Tade0

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by Tade0 1mo ago
I'm not American though and while smokers are everywhere here, I don't recall ever being on a flight where smoking was allowed, even though the one mentioned was a connecting flight through Paris.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
> Smoking was authorised on Air France flights until 2000. I'm sorry, what? The first flight I took which I recall in detail was in 1995 and even back then the "no smoking sign" seemed redundant. Guess it wasn't.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
Yeah. "My" Aaron, the last time we were in touch, was going in and out of Ukraine, transporting supplies between Russian bombardments. People deterred by someone else's words usually internally hesitated anyway.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
Yeah - three out of four people I know from that field went into IT, to similar effects.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
This sounds much like the civil engineering crisis in my region of the world after the 2008 financial crisis. There was barely any new construction going on for a couple of years and once it started anew, there was a gap as while people wer
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by Tade0 1mo ago
Fear the security guard who has nothing to lose.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
It's a mild laxative on top of that. I think they've pooped out the difference.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
You can pause whatever you're watching. I've noticed that my child gets more anxious watching TV than VoD because you can't pause. For this reason we don't keep a TV and screen time is limited to the ancient rite of half
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by Tade0 1mo ago
The other day I saw a benchmark of coding models that fit in 8GB VRAM - for reference some version of Mistral was added, normally requiring 32GB, but moving along at 4-5tok/sec when partially offloaded to CPU. Surprisingly, some of the
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by Tade0 1mo ago
> I just never understood why the secondary education system is set up to make smart and lazy people succeed without effort while the hardworking, but less gifted kids struggle. My high school math teacher didn't subscribe to this i
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by Tade0 1mo ago
My favourite explanation of this is a review of the Toyota FJ Cruiser: https://youtu.be/PA23qLvl79k?is=nkWS0Tbgcm65RCQS The Simulation and Simulacra part starts around 4:00.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
I occasionally internally yell "dopamine!" and get up to do the thing I'm supposed to.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
My intuition is that taking too long to select a partner carries the same risk.
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by Tade0 1mo ago
> I literally can't afford to raise him with the same values as I was raised with... If it's any consolation he would have to figure out that himself anyway, because the world is currently changing faster than ever. I was on va
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by Tade0 1mo ago
Life is full of such gambles and it's inevitable. Anyone who drives risks their life more than they risk having a special needs child at reasonably non-late age. We just brush off most such gambles because: 1. People have a terrible in
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by Tade0 1mo ago
The 16 I have clears the low low bar gaming laptops have set. My previous laptop was an ASUS G14 and it didn't even take two years for huge problems to appear - particularly throttling. Also the very last firmware update absolutely des
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by Tade0 1mo ago
We're checking for intelligence, not faking intelligence, no?
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by Tade0 1mo ago
Does that mean it's intelligent? To me it just means they can brilliantly fake human conversation - the original design goal of Large Language Models. It's really easy to tell if you're talking to an LLM if you ask a question
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by Tade0 1mo ago
I'm currently on a week-long vacation and it's been so long since I had some proper time off that I forgot how slowly time flows when you're not under pressure.
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by Tade0 2mo ago
Or someone to assess the impact of all those anti-human ideas shape rotators come up with.
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by Tade0 2mo ago
I had the toy pictured in 59. You could tell that a toy was made in USSR by the fact that it often didn't have any markings indicating the origin.
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by Tade0 2mo ago
After Stalin's death in 1953 the higher ups became more preoccupied with fighting amongst each other and maintaining the soviet union's status on the global scene than holding a tight grip on society like their former leader. Most
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by Tade0 2mo ago
That's more or less the idea behind Low-Rank Adaptation, or LoRA. There's also Mixture of LoRA Experts, which instead of slicing up the model and routing through that, routes through different LoRAs. But it all comes with tradeoff
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by Tade0 2mo ago
Disregard the grandfather for a moment. How is today better than the situation 20 years ago?
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by Tade0 2mo ago
Up to a certain scale a model only needs to effectively do tool calls - that is something which doesn't require too frequent updates. What I imagine an on-device model should be doing is just translate natural language to search reques
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by Tade0 2mo ago
An "Expert" is really just an unfortunate name for what amounts to a dense part of a sparse matrix and that's also an oversimplification. It doesn't actually specialise in anything in particular that one can point to. Fo
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by Tade0 2mo ago
My cowork buddy is living this reality - he's an independent analyst and previously he needed to shell out significant cash to have certain scripts (largely scrapers, social media API integration etc.) done, now it's all just a pr
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by Tade0 2mo ago
I'm not concerned. Never in my life have I experienced stakeholders just going "hmm, yes - this is enough software for our purposes - we won't be needing your services any more". There's always another feature that
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by Tade0 2mo ago
It doesn't need to be hereditary. Just needs to be in the range where on one hand a person doesn't want the next generation to go through the same and on the other, where making the most out of their current situation means not st
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by Tade0 2mo ago
Fortunately it's extremely unlikely. There was a change in the world, which went largely unnoticed - sometime in 2013-2017 the global number of infants peaked, never to recover. Those 20% would just figure that there's no need to

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