cogman10

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by cogman10 2mo ago
This sort of benefit in software can be realized with much shorter terms. A 5 or 10 year term would accomplish pretty much all the same benefits. 25 years is just way too long for software.
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Looks like their A3B model is on the way [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1voxppd/qwen_38...
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Books like that are pretty much all AI trainers are interested in. The classics are all in public domain already so there's no reason for them to want to destroy a rare edition of Charles Dickens or Arthur Conan Doyle. And the stuff t
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> If anything this is the least dubious way to acquire training material. Yeah, I emotionally felt a little upset because books are being destroyed and I don't like that. But rationally, this seems very much like a win-win. The sec
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by cogman10 2mo ago
You can take a picture of your filled out ballot with a cellphone. I don't see how there isn't already a very wide open door for coercion/vote purchasing. It's not 100% fool proof, but you don't need that to sway
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by cogman10 2mo ago
I don't take this concern seriously. You can be paid/coerced to vote for someone even if there's total secrecy. For example, you can take your cellphone in and take a picture of your filled out ballot to collect a payment. U
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Yup. What people have to realize is that power generation has inertia and can be painful to start/stop. But also, the power output always has to match the power demand. If you don't, you get either brown outs or over voltages.
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Mozilla does sell users' data. That's how the sponsored links and stories work > Occasionally, sponsors may pay Mozilla to specifically boost the score of their site during frecency ranking. In these cases, the shortcut is bas
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by cogman10 2mo ago
I'm not sure I'm aware of any other non-profit open source software maintainer who pays the bills by selling users' data. Are there any you are thinking of who get a pass?
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> But you don't see people complaining about those things, which largely didn't make Mozilla any money, you see them complaining about things that do make Mozilla money Yeah, for 2 reasons. 1. Mozilla is a non-profit that takes
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> Yes. This will be evident on the transcript. The transcript? Employers aren't pulling transcripts. I've done hiring interviews and reviews, the transcript has never come up. About the only place this could come up is higher
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by cogman10 2mo ago
I think this touches on a real potential harm. I guess my counter is that it'd be hard to make that adjustment after the first semester anyways. Particularly because these will all be intro classes anyways which can all be overly eas
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> It is genuinely hard to argue slippery slope fallacy when we have years upon years of examples like social promotion No it's not, because that's a tangentially related thing. You can't say "because social promotion
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by cogman10 2mo ago
As I said to another commenter > That's the slippery slope fallacy. That's not what's being proposed and not what's going to happen. They have proposed 1 semester, if they propose extending it then I'll be right
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by cogman10 2mo ago
You assume these kids are doomed to failure and not capable of adapting. Sure, some of them are, but not everyone. It's just 1 semester and also gives students time to switch majors if they determine it's not for them (which is a
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by cogman10 2mo ago
First semester, not first year. And I suspect that the filter will still be in play for students because they'll still have coursework to complete. They simply don't get the grade feedback reducing the stress of perfecting that
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> Employers thinking a UofM degree is a joke. I've never cared about where the degree of someone comes from. You really think and employer is going to look at UofM and say "Oh, they gave their students a 1 semester reprieve, o
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by cogman10 2mo ago
That's the slippery slope fallacy. That's not what's being proposed and not what's going to happen. So again I ask. What's the harm?
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by cogman10 2mo ago
What harm exactly do you think giving a single semester reprieve is going to cause these students?
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by cogman10 2mo ago
You've never heard of college dropouts? Kids have "managed" this by dropping out of college.
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by cogman10 2mo ago
It's a pretty different environment going from high school to college. There's a dynamic change that's pretty sudden where your parents are no long really in the picture for support. What they are trying to do is keep the ki
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by cogman10 2mo ago
I'd assume the closed weight models are all working on shrinking their parameter counts anyways. They too benefit from smaller models. It'd be foolish for these SOTA labs to not be working at reducing parameter counts.
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> Also: note that the Wall Street analyst estimates Ed cites (and then declares impossible targets) are predictions by serious people with a lot of money at stake. I think Ed is wrong. But I have to push back. Wall street analysts are
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> I’m still not seeing any equally compelling arguments as to why this is not the case. Zitron relies too heavily on how big the numbers are and not how workable the numbers are. Further, he seems to think that it will all just implode,
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Novice, but I'd argue that Dobbs has seriously eroded that case law. The right to privacy used to be pretty settled law, but now the foundation of that settled law is on sandy ground.
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by cogman10 2mo ago
You don't have a right to privacy. It should be covered under the 9th amendment, but the supreme court generally just ignores that amendment. Edit: I see people don't like this comment, so here's an article about it from Wex
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by cogman10 2mo ago
> Even if they were like-for-like That's the thing, the style of game release of the 90s is all but dead. Sure you can still find indy studios releasing in a 90s style, but you can't find the big players doing that. Now a lot
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Looks like they do support Ubuntu. Is this open source? Can I install this on a non Ubuntu system?
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by cogman10 2mo ago
Yeah, I wish we could outlaw the monster trucks so that making these light weight vehicles would be more practical and safer. A lot of the safety standards and regulations we have is because everyone is buying and driving 2T pickup trucks w
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by cogman10 2mo ago
As time goes on, I become more and more convinced that OSes need some sort of OS level GC pool which all GCed languages play in rather than having the language runtime provide the GC. A major part of why these sort of simple applications ar

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