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by gpm 6mo ago
Huh, cool. I guess that makes a lot of sense with all the success the quantization people have been having. So am I misunderstanding "Tensor type F32 · I32 · BF16" or is it just tagged wrong?
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by gpm 6mo ago
Huh, so the metadata says 1.1 trillion parameters, each 32 or 16 bits. But the files are only roughly 640GB in size (~10GB * 64 files, slightly less in fact). Shouldn't they be closer to 2.2TB?
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by gpm 6mo ago
> We will honor your choice in accordance with applicable law. So in other words only if you can point to a local law which requires them to comply with the opt out?
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by gpm 6mo ago
More systematic than a job interview. If you don't get one job you should have - there are others - it's unfortunate but not life altering. If 3 years into your marine biology program a professor who always teaches a mandatory cou
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by gpm 6mo ago
Also way more susceptible to cheating in traditional non-AI ways. And your mark ends up depending a lot on how much time you have to invest independent of how good you are at the course material. Assignments and projects are great for learn
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by gpm 6mo ago
Interestingly github-copilot is charging 2.5x as much for opus 4.7 prompts as they charged for opus 4.6 prompts (7.5x instead of 3x). And they're calling this "promotional pricing" which sounds a lot like they're plannin
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by gpm 6mo ago
> That's the most expensive one This is the assumption that justifies the term "base load". In most cases it is simply false. > especially if you both need it to be reliable (can't be a battery that can run out) No
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by gpm 6mo ago
No not at all, I just didn't feel the need to challenge that assumption that the person I responded to made.
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by gpm 6mo ago
Batteries utterly dominate the cost of grid storage... everything else is a rounding error. You're welcome to go find your own data of course, you'll struggle to find more direct numbers because significant grid storage has only b
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by gpm 6mo ago
See the first graph on this page for example: https://ourworldindata.org/battery-price-decline
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by gpm 6mo ago
Base load power cannot provide predictable rates because it provides a fixed amount of power that the market then bids on. If there's too much demand rates go up arbitrarily high. If there's too little rates go to zero. Dispatchab
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by gpm 6mo ago
> But not in grid storage. That is still incredibly expensive. The price of grid storage is absolutely falling exponentially with respect to time.
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by gpm 6mo ago
Base load is marketing term for electricity supply which cannot economically follow the demand curve and is only affordable if you can use a constant supply of it. It's not a feature, it's a bug. What you want is dispatchable po
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by gpm 6mo ago
This war has definitely had massive positive implications for the financial future of the north west passage... But Canada has a pretty great climate apart from a bit of snow, I wouldn't take warmer at the cost of a small risk of deser
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by gpm 6mo ago
The shift in Canada predates the oil crisis the US just created... it dates back to at least the election a year ago. I strongly suspect it was primarily created by the US threatening to annex us via "economic force" and thus crea
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by gpm 6mo ago
That we now have cheap storage makes nuclear more useful, just like with solar/wind we can use storage to make nuclear follow the demand curve, something it was previously incapable of. The problem with nuclear today is just that it
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by gpm 6mo ago
In terms of software I've been impressed by restic, and as a developer who wants to be able to not back-up gitignored files the rustic clone of restic. In terms of cloud storage... well I was using backblaze's b2 but the issues he
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by gpm 6mo ago
You're creating more work for no reason. There is absolutely no reason to make dummy API responses, a feature flag (well unless you want to delay public release of the features - domain dependent here), or a glue PR. Moreover you haven
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by gpm 6mo ago
Is this proprietary, or something I can play around with? I can't find a repo.
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by gpm 6mo ago
When I've reached for stacked PRs (in the past, not using this feature) it's precisely because I've split my change into smaller PRs being merged individually. I've just written those smaller PRs at once, or in quick eno
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by gpm 6mo ago
I suppose you could probably legally justify claude-code-ing the package from the source maps by the license if they don't...
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by gpm 6mo ago
> This is sufficiently bad when what you need is more power in the winter. Nope, it isn't. Solar is cheap and the costs are continuing to fall quickly. Generating 5x more power in the summer than needed is perfectly fine and just a
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by gpm 6mo ago
> it's still a significant issue in e.g. New York or Paris or Auckland. No it isn't. Wires still might be worth it, but these are all close enough to the equator that you can just over provision locally without issue if you pr
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by gpm 6mo ago
Yeah but: 1. Sweden is just about the worst case, there's very few countries/people that far north. 2. There's this genius invention called "wires". HVDC has transmission losses on the order of 3.5% per 1,000km. You
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by gpm 6mo ago
> have a curated list of every kind of test not to write I've seen a lot of people interact with LLMs like this and I'm skeptical. It's not how you'd "teach" a human (effectively). Teaching (humans) with pos
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The peril of laziness lost(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
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by gpm 6mo ago
> unless every callsite that locks any item always locks the big global lock first (probably not true, because if you serialize all item access on a global lock then a per-item lock serves no purpose...) A pattern I've definitely b
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by gpm 6mo ago
"Frenchman" (one word) is always... "old and inconsiderate" is a good description. "French man" (two words) is at times still appropriate.
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by gpm 6mo ago
> In real politik terms the same can be said about the USofA and has been said about the former British Empire. Sure... I think minimizing the number of entities who have this sort of impunity is a good thing even if we can't elimin
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by gpm 6mo ago
The sophisticated factories they need are basically just for chips. And the problem with chips is that civilian life is just as dependent on them as military armaments. The rest of the drone is all stuff that can be fabricated in small batc

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