cmrdporcupine

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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
> not sure why this would be relevant here. There is a strand of US politics which has tried to characterize Canada as uniquely authoritarian ever since the Ottawa protests. And it's been used increasingly as justification for exter
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Fairly certain all the labs are doing this (RSI) at this point. It's a question of how public their proclamations are about it and how they're positioning PR etc. Even today's lighter weight models know how to write kernels a
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
> The Comanche, Apache and Navajo have learned too late that you can't trust Americans The Haudenosaunee Confederacy probably learned this the strongest. And more even than the Loyalists help build this country. Or I'm more con
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I'm not a Lisp connoisseur, but the parts of GNU Emacs that bothers me are more all a) the C-based glue... single-threaded single process monolith b) giant ball of mutable state that seems to let anything step on anything else and brea
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
In some ways it's fitting though, the chaos and infighting of the EU mirrors the structure of our own confederation. Provinces in Canada have strong powers and much of the same back and forth trade and regional politico-economic bicker
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Canada has Coke and Pepsi flavours of gov't. The differences between the two parties comes down to stupid culture wars stuff and perhaps emphasis on which sectors should dominate the economy, but they don't fundamentally differ. C
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
This is new in the Ontario market this year. It was lobbied for by the South Asian / Desi community as they like to make their own paneer and yogurt. It comes in the same 1.33L milk bags, it just costs a bit more, depending on the groc
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I've started making my own cheese (with the new 6% milk we have in the grocery stores here in Ontario now). 4 litres of $10 6% milk gives me a huge pile of halloumi or similar that lasts the week. Protein / nutrition wise works ou
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Dairy is highly protected in Canada. For better or for worse. Exceptions were made for cheeses though. They've dropped significantly in (relative) price and varieties of imports have improved significantly in the last 10 years. Even
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Both of these things can be true (and things we as Canadians have to aggressively oppose) but at the same time, it was the US that pioneered such gems as: the PATRIOT act, Stellar Wind, PRISM & Section 702 (FAA), Upstream Collection &am
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
CETA (free trade) already exists with the EU. What is happening here is mostly symbolism and diplomacy. And maybe it will lead to the last hold out EU member states fully ratifying CETA (French farmers famously difficult). Many people (incl
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I agree and at the same time I'm all for it. Almost a decade on and most Canadians don't seem to realize we already have CETA (free trade) with the EU. It's not fully fully ratified but it's there. It's why our groc
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
We have that trade agreement (CETA). Negotiated by the Trudeau gov't a long time ago. Notably many member states (incl. France) have not fully ratified it. The majority of its benefits are in place but not all. Which doesn't bode
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
For coding models? I don't think Google is motivated to fight in that market. There's no incentive for them. Ask yourself, how does Google -- a company that famously does everything -- benefit from SWEs outside of Google having ac
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
In a way sad to say it but these days if I'm missing some functionality I just ask a clanker to write it and it's done in a few minutes.
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
> Lem throws away any attempts at compatibility with GNU Emacs. That depends on what you mean by compatibility. Keybindings and conventions and the like are basically the same. I'm not actually convinced at this point on the value o
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Yeah, that's "lem" really. Though in that case it's Lisp all the way down apart from the native bits of the rendering layers.
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I mean, yes, they cosplay as us-like things. That's a neat trick. I'm not convinced that means what these fear-pilled engineers think it means tho?
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
That posts seemingly tries to refute the idea of Dario etc's proclamations really being about regulatory capture by saying: "No, really, the engineers are just terrified!" But both things can be true at once: 1. Engineers ins
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
People who buy Macs to run local inference are not the target audience for this machine. It's an AI research workstation for people whose ultimate work goes on production GB300 NVL72 data centre racks (and for large models you link the
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Yep, it's getting tiresome seeing some Americans point fingers about the superiority of American constitutional and (small r) republican structures while that state form is showing absolutely remarkable degradation of basic real demo
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
But the point of such a machine generally is to have the equivalent of a GB300 NVL72 tray on your desk. It's so that you can do the work that belongs in a production DC eventually. Or at least that's now NVIDIA would like you to u
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
The worst part of Dario's missive, that I don't see a lot of people commenting on, is that he used the whole thing to try to advocate for legalization of explicit cartel behaviour between the AI labs: ... "For antitrust reas
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
There's a lot more going on here because the host machine has a boatload (496GB) of expensive LPDDR5x (which is stupidly expensive) that can also be used as unified (but slower) memory to the GPU, 72 ARM64 cores, stupid fast NVlink&#x2
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
7.1TB/s of HBM is not "useless" -- that's 30 times the memory bandwidth of my DGX Spark -- and nobody is expecting such a machine to run "Opus 5" on its own. For such large models even datacentre GB300 NVL72 a
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
You don't speak for anybody outside of your borders, so please stop trying to. The majority of the world will refuse to be subject to American AI laws under the control of the US gov't, whether it pretends to be democratic or not.
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Which government?
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
I had an extensive argument with someone on FB yesterday who was very much on the "I trust Dario most and I want him to be in charge" side. I find it hard to accord with this world view at all or understand how it can come about.
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by cmrdporcupine 1mo ago
Canada is very vulnerable to this kind of destabilization campaign because it is an even more decentralized polity than the United States. We are a confederation, our provinces have strong powers, and have long lasting regional political&#x

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