briansm

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by briansm 2y ago
I think you missed the 'EV' part of the post.
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by briansm 2y ago
Just for reference, the model is ~2GB.
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by briansm 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_heater_unit
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by briansm 2y ago
Acceptance is the road to inner peace. Accepting the mortality of the species is no different to accepting personal mortality - you know you're going to be dead before the end of the century, right? You enjoy the time you have, as we a
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by briansm 2y ago
Even simpler answer - acceptance of humanity's addiction to fossil energy and the inevitable outcome. We started an anthropic fire a million years ago and it's only going to be extinguished when we are.
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by briansm 2y ago
Imagine if this tech was available in the middle ages and it was asked to 'solve' alchemy or perpetual motion, and responded that it was an impossible problem... people would (irrationally from our perspective) go Luddite on it I
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by briansm 2y ago
(if they're using PTC themistors between the parallel cells to prevent over-current, it's all good though I suppose)
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by briansm 2y ago
Prevention is better than cure though. plus you've got to consider cell gassing/venting/explosion risk/toxic fumes as well as fire prevention. If they were doing per-cell protection, fair enough (cheap 18650's don&#
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by briansm 2y ago
I thought the reason the packs are sealed is to stop amateurs from swapping in cells of differing voltages, which short each other out and cause sparking/fire hazards. There's a reason li-ion battery charging is current-limited, t
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by briansm 2y ago
God no, the internet SNR is low enough as it is without all my failed experiments, lol.
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by briansm 2y ago
Experiments with speech compression/processing. The modern approach to this (and pretty much everything else) is to transform the input data into a high-dimensional space, throw it into a neural net and cross your fingers. (the 'W
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by briansm 2y ago
and their capita is 4x that of the US.
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by briansm 2y ago
I'm wondering if you could get so used to it over time you would develop a 'ghost limb' syndrome, i.e. some discomfort/itching/confusion when the appendage is taken off.
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by briansm 2y ago
Bit annoying that they added ambient music over the demo youtube video, spoiling the one thing you want to demonstrate.
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by briansm 2y ago
'Spongy' does something similar in 128 bytes, half the size. https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53871 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36BPql6Nl_U The name comes from the 'Menger Sponge'
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by briansm 2y ago
Addendum, playing with it at the 'low quality' end, it generates recognizable speech even down to 200bps and in some cases 100bps. crazy.
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by briansm 3y ago
Reminds me of the old IBM 'RECOVC' codec from around 2000 where they compressed Mel-bank speech. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7075313 All the patents around that are long-dead so good time to do an up
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by briansm 3y ago
https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53871 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36BPql6Nl_U Incredible raytraced demo in 128 bytes. (An underwater journey through a Menger-sponge fractal)
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by briansm 3y ago
Lots of Simpsons stuff, but needs 'Worker and Parasite'.
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by briansm 3y ago
Oof. Harsh but fair.
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by briansm 3y ago
a LLM is just a hugely lossy-compressed version of its training data, an abstraction of it. Much in the same way as when you read a book, your brain doesn't become a pirated copy of the text as you only store a hugely compressed versio
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by briansm 3y ago
sort of like the idea of practice - repetition of something concentrates more brain space to that thing so the compression ratio of it can decrease and become less abstracted / more exact.
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by briansm 3y ago
Then again, if you believe that it's not 'too many people' and you also concede that population will continue growing as it has for the last 650+ years and the planet obviously isn't growing then surely you must also con
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by briansm 3y ago
"I'm waiting Santa Claus You will come on a bison sleigh I'm waiting for Christmas gifts I want to get a space ship" Space Christmas, Shonen Knife
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by briansm 3y ago
I dunno. 'Ignorance is Bliss'. I only have so much brain capacity and attention, I'd rather direct it to what's important to me than leave it wide open to the sewage-infected firehose of incoming information that is life
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by briansm 3y ago
Yup, I lost a chromebook that way. I think magnetic connections are fine for 5V power with no data line, but as soon as you add more connections and try increasing voltage/power you are asking for trouble.
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by briansm 3y ago
"See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody trusts th
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by briansm 3y ago
In such a catastrophe it is unlikely that preserving printed works would be a priority and would bring into question the very existence of 'future archeologists'. Archeology is a consequence of an age of abundance that would be go
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by briansm 3y ago
Metabolism also slows with age, calorie requirements correspondingly drop and so should food intake really. There's a reason (healthy) seniors tend to be on the skinny side. Also something-something-three-score-and-ten.
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by briansm 3y ago
It's not like anyone on this message board has a little 'crash the economy' button on their keyboard.

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