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by loudmax 2y ago
People really need to understand how journalism works as a business model. When you only consume news that reinforces your beliefs, that creates an incentive to produce news that conforms to your beliefs. This doesn't mean your belie
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Frankly, the belief that massive increases in fossil fuel emissions have no appreciable impact on the Earth's climate is risible. People have a right to believe what they want, but we also have a right to ridicule and deride people for
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That is a fairly close approximation to Radio Paradise: https://radioparadise.com/home Radio Paradise is very much a rock station at heart, so necessarily for everyone's liking. If you're into classic rock mixed
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I tend to agree. I'm thrilled with Mark Zuckerburg's strategy of releasing these open models, so I'm perfectly happy for Meta to own all these GPUs. I like what Meta is doing with them and I want this open weights approach to
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On one hand, this is a beta product, so perhaps understandable that they're not supporting all platforms out of the gate. On the other hand, if you're serious about getting your application tested, people running open source brows
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Most normal users aren't technology experts. This makes supporting the free web that much more important for those in a position to know better.
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I agree that 405B isn't practical for home users, but I disagree that it defeats the purpose of open source. If you're building a business on inference it can be valuable to run an open model on hardware that you control, without
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by loudmax 2y ago
If you want to run the 405B model without spending thousands of dollars on dedicated hardware, you rent compute from a datacenter. Meta lists AWS, Google and Microsoft among others as cloud partners. But also check out the 8B and 70B Llama
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Some of those benchmarks show quite significant gains. Going from Llama-3 to Llama-3.1, MMLU scores for 8B are up from 65.3 to 73.0, and 70B are up from 80.9 to 86.0. These scores should always be taken with a grain of salt, but this is e
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This isn't some secret. Of course the wealthy are going to pay more into it than they get out from it. "Take from the rich and give to the poor" is the entire point. This should be understood by anyone with basic economic
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This is among the most frequent objections to UBI that I see. This is a legitimate concern, but we shouldn't blow it out of proportion. Just because there's a danger in pursuing a policy to it's logical extreme doesn't
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There's no "demand". Basic means setting a base income level. That's it. It's disingenuous to assert that you can't have UBI below some threshold. You could set UBI at $50 per month ($300 per year). By itse
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Wandering off topic here, but fans of Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) may remember Emil Minty as The Feral Kid. He only had a few other roles as a child actor, then went on to become a professional jeweler. According to one podcast, he was a
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The problem here is bad customer support, not the use of chatbots. In this case, the chatbot is part of a badly designed system. Note that the human support rep didn't even have access to the chat history. AT&T is not making a r
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I think the focus on AGI is misguided, at least in the short run. There's profit to be made in specialized intelligence, especially dull, boring stuff like understanding legal contracts or compliance auditing. These AI models have pl
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by loudmax 2y ago
Arch. I ran Gentoo from around 2005-2010. Getting into Gentoo was highly educational and fun in it's own way, but it broke way too often and the fun wore off after fixing wifi the third or fourth time. Coming from Gentoo, Arch has bee
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by loudmax 2y ago
This was discussed on the Latent Space podcast a few days ago: https://www.latent.space/p/llm-training-2024 That was a good episode, worth listening to for hearing justifications behind some of these decisions.
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My father went to Princeton for a year for post graduate work when I was in kindergarten in the 1970's. We went to a Concrete Canoe race (like this one https://paw.princeton.edu/article/throwbackthursday-racing-c.
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by loudmax 2y ago
Depends on your frame of reference. Compared to anything else I've seen generated on a consumer grade GPU, I'd say these are are indeed pretty good. Here's their example gallery: https://hpcaitech.github.io/O
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Agreed. The word "despite" in that sentence makes no sense in that context. The author either doesn't understand the meaning behind the statistics, or they're deliberately misleading.
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Just want to make a recommendation for Philip Pullman's "Grimm Tales: For Young and Old". It's an excellent publication of fifty fairy tales. It is a modern retelling and I'm not certain they weren't somewhat
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> TDK Corporation successfully developed a material for CeraCharge, a next-generation solid-state battery with an energy density of 1,000 Wh/L, approximately 100 times greater than the energy density of TDK’s conventional solid-stat
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What kind of time frame is "any time soon"? If you're thinking over the next 3-5 years, then AI is a novelty in most cases, a useful tool in some cases, and something truly disruptive in a fairly narrow set of cases. If you e
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Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" was the basis for Denis Villeneuve's film "Arrival". The movie isn't a literal adaption of the short story, but IMHO it is very true to the original. Since all of Chiang&
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This might come down to definitions, but I don't think "liberal" and "conservative" are good descriptions of the political left and political right. Liberalism is, or should be, an ideology of democracy, human right
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Some time around the year 1500, English speakers stopped addressing each other as "thee" in favor of the plural form "you". The singular "thee" is intimate and informal, but might be considered rude in the wro
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Geerlingguy did a video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGtRrElu30 Raspberry's moat largely comes to support and compatibility. They've fostered such an ecosystem around their SBCs that they'
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Is this 1-3 year employment cycle due to working at startups and they're going out of business, or is this jumping ship for a pay raise? If it's the latter, you don't have to switch jobs every 1-3 years, you can find a stab
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A close relation of mine worked for a decade in the environmental consulting sector. In his case that meant a lot of long working hours and tedious research finding the cheapest possible legal solution. He was kind of miserable at this job
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Yes, students should learn the craft, not the tool. The craft here is understanding how to use a version control system, particularly when working on a team. In a practical sense, this usually means learning to use `git`, but it could als

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