jacquesm

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by jacquesm 5d ago
It works well but takes up more space because you can't stack washer/dryer, in Europe apartments and houses are a bit smaller so if you can save a square meter then that's good.
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by jacquesm 5d ago
Yes. The software really wasn't all that great. I played a lot with Sun gear and had SGI stuff as well, the polish of the SGI machines vs the 1980's vibe that the Sun gear gave off was on a completely different level. Sun was qual
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by jacquesm 5d ago
All these companies are universally sleazy and refuse to take responsibility, no matter what. It's pretty much par for the course: deny you are responsible, try to control the court case in such a way that you inflict even more sufferi
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by jacquesm 5d ago
Google has been doing this sleazy practice since forever, and yes, they even promote 'competitor campaign articles' through Google search, just google 'google competitor campaign' and you'll get articles like this:
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by jacquesm 5d ago
earlier link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49785397
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by jacquesm 5d ago
What kind of hardware are you using for training? nm, I found it: > RTX 3070 Laptop GPU with 8 GB Super impressive.
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by jacquesm 5d ago
There is plenty of legal protection: copyright law so far held up pretty well. With the AI laundromat in play it's a completely different story though.
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by jacquesm 5d ago
The Soviet Union never was the manufacturing power behind a very significant fraction of the worlds products.
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by jacquesm 5d ago
Totally non-biased of course.
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by jacquesm 6d ago
The only thing the West is achieving here is that sooner or later China will be able to compete on their own terms rather than ours. It may buy some time but the end result is very predictable.
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by jacquesm 6d ago
You entirely miss the point of open source. Open source is not about your ability to charge for the software. It is about the ability of the users of your software to modify it. "Open-source software has its roots in the culture of sou
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by jacquesm 6d ago
'From which it is obvious that...'
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by jacquesm 6d ago
I'm pretty sure Steve's article is where we got the idea. We used a 4164 and an old camera lens.
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by jacquesm 7d ago
I'm trying to date when we were first playing with this, but that was a messy period in my life and it is hard to put it all in chronological order. But I do know I had a driving license so it must have been around 87 or 88. The thing
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by jacquesm 7d ago
I'm comparing it with chess. Chess is pretty complex, complex enough that only a small subset of humans can play it at a very high level. Introducing computers to chess first led to a statistical and brute force approach. But once that
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by jacquesm 8d ago
Tamper proof against a determined adversary starts at 'call us' not at '$10'.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
OpenAI calls them 'mistakes'. But that's just a fig leaf. Google does it too: "AI responses may include mistakes." Mistakes have an air of innocence. But these are not mistakes, they are purposefully releasing stuff
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by jacquesm 8d ago
That's precisely the point: you may be able to understand dice statistically and over the course of long rolls of dice you can extract some properties of the dice. But you won't ever understand any particular roll of the dice.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
You have your answer already. Unless you don't believe what the UN said about it.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
It is a quote from a future history book. And it may well be written like that, or some light paraphrase.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
A lot earlier than that. https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2007/fall/cs441/support/dram_sensor_1...
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by jacquesm 8d ago
That didn't take long. Open weight AI safety is suddenly on the front burner at HF but so far it wasn't an issue. What has it been, a week? Two?
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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face(techcrunch.com)
3 points by jacquesm 8d ago|2 comments
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by jacquesm 8d ago
The real injustice is that the poor man does not have a hat . Whereas the king most likely has a whole room dedicated to them.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
That's reminiscent of when we first found out that if you opened up dram chips you could use them for imaging. Of course the scale at which this is done is extremely impressive.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
More so because their digital copy increases in value because of the destruction.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
> The Chinese labs pay much less to train their models because they distill Western models. That's nonsense.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
And if attribution is their coin then they should be properly attributed even if they aren't paid.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
Utilitarian arguments and ethics don't mix.
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by jacquesm 8d ago
> At least with LLMs we can glimpse an escape route to that which generations of humans have strived for - a world in which the labor required of each human to lead a flourishing life approaches zero. Let me fix that for you: A world in

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