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by fastball 1y ago
It definitely improves speed. Crypto algos are slow, but they are not slower than a TCP roundtrip. Even a memory database is not generally running on the same machine, so there is still a round-trip cost vs a JWT. Also, although it doesn&#x
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by fastball 1y ago
When Japan privatized their train system, the system improved massively.
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by fastball 1y ago
Realistically this is only because our private sector in that area is incredibly broken, not because the government is doing an incredible job.
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by fastball 1y ago
"People will likely die" is a pretty bold claim. Do you have a citation that deaths were avoided because poor people saw a weather report?
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by fastball 1y ago
Right, so why should "no one fund" another private weather company?
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by fastball 1y ago
Yes, the US Federal Government, famous for doing things efficiently and cheaply when no private contractors are involved.
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by fastball 1y ago
Not having to start all my API handlers with a call to the DB to check token validity significantly improves speed for endpoints that don't need the SQL db for anything else, and reduces the load on my SQL db at the same time.
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by fastball 1y ago
And what if you gain weight instead lol
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by fastball 1y ago
You're supposed to wait to post this until I agree to the bet ;)
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by fastball 1y ago
Why can't you improve it or fit it to your data? This can be cross-compiled/ported in the Linux analogy. The Linux analogy would be more like: a kernel dev wrote code for some part of the Linux kernel using JetBrains' CLion
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by fastball 1y ago
The weights are indeed open (both accessible and licensing-wise): you don't need to put that in square quotes. Training code is not. You can fine-tune the weights yourself with your own training code. Saying that isn't open is lik
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by fastball 1y ago
G2.5P might've updated, but that's not the model I noticed a difference. o3 seemed noticeably dumber in isolation, not just compared to G2.5P. But yes, perhaps the answer is that about a week ago I started asking subconsciously ha
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by fastball 1y ago
Anecdotal, but about a week ago I noticed a sharp drop in o3 performance. For many tasks I will compare Gemini 2.5 Pro with o3, running the same prompt in both. Generally for my personal use o3 and G2.5P have been neck-and neck over the las
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by fastball 1y ago
That second line is about Windows 10.
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by fastball 1y ago
Running LLMs does not have any intrinsic impact on the climate. If you want to talk about the impact of different power generation methods on climate change, fair enough, but I don't think this thread is the place for it. Unless of cou
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by fastball 1y ago
Yes, but what does climate change have to do specifically with LLMs? How are they different from any other use of energy? As far as I can tell they are better than most uses, given that (as software) they run entirely with electricity, whic
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by fastball 1y ago
How do you know you are on a total deficit if you don't count calories?
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by fastball 1y ago
I didn't realize Large Language Models have a direct impact on the climate.
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by fastball 1y ago
Yes, I have been making that point for the entirety of this conversation. 1. Tesla needs to figure out how to achieve performance of their system without LIDAR. However since humans do so with two eyes, there is strong precedent that this i
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by fastball 1y ago
Its not correlation. There is a causal chemical/compositional relationship between the two things.
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by fastball 1y ago
Which material has all the useful properties of plastic and doesn't last for an inconvenient amount of time?
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by fastball 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44207115
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by fastball 1y ago
I don't think so. I was clarifying my point which seemed misunderstood by 2muchcoffeeman and didn't contain much of a sweeping generalization (more a statement of fact about the nature of plastic).
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by fastball 1y ago
I would only care about more deterministic output if I was repeating the same process with the same model, which is not the point of the exercise.
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by fastball 1y ago
The idea as stated is a poor one, but a slight reshuffling and it seems promising: You generate code with LLMs. You write tests for this code, either using LLMs or on your own. You of course commit your actual code: it is required to actual
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by fastball 1y ago
Yep, plastic has a lot of benefits. But I genuinely don't think the translucency is that much of a selling point. If plastic could not be translucent and was always opaque, I think we would still use it for almost all of the same use
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by fastball 1y ago
The plastic doesn't need to last for thousands of years for our actual use, but the properties that make it last for thousands of years are also what make it desirable for our use: fully waterproof, impermeability to microbes, etc.
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by fastball 1y ago
Transparency isn't the reason we use so much plastic. We like plastic because it is lightweight and not biodegradable. We like it because it lasts thousands of years. Because if it lasts thousands of years it will do a good job of st
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by fastball 1y ago
So your assumption here is that Elon is trying to do some sort of reverse psychology trick, or...? You can't just make up motivations for people. He has said repeatedly that the government should get rid of subsidies. When the governme
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by fastball 1y ago
Should probably be: "Dear Meta: ..."

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