 men. Now if you consider the comparative likelihood of severe physical harm in M vs F and F vs M, and fact

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