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by esperent 4mo ago
> the vast majority of useful AI use is in fact not LLMs Can you explain what you mean here? Are you talking about small neural networks doing specific tasks?
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by esperent 4mo ago
> 48GB of VRAM with, say, two 3090s So like... $2000+ just for the used GPUs? Plus I assume it's considerably more effort to get it working.
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by esperent 4mo ago
Wait, it flagged "no unused imports" as evidence for LLM usage? That seems totally wrong.
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by esperent 4mo ago
I've never seen a more obvious example of Betteridge's Law.
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by esperent 4mo ago
Are you talking about this? https://www.reddit.com/r/literature/comments/1thqxgt/a_prize... Linking the reddit thread rather than the article because it quite rightly rips the prize winning story apart a
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by esperent 4mo ago
It's ok, no chastisement was felt by me and I was happy to be corrected.
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by esperent 4mo ago
> Americans Everyone not from one Uk, India... maybe Australia you mean?
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by esperent 4mo ago
Maybe, but you know who is also innovating, not gating access, and at most 6-9 months away from reaching parity with US frontier labs?
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by esperent 4mo ago
No, I've never owned an Apple device in my life, neither has anyone in my family to my knowledge.
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by esperent 4mo ago
It's fine on my phone, Brave Android. Maybe it doesn't work on Firefox?
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by esperent 4mo ago
No, they don't care about the lives of individual artists. They care about art , passion , creativity and the interplay of these with human culture. They also care about growing inequality, and they fear potential loss of their car
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by esperent 4mo ago
An alternative theory: people care deeply about art, and the people who make it: artists, musicians, writers. This is a large part of what gives out society meaning, and even for people who don't think deeply about it, we intuitively u
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by esperent 4mo ago
Have you evaluated how much better bargaining power that €40 would get you? You might stand to make a lot more back.
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by esperent 4mo ago
Ok, that makes sense and it's a different point than I though you were making.
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by esperent 4mo ago
It's a fair point, I have managed to keep everything on one VPS and it's fast enough. But I've had to make some adjustments based on that limitation. Still, it's like RAM limits. When you don't have enough, it force
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by esperent 4mo ago
> I'm using the Chinese DeepSeek provider, so everything done there could potentially be taken and used by the CCP As opposed to Anthropic or OpenAI where everything done could potentially be taken and used by the US government. Als
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by esperent 4mo ago
The artists had actual laws to protect them, not just vaguely enforceable terms of service. And look where that got them. I have zero empathy for the huge company getting a taste of their own medicine.
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by esperent 4mo ago
I'm outside the US, use Gemini models quite a bit, and I've never run into any refusals of any kind. I'm using them for a fairly wide range of things, I'm sure at least as risqué as asking how to transfer a sim. As a mat
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by esperent 4mo ago
The reason I use a VPS is to not use hosted anything, personally. So I guess whether that makes it a better product or not is highly personal. Speaking for myself, I used $5 DO droplets for quite a while when learning but as soon as I swi
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by esperent 4mo ago
Did you make any attempt at tuning the prompt to reduce false positives? Or did you just say "find bugs"? Because if you tell it to do that, it will.
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by esperent 4mo ago
> they only work if the quaternion's magnitude is exactly one That's why you always normalize the quaternion first, and the article seems to require the normalized form: Q.54 How do I convert a quaternion to a rotation matrix?
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by esperent 4mo ago
I might share it at some point but I think it's quite similar to a lot of others out there, except that it's very specific to my personal projects and goals. If I shared it I'd need to spend at least a while cleaning up and i
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by esperent 4mo ago
There's quite a few tasks I've found that work like this, although if course most tasks don't and require a much higher degree of interaction. The prime examples are read only audits of very large codebases, and that's w
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by esperent 4mo ago
I'm still using node/npm and it's... fine. Every so often I read these posts and think I should change but node/npm is already a low friction part of my workflow. However, what I have seen is that a lot of other librarie
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by esperent 4mo ago
My pi usage over the past ~5 months went roughly like this: * Install pi and a bunch of extensions from their package repo * Realize that all the packages (with a few exceptions) are massively overcomplicated and vibe coded * Ask pi to rebu
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by esperent 4mo ago
But what does that mean? Can I browse a webpage, open a doc, if those are listed as specific usage? And if not, what's the purpose of this and why are people talking about it with such import?
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by esperent 4mo ago
Ok, that's a fun anecdote and I agree it has real world value to think that way. But it doesn't answer my question - this thread is full of people pointing out problems but nobody offering solutions. So I was asking, specifically
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by esperent 4mo ago
How much does this limit what a computer can do? E.g. if I converted an Ubuntu desktop into a "secure microkernel", what functionality would be lost?
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by esperent 4mo ago
> Is it fair when the one is heavily subsidized As a consumer, yes, it's totally fair. All that matters to me is the price I pay at the pump, not whether that price is "real" or not.
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by esperent 4mo ago
On the other hand, I did just leave my pi agent running GPT 5.5 overnight on a clearly defined, long running task. It's been running about 10 hours now and it's mostly done. So this kind of use case is also valid. Thinking about i

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