kergonath

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by kergonath 2mo ago
> You can (re-) derive a lot of existing stuff. Einstein was aware of Lorentz and the transform. He was aware of Poincaré as well. He knew the state of the art for his time.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
By which other mechanism could American AI companies prevent this? Other companies don’t really care about EULAs and even if they needed to care it’s trivial to let third parties do it. Why would they? Almost nobody in the space cares about
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> Distilling is unsafe from export control perspective That is not the direction American judges are taking. Right now, they are saying that LLM output cannot be copyrighted. And if looting copyrighted works for training is fair game, I
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> It does seem to be a very European approach to AI that their flagship AI lab is just making models that do nothing other than monitor and moderate internet content. Well, first Mistral is French more than European. This might be a diff
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> The great problem is in a few years of this that market won’t be worth anything. To be fair, we don’t know how much resources they put into this and how much of a distraction it was. If it was quick enough to train or fine tune and it
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by kergonath 2mo ago
I am not sure how reliable it is in the real world. Also, in terms of liability, I don’t know how effective it would be to satisfy various regulations compared to a human moderator team.
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by kergonath 2mo ago
> - Playdate video encoder and muxer That’s got to be the nichest of niche codecs, maybe second only to the Lucas Arts one. Very impressive.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> I’m not one to say who really should be learning from whom. We can learn from both! We can appreciate the intuitiveness of languages with looser grammar, and the rational elegance of stricter languages. And then there’s French :)
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by kergonath 3mo ago
The good thing is that there is nothing preventing anyone from adjusting their thermostat with a decikelvin precision. Or hell, even centikelvin if they’re pushing it.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> It makes sense for humans, which is all a majority of the population really cares about. The Celsius scale makes perfect sense to me and the vast majority of humans in the world. Much more so than the Fahrenheit scale, which I absolute
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by kergonath 3mo ago
I cannot wait for leap degrees.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Most people cannot fiddle (with PCs). They would have to learn to, first. Does this mean they deserve to have shit shoved down their throats? I can fiddle perfectly well. I do it all day at work, with workstations, servers and HPC. I c
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Where did Infantino come from? Answer: UEFA That’s such a weak argument. So every European person or organisation guilty by association? Are the Swiss doubly guilty? > Europe had managed to keep the lions share of footballs global r
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by kergonath 3mo ago
That’s life. Sometimes you see it coming and ride the wave, sometimes you’re late to the party.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> I should just leave reddit entirely, but /r/localllama does surface some stuff early that takes quite a while to make it here and other tech hubs. I do that every now and then but LocalLlama has become such a pain to read. Be
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by kergonath 3mo ago
It does it occasionally to me (Safari on iOS). When it happens, I just close the page. I hope this is enough of a signal to make someone think. I land on Reddit every couple of days or so, and if they don’t kick me I read the thread and som
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by kergonath 3mo ago
The ability to think and no attention to detail whatsoever. I mean, proofreading is absolutely necessary, regardless of how the text was written.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
Yay, acid rains.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
We are already doing some geo-engineering. That’s what putting megatonnes of greenhouse gases up the atmosphere is. We’re just too stupid and shorts-sighted to do it in any useful way. That said, piling more geo-engineering on top of the pr
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by kergonath 3mo ago
It’s more nuanced. He massively helped with industrialisation, for example. He was doing ok in his liberal years. But he had different phases and some were better than others.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Where native forest (oak, chestnut, hazel, etc) remains, we don't have major fires. Not really. It helps, but it is not a perfect solution. It did not prevent the massive wildfire near Fontainebleau, for example.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Funnily enough, the whole "social credit" thing that Westerners like to meme about was supposed to work like that. That’s not particularly funny and those memes are about the actual thing, not what it might have been in an id
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> It's reached the point of annoyance I might just go back to bash. You can use zsh as the default shell and still write your scripts for bash. Actually, it’s an advice I saw more than a couple of times. Otherwise you need to transl
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by kergonath 3mo ago
Don’t worry, everyone who reads the comment will read yours as well, which is itself interesting. > Yeah, feels bad. I'm super happy so many are enjoying the article, and this situation can't take too much away from that, but m
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by kergonath 3mo ago
If they’re a bit observant they will see that a humongous number of animals of the same species shows up suddenly, and localised in big numbers. Besides, there are a lot of signs of human activities. We changed the atmosphere in ways that
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by kergonath 3mo ago
Probably not, but an ant cannot do any kind of isotope analysis.
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> If humanity vanished today, in 1 million years almost all of our artifacts would be gone or burned under miles of subduction. That is completely incorrect. We have sedimentary rocks from 100 M years ago on the Earth’s surface right now
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by kergonath 3mo ago
We’ve already got fossils of dolphins. Not exactly the species we know today but close enough. We have enough fossils to trace their evolution since their ancestors walked on land. So yes, we definitely would have evidence that dolphins wer
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Petroleum could be the byproduct of a previous civilization. How so? We know how it forms, there is no real gap in understanding there. What could lead to the kind of distribution of oil and gas fields we can observe?
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by kergonath 3mo ago
> Any idea? Not really, because none of this passes the smell test if you know even a tiny bit about geology and paleontology. The most solid arguments are religious texts, there is not really any substance other than that.

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