SideQuark

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by SideQuark 5d ago
And on that page govts have tried and failed at it also. Thinking the current prices are the result of fixing and not insane demand is surely going to lose in court. It’s trivial to show massive demand, and thus production line changes, as
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by SideQuark 5d ago
Google scholar has a flood of papers showing LLM diminishing returns on pretty much every facet https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C23&q=llm...
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by SideQuark 9d ago
This isn’t true, as there are plenty of things proven beyond reach. And plenty of things, eventually solvable, can create major problems that could both be avoided and the problem solved by taking a much better path. Having technology and t
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by SideQuark 9d ago
It’s the difference between “he hates food” and “he hates some food”. If you don’t see the first as a not honest, misleading restatement of the latter, then we think fundamentally differently about accurate statements.
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by SideQuark 9d ago
It’s 25% richer. That’s huge amount. Most people, if given a 25% income boost, could make a lot of quality of life changes.
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by SideQuark 11d ago
If you want to move the bar to quality for your strawman, then libjpeg-turbo is not even close in image quality to plenty of encoders, such as jpegli crush it. For compression size it also loses to modern libs. There is no metric that libje
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by SideQuark 11d ago
> In the case of a planet going around the sun we know that the planet travels in an ellipse That's a Newtonian approximation. Under General Relativity it is not true - the possible solutions are time varying, and I'm not even
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by SideQuark 12d ago
> It's very hard to beat the encoding performance of libjpegturbo, even with an asic. Pretty much any platform with a hardware jpeg encoder beats libjpegturbo. So probably all smart phones, large scale CPUs, even tiny few $ microcon
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by SideQuark 12d ago
> not linearized Not linearized as in samples do not represent linear color space? I think that's untrue, as all sensor work I've done (a decent amount across many projects) are linear: double light = double photon count = 1 bi
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by SideQuark 12d ago
Not counting physical, which certainly died. Games released is not indicative of revenues: 80% of steam games make < $5k, and median steam game makes at most a few hundred $. So that doesn't really tell much about sales. Recent data
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by SideQuark 12d ago
You wrote "The Luddites were not opposed to machines." What you wrote makes it sound as if there was no problems with machines, only with labor practices. That's simply misleading to untrue in this chain. You can say Luddite
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by SideQuark 13d ago
Which is a huge amount over the median all family income in the US of 83k. So in that sense farmers are richer than average Americans.
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by SideQuark 13d ago
> The Luddites were not opposed to machines. In the sense they were not opposed to all machines as a concept. They were definitely against machines they thought reduced their labor value: "They wrecked specific types of machinery th
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by SideQuark 15d ago
Laptops are already counted in PC sales, since they are PCs.
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by SideQuark 15d ago
Games doubling in price hides less copies bought, much like movies selling far less tickets yet having higher revenues. No matter how you count it, PC gaming has been in decline for a long time.
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by SideQuark 16d ago
PC sales peaked 15 years ago, and have been declining ever since. Most of the best selling PC games are from 15-30 years ago.
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by SideQuark 16d ago
As someone making mobile apps used by billions, demands from mobile users certainly grow and want this class of hardware capability. We spend significant effort trying to figure out how to deliver features asked for by our users for high en
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by SideQuark 16d ago
Pretty much all cutting edge graphics papers now use some form of NN. To ignore the techniques and gains at the cutting edge would leave any hardware mfr behind. It’s not nonsense or marketing speak. It’s genuine capability improving techno
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by SideQuark 16d ago
Datacenters don’t run on desktop class GPUs. They’re well past that. It’s why NVidia moved most production of desktop GPUs to data center class hardware.
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by SideQuark 27d ago
That’s completely backwards by orders of magnitude. Modern CPUs outrun L1 cache speed by a lot, L1 cache speed is on order of 1000-5000 GB/s, a GB/s is real bits used, is 8x of Gbps, and network speeds include significant overhead
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by SideQuark 27d ago
The vast majority of all commits to Linux were paid for by big business (around 85% last year, prev years similar). Intel, Google, AMD, IBM, Meta…. https://commandlinux.com/statistics/linux-kernel-contributor...
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
Not sure what you’re intending to show. That page shows 99.5%+ uptime across all 11 of the services provided. To do that at a small company world cost significant money. To have it integrated and cheap for all those small shops is very valu
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
EU law requires the mark. Did you know about the level of the “so many levels”? If such a large market requires behavior by law, and quite reasonably so, it’s also quite reasonable to mark AI generated content as such. All the slippery slop
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
If you read the article instead of the headline…….. it’s adding a fairly standard mark to AI generated images to let’s others know, in the same manner a giant swath of the GebAI industry has agreed to.
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
Agreed. But there are reasons it is perfect legal for a library to digitize physical copies they own, and then can lend, also under the legal name of "Controlled digital lending". Clearly public domain works are fine, and US law a
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
> suit is mainly over whether controlled digital lending is legal at all No, it was not, even supported by the quotes you pulled. Libraries right now, with publisher blessing, offer all manner of controlled digital lending. The suit was
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
Yeah, that worked really well for captchas. Now even simple models far surpass humans at recognition. So there’s plenty of evidence. Now provide evidence it’s technically possible to make any font “ that is financially infeasible for LLMs t
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
> I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. “Claude: make the scraper mimic a screen reader.” And just like that, in 10 seconds, their site feeds my “screen reader” the real words.
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
So jealousy is the argument? If someone reads my work am I worse off? Why would I post it to the web? If someone indexes it so others can find it am I worse off? Should I complain they also make money helping others find it? If someone buil
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by SideQuark 1mo ago
You misrepresent the non cs ones by a factor of 5-10, even on cpu. First, you’re calling the prng twice per aes single call. That seems pretty dishonest already. And using Golang? That ludicrously slow also. To tell us what a cpu can do, do

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