clarionbell

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by clarionbell 7mo ago
This has a lot of potential. Especially if the compiled "code" can be efficiently shared between models of the same architecture. That would easily overshadow LoRa and finetuning in general.
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by clarionbell 7mo ago
He didn't give lectures at Vatican, not even at the Catholic university close to Vatican, and even Catholic University of America didn't have anything to do with it.
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
Modding is one of the better ways to get into coding. I myself have fond memories restoring cut content to Fallout: New Vegas. It's unfortunate that modding support is relatively rare among game developers. Blizzard used to do quite we
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
You could make similar site about much of Europe to be honest. It seems to me that there is a fundamental disconnect, between what society needs to function and what some societies are willing to tolerate. Almost everything we take for gran
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
When people can't afford homes, food and medicine, environment ceases to be a priority. It's mostly a question of when, not if.
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
From what I understand, in USA schools are accountable, and funded, locally. This puts more direct pressure on educators not to fail children. Recently, there has also been a movement to drop standards based grading and advanced classes, un
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
France was not a major imperial power at the time. It was much smaller than today, lacking Savoy and much of Burgundy for start, with Normandy and many other areas only nominally part of it and technically under control of English king (who
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
You are aware that China is building dozens of new coal power plants right? Just this year they have commissioned 50.[1] Granted, it's less than before, but still much more than other developed countries. [1] https://abcnews
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
He would be among those who lack "healthy inclination to skepticism" in my book. I do not doubt his brilliance. Personally, I think he is more intelligent than I am. But, I do have a distinct feeling that his enthusiasm can overwh
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
What happened one way, can happen the other. Recently, I've watched a documentary about late 19th century steel maker. His approach was very similar to what many seem to consider "uniquely Chinese" for some reason. He bought
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
Anyone with a decent grasp of how this technology works, and a healthy inclination to skepticism, was not awed by Moltbook. Putting aside how incredibly easy it is to set up an agent, or several, to create impressive looking discussion ther
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
The disadvantage in their system, is if the the leadership makes a wrong decision, it will stick for much longer than 4 years, and it won't be challenged. Now, recently, they had a very good run. This must be admitted and even celebrat
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by clarionbell 8mo ago
>Trade group WindEurope said more European countries were now moving towards offering revenue guarantees to offshore wind developers as standard, after Denmark and Germany held subsidy-free auctions, which failed to attract any bids. In
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
Yes. One advantage GW has, is that it has never outsourced manufacturing. The miniatures are still made locally, so they haven't lost their expertise, nor are they threatened by a former contractor turned competitor.
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
Meanwhile European chemical manufacturing is collapsing under weight of record energy costs.[1][2] Most of other manufacturing is somehow tied to chemicals, you can't build things without material after all. So this will feed ongoing i
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
The point raised is valid however. Los Angeles in particular notoriously bad track record when it comes to managing water resources and depriving upstream communities of them.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
Check latitutes of largest cities in Germany, and compare them to largest cities in China. Have you noticed how all of major German cities are much further north than major Chinese cities? You can't ignore physics and climate.
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
No, not unless you have a very specific notion of determinism. Some basic operations use arithmetic with finite precision in a way that isn't associative and therefore isn't reproducible. And CUDA introduces its own set of problem
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
China is has most of its population further south than either USA or Europe. Solar makes much more sense there than in those locations. Furthermore, by stimulating production of solar and wind related products with domestic consumption, the
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
That doesn't address the problem at all. Viking is connecting two grids together. This can help stabilize them in some scenarios. But much like in any other network, even if you have enough capacity almost everywhere, it doesn't m
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
This hardly matters unless electricity prices for end consumers go down. And that can hardly happen without improved transmission lines and storage. And those are consistently being blocked by NIMBYs. This is not a matter of policy, but of
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by clarionbell 9mo ago
Draghi report made it abundantly clear that this is the big issue. Despite being outwardly unified, EU market is horribly fractured, with regulations building on top of EU standards in almost every state and every area of business. Then the
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by clarionbell 10mo ago
Have you tried "Introduce AI summaries and kill the adblockers" ?
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by clarionbell 10mo ago
I always thought that it could be reasonably simple to have a safe alternative. Have people enter a SHA256 of their password instead, and match against a database of other hashes. Almost everyone interested in checking for password leaks kn
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by clarionbell 10mo ago
One more proof that you need real industrial policy, not just 'let the market handle it'. Otherwise you end up as a consumer of products designed and manufactured somewhere else. The good thing is that China has proven that there
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by clarionbell 11mo ago
General economic defeatism in this, and similar discussions, is staggering. Historically, many countries were suffering from various forms of economic malaise and managed to pull trough. Countries that lacked almost any form of industry hav
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Europe's first driverless train makes debut in Czechia(expats.cz)
1 points by clarionbell 11mo ago|5 comments
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by clarionbell 11mo ago
Train has been running since then without issue. Totaling around 3000 KM.
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by clarionbell 1y ago
All this talk about energy independence and not a word on where are the solar cells, batteries and wind turbines made. If your grid is standing on components with short life time and which you can't manufacture at scale, you are not in
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Netherlands' renewables drive putting pressure on its power grid(bbc.com)
7 points by clarionbell 1y ago|4 comments

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