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by chermi 1y ago
I have to imagine some of them try this. I know you can schedule non-urgent work loads with some providers that run when compute space is available. With enough work loads like that, assuming they have well-defined or relatively predictable
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by chermi 1y ago
Intro bugs me. Second law is "violated" all the time at small enough scales. Aka, fluctuation theorems. Of course the violation just means you're not really in the thermodynamic regime. Thermodynamics is kind of circularly de
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by chermi 1y ago
Do we actually know how they're degrading? Are there still Pascals out there? If not, is it because they actual broke or because of poor performance? I understand it's tempting to say near 100% workload for multiple years = fast d
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by chermi 1y ago
Fair enough. I basically had to make the not-very-compelling case that controlling non-linear systems to avoid chaos is... and application of chaos? Lol, you got me.
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by chermi 1y ago
Thank you! I just started using mermaid via llms, it's been so helpful mapping ideas out and making sure the llm and I have shared understanding. I definitely don't need super sophisticated functionality, but I'm trying lea
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by chermi 1y ago
Thanks! A quick glance at the book and it seems like it's focused on event-driven. Also seems kind of aligned with Lee's "actor model" stuff. I will read it more. I am ok-but-not-great programmer, hence trying this proje
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by chermi 1y ago
Secondaries open to all shareholds are on upward trend across start-ups. I think it's a fantastic trend.
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by chermi 1y ago
It's pretty well accepted now that for pre-training LLMs the curve is S not an exponential, right? Maybe it's all in RL post-training now, but my understanding(?) is that it's not nearly as expensive as pre-training. I don&#x
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by chermi 1y ago
So probably just write-offs of tokens they give away?
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by chermi 1y ago
Thank you so much! For context, this for a "driver" running on a pi that controls actuators on an esp32 via MQTT. So the the most basics states just clones of the states (On/Off) on the esp32, while more complicated states wo
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by chermi 1y ago
Pinging the https://planting.space/ people! I know some of them are on HN, at least recruiting in the past. I haven't updated my knowledge in a while, but my impression of the company was basically that they were going
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by chermi 1y ago
Is there a modern reference implementation of statecharts? My understanding is that there's tons of offspring and they all kind of disagree. Same with regular FSM at least from limited understanding from this book https://pt
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by chermi 1y ago
As everyone with half a brain predicted, their pricing was never meant to last. Their "limit" (base plan) is now just $20 in API credits, at slightly higher than provider token price. Sometimes they let you go a little over, but
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by chermi 1y ago
No. Yes to the overhype, no to the "not really". I don't see how better understanding non-linear systems and global dynamics can be not be considered useful. For starters, better control of nonlinear systems/keeping them
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by chermi 1y ago
Yes, just imagine if trump was brought up often no matter the subject.... I can't imagine what point you think you're making.
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by chermi 1y ago
Fair point, the first few gens weren't that expensive. And like I said I'm certain the scaling would've been discovered soon with some time lag. But the transformer paper was 2017, right? Just from a benefit -to- society pers
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by chermi 1y ago
Oh boy you got me good! How could I have fallen for such a clever ruse. This actually isn't complicated. Who owns the farm + stand? Again, maybe you meant farming collective, one last chance. I don't really know who you think you
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by chermi 1y ago
"A farmer's market is socialism." Lolwut? Here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism . Are you thinking of farming collectives? Also, farmers markets (today, in the West) are basically luxuries for we
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by chermi 1y ago
"Wouldn't it have happened regardless, once everyone realized that increasing the scale of early models like GPT-2 and GPT-3 was key to improving performance?" Notice how it was massive private spending that uncovered the pow
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by chermi 1y ago
Kinetic theory stuff for one, like deposition, growth, sandpile type things. Complex networks and lots of dynamics stuff falls under statistical physics umbrella but not statistical mechanics. Stat mech's amazingly wide applicability
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by chermi 1y ago
I'm guessing the parent is talking about total bill (transmission, demand charges..) $.15/kwH is probably just the usage, and I am very skeptical that's accurate for residential.
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by chermi 1y ago
Edit Nvm I was being a grump. I'm glad people like this sort of work
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by chermi 1y ago
No, they are not. Statistical mechanics is a theory, statistical physics is a field.
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by chermi 1y ago
Why not not both?
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by chermi 1y ago
Figure out how to monetize (really good) search. Was that a real question?
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by chermi 1y ago
Please expound. Are we going to fill in yearly surveys explaining what we like and don't like? Where does the information come from? Who determines the algorithm for placement? Will there now be no way to opt-out of ads at all, there&#
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by chermi 1y ago
The rule of thumb i heard was that over the "useful lifetime" of a chip the cost of energy+maintenance/infrastructure is about the same as the cost of the chip. IIRC the energy was some like 15-20% of the overall cost over th
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by chermi 1y ago
Hell yeah humans use more! Lol, I would be a little more cynical and say "the first thought that comes to my head that justifies my business decisions (which I can never show any ounce of doubt over)"
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by chermi 1y ago
Huh? Have you heard of learning something new? Physicists and scientists at large are pretty good at it. Do you want some certification program to determine who's allowed to opine? If someone is wrong, tell them and show them they&#x27
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by chermi 1y ago
It suffers similar to stackoverflow in terms of making it excessively hard to contribute to something you really do know a lot about. I don't really see a solution for hot topics like isreal-palestine. However, I should be able to impr

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