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by epolanski 2mo ago
Seriously, how do you fix it? The biggest issue that keeps accelerating climate change is that people buy too much stuff, travel too much, and more importantly eat in a way that is bound to destroy the climate. Now go tell people to buy les
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Better math, algos, architecture, etc? It's not just about data and RL.
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Electricity cost is pegged to energy cost and wars happening on the other end of the planet influence it directly. That includes renewables.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I don't think you understand that at bond auctions buyers submit bids essentially setting at which rate they will buy the bonds. Then the treasury fills these orders from the lowest to highest bid. So all of your post make no sense. US
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Do you know how bond auctions work? It's based on a price-discovery mechanism. The treasury announces it wants to sell $ 25B of 30Y bonds. Then investors submit offers saying in effect how much yield they demand to buy them. Then the t
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> This has nothing to do with investors' perceptions of U.S. credit and everything to do with the financial rates environment It absolutely is related to investors' perceptions of U.S. credit worthiness. The news is about the 1
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I also like Elixir, and I've used it for a handful of projects, the language may not be huge, but is conversely bloated by macros. I dislike macros and languages allowing developers to get creative with their own DSLs.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I feel odd to use these models, because it feels like a faster model doesn't feel that much faster if it spends reading files, making edits and running checks. It feels too situational.
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The US wields incredible negotiating power period. In way too many fields. It worked when the country wanted to be a globalist force and lead by example (albeit it was partially pretending to set an example, US exceptionalism is ingrained i
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I think you're completely misreading what I wrote. PHP (lets use this as an example) brings already many benefits over a common solution like a TypeScript monorepo mostly operational simplicity. That was already true before AI. It&#x27
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by epolanski 2mo ago
One thing I learned about AI is that, e.g., if you're making websites you're much better off going for php/ruby/elixir, even if you don't like the languages much. Pipelines and deploys gets much easier and faster th
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by epolanski 2mo ago
You touch a point I quickly skimmed in another comment. Yes, the most valuable benchmarks and evaluations you can write are those that resemble your work. The evaluations are extremely hard to write and test. And yes, virtually all benchmar
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by epolanski 2mo ago
> Building ad-hoc evals is trivial these days. I highly doubt that you have solved it. Writing proper evals and benchmarks for real-world scenarios is far from trivial. Benchmarking an agent essentially means freezing, at the very minimu
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Developing countries are no different actually. It's only really sub Saharan Africa still growing.
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Even if you removed all the billionaires this is unsustainable.
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If your burgers and steaks cost considerably more you may consider more poultry or cheese.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Nobody is going to be elected telling people the harsh truth: that we consume far too much than the planet can sustain. Farmers and fishers on top of that will always get cross partizan sympathy. People just don't want to hear that the
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Two years ago they were boasting of how being small (two dozen people) and using AI was the secret enabler of their growth. No bureaucracy! Product people go brrr with little developer need. 24 months later, their headcount ballooned, they
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Chinese models are open, Grok is not.
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+1, a single test means little.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I actually agree with the article stating that not aiming for SOTA is actually a benefit for Google. Gemini is already good for enterprise users, most companies I know are using Gemini 3.1 to interact with their email and sheets and creatin
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by epolanski 2mo ago
You can't ask for this data over phone, you can't pay over phone.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
You can't charge nobody's card because in order to do so you'd first need to sign a verbal contract.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
Redis, hping and dump1090 were all side projects he started/written while having a full time job. Your comment really sounds like "many other people would do A and B if they just had time and money to do so", but he's be
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by epolanski 2mo ago
There's multiple scenarios where this has occurred to me: 1. when travelling, hotels or car rentals may need to call or update me with some information 2. friend/family member was abroad and had issues with its own phone 3. some s
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by epolanski 2mo ago
You don't need to ban telemarketing, you just need to make void and nulls contracts made by phone. Do so, and 99% of telemarketers no longer have the incentive to call anybody.
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by epolanski 2mo ago
At least many are aware of the viciousness shown by the current US administration against Cuban population. At the same time, full blown humanitarian disasters, like the one that hit the Rohingya in Myanmar, people that were being thrown in
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by epolanski 2mo ago
I don't think these data centres bring that much money locally. Beyond the construction they employ very little people and bring very little taxes at a gargantuan cost in resources.
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The post is also misleading because the m5 max 128 gb costs a lot and you can only run DS4 flash quantized, thus not a 1:1 comparison.
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Also privacy and offline capabilities.

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