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by lokimedes 1y ago
Assuming the LLM is more competent than the user, it will still require “absorptive capacity” for the user to meaningfully use the output. Many discuss AI without considering that unless the LLM is going to take over the entire process, tho
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by lokimedes 1y ago
And yet, not everything is so pretty at CERN. Just consider their Large Hamster Collider! It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants an
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by lokimedes 1y ago
Please consider IRC or something open protocol instead.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
It requires ones own mind to fell “taken advantage of” - if one is smart enough to be kind, one most remember to be kind to oneself as well, and not care about what the sad critters gets from the leftovers. Stoicism promote exactly this vir
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by lokimedes 1y ago
I run Gitea on my old Synology NAS, fast as a devil, especially when compared to Gitlab.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
You bet. (Let’s just say the funding for these devices have a bearing on submarines)
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by lokimedes 1y ago
Those with the spirit to strike, will always dominate those with a mind to moderate.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
Well, Intelligence is arguably represented in a “prior” that skews the result to an optimum faster, with fewer iterations. What the article is describing as intelligence is exactly the opposite, it’s just brute force.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
I love this guy. Totally living out my physicist-tinker dreams.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
This one was my go-to for HPC, but it may be a bit dated by now: https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Performance-Computing-Sc...
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by lokimedes 1y ago
There’s a couple of “concerns” you may separate to make this a bit more tractable: 1. Learning CUDA - the framework, libraries and high-layer wrappers. This is something that changes with times and trends. 2. Learning high-performance compu
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by lokimedes 1y ago
It was just called software. People ran it on their own servers. It worked just fine.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
Most of that software could run on prem. The problem is that bundling hosting with the actual software in many cases translates into a way to confuse the expense of one for the other. Things that don’t incur operating expenses shouldn’t be
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by lokimedes 1y ago
It is Adam Smith’s “rent seeking” in a modern hyper-scalable form. It should be shunned and criminalized on a basis of anti-social economics. Now the other extreme of free software is, arguably, also (economically) bad, as it fails to rewar
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by lokimedes 1y ago
The phrase “considered harmful” should be “considered harmful”. It’s basically an argumentation trick, raising a subjective conclusion to a neutral and objective conclusion without any qualification.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
There’s an epic battle raging between Gibson’s Cyberpunks and Clarke’s Spacefarers. The former seems to be winning.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
Feature request for Mk V: An onboard committee of three atomic clocks to ensure proper uncertainty estimation when GPS is lost.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
Personally, the freedom to pursue my scientific curiosity is the only motivation to seek wealth. If I by virtue of satisfying wealthy people’s interests in fundamental physics could sustain my life and research, I wouldn’t care about accum
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by lokimedes 1y ago
I was part of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN. We had an annual collaboration meeting in Copenhagen, perhaps in 2012 or so. Poul Allen’s yacht was moored in the harbor, across from the venue. It as the high point of CERN hype, and we knew t
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by lokimedes 1y ago
SAR satellites have also prove useful: https://medium.com/@HarelDan/x-marks-the-spot-579cdb1f534b Sentinel 1, if I recall, is C band. But the technique would work for X-band as well, like TerraSAR-X and other commercia
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by lokimedes 1y ago
Just finding it mildly amusing to consider that in the messed up economics we are entering with Trump, there may be a shift to value investing, something I have always associated with Buffett.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
And now after decades of stock buybacks, quantitative easing and other mad financial manipulation, comes again the time for value investors, and he leaves?! :)
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by lokimedes 1y ago
I wish Europe (EU) could be selected as a common entity. The continents as well.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
My childhood was spent reading Clarke, Asimov and the likes. Not for the gloom of runaway AIs or societal collapse, but from the glimmers of technology and advancement that was hidden in their stories.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
The purpose of the (pre-print) arChive is to allow for a wider circulation during review. That many today simply leave their stuff on Arxiv without publishing is arguably a bit of “cargoculting”, as it signals legitimacy without any quality
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by lokimedes 1y ago
For a continent with two world wars within a span of 30 years, Europe was ready for US hegemony in 1944. The Trump narrative is not really based on neither US nor European logic, but his own particular kind of gaslighting.
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by lokimedes 1y ago
The LHC is a discovery machine, so a large number of searches for new physics as well as measurements of known physics can take place at the same time. The idea that it is a single-trick experiment is a misconception. Its a quantum statisti
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Nice to see this posted here. With the changing world order, I have been studying what happened in and after WWII to learn how science helped shift the center of power from Europe to the US. We Europeans have very little knowledge of exact
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by lokimedes 2y ago
Look for books like “The Asperkid’s (secret) book of social rules”.
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by lokimedes 2y ago
So far we are buying electricity based on the supply-demand price. When will availability be factored into the price? It find it untenable to have that floating, just for the sake of allowing volatile solar and wind on the grid at the cost

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