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by loudmax 10mo ago
I find it baffling how bad Netflix's recommendation engine is. I can understand YouTube's priorities being skewed toward slop because their business model is delivering ads. It's not surprising that you have to fight the al
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by loudmax 10mo ago
In unconstrained socialism, a small group of powerful individuals use government control of corporations for their personal benefit. In unconstrained capitalism, a small group of powerful individuals use corporate control of government for
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by loudmax 10mo ago
I tend to agree with your take on these movies, but I find I can enjoy some of them to a greater extent by rejecting the notion of what's "cannon". For instance, I like the bleakness of Alien 3 opening with Newt and Hicks bot
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by loudmax 11mo ago
The fact that you have the possibility of running Flux locally might be enough of an argument to sway the balance for some cases. For example, if you've already set up a workflow and Google jacks up the price, or changes the API, you
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by loudmax 11mo ago
If Midjourney is a niche, then what is the broader market for AI image generation? Porn, obviously, though if you look at what's popular on civitai.com, a lot of it isn't photo-realistic. That might change as photo-realistic mode
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by loudmax 11mo ago
Simon Willison had an analysis of Claude's system prompt back in May. One of the things that stood out was the effort they put in to avoiding copyright infringement: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25&#x2F
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by loudmax 11mo ago
> Men must be valued for simply being, rather than having our value determined by what we do or perform (which is the patriarchal standard). I have no idea that "patriarchal standards" are, but we absolutely should value people
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by loudmax 11mo ago
I have a desktop computer with 128G of RAM and an RTX 3090 with 24G of VRAM. I use this to tinker with different models using llama.cpp and ComfyUI. I manged to get a heavily quantized instance of DeepSeek R1 running on it by following in
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by loudmax 11mo ago
As I understand the argument, it's that AI will reach a level where it's smart enough to improve itself, leading to a feedback loop where it takes off like a rocket. In this scenario, whoever is in second place is left so far in
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by loudmax 11mo ago
I'd caution against looking for deliberate symbolism in these ancient tales. The Grimm brothers wrote these in the early 19th century, but the folk tales they drew from are far older. But the mirror seems to be a representation of va
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by loudmax 1y ago
"FUBAR" comes up in the movie Saving Private Ryan. It's not a plot point, but it's used to illustrate the disconnect between one of the soldiers dragged from a rear position to the front line, and the combat veterans in
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by loudmax 1y ago
Northern Virginia's Fairfax County public schools have the day off for Diwali, so that's not an unreasonable question. In my experience, the teams at AWS are pretty diverse, reflecting the diversity in the area. Even if a lot of
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by loudmax 1y ago
Organizations that successfully adapt are those that use new technology to empower their existing workers to become more productive. Organizations looking to replace humans with robots are run by idiots and they will fail.
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by loudmax 1y ago
Is the "ChatGPT" brand name becoming a generic term, like Baid-Aid or Kleenex? There is the ChatGPT product, operated by OpenAI, Inc, which you can access via their web site or their API. OpenAI does publish gpt-oss as an open-we
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by loudmax 1y ago
Security is hard, but running a large organization is also hard. The danger is that the entire organization becomes overrun by managers whose guiding principle is CYA, and then things slowly grind to a halt. Eventually you wind up with se
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by loudmax 1y ago
These videos are a very impressive engineering feat. There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society, and in the coming years people will come up with more good uses nobody today has thought of yet. But clear
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by loudmax 1y ago
LLMs can be used to vibe-code with limited or superficial understanding, but they can also be extremely helpful parsing and explaining code for a programmer who wants to understand what the program is doing. Well-managed forward thinking o
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by loudmax 1y ago
LLMs certainly don't experience time like we do. They live in a uni-dimensional world that consists of a series of tokens (though it gets more nuanced if you account for multi-modal or diffusion models). They pick up some sense of
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by loudmax 1y ago
I wouldn't take it for granted that Claude isn't re-reading your entire context each time it runs. When you run llama.cpp on your home computer, it holds onto the key-value cache from previous runs in memory. Presumably Claude do
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by loudmax 1y ago
A GMKtec or a Framework desktop with a Strix Halo/AI Max CPU is about the cheapest way to run a model that needs to fit into about 120GB of memory. Macs have twice the memory bandwidth of these units, so will run significantly faster,
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by loudmax 1y ago
An Apple Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory is around the $10k. If your really need that much power on your home computer, and you have that much money to spend, this could be the easiest option. You probably don't need fp16.
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by loudmax 1y ago
There was an interesting post to r/LocalLLaMA yesterday from someone running inference mostly on CPU: https://carteakey.dev/optimizing%20gpt-oss-120b-local%20infe... One of the observations is how much difference memor
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by loudmax 1y ago
This is a case of the right tool for the right job. YAML is far easier to read and parse as a human than JSON. If you're passing data between processes, and you still want the data to be human readable, then JSON is a good choice. If
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by loudmax 1y ago
Beware of generalizations, especially for cohorts of millions of people. Surely, some of these people blocked development and did everything they could to boost their personal net worth at the expense of younger generations. Other people d
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by loudmax 1y ago
It is ironic, but there's a sound technical reason here. They wouldn't be able to get the same memory performance using upgradeable slotted DIMMs. I do appreciate that Framework offers the motherboards for sale so you can use th
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by loudmax 1y ago
If it's running an LLM you're thinking of, there was a post yesterday on r/LocalLLaMa from someone who put a 24 GB VRAM AMD 7900xtx into their GMK X2: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments&#x2
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by loudmax 1y ago
Unfortunately for the US, the administration is also furtively generating brand new structural problems.
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by loudmax 1y ago
The Not Just Bikes channel really makes clear the benefits of living in an environment that isn't designed around cars, but also the challenge of designing such an environment. You can't just plop in some busses and bike lanes an
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by loudmax 1y ago
I graduated from McLean High School in 1990. I had some fantastic teachers. McLean is absolutely an outlier. McLean's formula for success is to be located in an upper-middle class district with parents who value education and are wea
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by loudmax 1y ago
Yes, but not to the same degree. The disagreement is on which side is worse.

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