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by dofm 4mo ago
Until a few years ago I'd have been the person who thought you could make a text-to-CAD system scale up to all of it. And then I tried to make stuff I wanted. Dabbled with OpenSCAD as we will. I decided to learn FreeCAD and what I disc
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by dofm 4mo ago
I was an above average school and uni student, yeah. I tended not to get "lazy" too much because I guess I found a way to be interested (my father was good at pointing me to the fascinating bits of homework etc.). Though looking a
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by dofm 4mo ago
I just volunteered the same suggestion. I am undiagnosed "inattentive" (but it's as obvious as hell, in retrospect) and I clearly self-medicate with caffeine; I used to have an awful coca-cola problem and now in my fifties I
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by dofm 4mo ago
Do you have ADHD (or think you might have?) If so the difference when you are not drinking coffee might be more disorganisation/inattentiveness/impulsivity etc. rather than being less stimulated. I have learned that I can have fou
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by dofm 4mo ago
More like 3.75% to 6.6% at most, depending on the bean. But this is not a very good way to think about decaffeination because coffee has to be below 0.1% caffeine by dry weight, regardless of bean, to qualify as decaf, pretty much as a gl
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by dofm 4mo ago
Except that there is no application for AI in CAD that is better, more appropriate, more robust or more sensible than learning how to use a CAD package and doing it yourself. It's not fast-changing, it's not abstract, it's
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by dofm 4mo ago
> I'm trying to wrap my head around exactly why so may people seem to want the best model available This is the logical end point of the fear-based way LLMs are marketed. You must want the best, because everyone who has the best can
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by dofm 4mo ago
I don't know anything about synths, but the M0 architecture is designed to run the program out of flash, I think? So 16KB is quite a bit. 1KB is surely enough to store synthesizer patches. Several, probably.
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by dofm 4mo ago
‘“Thing is dead, long live thing” is all you need’ considered harmful
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by dofm 4mo ago
They would still have to find the resources to host it. Perhaps Gemini works out cheaper.
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by dofm 4mo ago
This is like hell, if hell was being stuck on a really poorly-maintained uncomfortable rollercoaster forever.
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by dofm 4mo ago
I would imagine there are many situations within Meta's applications where relatively small models can do a good job — sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, characterising users based on their posts, summarising a user's
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by dofm 4mo ago
If your primary concern is that: - two companies that have not proved themselves capable of producing any amount of money unless a larger amount is given to them... - will combine with a government that is so domain-generally incompetent it
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by dofm 4mo ago
I think the story about the Trump decision is likely to have a politically explosive aspect to it. Because Zuckerberg had dragged his feet about creating the board until they needed the board in order to launder a decision they knew they mi
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by dofm 4mo ago
I am making no allegation, to be clear. I was just having a bit of fun with the way I said it. But it's obvious that Facebook want to make writing anything about them in a book and then publicising it an absolutely miserable experien
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by dofm 4mo ago
"Well he would, wouldn't he?" — Mandy Rice-Davies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_he_would,_wouldn%27t_he%3...
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by dofm 4mo ago
From memory — can't find the thing right now! — this would be a little difficult on the one I had because of its shape. Also because — not sure how to explain it — but in my experience the holes on a four hole ocarina are also sort of
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by dofm 4mo ago
It's not increasingly bizarre, really, if you just allow for the possibility of one thing: There's something else worse that they know could be in such a book, but isn't yet, and it is so bad that it is worth doing this. Pe
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by dofm 4mo ago
Music shops sell a lot of ukuleles. Huge numbers at Christmas, it's a very popular gift. It's a fabulous instrument, nuanced and subtle, and you can buy beautiful instruments these days for really not much money at all. But AFAI
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by dofm 4mo ago
Yes — though he can still be quite brassy if he is the interviewee, I think, depending on who is intervewing! In this case, as two equals, something about Cal Newport's manner really anchored him and they got into some interesting stuf
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by dofm 4mo ago
Carter? "Yes sir?" What is it, Carter? "An ocarina, sir" Bring it up here! I've had a really nice, small "English four-hole" unglazed terracotta pendant ocarina since I was a kid. They are
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by dofm 4mo ago
Yea, this was good, wasn’t it; quite different from a lot of Ed’s more, er, brassy stuff.
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by dofm 4mo ago
‘’ <—— li’l Dr Evil air quotes to put around ‘standardized’ ;-) If anything it’s DOCX itself that was the vector!
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by dofm 4mo ago
To be fair to jacobgold, at this point there is more or less an AWS services announcement singularity: if you didn't see the announcement when it happened you may never catch up or even find it in the wretched console website. Though I
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by dofm 4mo ago
They are all actually quite a lot like the barbers/hairdressers thing! We're more or less getting along with who we have. Essentially every single medical school in the USA is vastly oversubscribed with qualified applicants, as fa
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by dofm 4mo ago
I wasn't saying it is or isn't. But it unambiguously is who is leading the promise to replace labour; it is whose bullshit is provoking the backlash. It is whose variously-confident definition of near-term AGI involves completel
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by dofm 4mo ago
Thank you!
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by dofm 4mo ago
I mean, you only have to look at actual available salary and hours data to see that factory workers worked at least as long a day and longer than a farm day can even be, and in conditions that were unambiguously worse. But even if this were
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by dofm 4mo ago
> The next couple of years will see these people contorting themselves into increasingly complex knots to try and argue that AI is making the world a better place. I mean, if it delivers. So far we're only really f**ing ourselves in
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by dofm 4mo ago
Literally any history of the industrial revolution in Britain (and I imagine the USA) Farmers went from working outside at a stable work pace (and in many cases farming a small patch of their own land as part payment, so eating at least fun

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