bawana

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by bawana 1y ago
Probably inspired by the Nazi geniuses we rescued as part of operation paperclip
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by bawana 1y ago
Why stop here? Cant we endow macdraw with an LLM? With that kind of graphic- text language, you can draw structures (like you might on a napkin) with arrows resembling trees or flow diagrams that do computation. In this kind of macDraw-LLM
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by bawana 1y ago
If computers are ‘bicycles for the mind’, AI is the ‘self-driving car for the mind’. Which technology results in worse accidents? Did automobiles even improve our lives or just change the tempo beyond human bounds?
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by bawana 1y ago
Actually you are only looking at one part of the cycle. As subsets of the world prosper, they leave the rest of the world that does not subscribe to their values in the status quo which they label as poverty. The optimal system for any subs
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by bawana 1y ago
I think the microcosm of an animal is a useful analogy: every animal has functions that it performs within its body. Survival requires the acquisition of resources (food). However we now have the ability to endow humans with the biochemical
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by bawana 1y ago
‘Why does the logic fail when a nation of 1.5b wants to make stuff cheaply and send it to you for affordable prices? How does it hurt you?’ The people in power in the US lose their grip. As the rest of us become subscribers to a better econ
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by bawana 1y ago
Meta is waging an opium war on us. But instead of drugs, it is giving kids something even more addictive that is FREE. I believe in free speech - speech as in the vibrations of air molecules that come out of someones mouth. Crap that is amp
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by bawana 1y ago
How is speculative decoding helpful if you still have to run the full model against which you check the results?
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by bawana 1y ago
But you still have to load the data for each request. And in an LLM doesnt this mean the WHOLE kv cache because the kv cache changes after every computation? So why isnt THIS the bottleneck? Gemini is talking about a context window of a mil
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by bawana 1y ago
Reminds me of our president https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177.amp
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by bawana 1y ago
Not as bad as greece!
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by bawana 1y ago
Not just Germany…it’s a worldwide contraction. The real economy is shrinking. The financial economy is the only one growing.1% of the world owns 43% of the assets. All the growth numbers you hear have nothing to do w real people. Here in th
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by bawana 1y ago
Mem bandwidth sucks compared to Mac Studio ultra 3. And you cant add gpus easily although as an apu it is impressive and way better than nvidias gold box. Wendell said it better. Im waiting for the Mac Studio ultra 5
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by bawana 1y ago
According to https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo... 1 out of 7 US inhabitants have food insecurity. And this is a govt website likely to underestimate the statistic
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by bawana 1y ago
Dont worry, China and Meta will continue to crank out models that we can run locally and ar 'good enough'
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by bawana 1y ago
LOL! Downvoted and flagged by big pharma bots
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by bawana 1y ago
If we have created software that can pass the classical Turing test (conversation indistinguishable from human) then that software can also produce artifacts indistinguishable (or better) from those that are human made. This is not new- it
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by bawana 1y ago
I guess investment income doesnt count. Dont know about stock options your company gives you but that usually isnt considered earned income
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by bawana 1y ago
Why isnt Brazil being considered as an alternative? If they get their act together with Argentina, Chile, and Mexico to form a 'SouthAmerican Union', they could survive and thrive.
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by bawana 1y ago
The IRS taxes americans no matter where they are or where they take their money. The US is only one of two nations in the world with citizenshp based taxation. And if you want to renounce your citizenship, 35% exit tax. The only solution is
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by bawana 1y ago
cant wait for him to come out with his own energy drink
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by bawana 1y ago
Is it really a race? Western Ai companies are releasing some dumbed down open weights too. Maybe the closed source chinese models are so much better, they are kept under wraps by the chinese military.
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by bawana 1y ago
tap->coffeemaker->radiator->pc->cup. ? really stupid arrangement. slurry from the coffeemaker clogging your rad and cooling block, not to mention corrosion better would be RO water -> pc -> coffemaker no rad needed
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by bawana 1y ago
I disagree-there are so many other factors that reduced 'poverty'. Technological and scientific advances had more to do with it than division of labor.
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by bawana 1y ago
Yes , I know my comment was extreme and appreciate your moderation. Certainly, smaller nation states tend to stagnate in isolation. And that isolation allows rapid degeneration. Abuses of humanity seem to be more extreme in these isolated p
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by bawana 1y ago
so now I can take a photo of those scratchings on greek marble ruins and it will tell me the whole text and when it was written?
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by bawana 1y ago
Globalism destroys national identity, a convenient source of self esteem. If anything, globalism favors the corporate mentality of dehumanizing people as it seeks to maximize profit by exporting services to the least expensive provider. Thi
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by bawana 1y ago
They ccreated a few private equity firms so they could get wall street suckers to fund their military and covert adventures.
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by bawana 1y ago
The theory is that language is an abstraction built on top of the world and therefore encompasses all human experience of the world. The problem will arise however when the world (aka nature) acts in an unexpected way outside human experien
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by bawana 1y ago
more reasons for humans not to birth more humans

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