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by Miraste 9mo ago
Unsloth doesn't seem to do this for every new model, but they did publish a report on their quant methods and the performance loss it causes. https://unsloth.ai/docs/basics/unsloth-dynamic-2.0-ggufs It isn&#x
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by Miraste 9mo ago
I imagine it would be much, much harder. Elon, for example, is one man. He can only do one thing at a time. Sometimes he is tired, hungry, sick, distracted, or the myriad other problems humans have. His knowledge and attention are limited.
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by Miraste 10mo ago
I suppose it depends on your definition of worse. It is more versatile. It's also toxic and fragile, and far more likely to break in ways that are hard to repair. I can only think of one object I own where the physical properties of pa
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by Miraste 10mo ago
If the cheap thing replaces the expensive thing and there is no same-price comparison, is it absurd? My point is that many products that were handmade at high quality no longer exist because of modern manufacturing. If you want a chair or,
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by Miraste 10mo ago
Computer and machine manufactured parts can be better, but it's a mistake to believe they always are. Take two contrasting examples. In guitar manufacturing, CNC machines were a revolution. The quality of mid-range guitars improved mas
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by Miraste 10mo ago
That only applies if you expect to be at one job for a long time. Current business culture makes that a poor bet, both due to pernicious Jack Welch style layoff management and the career and salary benefits of changing jobs every few years.
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by Miraste 10mo ago
More than one failure. They had a project to make a custom chip for model training a few years ago, and they scrapped it. Now they have another one, which entered testing in March. I don't think it's going well, because testing sh
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by Miraste 10mo ago
Even ardent protectionists generally agree that tariffs can't bring jobs and manufacturing back by themselves. To work, they have to be accompanied by programs to nurture dead or failing domestic industries and rebuild them into someth
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by Miraste 10mo ago
They used to, but they've caught up. The flagship iPhone 17 has 12GB RAM, the same as the Galaxy S25. Only the most expensive Z Fold has more, with 16GB. RAM pricing segmentation makes Apple a lot of money, but I think they scared them
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by Miraste 10mo ago
Tim Cook is the Supply Chain Guy. He has been for decades, before he ever worked at Apple. He does everything he can to make sure that Apple directly controls as much of the supply chain as possible, and uses the full extent of their influe
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by Miraste 10mo ago
Interesting approach. I can think of one more explanation the author didn't consider: what if software development time wasn't the bottleneck to what he analyzed? The chart for Google Play app submissions, for example, goes down b
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by Miraste 10mo ago
We're too far into the grip of monopolies for that. Apple would never let a full version of Steam run on iPads. Google wouldn't either. I think more ARM Valve hardware is likely.
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by Miraste 10mo ago
It's not instant (well, sometimes it is), more of a slow but inexorable push down a hill. Some public companies are farther along the path than others, but if the company continues to exist and profit it's inevitable. For example,
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by Miraste 10mo ago
Meta makes websites and apps. Historically, they haven't succeeded at lower-level development. A somewhat recent example was when they tried to make a custom OS for their VR headsets, completely failed, and had to continue using Androi
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by Miraste 11mo ago
It is arrogant, but I see why it happens with brain-related fields specifically: the best scientific answer to most questions of intelligence and consciousness tends to be "we have no idea, but here's a bad heuristic."
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by Miraste 11mo ago
I know. It's still the slowest IDE, but I suppose they deserve props for making it better than the Windows 95 speeds of the last version.
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by Miraste 11mo ago
VS Code is technically an Electron app, but it's not the usual lazy resource hog implementation like Slack or something. A lot of work went into making it fast. I doubt you'll find many non-Electron full IDEs that are faster. Look
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by Miraste 11mo ago
It remains to be seen whether that works out for them, but it seems like a good bet to me. Coding is the most monetizatable use anyone has found for LLMs so far, and the most likely to persist past this initial hype bubble (if the Singulari
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by Miraste 11mo ago
Are you using it for agentic tasks of any length? 3.5 and 4.5 are about the same for single file/single snippet tasks, but my observation has been that 4.5 can do longer, more complex tasks that were a waste of time to even try with 3.
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by Miraste 11mo ago
I've noticed that too. I suspect it has broader general knowledge than the others, because Google presumably has the broadest training set.
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by Miraste 11mo ago
They're not making money, but they're in a much better situation than Microsoft/OpenAI because of TPUs. TPUs are much cheaper than Nvidia cards both to purchase and to operate, so Google's AI efforts aren't running
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by Miraste 11mo ago
It still haunts them. Even in the brand-new Gemini-based rework of Photos search and image recognition, "gorilla" is a completely blacklisted word.
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by Miraste 1y ago
I don't think this is fair. Of the uses listed: iPads are better for watching shows on a stationary bike, since they fit on the bike iPads are better for reading manga, since you can hold them vertically and iPads are clearly better fo
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by Miraste 1y ago
They're tablet sized screens folding to phone size, instead of phone size folding to half phone size.
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by Miraste 1y ago
They're in the right. Folding phones are great, and I've used one for years, but the technology hasn't reached Apple levels. Get rid of the crease, make the screen less scratchable, and make them waterproof, and then it could
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by Miraste 1y ago
Strange to be saying this about Apple products, but its advantage is that it's way, way cheaper.
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by Miraste 1y ago
That still didn't explain anything. Surely the car could limit itself to 80% of standard socket rated output for continuous draw, like they do in other countries. Are Norwegian outlets commonly installed so far below spec that that wil
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by Miraste 1y ago
Whatever private companies you route your communications through are almost certainly working on implementing this. The NSA will be applying this technology to ~all communication routed through the USA, as well. You can't opt out of it
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by Miraste 1y ago
That sounds quite interesting. Why are you trying to reconstruct a river bottom?
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by Miraste 1y ago
The AI act being "well developed" means it's dense enough that compliance can't be done without the backing of a major corporation's legal team. Tencent is a major corporation, but this is a janky research project t

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