cobbzilla

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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
Maybe local means internal? My agent can’t list files on attached USB drives, and it can only read files on the drive (by full path) after asking me for permission.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
In other news: People who grew up locked away neglected by their parents earn less But first, we must talk about the wetness of water Sorry but what is this even trying to say? 1=1 ?
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
Is the correctness of its implementation of the algorithm unaffected by bugs in this state machine? Maybe I missed something.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
Sure the school board parents are politicians too, they care about kids, no disagreement. If you’d stop straw-manning me for a moment you might notice you still misunderstand my point.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
> You can't imagine someone genuinely caring for a child that isn't there own? I just said the opposite. I can imagine many people genuinely caring for a child that isn’t their own. I am skeptical when a politician who does not
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
Yes it’s normal to worry about your kids. It’s normal for family and friends to worry about your kids. When a politician is worried about your kids, you should be worried about your rights and freedoms. Not only for your own sake but for yo
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
The proposed “feed” solution is functionally indistinguishable from incremental reconciliation. The article presents a good framing and is well-written, but doesn’t really propose anything new.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
whatever it is, it will be heavily skewed in favor of whatever there is a lot of examples of. AI could bolt together many cookie-cutter pieces into a very large YOLO system. The trouble comes when you now want that system to do something un
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
> but gotta love me some Buddhist pedantry y’all can spar with the best above comment == Q.E.D.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
This “data driven” science approach sure looks like empiricism from a distance. What am I missing?
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
California has codified a water caste system. In 2015 (my last experience with this), citizens were ordered to cut water use 25% while ~400 pre-1914 claimants with magical "senior water rights" took 90% of the water. [1][2] We con
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
it’s a loose usage. necessary but not sufficient type of thing. if all your DNA instantly disintegrated, the process ends quickly, you are not you in many senses of the word. to preserve the artifact of DNA is to ensure (some of) the proces
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
I use and prefer screen I use tmux on windows and elsewhere when I must They both have pluses and minuses, neither is perfect and both (yes even tmux) seem “old” in today’s world There is definitely room for a next gen terminal multiplexe
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
i love this. i wistfully clicked the web ring links and was sad to find they were self-refs. in another universe (or this universe in the near future?) there is a legit web ring of this content.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
It is in fact how Deinococcus radiodurans works: Deinococcus radiodurans has a unique quality in which it can repair both single- and double-stranded DNA. When damage is apparent to the cell, it brings the damaged DNA into a compart
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
I want this mutation. You have little nano-crawlers going up and down your DNA strands fixing problems. It’s like ECC RAM for the essence of YOU. And you’re basically immune to cancer.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
Yes, what other opex is there? It will have good ventilation, I’m not worried about cooling.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
At my house. I have 5Gbps fiber and could pay for 10 or 25 if I need it.
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
I’ve priced it out: max $135/month to run a dual Xeon 2U server with 3T RAM & 2x 22 core Xeon Gold. It’s the 2x 750W power supplies that ultimately determine opex. My power costs $0.124/kWh, the $135 assumes drawing maximum po
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
311 may have said it best ~33 years ago: I tell you what's wrong to me The industry's ability to manufacture stars They churn them out like Iwo Jima makes cars But the blame lies not with those suits for trying
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
If you mean being forced to overpay for no-longer-SOTA closed models, that’s I guess the protectionist motive here: impossible to enforce, enforcement uneven and political, illegality rampant, I suppose all by design too. I’d say it’s brill
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
How do you do that without banning the model itself. It doesn't matter who can or can't run it. They are trying to ban something that can be represented entirely by a sequence of bytes. An illegal number, like the DeCSS key. The f
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by cobbzilla 2mo ago
The AI rigs cost money, sure. But no one is talking about regulating those. We are talking about regulating models, which do have zero cost of reproduction. It’s like banning the leaked DeCSS key. Good luck.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
The first token on a new AI rig costs $X (full capex cost) then every token after that costs virtually zero. Over time the cost/token trends towards zero (modulo opex). That said, AI does have higher opex than general SaaS so it can’t
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
I can understand (not necessarily defend) protectionism for products with nonzero manufacturing cost and some required physical size and such. I am befuddled when the same policies are applied to products with marginally zero manufacturing
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
No, the court case you’re thinking of was when someone tried to say the AI itself had the copyright ownership. That’s not allowed (at least in the US), the copyright owner must always be a human. This doesn’t mean that a human cannot copyri
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
If you’re processing N things at a time and your “scalar tail” is N-1 why can’t you put in a dummy value for the last entry, run one last SIMD iteration, and discard the dummy return value?
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
Very good point. It’s nontrivial but not impossible to determine this, I am very curious! One nightmare scenario is a 3-bit error being detected as a correctable 1-bit error upstream, resulting in data corruption. I agree it’d be really nic
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
> they could just use a regex to change Claude to Kimi in their distillation pipeline! Jean-Kimi Van Damme would like to have a word with you.
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by cobbzilla 3mo ago
“No surprises” is an effective shorthand for “manage expectations” Folks who don’t understand that are either not hired or don’t last long. Pedants won’t get past the phone screen.

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