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by alex_duf 4mo ago
I'm hoping the kind of gas turbines being installed on these datacenters are capable of quickly responding to a load change, meaning the primary source of energy could be solar during the day and complement when there isn't enough
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
definitely, and I'm glad there are company that do! but they only exist because they have an incentive to do so: a crowd ready to pay for it.
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
It's surprising but it's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
What an absolute ecological disaster. If bubble there is, now would be a great time for it to pop.
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
I think this is a misconception of how businesses are working. Maybe one person Vs another would yield a slightly different trajectory, but fundamentally, if you want to see why a leader takes X or Y decision, you have to look at what are t
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
I'm sure the model is capable, but I find it funny that the sample image that contains three bears gets detected as two elephants.
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
>I hope I don’t sound too selfish but I am a USA citizen The rest of the world is getting tired of worrying about the US's economical situation, whether it the dotcom bubble, the sub-primes, or now the potential AI bubble. So apolog
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
Ha that's a good point I didn't realise the process was pre-dating the whole fable 5 story
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
It's about covering their arse before reopening Fable 5 They don't care if anyone is using a fake ID, they care that they can send the hot potato back to the American government. That gives them a legitimate "not my fault if
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
It still lowers the bar to have an interactive encyclopedia that can diagnose your issue at hand. Maybe you can divide your team by two, or reduce your development time.
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
Obviously this is region specific, but slowing down water is one of the best ways to have fresh water. Slow it down from trickling down a slope and you have two things: more vegetation (which also retains water) and more time for that water
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
Repeatedly, over years, only for 2 to 5 seconds at a time? Seems unlikely
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by alex_duf 4mo ago
Yeah there's been some debate about it in the news, because only a certified device can approve it, meaning this takes away any open-source platform to prove you're a human
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
It's funny that we've reached the level where LLMs draw more correct bikes than any random person
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
With AI we're about to have a trust crisis (I'll explain in a sec), so if we extrapolate it very far, we could see a world where nobody trusts anything displayed on a device, which is essentially what you describe but in a world w
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
It's the low frequencies that's more of an issue apparently. Benn Jordan has a great series of videos about it, including one on Colossus
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
Not sure about that, the mid 90 to early 2000s have been really poorly looking in my opinion
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
Electric Light Orchestra anyone?
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
Agreed, I got carried away
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
I'm seeing this stance a lot "this is obviously AI generated" Why? What's LLM generated? How can you tell? To me what's obvious is that our trust system is already breaking down. Commenters accusing each other of be
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
there's an argument to be made that new code will be inspected before being merged and therefore the classes of bugs an LLM is likely to find will not be merged until it's fixed.
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by alex_duf 5mo ago
Goodness me, 524m for the tallest tsunami is absolutely nuts
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
Rotterdam is using rain data to asjust traffic lights. Bicycles are waiting less at intersections. They also make the amber light longer to give you time to break for farther away and avoid a fall. https://popupcity.net/insi
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
28th of april 2025, isn't this before mozilla added lots of AI feature in their browser?
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
What does "fully caught up" mean in the context of an ever evolving technology? I think I'm in support of open weight models (though there are safety implications), but these things aren't cheap to train and run. This fa
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
Same here. I've had two generations of X1, my latest one (laptop, not child) is almost 5 years old and I honestly don't know which hardware to pick next in order to run Linux. At work I have an M4Max 128G, and it's hard to be
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
side note, but I hate that we've reach the point where we don't know what's written by a human and what's written by an LLM. That goes for a lot of comments here accusing each other of being a bot. I feel like we've
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
It's a possibly a managerial thing, which KPI are you improving when spending engineering time on adding IPv6 support? That said, for their HTTP stack they use fastly (as far as I understand), which should make the shift moderately eas
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
Claude uses the wrong modality to be a piloting model. Latency is critical, and outputting tokens in the hope they take the action at the right time is kinda bonkers. You'd want all the data from the plane to be input neurons, and all
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by alex_duf 6mo ago
timing wise this seems to match the Claude Mythos story. So maybe they're trying to free-up some GPU capacity to run audit of projects in need? I'm assuming Mythos is not cheap to run. The cache TTL story is also probably link to

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