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by drodgers 1y ago
> There's no system that does that. You mean the darkening of everything else to highlight bright HDR areas? All recent Macs do, including the one I'm typing on right now. It's a little disconcerting the first time it happ
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by drodgers 2y ago
Who cares about consciousness? This is just a mis-direction of the discussion. Ditto for 'intelligence' and 'understanding'. Let's talk about what they can do and where that's trending.
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by drodgers 2y ago
> a sign of things to come Isn't this, like, a sign of what's been happening for the last 20+ years (arxiv, blogs etc.)?
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by drodgers 2y ago
I've found claude-code good in a multi-million line project because it can navigate the filesystem like a human would. You have to give it the right context and direction — like you would to a new junior dev — but then it can be very g
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by drodgers 2y ago
This doesn't mention quantisations. Also, it says I can run R1 with 128GB of ram, but even the 1.58 bit quantisation takes 160GB.
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by drodgers 2y ago
Yes. You need to go to server class chips (eg. threadripper) before beating the raw multi-core performance of a top-spec M4 Max in a Macbook pro, and the battery life is still crazy good!
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by drodgers 2y ago
China is still modernising. They're outproducing the US in terms of new equipment, but flows aren't stocks, and the US also has decades of refinement and experience to draw on in comparison to China's zilch. Don't get me
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by drodgers 2y ago
The fab capacity would be gone, even if the defence succeeded. The process knowledge embedded in TSMC might survive though to rebuild it quickly.
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by drodgers 2y ago
The US would respond to with a freedom-of-navigation exercise backed up by the full might of US-PACOM. China would lose that standoff.
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by drodgers 2y ago
I don't see how the commenter is 'brainwashed'. The One China Policy was and remains a convenient status quo for all parties. The risk is that China decides that it's newfound economic and military might have changed tha
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by drodgers 2y ago
> even blockade Taiwan. An act of war, which the US would respond to with a freedom-of-navigation exercise backed up by the full might of US-PACOM. China would lose that standoff, which is why they're unlikely to do it unless they w
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by drodgers 2y ago
Invading Taiwan will never be an economically rational action. If it happens, it will be because of internal politics, personal/national myth-making etc. Taiwan is ridiculously favourable terrain for the defenders; if they fight back,
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by drodgers 2y ago
What are you talking about? We've invented the Universal Translator already.
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by drodgers 2y ago
BG3 was great. I don't think it counts as big budget, but I've recently gotten into Last Train Home and it's a fantastic and unique premise (with gameplay that's a mix of Company of Heros + XCOM + This War Of Mine).
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by drodgers 2y ago
It looks like o3-mini doesn't yet support PDF input, but here's what Claude opus had to say: This paper proves the first unconditional limitations of multi-layer decoder-only transformers, which are the dominant architecture
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by drodgers 2y ago
> The critical factor is the dataset, not the specific hard-coded bells and whistles that constrain the curve's shape I have almost the opposite take. We've had a lot of datasets for ages, but all the progress in the last decad
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by drodgers 2y ago
It looks like writes are buffered in an in-memory write ahead log before being written to object storage, which means that if the writer box dies, then you lose acknowledged writes. I've built something similar for low-cost storage of
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by drodgers 2y ago
> [Taiwan] A singular place on earth where silicon wafers are endlessly etched with arcane symbols 4 nanometers in size, engraved by the light of heaven; life breathed into sand to help shoulder the burden of the world. -Roon
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by drodgers 2y ago
I couldn't have said it better myself. The actual product could be much better, but I actually think AWS is perfectly placed to run network and host intrusion detection; they can hook into the hardware when needed, they can instrument
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by drodgers 2y ago
Chamber can also use S3 + KMS as a backend, which reduces the API costs to ~0 and massively improves the scalability (since SSM has annoyingly low rate limits, or at least it did a few years ago when we last tried it).
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by drodgers 2y ago
I can't help but read comments like this as: "My talking dog always makes mistakes on calculus problems: how embarrassingly bad!" Has the expectation treadmill really advanced so quickly that sub-human performance on any cate
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by drodgers 2y ago
I love the object-storage-first approach; it seems like such a natural fit for the could.
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by drodgers 2y ago
For a company who's product requires trusting them with login tokens for all your favourite online services, this is ludicrously short-sighted.
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by drodgers 2y ago
I reckon Apple Intelligence will end up solving this problem - have it classify notifications and then give you control. That way, you're not reliant on ongoing good behaviour from developers.
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by drodgers 2y ago
We're looking for people based in Melbourne, but we can sponsor visas.
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by drodgers 2y ago
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by drodgers 3y ago
Yes, but VR headsets tend to focus everything at infinity, which is the most relaxed position for your eyes (and the opposite of starting at a nearby screen all day).
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by drodgers 3y ago
Definitely Stephenson. He has a tendency to write one-and-a-half books where the main drama resolves, then a lot of new context appears full of fresh challenges for our protagonists, and then the book ends.
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by drodgers 3y ago
Huh, must be a licensing issue. There's definitely a 2013 edition: https://web.archive.org/web/20201124174943/https://www.audib...
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by drodgers 3y ago
State of the Art is available as an audiobook.

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