atwrk

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by atwrk 5mo ago
They don't if you mean STEM and emancipation, quite the opposite, actually (compared to West Germany). In addition to the points of sibling comments, their respective starting posititions were drastically different: West Germany got th
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by atwrk 5mo ago
You think standing in for people's rights against the profit interests of transnational corporations means "making life difficult"? Whose life exactly? That of the CEO of Microsoft?
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by atwrk 5mo ago
I'd be delighted if you can link to actual numbers supporting this assumption, as all reputable reporting says OpenAI's revenue is smaller than their inference cost, e.g. https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-62
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by atwrk 5mo ago
To my knowledge none of the players is even profitable on inference , though Google probably is, considering the continuous release of papers around kv cache optimizations, mtp etc.
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by atwrk 5mo ago
But all the open-weight players make money right now . Google (Gemma), Alibaba (Qwen), z.ai (GLM), minimax.io (Minimax) - they all have hosted offers and sometimes closed-weight max versions. And the fact that the open-weight as well as ch
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by atwrk 5mo ago
No, a moat would be a feature preventing the competition from competing successfully. Classically things like patents, for example, or process knowledge like ASML currently has for EUV lithography, or the network effects of a social media p
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by atwrk 5mo ago
How can this become a monopoly/duopoly? There is no moat, the Chinese providers will continue to hunt the market leader at 10% of the price, there is no network effect (OpenAI's Sora was a play in that direction and failed). I&#x2
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by atwrk 5mo ago
There's nothing to refute in your post; you only told the audience that you don't get OP, and people tried to explain the appeal to you. What you do with that information is your thing.
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by atwrk 5mo ago
I bet you actually have. Its those gaps in the threads for screwing on the lid. The pressure get escape through these gaps while the lid still stays on the bottle. (That hamster-microwave thing is a disinfo campaign from manufacuturers to l
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by atwrk 5mo ago
Lots of important points already posted, from reliability over accessibility to SEO. To add a personal reason: speed. I hate slow computer things. If I open a page I e.g. don't have to use for work or similar (like Google Ads or Link
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by atwrk 5mo ago
My background is in educational science where we face similar dilemmas. In both fields I'd say there is no conflict between scientific rigor and political goals as long as you make your goals transparent . The fact that you want to st
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by atwrk 5mo ago
Having an economic science without politics at all isn't really possible - you have to define a goal for economic development to evaluate different approaches. And defining that goal introduces politics into economics. "Developmen
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by atwrk 5mo ago
That wasn't so clear IMO, or do you see those three schools (Austrian, MMT, Keynes) mapping cleanly to the two teams somehow?
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by atwrk 6mo ago
That sounds more like competency, not intelligence, which funnily enough is only loosely correlated to intelligence.
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by atwrk 6mo ago
Clickety_clack propably wasn't referring to people with aphantasia not seeing the story unfolding while reading the book, but the book itself: We predict that the thing we hold in our hands is a book entity, and then we use our senso
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by atwrk 6mo ago
That's actually only cheap because of the free shipping - in Germany 450W panels are at about 55-60€ retail right now, for example. So a balcony set (2 panels for 1kW total, plus inverter) is about 150-200€, depending on the specific p
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by atwrk 6mo ago
But Russia is doing exactly that systematically for years now, disguising as civilians. I'm also pretty sure Hamas isn't disguising themselves as children, who make up the largest share of the civilian victims.
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by atwrk 6mo ago
I mean the share of civilians killed in the war (by Israel) is over 80 percent of the total casualties. That is worse than the rate in WW2. In Ukraine it's under 5%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_
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by atwrk 6mo ago
That would also be a pretty obvious admission of defeat for their original business model, though...
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by atwrk 6mo ago
Bad timing with that example - currently the US is the reason for an important part of the seas being closed :)
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by atwrk 7mo ago
But are they actually profitable, or do they employ creative accounting where only parts of overhead expenses are counted against all of inference revenue, similar to what Uber did? OpenAI's numbers show that they definitely are not
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by atwrk 7mo ago
Obviously scientists have thought about that and therefore administer age-adjusted IQ tests for different cohorts, precisely with the aim of IQ staying constant during aging of an individual. And yet here we are. You really don't need
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by atwrk 7mo ago
Well I happen to have a phd in that broader domain. It's not censorship, as you imply, but IQ is just way fuzzier a concept than people outside of this area of research think. The popular view is IQ is an objective thing, exactly measu
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by atwrk 7mo ago
And have you tried to find out why IQ associations are "taboo" in academia?
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by atwrk 7mo ago
For reference, 12k gets you at least 4 Strix Halo boxes each running GPT-OSS-120B at ~50tok/s.
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by atwrk 7mo ago
Have you tried Debian with the XCFE desktop? Should be pretty similar to Xubuntu (but without Snap, of course)
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by atwrk 7mo ago
Well and Russia. Trump essentially crippled the impact of 4 years of sanctions against Russia with these new oil prices he created.
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by atwrk 7mo ago
Local LLM inference is all about memory bandwidth, and an M4 pro only has about the same as a Strix Halo or DGX Spark. That's why the older ultras are popular with the local LLM crowd.
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by atwrk 7mo ago
Those are of almost zero use for people wishing to run Linux etc. Yes, Asahi exists, and props to the developers, but I don't think I'm alone in being unwilling to buy hardware from a manufacturer who obviously is not interested i
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by atwrk 7mo ago
Yeah I'm pretty happy with the M5 (beside the look). It's most probably the same SixUnited board most Strix Halo devices use (including the ones from HP and Lenovo).

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