kadoban

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by kadoban 2mo ago
Is the quality of the thinking better or it's just shorter since Mandarin is more compact?
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by kadoban 2mo ago
I went through a phase of using ~whitenoise while working to block out distractions. Actual white noise indeed sounds really bad and grating. The best for me was a mix of pink and brown noise, pink for an ~equal baseline and brown to make i
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by kadoban 2mo ago
> Have you been trashing the non-replaceabe SSD with constant AI workloads? Your other point is valid, but you're either vastly underestimating how many reads/writes a modern SSD can take or vastly overestimating how much outpu
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by kadoban 2mo ago
Consensus is that there's no way he had a correct, general proof. My personal guess is he figured out later that his proof was broken or limited and never got around to fixing it.
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by kadoban 2mo ago
Coal doesn't even compete with just solar, those aren't your two options. Coal competes with literally everything else, and it loses to every single one of them. It's a terrible, terrible fuel. Burn natgas instead and you&#x2
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by kadoban 2mo ago
It was obviously loaned so he could do a review. That's not sponsorship. You should _want_ that to happen, otherwise the only people who can do reviews will be the few who can afford to spend thousands for hardware they don't want
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by kadoban 2mo ago
Yeah, koreader is great. As long as you're fine with greyscale, the rm2 size is great for comics and textbooks. Most ereaders are way too small for both.
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by kadoban 2mo ago
S, I'm running one of the unsloth quants. Q4 something K_XL I think? I don't think it's all resident in memory on the 3090 but it runs fast enough for use, I'd have to check but it's like 30 t/s or so, fast eno
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by kadoban 2mo ago
It's a lot smaller, and runs (quantized) on a 3090 quite well. Ds4 flash 0731 you're talking about? It's great but it's much harder to run locally.
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by kadoban 2mo ago
Yeah I think it got bad press because the chat templates (or something?) were messed up on first release, but I've been using a quant of it and it's a powerhouse, better than qwen 3.6 27b for local on a 3090, which is saying a lot
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by kadoban 2mo ago
Is there? Like...kind of, but on the face of it I'd say about the same amount in both. If you look back at DES there's a _lot_ in common with modern ciphers, but like, RSA is still in use and that's old as shit. I think you&#
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by kadoban 2mo ago
> with a key that repeats There's a _lot_ hiding in that, all of the interesting stuff for security and potential breaks. So...yeah it is based on complicated math, it's just in that bit instead of the xor. Even the xor is a bi
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by kadoban 2mo ago
> What practical things are possible or might be possible due to these results? Not much, they're all fairly minor problems that have been solved, of ~entirely niche academic interest. It's so far more just that AI _can_ solve
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by kadoban 2mo ago
You can just fire it up and ask it to suggest some, or look on the site at the most downloaded and see which sound useful to you. That's basically what I did. I also put in some work to containerize it and do some manual/automatic
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by kadoban 2mo ago
It's really just the minimal prompt and the minimal built-in skills. And ~full control I guess if you wire up something custom (I haven't).
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Human psychology might allow other reasonable criteria even if perfectly rational choice is just total time to destination.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
The friction exists vastly unevenly. Some people are so scared of needles that they couldn't possibly get a tattoo recreationally, some people don't give af and get them with no thought at all. The current scheme is not optimally
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by kadoban 3mo ago
China can get what they want, a weakened USA, just by sitting back and doing nothing. There's probably no incentive to get involved more directly.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
There's probably some system prompt crap in claude code that tamps down that behavior? I wonder what it was even trying to do.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
It's not like this is a new problem. Turing had a definition most of a century ago, he wasn't the first and certainly wasn't the last. I don't think we need new terms necessarily, and I doubt we're all going to agre
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Different quants, but I've been having success with: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.6 I do llama.cpp
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by kadoban 3mo ago
It's an open question in mathematics/CS, that's all we know. If you want to know more, get to mathing :)
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by kadoban 3mo ago
They make little ~rubber caps to cover the charging port when you're not using it. That, and make sure it's dry when you charge it to rule out galvanic nonsense.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Once you start getting shooty up in space, I think you fairly quickly get into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome cascades of collisions and debris anyway, so it probably wouldn't matter. > in fact
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Coders like to code. It's in our nature. Even those who will get no benefit from it still _very_ often code their own version of things for various reasons, often bad reasons.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Figuring out how to prompt and test is educational, and it's potentially a useful test of a model/harness.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
You're being sarcastic but you're not far wrong. Scent is a big part of attraction and sex. It's somewhat subtle, but important. Artifically capturing that sounds...doomed though.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
I think there's some setting to restrict the number of them, or maybe turn them off. Doesn't happen for me ~ever and it's not my $$ (work) so I haven't really looked at it much.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
Not every possible thing has real situations where it's better. There are legitimately terrible solutions to problems, that are dominated by better ones in every situation. Like this, for example.
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by kadoban 3mo ago
It's possible, it would just be _very_ dumb. It'd also turn into just...shooting them all down, restrictions of who anything is over wouldn't survive.

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