bee_rider

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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Which enterprise? All the job postings I see are for C++ (Annoyingly. Fortran is better). Or Python obviously.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
The bet could be that they’ll ultimately be able to sell hardware capable enough of running local models comfortably.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Snails are our greatest enemy. Source: medieval manuscripts.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Cheeks per tongue will now be used as the weirdest unit for “2.”
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
True. But it would probably take a couple years to get spin up a new hardware product line anyway; by then local inference will probably be cheaper, right?
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Our favorite pedant should have a new post up today, I think he posts in the afternoon though. At least, checking in the morning and saying “ah, dang, the acoup post hasn’t come out yet, maybe I’ll reread an old one…” is a Friday morning ri
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
That’s true. A difficulty is that making the billing time more granular could reduce the landmine factor, but also would incentivize developers to keep users in the app for longer than necessary. We’ve already seen in social media that that
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I expected a philosophical discussion as to whether scientific models are discovered or invented.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Interesting take. In my gut I hate subscriptions mostly because keeping track of them is annoying. But I’m semi-convinced. I mean, aligning the interests of the developer and the users is a nice benefit. Something Apple could do is allow iO
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
The “game” has been reinvented recently, there aren’t any non-armchair quarterbacks. Thankfully.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
It would be nice to believe that could be possible, but people mostly switched to cheap laptops as soon as they became viable. No harm in being hopeful though.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Actually, what are the partisan leanings of the parties actually actively pushing this, since you’ve brought it up? Despite being fairly left-leaning I wouldn’t automatically blame the right for this particular type of invasive nonsense… is
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
It is an 8B model… so, I guess it probably couldn’t run directly on most existing vacuum robots, but it could be reasonable this decade, right? I wish we lived in the alternate universe where everybody has a home server that could run this
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
I’m not sure who the academic class is (are grad students, postdocs, and tenured professors really in the same class?). Anyway, the people setting the incentives are the ones handing out the grants.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
This is Mistral though. I assume the model can be run locally.
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
A local escalation in BSD is still apparently worth a front page post here, so that seems pretty good. I wonder why we don’t see more about local escalations in Windows. Of course, being closed source is a little bit of a barrier, but these
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Probably not, at least, I’m pretty sure the heat directly produced by power consumption is minuscule compared to the global warming contribution of the fossil fuels used to produce it, right?
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by bee_rider 3mo ago
Rather than pools specifically, maybe they could design District Heating systems.
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
Ideally we could section off some minimal baseline functionality that could be implemented more securely than the whole modern stack. Just HTML and a little CSS or something. Then mandate that, at least, services provided by the state shou
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
Wait, the original blog post was about competing with top-tier guessers using “AI.” I wonder if there’s more money to be made on the flip side: find the people making dumb bets, at scale, and take the free money they are offering, haha.
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
Because the US models haven’t had to compete on the actual price of providing the unsubsidized service, the Chinese models are probably ahead of us in terms of what can actually be delivered profitably (which is a pretty bad result given th
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
Engineers use software and inevitably some will improve the software as they use it. I’d draw a distinction between engineering using software, and engineering the software itself, though. It becomes a bit blurry—I’d say using the Matlab co
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
It’s your house, so fine I guess. How do you support that decision? A little “terms-and-conditions for entering,” posted on the doors, or something?
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
It makes more sense than the road, because at least the train isn’t driving directly on the thing. I wonder if the power could be delivered directly to the train. Although the only savings really would be transmission costs, not sure how bi
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
This is the well known weird thing about programming, right? University students learn CS, happen to also pick up some programming trade skills as a side effect, and then get hired as software craftspeople. The coincidentally learned skills
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
I wonder what the warranty period on this sort of device is. It’s broken without access to the hub, right? And it’s only 2 years old.
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
This is true. But unfortunately it is correct advice being given to the person who isn’t causing the problem. It would be interesting to see what an intentionally and well designed city could look like. I’d probably have a walkable city cen
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
It’s the weekend so we’re allowed to anthropomorphize. I’ve known some brilliant engineers who would also just randomly bring up Minecraft (more likely Factorio these days) so this makes sense.
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
Anyway, it’s a little free hobbyist project, right? Documentation is extra, not expected.
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by bee_rider 4mo ago
Wow, that was better than I expected. I expected some janky “technically it is moving in the right general direction” thing but it scurries right along.

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