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by cbsmith 1y ago
There's an implied assumption here that code you write yourself doesn't need to be reviewed from a context different from the author's. There's an old expression: "code as if your work will be read by a psychopath w
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...and it's close relative NNTP. There was a whole distribution structure built out of intermittent data transmission. We've had the tools for this stuff for a long time, we've just switched to centralized, always available s
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by cbsmith 1y ago
When I sold printers in the early 90's, HP Laserjets were broadly considered to be the gold standard.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> But then how come that is exactly what is happening with modern search engines? ...because there are systemic forces driving this outcome, and those forces don't much care whether the company is a public service or a privately hel
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> Don't all these effectively inject new knowledge? If you mean new knowledge in the sense of "improved weights for a particular task", I guess yes, but the issuing about "new knowledge" is about learning somethi
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> That said, fine tuning small models because you have to power through vast amounts of data where a larger model might be cost ineffective -- that's completely sensible, and not really mentioned in the article. ...which I thought w
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Yeah, as soon as I read that I felt like the author was living in a very different context from mine. It's never even occurred to me that fine-tuning could be an effective method for injecting new knowledge. If anything, I expect fine-
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Some curious misconceptions here about how the search industry works. There's a very strong financial incentive for ad-powered search engines to keep SEO spam out of search results, because that makes advertisers more willing to pay
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I did not know that the training code is closed source. That is troubling.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I don't know that that is true: https://researchify.io/blog/comparing-pytesseract-paddleocr-... Using Surya gets you significantly better results and makes almost all the work detailed in the article largely unnec
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by cbsmith 1y ago
That's an entirely different line of reasoning from the article though, and "just git gud" isn't really the solution here any more than it is to use Rust. There are facilities for avoiding these problems that you don&#x2
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Yeah, I kept thinking, "doesn't mp-units basically address this entirely"?
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So basically, you're adding formal processes to ensure accountability. ;-)
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There's also the nice sidestepping of the whole issue of human judgement comes with the baggage of ignorance and prejudice. Yes, the article acknowledges that processes can be largely beneficial, but it focuses on the horrors of the pr
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> Charging companies will charge what they can get away with. FWIW it used to be more like $0.30/kWh. Yup, and they can charge a premium for fast charging, because it is really convenient when you need it. > Most of California pa
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by cbsmith 1y ago
> This is rates at DCFC. You're paying for far more than just the price of electricity. Those chargers and dispensers aren't free, they're often empty, they need to recoup costs in a few year horizon. I'm very aware y
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by cbsmith 1y ago
I think I've been misled about the wonders of energy deregulation in Texas.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Sure, but in Texas?
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by cbsmith 1y ago
$0.42/kwH is competitive? I think the highest I've ever paid was $0.43/kwH.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
There are all kinds of terrestrial alternatives to GPS. The US used to have LORAN-C. The trick is to deploy them...
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by cbsmith 1y ago
Yes, they do often have such clauses, which carry a lot of weight when they aren't ignored.
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by cbsmith 1y ago
There's a presumption in the logic of your statement here that if there is any waste in a program, it must be cut. It turns out that there is generally waste in all operations; it doesn't follow that all operations should be termi
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by cbsmith 1y ago
One of the great things about arbitrarily breaking contracts is that you save money in the short term, and signal future contractors that they need to charge even more exorbitant rates in future government contracts because you can never be
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by cbsmith 2y ago
The US has found ways to get China to adhere to IP laws, but they're never going to agree to restrictions the US doesn't impose on itself. Presuming that there is no way China will respect IP laws is BS.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
You can cat Parquet and other formats into grep just as easily.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> The reason I'm skeptical of that framing is it implies coal production is being replaced by clean energy, rather than total energy production being increased. I wasn't intending to imply that. It's entirely possible Chin
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> China's share of of electricity production from coal is at 60% as of 2023[1] compared to 16% for the US[2]. That's down from 80% in 2005. Yeah, but they're kind of leapfrogging from coal to clean energy. In 10 years, the
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> The current energy deregulation in the EU involves forcing utilities to trade electricity in a spot market, that treats the on-demand production of conventional power plants and the random and unpredictable production of solar and wind
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> that in most cases people are probably better off not taking SSRIs – that part of the problem is that people don't learn to deal with their depression anymore and as a society we don't care to help those suffering with depres
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I assumed the original comment was posted in jest.

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