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by jnwatson 3mo ago
That consumer energy prices are going up is simply a matter of public policy. Municipalities have the power to keep rates flat, but they choose not to.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
Putting it in 100m times is great perspective. This is essentially a healthy amateur athlete running at nearly full tilt for 4 minutes straight.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
After MoE entered the mix, raw parameter count is less useful a measure.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
If there are two folks standing at gold, nobody gets the silver medal.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
The real elephant in the room is pricing for KV cache writes and reads. That makes all the difference for tasks with large context.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
It doesn't indicate Epstein even met with Cerf. It looks like a wish list.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
You're not forced to buy the games that require it.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
I'm generally laissez-faire about corporate layoffs. Corporation should have the freedom to organize how they want. Still, this sticks in my craw. Microsoft didn't just buy a game studio. They bought a fleet of studios, a non tr
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
I graduated a long time ago with a degrees in CS and philosophy. I've never understand the hate for philosophy; I think more about my philosophy classes now than my CS classes.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
This is exactly how the Fed influences the business cycle.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
That's the instantiation of AI in a particular embodiment; the ethical boundaries are clear. For a chatbot, there are dozens of use cases, all with different ethical impacts. The idea that there is a single framework that you can shove
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
This reads of projecting personal ethics onto a model. Most of the the behaviors the article talks about happens every day in business. Why would we set a higher standard for models than our fellow humans? Let the operator set the ethical p
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
As long as it is in the CCP's national interest to have a frontier model, Chinese companies will have the resources for another training run.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
You're already depending on the OS for many other things. Depending on it for page caching is just one more thing.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
Bummer. I'm the maintainer of the Python bindings. I have to figure out how to support both versions now...
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
I've used LMDB in production for multi-terabyte databases, and we encountered the long-write time but found a solution. The important idea is that LMDB offloads cache management almost completely to the OS. You have to become intimatel
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
These colleges certainly have English, Philosophy, Art, and History classes, all of which require papers to be submitted and the exams consist of essay questions. That Computer Science is somehow a privileged subject where the exam grading
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
Yes. That's exactly what college is. If you don't have the resources to effectively individually evaluate a student's output, you shouldn't hold a graded class.
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
While I agree with other comments indicating that the headline is drawing on a small period of data, other data in the deck is pretty compelling. Page 25 "The number of data centers in the US" gives an interesting insight as to th
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
Which is literally what graduate students get paid to do. How do you think English, philosophy, or history tests get graded?
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
But what's wrong with pen and paper?
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by jnwatson 3mo ago
A meeting to get a lamp post change is exactly how progress stops. It is why we can't build anything in US and it costs a billion dollars per mile of high speed rail.
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
I would get nervous carrying around a $10k laptop.
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
The very idea of "let's just write it correct the first time" is itself very much a second system fallacy.
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
Crazy I saw one of the victim's grandchildren post on Reddit yesterday and thought it should make the news.
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
I wonder if I should stop taking a glucosamine supplement.
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
A common security control today is to use another model to check the actions of the target model. Perhaps the best defense against runaway AI is AI you control yourself.
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
I think it is worse for Hetzner. The secret is out. Their prices have attracted a lot of demand, and they need to buy equipment to satisfy that demand. The last Hetzner box I leased I had to poll for availability as if I was Ebay auction s
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
Bill Gates is a great counterexample to the article's premise. Always clearly a nerd, yet led a company that no one loved and many people hated for its strategy of embrace, extend, extinguish. Post-CEO, he had completely refurbished hi
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by jnwatson 4mo ago
Claude Code informed me of this great tool. Now I use it at least weekly. Keep up the great work!

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