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by dofm 2mo ago
There are two largely different concepts/epochs separated by more than 40 years. The negotiations and partition of Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governing province (rather than being governed from Britain)
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by dofm 2mo ago
> In the UK if you keep your mouth shut during an investigation, it may harm your defense. There is zero right against self-incrimination. By "may harm your defence" what is meant is that Miranda was modified to inform people w
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by dofm 2mo ago
> You WILL be charged for not giving the PIN to your phone in an investigation. It’s a strict liability offence which means there’s no legal defence. Again, no, not just "in an investigation". It has to be an investigation that
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by dofm 2mo ago
> Did it ever cross Britain's mind that the whole IRA debacle is of its own doing? Can't you just leave Ireland for good and let them be? That people still ask this question betrays only that they aren't well-informed abou
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by dofm 2mo ago
That does not at all suggest that UK ISPs proactively share anything with the state. What it means is the GDPR doesn't stop ISPs choosing to share when asked , rather than waiting for the warranted request that will come, as long as
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by dofm 2mo ago
I have to tell you I am not that bothered. Twice I nearly lost my father to terrorism in London. (Sliding Doors commuter moments both times — by sheer chance not being in the very usual place at the very usual time). I remain pretty relaxed
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by dofm 2mo ago
> Your ISP proactively shares your web history with the state. Citation please. "Proactively" is just untrue.
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by dofm 2mo ago
It's not about grounds to arrest them, it's about practicality. If you need to arrest someone in London (someone who might be about to cause harm) then there's a very good chance they will go through a tube station, and they
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by dofm 2mo ago
Sainsbury's and B&M and a couple of others use Facewatch, I think. A very badly run system, but alas no better or worse than USA stores and malls are doing.
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by dofm 2mo ago
The concept of the UK "surveillance state" is actually quite overcooked. It's largely based on myth and dramatisation. BTP probably have a national live feed of railway station cameras. I bloody hope they do, considering it&#
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by dofm 2mo ago
It might be an indication that analysis of photography is something of an ideal discipline for an LLM since so much content online involves discussion of pictures. A lot of what I am trying to do with my photography is sort of meta-photogra
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by dofm 2mo ago
That is interesting, thanks. And I see separable wake-word detection there. I'd always assumed that was likely to be closer to the metal (more like recognise a sound than turn sound to word).
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by dofm 2mo ago
Yeah. Clearly the target for these models is on-device assistant/analyst tasks where really everything is agentic. Thinking out loud: any text-based generative AI application is on a continuum between: - document-to-document: solve thi
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by dofm 2mo ago
> If I understand correctly, you're saying people are compute-poor but not necessarily GPU-poor because there's a lot of GPUs out there but nowhere to plug them into? If so, I'm not sure that distinction matters to the GP&
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by dofm 2mo ago
> So far everyone seems to be consistently GPU-poor, despite the huge buildout That is seemingly not the case. The buildout is actually slow; almost nothing of these giant projects has been completed. Nobody will say how much of anything
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by dofm 2mo ago
I am very struck by the way open weights LLMs seem to reflect a culture. I don't really enjoy the way Qwen writes prose, and I find its thinking a bit exhausting, though it clearly writes very good code. I like the neutral, clear way t
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by dofm 2mo ago
Thank you.
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by dofm 2mo ago
This is a very responsive answer, thank you so much. (I'd assumed maybe Whisper but the wake word "loop" detail there is illuminating.)
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by dofm 2mo ago
Naïve and clumsy question: how would you pair this with speech-text-speech stuff, wake words etc.? Are there good examples of this for a Pi 5? The demo is super — I'm just having trouble seeing the whole picture for e.g. a screenless d
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by dofm 2mo ago
Fascinating, thank you. I am trying to switch to pi from opencode (my own thinking loops and burnout are a challenge lately). It had not occurred to me that you could nudge it to stop thinking with a proxy. Nice idea. Will favourite your co
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by dofm 2mo ago
Useful stuff, thank you. And more reading for me to do! (DFlash seems rather weird on my M1 Max; model performance suddenly drops off a cliff like maybe there is some memory management issue).
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by dofm 2mo ago
I haven't really got that far in, but it writes in a sort of clipped, geeky note form in the reasoning traces without too obvious claudeisms, it seems to have been trained to have a level of wit, almost. Like, in the car wash test, thi
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by dofm 2mo ago
This is alas not only his imagining, is it: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-parenting-debate-sam-altm... I think you have to pick your battles here. Is this weirdo optimised-human future going to happen? Maybe, maybe not
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by dofm 2mo ago
godzilla_let_them_fight.gif More seriously, I am glad if this has become a battleground again. Not least because the only way out of the bubble economy is to at least try to deflate it before it explodes. A little animation of the idea that
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by dofm 2mo ago
> The foundation so far has been one of brute force scaling. In cloud AI, sure. But in the smaller open weights model territory it feels like we're well into optimisation?
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by dofm 2mo ago
The model card does say 131K+ but I have no idea what scope the + really has in practice. Feels like overclocking; you're-on-your-own territory? One thing I will say is that its thinking traces are really quite terse. It genuinely seem
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by dofm 2mo ago
One thing I would caution is staying out of the prediction market like this. Tech tends to get boring when you judge current products against the hypothetical capabilities of unannounced products that may never ship. It's like comparin
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by dofm 2mo ago
I am glad they released it because I think we need a competitive culture of open weights that isn't just geopolitics. But I have to say, I quite like the way Muse Glimmer thinks and talks. It's a cocky bastard in tone, but it&#x27
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by dofm 2mo ago
Right. But those still sound like modest gain territory, or qualitative gains within the same rough performance, rather than the "breakthrough" improvement notion I was responding to. My naïve impression is that the LLM world will
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by dofm 2mo ago
It's not perfect but it is very terse! Better than BottleCap managed to do with post-training Qwen in ThinkingCap. I suspect it will help a lot with enabling preserve-reasoning, because the biggest apparent limitation of this model is

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