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by aprentic 7mo ago
Do you know if that's true of non-English models? As I said elsewhere, Deepseek injects Chinese characters into responses. Anecdotally, that seems to happen when the context gets longer. That suggests that they're primarily traine
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by aprentic 7mo ago
Deepseek will regularly spit out Chinese (汉字）during English sessions. They generally seem to be syntactically related but it makes me think that there's some overhead of using English with an engine that's primarily trained in Chi
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by aprentic 7mo ago
There's certainly an interesting question here, even if Tokenstree doesn't provide a solution or even define the problem well. The broader questions are still interesting. If an AI is trained more on language A than language B but
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by aprentic 7mo ago
I love the idea, in principal, but I think it's impossible in practice. A good strategist makes the outcomes of individual battles predictable. That makes it terrible for unit players. I used to play Planetside 2 with a very organized
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by aprentic 7mo ago
Those videos are awesome! 3B1Bs visualizations finally made e^(pi*i) make sense. His videos on Euler's formula inspired me to make a silly toy so I could play with it myself. https://gitlab.com/aprentic/complex-viz
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by aprentic 7mo ago
Is IBM really the company we want to hold up as a moral standard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II
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by aprentic 7mo ago
It's hard to tell without the spec sheets. The magnets are almost certainly from China. The top copper producer in the EU is Poland so that's a possible source of copper. They're pretty far down the list though so it's l
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by aprentic 7mo ago
You could counter with that or you could read what's actually in this sub-thread. "Some rich guy in the Netherlands" isn't about being a nice target. You keep saying it works for you but you can't demonstrate any wa
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by aprentic 7mo ago
You claim it works for you. Can you demonstrate a process that others can follow?
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by aprentic 7mo ago
This whole thread is in response to an attempt to someone trying to source parts to manufacture something in the US. If "for me" is limited to some rich guy in the Netherlands, that doesn't solve the problem "for anyone
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by aprentic 7mo ago
Can you show me? Is this some privileged access that you get as an investor? Its easy to verify that Motor-g does not ship outside of Ukraine. I just put 4 of their motors in a shopping cart and tried to check out. The drop down menu for de
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by aprentic 7mo ago
I can't install a motto in my drone. None of the alternatives will allow me to put a physical drone part in my hand with any degree of reliability.
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by aprentic 7mo ago
I checked both the links in the other comment. While they satisfy the technical requirement of, "there exists an alternative" neither of them is generally available as a viable alternative to China.
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by aprentic 7mo ago
Motor-g doesn't seem to ship outside of Ukraine. That's totally understandable but for anyone outside of Ukraine, they effectively don't exist. Arctus asks you to contact them just for product info. It seems they just raised
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by aprentic 7mo ago
Do you have any links?
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by aprentic 7mo ago
How? As near as I can tell, the vast majority of the parts are made in China. When I look at the few alternatives, they're full of Chinese circuitry. If I look at circuit components, they're all made of Chinese raw materials. Both
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by aprentic 7mo ago
The thread is about manufacturing in the US so tariffs do have to be factored in. On those specific parts: Motors: T-Motor F90 1300KV - $119.60(incl shipping) + Tariff ESC: Holybro Tekko32 F4 50A - $88.97(incl shipping) + Tariff FC: Matek H
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by aprentic 7mo ago
I suspect its easier to find Greenlanders willing to do that than it will be to find Americans willing to work in that mining settlement. Unless we go full evilmode and just run them with slave labor.
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by aprentic 7mo ago
And he's just making a grill scrubber. I just ordered a bunch of drone parts. The majority of those part were only available from China.
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by aprentic 7mo ago
You asked about the ones I particularly hated. I've switched to paid Kagi and I'd consider a paid video service too. I initially signed up for Hulu to get the add-free experience. Then they started showing adds anyway and I canc
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by aprentic 7mo ago
Google used to return relevant search results. I'd love to find a search engine company that has an index as big as Google's but doesn't mangle your results. Youtube is a horrible way to watch videos. It's constantly pus
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by aprentic 7mo ago
The best CS programs teach a lot of tech that is not used in the business world. The they're often too theoretically or too experimental.
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by aprentic 7mo ago
I'm about to go full cycle. For a while it looked like companies were going to offer a good product at a fair price. I started getting a few subscriptions to various services. Then all of those services got enshitefied. I got ads in pa
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by aprentic 7mo ago
The open-invite system works well in many cases. It works particularly well in-person but even there you can get drift over time. Our fraternity unanimously agreed on every single initiate who joined; the cohort today is still very differen
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by aprentic 7mo ago
I think we're going to have to make some choices. A completely anonymous stranger has no way to prove that they're human that can't be imitated by an AI. We've even seen that, in some cases, AIs can look more human to hu
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by aprentic 7mo ago
The next big game is going to be played by LLM designers. Points will be assigned for successfully influencing humans to use stupid language patterns. If you can convince people that SVO is a distinctly AI pattern it's an automatic win
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by aprentic 8mo ago
People want to spend as little as possible while getting support for their product as long as possible. Companies want people to spend as much as possible while doing the minimum work on the product. Chatbots let companies spend almost noth
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by aprentic 8mo ago
It's more and more baffling that people use M$FT for anything besides video games.
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by aprentic 8mo ago
That's a big part of why I switched to paid email. I'm the customer, not the product.
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by aprentic 8mo ago
I'm not sure it's bad at all. China has around 1.5 billion people and officially recognizes 55 ethnicities. Some of them look more like non Chinese people than like I he Chinese ethnicities.

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