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by loudmax 2y ago
It's pretty clear now that a suggestion algorithm that prioritizes engagement at all costs has toxic side effects. This does not prove that all promotion algorithms, much less all social media, is inherently toxic. Mastodon is a socia
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by loudmax 2y ago
Ironically, the one American car company that was interesting to Europeans was Tesla. European governments may be reluctant to put a tariff on Tesla because of Elon Musk's political association with the Trump government. This is litera
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by loudmax 2y ago
Trump's businesses have repeatedly declared bankruptcy. Don't rule out ineptitude.
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What the median right-of-center rich American wanted was tax cuts, with maybe a little bit of culture-war anti left stuff thrown in for spice. They are not pleased with abandoning the economic world order that Reagan did so much to promot
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by loudmax 2y ago
MCP is Anthropic's Model Context Protocol ( https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol ), which intends to be a standard method for AI models to communicate. Amazon is a one of Anthropic's main backe
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by loudmax 2y ago
"A girl's got to have her standards." (Also from 80's memory)
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by loudmax 2y ago
It depends on coworkers, it depends on the office environment more generally, and it also depends on the type of work you're doing. I'm not a particularly social person, but in general I'd rather work in an office near my cow
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by loudmax 2y ago
But with a population of 2.7 million. That is the more relevant factor here, and by this metric they're on the side of tiny. And that makes their ability to develop a functioning satellite that integrates into a launch vehicle all the
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by loudmax 2y ago
On Feb. 15, 2023, EGodly thanked Coristine's company for its assistance in a post on the Telegram messaging app. "We extend our gratitude to our valued partners DiamondCDN for generously providing us with their amazing DDo
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by loudmax 2y ago
Having read the article, Coristine does not come across as blameless. When you run a business, you shouldn't be gathering criminals as your clients.
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by loudmax 2y ago
If you have a short daily commute, I recommend considering plug-in hybrids. I got a PHEV Prius Prime in 2020 and I'm delighted with it. The battery has a range of about 20-25 miles, depending on the weather. My daily commute is about
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by loudmax 2y ago
The way things are going, we're likely to see how things turn out without the global nonproliferation system. I'm not looking forward to it.
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by loudmax 2y ago
I went to elementary school in Belgium from 1978-1982. I had the sense there was some national pride in having had a major African colony, but maybe Leopold II wasn't a benevolent ruler. Unlike Leopold I or Albert I, who were depicte
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by loudmax 2y ago
You jest, but that's absolutely how the MAGA folks talk about it in their echo chamber. It's an alternate reality.
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He never will, and neither will his most ardent supporters. Television is their reality, and they're very selective about only watching channels that confirm their biases.
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by loudmax 2y ago
I wouldn't hold owning a Tesla against anyone, especially if they bought it before 2024. Lots of people bought their Teslas before Elon Musk became full-on red-pill woke. Now that Cybertruck is another story, there's no excuse fo
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by loudmax 2y ago
I use LLMs all day and they've replaced a lot of what I'd previously searched for. Even so, I don't think I'm ready yet for an LLM as default search engine. LLMs are useful for generating information based on what they
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by loudmax 2y ago
One use case I imagine is skilled workmanship. For example, putting on a pair of AR glasses and having the equivalent of an experienced plumber telling me exactly where to look for that leak and how to fix it. Or how to replace my brake p
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by loudmax 2y ago
This reminds me of rental car companies deciding they should switch their vehicle fleets to electric. A few months ago, I visited San Jose for a wedding. When I picked up my rental car at the airport, the only options were electric, even t
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by loudmax 2y ago
I agree with your broader point, but I really wish people wouldn't refer to MAGA Republicans as "conservative." Right-wing, or reactionary, certainly. But there's nothing "conservative" about undermining the
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The bottleneck for running LLMs on consumer grade equipment is the amount of VRAM your GPU has. VRAM is RAM that's physically built into the unit and it has much higher memory bandwidth than regular system RAM. Obviously, newer GPUs w
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by loudmax 2y ago
Fans of James Cameron will remember the POV of the terminator deciding how to respond to "Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?" Played for laughs, but remarkably prescient.
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by loudmax 2y ago
How do Switch users feel about the joycons? I'm not a gamer, but the original Switch joycons always struck me as overly complicated and expensive. It should be cheaper to manufacture and sell Switches with the controllers attached. I
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by loudmax 2y ago
I tend to agree. I used to run Call of Cthulhu in high school, and there was a lot of preparation involved in running a good scenario. Some people are good at winging it and making stuff up as they go along. I never was. The best experi
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by loudmax 2y ago
You're right. Tinybox's 1.36 petaflops is FP16 so that is a significant difference. Also, the Tinybox's memory bandwidth is 8064 GB/s, while the Digits seems to be around 512 GB/s, according to speculation on Reddi
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by loudmax 2y ago
Going by the specs, this pretty much blows Tinybox out of the water. For $40,000, a Tinybox pro is advertised as offering 1.36 petaflops processing and 192 GB VRAM. For about $6,000 a pair of Nvidia Project Digits offer about a combined 2 p
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by loudmax 2y ago
The hate is for Musk. Tesla hate is just collateral damage. People tolerated Musk's narcissism when he was largely apolitical and his entrepreneurship seemed to benefiting the world at large. Since 2020, Musk's brain seems to ha
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YouTuber Ryan McBeth has a pretty good analysis of available evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKiJwuY79Q0 I tend to agree with his conclusion that it's unlikely that the Russians attempted to force the jet to
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by loudmax 2y ago
A point of anecdata: my 2010 Prius has nearly 200,000 miles on it and it's still going strong. The Prius has a traditional lead acid battery for starting the engine that's been replaced a couple of times. The traction batteries (
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by loudmax 2y ago
If I understand correctly, Hugging Face is exploring approaches to tuning the output quality of a given model by tuning how long to let it run. Normally when you run an LLM, you set your prompt and whatever tunable parameters, and the LLM s

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