jubilanti

8 ms·

151.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
It has been a common meme within NASA since before SpaceX was founded. The hard part of putting humans on the moon and bringing them back safely is not a problem if basic scientific knowlege, it is more an engineering challenge in an incred
152.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Well it is reasonable to expect the bare minimum of due process, or you should be able to from a government that claims to be so committed to the rule of law.
153.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Do you have a job?
154.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Imagine that your people had the land you'd been living on for countless generations invaded, taken from them after a bloody campaign, where the survivors were forced into poverty in concentration camps, where they could not leave, whe
155.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
You think this is done to save costs? NO! This is costing more money to actively dismantle them than it would be to just abandon them. The administration is intentionally and specifically trying to destroy scientific evidence of climate cha
156.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
That's startup to mid sized traditional company thinking. Not at the hyperscaler enterprise scale. Anybody working in even classic datacenter physical ops already knows how to plug a KVM with a cell modem into a box to let the engineer
157.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> I thought the whole POINT of ollama was not-cloud? It was at first, then the developers realized they had a massive userbase they could monetize. A tale as old as open source...
158.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
If you're trying to imply that knowing fundamentals of programming is now as obsolete as knowing fundamentals of assembler: this is a dumb thought-terminating cliche that adds nothing to the discussion and I'm sick of seeing it co
159.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Because it will cost 2-4x compared to a Roku, Amazon Fire, or other device sold below cost and subsidized with ad/VC money. And in order to work on the DRMed streaming platforms, you have to play along with the industry. Can't jus
160.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> all of the existing features of Claude Code but somehow running locally on my laptop's neural engine You can use environment variables to have claude code query literally any endpoint you choose as long as it has a compatible API
161.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Have you heard the good news about the terminal savior asciinema -- https://asciinema.org/
162.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Olmo from AllenAI has been releasing their full pipelines including data [1]. A lot of it is just repackaged and resampled dumps from copyrighted data that has long been publicly available as dumps: Common Crawl, arxiv, Wikipedia, StackExch
163.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
And your sense of what books are truly quality is in no way impacted by "marketing" to you? Let me guess, are you one of those people who thinks that ads work on other people, but not them? Your idea of what makes a book good or b
164.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> Openrouter doesn't give you access to the models internals, i.e. complete control of logprobs, sampler stack, any PeFTs. Openrouter gives you access to whatever the inference provider gives. They're just the middleman. Many p
165.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
You're treating open weight inference providers the same as proprietary ones. They're fundamentally different business models. Proprietary companies have an incentive to subsidize actual inference and training costs in order to ga
166.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
You say that as if Google is a single hive mind with every team and vertical perfectly aligned like the Borg. The article is pretty clear in the opening lines that this is a Google Research grant to the University of California, not even pr
167.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Then you apparently do not want to associate with the vast majority of professional librarians, who do not fetishize every individual physical instantiation of the printed word. Some books are sacred. But if they all are, then none of them
168.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> What mechanism is it that you think exists that would sound the red alert when the last library (or even the second to last) is about to get rid of the very last copy? Doesn't need much coordination. Before getting rid of a book,
169.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> Like a toddler, it will grow up. Humans are really bad at noticing trajectories. Yourself included??
170.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
TVTropes calls this the Flock of Wolves trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlockOfWolves
171.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> I don't think popularity should be a factor in library decision-making. How dare librarians... give the people the books they want to read???
172.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
You mean the link between your name and home address? Impossible to scrub. If you're registered to vote, own a home, or many other things, that is legally a matter of public record.
173.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Think of it like a petition or testifying before Congress. The whole point is that you are putting your real name behind it. And if you think your name and address are private, then I have some bad news for you.
174.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> That doesn't seem like anything an LLM agent would say? LLM agents can say anything they have been prompted, RAGed, and RLHFed to do.
175.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
s/demonstrate/perform/g Now you have to add typos and not use completely standard elements of style that some people have been using for ages, like emdashes and "it's not X, it's Y"
176.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of https://enwp.org/Pacifism
177.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
Yeah, not everybody lives in Switzerland or the San Francisco Bay Area. I've been in many a road trip up, down, and across the Great Plains of the US, where I spend a full day driving only to arrive in a town and geography that looks t
178.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
"Applied Math" and "Statistics" are distinct fields from "Mathematics," not subfields of it. People in those two departments are often closer to Computer Science or the statistics subfield in a domain science f
179.
by jubilanti 4mo ago
> I think the specific attraction to space is the copious massive amounts of free solar energy, isn't it? Yes you get more energy harvest from solar above the atmosphere and can orient them to always be pointed towards the sun. But
180.
by jubilanti 5mo ago
For the median worker in a small town in Spain, an entire life savings of scrimping and saving could still be only a fraction of what it would take to build one lecture hall. Might not even pay for a single year of salaries, operations, and

More ›