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by ericd 2mo ago
I appreciate you taking the time to look it up so the rest of us don’t have to.
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by ericd 2mo ago
My list would be to go grab GLM5.2, Deepseek v4 Flash and Pro, and the various sizes of Qwen 3.5/3.6 dense and MoE, along with at least one of the multi modal qwens (I think it’s called VL). In a pinch, you can quantize them yourself t
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by ericd 2mo ago
The per token costs plummet with more concurrents. A box that can do 100 tps at request depth 1 might be able to do 3000 tps at request depth 64. Less per thread, but massively more per GPU/joule/etc. That’s the economy of scale o
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by ericd 3mo ago
Well, there are generally strategic government uses.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Ah good counter, hadn’t seen that. Proven?
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by ericd 3mo ago
Did they give those secrets to US private industry?
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by ericd 3mo ago
I wasn’t talking about spying on Chinese firms, I was talking about firms worldwide. And I said nothing about conscience.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Right, talking about behavior in living memory.
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by ericd 3mo ago
One big difference is that the US doesn't have much public record of using state espionage resources to steal industrial secrets to give domestic industry a leg up in the market, whereas CCP very much does. And while I use and love the
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by ericd 3mo ago
Yeah, I'm literally getting 529 API Overloaded responses on Claude Code right now.
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by ericd 3mo ago
The large industry largely emits to help us build and maintain our too-large homes, and fill our large houses with junk. So it would help reduce those, too.
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by ericd 3mo ago
That’s tragic, I love Fontainebleau. But it’s industrial civilization as a whole, not American AC. Cement is a larger contributor, for example.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Their daily shower used more energy than generating the article, it doesn’t invalidate the article.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Agh sorry, but yeah, great example of the problem of the variance in access.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Yeah, good point, especially at the higher levels. Our public high school offered differential equations as the level after calc only because they randomly had a really exceptionally capable math teacher who was a teacher as a passion proje
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by ericd 3mo ago
Dang, ah well. Thanks for answering, anyway.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Ah yeah, another good method. We had some project-based labs, and those were definitely some of the most impactful classes for me. But those still tended to be somewhat "synthetic" projects, and we'd never really used even ba
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by ericd 3mo ago
> Do you see no value in young energetic people being educated while their brains are still maximally plastic, and society get maximal value out of the education? Eh, I’ve often thought that going to college would’ve been much better aft
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by ericd 3mo ago
Sounds great, if you don’t mind sharing, what school was it? We have a couple of young kids that that seems like maybe a good fit for.
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by ericd 3mo ago
I think more penalties involving "you aren't allowed to operate until this is fixed" rather than fines would help. Also, this is a pretty good take on a lot of related topics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t
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by ericd 3mo ago
Seems way more material/capex intensive than solar/wind? Also, the sea is generally a brutal maintenance nightmare.
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by ericd 3mo ago
I don’t see how that generates anywhere near enough power, think about the potential energy of a bucket of water going up and down that amount over the course of a day.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Supposedly the backlog for gas turbines is over 5 years at this point, so they can approve all they want.
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by ericd 3mo ago
They obviously don’t believe the same things, that’s the core of the atrocities the person is referring to. Some other group is clearly deluded, they’re less than us, their beliefs are evil, those beliefs are dangerous, etc, makes it a lot
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by ericd 3mo ago
You’re not reading/watching/speaking to primary or secondary sources if this is what you think.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Regarding 1, a significant portion of what I’d like my agents doing for me is helping me make purchasing decisions. It’s a lot of what I’m sending them out to research. So anything that’s making that harder is disadvantaging itself in those
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by ericd 3mo ago
Sort of in the same vein, I've really enjoyed this book: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/76998.Reader_s_Digest... Lots of really interesting tidbits, and a great lemonade recipe, among lots of oth
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by ericd 3mo ago
Yeah, I had dinner with a REIT exec a few years ago, they explicitly called out how they loved how Prop 13 kept the CA property market inflated and NIMBYism strong. Absolutely worth trying to tear it down if you care about housing affordabi
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by ericd 3mo ago
Ha, that’s about how much our first computer was, with 128k of RAM. Nice symmetry to it.
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by ericd 3mo ago
Certainly not getting it done with that attitude. I’m in China at the moment, none of this stops the Chinese, their highrises are festooned with the things. It’s ~25kg for a 2.5kw/9000 btu condenser I just looked at, but yeah, if there

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