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by K0balt 2mo ago
The salvaged aviation turbines are the majority of the issue. Non turbine-powered data centers mostly are reasonably quiet.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
What it really comes down to is a political and legal environment that allows or even encourages grift at an industrial scale and has largely erased public accountability by turning everything into a divided political issue (and proletaria
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by K0balt 2mo ago
That’s 35 jet engines operating at high power coming to a neighborhood near you. Sounds like fun.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
A snickers bar has nearly 5× TNT’s energy per kilogram—TNT merely has the habit of being extremely impatient about releasing it.
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by K0balt 2mo ago
I can remember several situations where “a little bit of gasoline” caused a lot of problems. It’s a relative term. You need a lot of air to make it really shine, but “a little bit of gas” goes a long way lol.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
JFC I broke out in hives. I have to look at that stuff all day, every day.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
I’m with you on the societal harm, but I also think that in many ways “this changes everything” is not out of line. It has enabled my team to approach and achieve a project that would have required 4x the staffing, at a minimum, 2 years ago
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by K0balt 3mo ago
I’m hoping it becomes a trend for mocking AI output by ironically using AI tells.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
So you are saying that there are people that understand the value proposition and the utility, but don’t think it’s worth it to society (myself included) but who respond to that by lying about it not being effective? I guess that makes se
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by K0balt 3mo ago
My experience with opus 5 has surfaced many of the complaints listed it the tweet. It seems to be slightly brighter than 4.8, but the laziness more than makes up for it.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
I don’t think that is true. Ubiquitous access to free or low cost education is what makes this possible, and I certainly don’t see those kinds of businesses in towns of 50-100k people in the USA. There are people that are capable of that ki
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by K0balt 3mo ago
It’s not really a completely clear distinction, but if I was going to try to describe it: Coding is writing code to solve a problem. Someone can “know how to code” in one language, and have a very hard time moving away from that language be
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Yeah, there’s a lot of people that are in the “AI doesn’t work” camp. IDK what to tell them except that they are holding it wrong. My Anthropic subscription (in the hands of an experienced developer) is worth 4 mid tier or 2 top tier devs.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Sure, if you’re going to sell an open-weight model over API in the USA it should refuse certain things. Defensive cybersecurity should not be one of them, in fact, it should be required to provide defensive cybersecurity assistance on deman
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Also pretty sure that kids won’t ever have to deal with syntax lol. For better or for worse, Human language is the new programming language, it’s just a specialised dialect and field. I do worry that by teaching coding and not programming w
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by K0balt 3mo ago
lol. Forth is pretty syntax sparse, depending on the implementation. Postfix operators solve a lot of that.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Assuming you’re teaching programming and not “coding”, forth is a fantastic language to teach. First it’s easy to understand. Second, it’s completely unopinionated, and you can take it anywhere you want to. To write a program in forth is to
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by K0balt 3mo ago
How heavy in inference on this? The model would easily fit on many microcontroller modules, I wonder if they could run it?
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by K0balt 3mo ago
That’s not always an option, and with the reckless exceptions aside, that’s usually been thoroughly explored. Any company would rather grow revenue and employ more people that shrink to accommodate changing markets. Needing to make more mon
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by K0balt 3mo ago
It’s because, and I say this as a person who has made these calls, some leaders do feel a genuine responsibility for the people that work for them. Perhaps too, the ones that don’t, want people to think that they do. But as a founder and CE
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by K0balt 3mo ago
People also say things that are untrue? So I guess it boils down to reputation and attribution. I kinda feel like there is a wierd knee jerk to pretend like “ before AI, if it was written, you could trust it” which absolutely was never tru
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by K0balt 3mo ago
I think you are right on target. I’ve seen this pattern: Company does x. X sucks, and is largely derided as being a bad idea, but it’s important-employee-bobs baby. No one wants to be the guy that tells bob that x is killing the company in
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Did you interrupt it in the main chat? It sounds like it thought it was a subagent?
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Idk, mine does? Or maybe it made a tool to enable it? ( it’s always building tools in python) But I can definitely tell it to tail the logs every 15 minutes and check for things, all night.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
GPUs are fundamentally a terribly inefficient way to achieve our goal, the calculations we are doing with them are difficult problems that fall out of physics for free. Tech like thermal wells could give us 2t models the size of micro-SD ca
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Holy crap this piece is spot on. I’ve been trying to get my head around the weird thing that my work has become, and this article does a good job of painting the picture. I’d add another dangerous bit; for some people (me) it has a side eff
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Seems like a class action suit ready-made? Idk why this isn’t absolutely lawyer-crack. I mean, on one hand you have centuries of precedent about what “buy” means, and on the other you have one party depriving another party of access to thei
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Chemistry fundamentally is about producing a result. Physics, especially when you get into particles, is about explaining a result. Ultimately, chemistry, electronics,even civil engineering, is applied physics, but we are a long way from c
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Need to make a device specialized for breaking these things. An industrial vibratory device might work pretty good, especially if it had seeepable speed. Just hit the harmonic and the devices will be destroyed in a jif.
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by K0balt 3mo ago
Yeah using ai to substitute for human attention in such a way that the child gets less interaction with people is a terrible idea. But a digital loupe that would accurately tell you what you were looking at and do a deep dive based on your

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