digdugdirk

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by digdugdirk 5d ago
Ha. Amazon's in-app AI agent is called Rufus. It's incredibly annoying, and they love directing you to an 'Ask Rufus' page where you watch an AI agent not-quite-finish repeating your search terms back at you before you r
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by digdugdirk 7d ago
I've seen previous needle releases running on esp32s - any idea how well this new one would run on something like the newer esp32-p4?
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by digdugdirk 16d ago
Of course it was. They clearly decided that the benefit to the company valuation was higher than the potential downsides when announcing to the world that they committed a criminal act via negligence. If it wasn't a marketing stunt, th
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by digdugdirk 21d ago
It sounds like your issue is with capitalism, not with renewable energy. Luckily, we have plenty of examples of aspects of society that have been deemed too important to leave purely to market forces. In fact, electricity generation is alre
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by digdugdirk 22d ago
Not quite. Looped models do the extra "thinking" inside the model's layers. So the token gets twice the number crunching performed on it before it gets spit out. I think of it as the first loop "kickstarts" the pr
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by digdugdirk 22d ago
I mean, that's cool and all, but the numbers are really going to shift when it accidentally goes off and orders that same hardware from every vendor in your local region and the top 5 online results for comparison. It's the same p
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by digdugdirk 27d ago
Is this Python in Rust in WASM in Go? The Monty name was a perfect choice, Yakety Sax was playing in the distance as I read through the readme. Jokes aside, I do love seeing WASM as a bridge to enable cool stuff like this.
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by digdugdirk 29d ago
So much of the current bubble is predicated on the hype train continuing on its current trajectory. If anything lags behind, the bubble deflates. For one potential path - Less datacenter construction means less GPUs, so less $$$ for Nvidia,
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by digdugdirk 29d ago
Same! Still getting used to it, but the benefits of being able to host my notes on my Tailscale network are huge. Having a built-in Lua engine to customize the interface and content is a really interesting concept, though I'll admit I
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by digdugdirk 1mo ago
Kinda? Originally a Canadian subsidiary of a British company, privatized in the 80's, then sold to Boeing, then bought back by Bombardier with big financial support from the Ontario government, then sold off to a domestic buyer in a co
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by digdugdirk 1mo ago
Honestly, most of the incentives aren't aligned with breaking them up or trying to lower prices. If the large corporate entities were broken up, they wouldn't have the scale to compete against their much larger American counterpar
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by digdugdirk 1mo ago
Yes, Canadian dairy prices were always higher than US prices, probably by 10-20 percent or so. There's an internal quota system, and a prescribed allowable volume for imports with very high tariffs on imports above that prescribed limi
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by digdugdirk 1mo ago
If the US military purchased camera guided smart munitions with a miscalibrated camera, such that it ignored adult targets and instead specifically targeted children, would that also be a simple mistake per your argument?
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by digdugdirk 2mo ago
What model? And what hardware do you run it on? I find these style of models are great, but fail hard , and fail randomly. I'd be hesitant to use it for a daily driver, but I'm using dual 3060s, so it's not like I'm qua
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
In regards to people with reasons to illuminate several sq km at once - I'd bet that major metro areas would see a massive savings in electricity/maintenance if these were deployed over a metro region. Whether that is more than th
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
Super cool! I noticed you had a blurb about it being used for mesh networks? Could you please go into more details/provide links to resources to learn more about that?
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
Ooo... Any chance you remember where you read that? I'd love a reference to check it out. Sounds interesting!
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
Other fields of engineering usually have a regulated licensure, upon which they can call themselves a Professional Engineer. This gives them the ability to make final approval/sign-off on designs and technical reports. It's most c
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
Really? It's what he did after he spent nearly a third of a billion dollars to influence an election (which doesn't include the incalculable value of his influence via Twitter!) that makes him a Bond villain. It's Chesterton&
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
It's an inherently different thing. Fibre is infrastructure. It'll still function decades later. GPUs at this scale are consumables. I've heard 3-5 years lifespan before they fail out. This might be a low estimate, but even i
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
I think part of it is the feeling of false understanding that comes from using llms regularly. They let you operate at a higher conceptual level, and they paper over enough of the actual details that your conceptual model might not actually
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
Be careful who you hire??? What part of that last paragraph seems like acceptable human behaviour for a handful of the most powerful people in the world?
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
It seems that we're exact opposites! But if mathematics is your thing, it might be interesting for you to explore trying to learn things from a lagrangian perspective first? Not sure if it'll help you with gaining an intuitive und
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
Ding ding ding! This is a huge reason. Being able to bootstrap a domestic weapons manufacturing base is a massive win for any country these days. South Korea is one of the few countries that are both willing and able to do so with high qual
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by digdugdirk 3mo ago
It took me way too long to realize that "Nim for tde" wasn't referring to some obscure system...
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by digdugdirk 4mo ago
I've always wanted to figure out how to implement a cooperative source license. Something like, you're allowed to do what you want with it, but any derivative work requires the same license, and X% of any income goes to the cooper
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by digdugdirk 4mo ago
Can you explain more about how it struggles? I haven't noticed any issues in my usage, so I'm just curious what is meant by this.
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by digdugdirk 4mo ago
I do enjoy the immediate out of touch signaling with the "runs on your 16gb vram laptop" line. Because everyone has a laptop with 16gb vram, or can just pop out and buy a new one, right?
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by digdugdirk 4mo ago
Do you have a collection of these benchmark apps saved anywhere? I'd be particularly interested in seeing the relative cost differences between different models in a use case like this.
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by digdugdirk 4mo ago
It's always been this way. America has just been able to coast on being the only remaining major economy after WW2, and exploited the rest of the world instead. That exploitation of the rest of the globe has been mostly optimized now,

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