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by K0balt 1y ago
Can multimodal llms read the pdf file format to extract text components as well as graphical ones? Because that would seem to me to be the best way to go.
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by K0balt 1y ago
For a while I flew an aero commander 100 “darter” (not the 112 low wing type) that looked like a Cessna 172 with a Mooney tail. It had a couple of cool innovations, fiberglass leaf springs for the landing gear, and a laminar flow airfoil.
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s best to remember that ai is an extractive process, not a creative one. That’s why it seems to give you what you “want to hear”. The prompt directs the drill, the well spills out what you drilled into.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, it’s kind of like being a PID controller for a few interrelated variables in an unstable model. The never ending illusion of balance followed by inevitable triumph of chaos lol
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by K0balt 1y ago
Sumer was my first exposure to computers. I used my mom’s account at the university to access the VAX over a DECwriter 100 dot matrix teletype terminal. At 6 years old, I got quite good at the game. Left alone, to my own devices wandering
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by K0balt 1y ago
Autocorrect is dangerous. My worst autocorrect story is me sending my mom the following text : “hi mom, just wanted to let you know I’m tied up at the moment but I’ll give you acall as soon as I get free.” Which resulted in a text about me
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by K0balt 1y ago
Ai is useful in closed loop applications, often it can even do a decent job of closing the loop itself… but you need to understand that it is a fundamentally extractive, not creative, process. The body of human cultural knowledge is the und
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by K0balt 1y ago
The other part of this that many people miss is that since electric drive isn’t air-breathing, there is no propulsion related altitude limitation… so a light, relatively inexpensive aircraft can now fly in the high altitude region, potentia
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, it’s expensive because nobody needs it so the process is very small scale and essentially a bespoke isotope separation service.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Theres always money in the banana stand!
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by K0balt 1y ago
Impressive. In aviation, this gets us a Cessna 172 in a two seat configuration that has about a 2 hour endurance and insane takeoff performance. Translated to a slippery aerodynamically optimized composite 2 seat plane, that could be around
732.
by K0balt 1y ago
If we assume that the motor is operating at 98 percent efficiency (improbable but not impossible at that power level) then that’s 11KW of heat to carry away. That is similar to an ICE engine of 18KW, which is light but not extreme at 13kg.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Idk, it’s also confusing to me. “I have been told” by someone who knows a lot more about cryptography than most people (including me) that it should be possible to, but I can’t see how because I suppose if you could spend the coins it means
734.
by K0balt 1y ago
It depends. If miners handle this in a manner true to the ethos, it’s a nothing burger, just things working as intended. If they opt to burn legacy coins, then the chain will split and we will see what fork is deemed more valuable, and a bu
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by K0balt 1y ago
Um… the miners choose what forks to accept. Devs do not have the say. Miners do. Decentralization is intact, insofar as mining is decentralized.
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by K0balt 1y ago
As long as a ZK recovery path is provided, this stays true to the ethos. The ethos was never“if it breaks we won’t fix it”. Responsible handling of this issue does not have to distort the ledger. OTOH, if they freeze vulnerable wallets and
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by K0balt 1y ago
My concern is that America will become a sprawling no man’s land as the economy contracts to 20 percent of its present size. Rapid collapse is unpredictable and seems like a bad idea for a country with such a huge military presence.
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by K0balt 1y ago
>Is an imagined VM Turing complete? Fascinating question. My “vibe” opinion is that it is, but there are limits on the meaning of Turing completeness that do not apply within traditional computing paradigms, vis a vis scaling costs. My i
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by K0balt 1y ago
The only reliable way to survive a flood with strong currents is to not be in one. I will not live long term on land that has historically been subject to flooding, or where the site forms part of a constricted drainage. There are enough ri
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by K0balt 1y ago
Being fine for decades is not a useful metric, unfortunately. If you want to know, look into the last time it was flooded. If it has never flooded in the scope of human history, it’s possible that the danger of flooding is indeed not signif
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by K0balt 1y ago
Very interesting idea. The entire computing experience, os applications, potentially even file systems etc exists only in the “imagination “ of the model. Although this is of course ridiculously wasteful right now, I can see this being the
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by K0balt 1y ago
Ive not seen that kind of mistreatment of people, but I’m sure it happens especially in situations of extreme class disparity. Where I live it’s extremely laid back- it’s rural, 50 minutes from Santiago and an hour from puerto plata. We hav
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by K0balt 1y ago
Come on over to the Dominican Republic. I’ve been here for 15 years, and I’ve had no problems running several projects from here. In the Cibao region you’ll find IMHO the best culture, and Santiago has a little of everything, though it take
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by K0balt 1y ago
The time between the two switches being activated and then them being switched back on after being noticed strongly suggests that they were actually manipulated. Malice looke very likely to me. An investigation into the pilots life may turn
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by K0balt 1y ago
Very cool. Looks like it might be practical to run 7b models at Q4 on my phone, That would make it truly useful!
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by K0balt 1y ago
I wonder if there is a paper treatment or paper like substance that could manage those temperatures without issues? Certainly a little “styrofoam” glider carved out of foam heatshield material, which would be cool enough, but lacks the “I f
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by K0balt 1y ago
Is this good for making tricorders? ‘Cause if it ain’t good for making tricorders I don’t give a rats a&&. But seriously, THz imaging ins going to be wild.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, doesn’t sound like EOL to me. Must have been some other IOT/PAN technology.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation! I’ll look at that. >> Embrace the uncertainty and move forward anyway. This. This is the key factor that prevents attempts at success, or leads to failure by a thousand cuts. There is no gain withou
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by K0balt 1y ago
>Why were thread and matter hailed as the open revolution when they're exactly the opposite? Subterfuge PR or the subversion of original intention by greed. Also, wasn’t there recent news that thread was being abandoned by manufact

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