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The American healthcare system is responding to the incentives that are in place, and those incentives are designed (if not intended) to drive up costs. Doctors can be sued for malpractice if they miss something, so they're incentivize
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The History of English podcast is worth a listen. It's about the development of the English language, so it covers a lot of history and prehistory, and also linguistics. The presenter Kevin Stroud has a deep passion for the subject m
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by loudmax 2y ago
The Centre Place youtube channel has some pretty good lectures, including some very good lectures on Judaism and early Christianity: https://www.youtube.com/@centre-place/playlists The videos are presented by a pastor
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This of course depends on your budget and what you expect to do with these models. For a lot of people, the most cost-effective solution is probably to rent a GPU in the cloud. The limiting factor for running LLMs on consumer grade hardwar
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I found this part particularly interesting: > Also, with 512 gigs of RAM and a massive CPU, it can run a 405 billion parameter Large Language Model. It's not fast, but it did run, giving me just under a token per second. If you&#x27
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Jeff says as much. The AMD EPYC core does offer better performance per watt, which says more about AMD than it does about Ampere. But also this: "The big difference is the AmpereOne A192-32X is $5,555, while the EPYC 9965 is almost $1
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Yeah, agreed. If you think artificial intelligence is going to be an important technology in the coming years, and you want to get a better understanding of how it works, it's useful to be able to run something that you have full cont
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What you describe is very similar to my own experience first running llama.cpp on my desktop computer. It was slow and inaccurate, but that's beside the point. What impressed me was that I could write a question in English, and it wo
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An old laptop can make a great homelab server if you don't need that much processing power. It's quiet, and it's got a built-in KVM and battery backup.
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That's nice, but it would be even nicer if Red Hat were contributing to Wine or Proton to get Windows applications running reliably on RHEL.
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by loudmax 2y ago
Really wish people were migrating to Mastodon, or even to Threads, since Threads can federate. IMHO, the lesson from the corruption of Twitter should be don't build your social network on a proprietary walled garden.
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The fuel cost to launch is significant here, as you'd want to put this into quite a high orbit. You absolutely don't want this stuff in low orbit where it will be taken down eventually by atmospheric drag, or by slamming into som
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That is a reasonable question. I think the answer has a lot to do with why the dead are being dug up. If the dead are being exhumed by archeologists seeking to make information about our ancestors available to everyone, that's very
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There are some tasks that I would have used a search engine for in the past, because that was more or less the only option. Say, searching for "ffmpeg transcode syntax" and then spending 15 minutes comparing examples from Stack O
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How do you even determine whether or not an an AI-generated image is what you desired? If a human being is making that determination, their time is probably worth more than the 6 cents it cost to generate the image.
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I think the 'Pro' part of the name is a good indicator that this is a business-to-business venture, not something aimed at consumers. In that respect, 6 cents per image seems quite reasonable. If you're generating images fo
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Thanks for this excellent overview of the current available models. I'd only note that when you say a model is `terrible`, all of this image generation technology is mind-blowing compared to what you could expect to do on consumer grad
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The trade-off may not be worth it today, but the processing power we can expect in the coming years will make this accessible to ordinary consumers. When your laptop or phone or AR headset has the processing power to run these models, it w
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by loudmax 2y ago
The speed of light through a vacuum is about 300,000 km/s. The speed of light over a fiber optic cable is about 200,000 km/s. The distance between, say Singapore and New York, is about 15,000 km. If we pretend the cable runs al
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by loudmax 2y ago
I really dig namechecking Sid Meier for the name of the project. I'm also skeptical that this project actually works as presented, but building a Civilization game off of a Minecraft engine is a deeply interesting idea.
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Along similar lines, Steve Buscemi's character Seymour in "Ghost World" (2001) is pretty clearly heavily inspired by Robert Crumb. Seymour collects old blues records and it put off by rock music, not to mention normal mainst
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Pride is also one of the deadly sins.
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I tend to agree with this take. Shifting from home cooked meals to processed meals probably has far more impact on diet and health than published guidelines. The only nuance I'd add is that it doesn't follow that the optimal solu
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When I run `ssh-keygen`, I can remember the options `-t rsa` or `-t dsa`. I simply cannot remember the flag `-t ed25519`. I have to look it up every time. I just remember the flag as being vaguely similar the name of the monster robot fro
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That is literally what Harris' plan is about. But most of the building restrictions are coming conservative older homeowners at the local level. There's only so much Harris can do at the Federal level to reduce state and county b
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A surplus of agility is the last of Boeing's problems.
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This strikes me as extremely sensible. It's worth considering how hybrids and EVs relate to various driving patterns: * All short range trips * Mostly short range trips, occasional long range trip * Long daily commute EVs m
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You're right, hardware keys will leak. The idea is not to put trust into hardware, but to put trust into organizations. Some photographer gives images to a news organization, and they take the photographer's word for it that thes
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Cryptography lets you certify attestation. So an organization can certify that an image is legitimate, and you can cryptographically verify that this organization has indeed certified that this is a legit image. That's it. It doesn&#
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Even before Photoshop, photographs could be altered and airbrushed. Even so, faking a convincingly realistic image in Photoshop takes effort. Generating a plausibly realistic image using Stable Diffusion requires almost no effort whatsoev

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