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by hadlock 1y ago
China has been producing ARM chips like the A20, H40 (raspberry pi class competitors, dual and quad core SOC; went in to a lot of low end 720p tablets in the early 2010s) for a while now, their semiconductor industry is not zero. The biden
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by hadlock 1y ago
It's unlikely to exceed what search was, but transit is a much more reliable bet for continued revenue. I don't think anyone is betting on ad revenue being reliable at Google long term anymore.
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by hadlock 1y ago
Fear is a bit of an understatement
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by hadlock 1y ago
Autonomous cars won't sue you, never sleep, don't go on strike, don't sleep 8 hours a day, keep driving when the car needs obvious repairs.
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by hadlock 1y ago
It would not surprise me at all to see 512, 768, 1024 gb models targeted at commercial or home users in the next 5 years. I can imagine a lot of companies, regulated ones in particular like finance, defense, medical, wanting to run the mode
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by hadlock 1y ago
The training data is contained inside main.rs; it looks like about 50 statements about general facts. Probably to keep training time down. If you go off-script things fall apart pretty quickly: Enter prompt: hello Model output: What are ecl
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by hadlock 1y ago
There's not a lot of 20 year olds who have made a single mistake that rolled back multiple years of work, almost instantly. When that happens to you for the first time, it is very humbling; and may take months or years to understand an
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by hadlock 1y ago
A lot of "netflix users" are middle and high school age kids in third world countries using a borrowed account. User context matters a lot. If someone's friends-friends-friends uncle changes their password, it's no surpr
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by hadlock 1y ago
Eventually Nvidia or a shrewd competitor will release 64/128gb consumer cards; locally hosted GPT 3.5+ is right around the corner, we're just waiting for consumer hardware to catch up at this point.
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by hadlock 1y ago
A big chunk of society has realistically 2-3 days of groceries in their house, plus maybe a 5-year-old bag of rice or pasta and can of string beans buried way in the back. If you have a 1-6 year old you're probably buying 1-3 gallons o
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by hadlock 1y ago
If you want to look at it from another angle, you often can't get insurance for a boat with "regular" lithium house batteries, however most/all insurance companies have a carve-out for lifepo4 as it's recognized ind
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by hadlock 1y ago
I think you're confusing li-poly and lithium ion, with lifepo4. There's no shortage of videos on youtube of people cutting open lifepo4 with kitchen knives, band saws, and hammers without ill effect.
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by hadlock 1y ago
If VRAM is ~$10/gb I suspect people paying $450 for a 12GB card would be happy to pay $1200 for a 64gb card. Running local LLM only uses about 3-6% of my GPU's capability, but all of it's VRAM. Local LLM has no need for 6 30
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by hadlock 1y ago
In my experience, that is what contractors are for; grind through the blergh B and C tier tickets. You can have onshore developers do that but a lot of companies seem fine with offshoring those tasks.
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by hadlock 1y ago
Bitnami started out (2010? definitely since 2014) distributing virtual machine images (e.g. preconfigured LAMP stack server) and somehow inherited the official kubernetes helm repo several years ago, which even then, I think we all saw the
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by hadlock 1y ago
This is specific to mail service, it does not impact private carriers (fedex, dhl, etc)
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by hadlock 1y ago
Presumably prices will come down as this market segment matures; it's not unreasonable to assume performance will double and the price will reduce by half within a decade. A $2000 brain in a $20,000 robot is 10% of the total cost but a
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by hadlock 1y ago
Your car is only 70% of the way through it's nominal lifespan. It seems like battery life is holding up well, but we'll find out a lot more as many of these cars begin their second decade of service, quite often with less rigorous
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by hadlock 1y ago
I had to research what gymnasium meant, in the US that just means P.E. which is a class where you do generic sports for an hour each day. Are you saying, in Germany, you can't choose to go academic route in primary/secondary schoo
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by hadlock 1y ago
There's a performance plateau with training time and number of parameters and then once you get over "the hump" error rate starts going down again almost linearly. GPT existed before OpenAI but it was theorized that the plate
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by hadlock 1y ago
>give me a two day itenerary for paris Okay, here's a two-day itinerary for Paris, designed to give you a taste of the city's charm and beauty: Day 1: Iconic Landmarks and Artistic Exploration Morning (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM): Star
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by hadlock 1y ago
It seems to dip into repeating itself pretty quickly on any task of actual complexity.
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by hadlock 1y ago
I think we are already there. You can run a pretty ok LLM on a 4gb raspberry pi that will write most any simple 20-150 line bash script today, or toy application in python/rust. Old laptops pulled out of the trash are probably capable
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by hadlock 1y ago
one of the big reasons I'm rooting for AI is it's a valid alternative to search engines and they've baked a paid model into the revenue stream from the very beginning. I'm more than happy to pay a premium for the ad free
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by hadlock 1y ago
> 28.8 kbit/s (the theoretical maximum) "56k" modems hit the scene (at affordable prices) in ~1998 and 3.2-4.1KB/s were pretty normal. People in high school who "only" had a 28.8 modem were considered dinosa
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by hadlock 1y ago
A less click-baity headline might be "17 year old Hannah Cairo has solved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture"
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by hadlock 1y ago
Earlier this year I was able to struggle-bus together my own bootable rust binary (and bootloader in assembly!) on QEMU in a couple of hours using his blog as a guide. It seems the LLMs have definitely scraped his blog, as if you go off the
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by hadlock 1y ago
Feed stock for the cattle matters a lot, it's not for marketing reasons that varieties of cheddar range from white to yellow to cartoonish orange. Certain types of cheese (particularly Friesland in the Netherlands) end up with a lot mo
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by hadlock 1y ago
We switched from a sedan with a very sloped windshield, to an SUV with a suprisingly upright windshield (one of the cartoonishly offroad mall crawlers). I've never had to scrape bugs off my windshield in my life before we bought the SU
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by hadlock 1y ago
It's similar to logging INFO vs WARN. //this is an info level comment //TODO: change the downstream code so it's less brittle after we get to prod(WARN) //TODO: don't hard code this variable, had

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