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by martinald 4mo ago
In general, less for fuel cost alone. But you obviously need to buy the turbines.
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by martinald 4mo ago
I was thinking about this recently. If you discount web/electron bloat, actually the memory bloat of software isn't hugely terrible. I still often notice that servers on Linux use <1GB of RAM even with relatively high use. I do
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by martinald 4mo ago
Problem with this approach though is it makes the system very vulnerable to political changes. How much of a problem this is in Germany I'm not sure.
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by martinald 4mo ago
I get that, but anyone else releasing a model of similar capabilities has the advantage that they haven't spent the last few months hyping the danger up to fever pitch.
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by martinald 4mo ago
If you set aside political menace, this is a huge problem with Anthropic's strategy. You _cannot_ say that Mythos is super dangerous and can only be rolled out to certain people, but then release Fable with anything other than bulletpr
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xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab(martinalderson.com)
692 points by martinald 4mo ago|552 comments
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by martinald 4mo ago
Well you can do that right now with Chrom(ium)OS.
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by martinald 4mo ago
Keep in mind Google also rents GPUs via GCP, so they could be just reselling these to GCP customers? Thing is though, Anthropic was really against the wall with lack of compute pre xAI deal. And tbh, Gemini reliability has been abysmal whic
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by martinald 4mo ago
Why do you think that? People definitely pay taxes by card. But regardless this contract is _not_ for HMRC payments, its for gov.uk pay which is basically a centralised service that other services can use.
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Is datacentre sovereignty that important?(martinalderson.com)
2 points by martinald 4mo ago|0 comments
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by martinald 4mo ago
Don't think so - the 3x is a separate cap. It actually reduces it down from market cap. Eg say spaceX has $50bn of float at $1.5T valuation. If there wasn't _any_ cap at all, the full $1.5T would be used as the market cap. With th
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by martinald 4mo ago
But the US has never had $1T+ IPOs before. And also a huge amount of enormous private companies that don't want to go public for various reasons. Also, the rules have changed before. It's not the first time these rules have change
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by martinald 4mo ago
Is it? I thought the idea was diversity of risk, not "mitigating risk". You clearly don't want 100% of your 401k in OpenAI or Anthropic. But you probably do want 1 or 2% of it in, to give you the long term growth potential? R
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by martinald 4mo ago
Let's get it in perspective though. The S&P500 market cap is currently $70T. Assume that Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX all IPO and get included in SPY with the new fast listing rules. They are likely to be worth $3-4T combined, whic
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by martinald 4mo ago
Why is this a paper? It's just using the n-cpu-moe option on llama.cpp? What am I missing here?
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by martinald 4mo ago
Hi! Big fan of OpenRouter and the data you provide. It'd be awesome if you would consider providing volume of tokens per hour, mostly for my own curiosity as to quite how peaky demand is. Thanks!
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by martinald 4mo ago
How is it surprising to people that zip and XML are in stdlibs for a programming language? Btw, you should have looked at dotnet for this as well. There is a very good library ( DocumentFormat.OpenXml) that can handle all docx/xlsx&#x2
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by martinald 4mo ago
They can (not entirely sure how 'grey' market this is) either have subsidiaries outside of china (eg: singapore) that provide the inference and/or just rent it off the public gpu clouds.
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by martinald 4mo ago
Totally agree. There's days (or even afternoons) where I trigger more actions than I would have done in a month.
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by martinald 5mo ago
I use sudo -A with some openssh ui for sudo. I tell the agent to use sudo -A for anything that it needs and then it pops up with a sudo password prompt.
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by martinald 5mo ago
Two thoughts (I was in the same situation, constantly trying desktop Linux then pinging back to Windows after hitting issues). 1) Fedora is really worth a try, it's extremely polished. The best thing is the packages in the repo are gen
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Managed agents are the new Lambda(martinalderson.com)
1 points by martinald 5mo ago|0 comments
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by martinald 5mo ago
Currently, if you use claude -p (non interactive mode) in for example CI/CD, you can use your included subscription tokens. They are now changing it to be: You get $20/$100/$200 of "credit" that can be used for clau
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New Claude Code programmatic usage restrictions(twitter.com)
52 points by martinald 5mo ago|42 comments
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by martinald 5mo ago
I get this, but isn't this a complete compliance failure? What's the point of having all those loops to onboard vendors if you can just buy from AWS marketplace (which AFIAK is not a particularly high bar to achieve for SaaS optio
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Local LLM Speed Calculator(martinalderson.com)
2 points by martinald 5mo ago|0 comments
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by martinald 5mo ago
I wrote this recently which maybe people will enjoy in the same vein :) https://martinalderson.com/posts/august-29-2026-a-scenario/
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by martinald 5mo ago
Powerline is in my experience vastly worse than WiFi in nearly all cases. It's slow, suffers from bad jitter/interference (often worse than WiFi) and the chips run so hot (especially the last gen ones, AV2000 iirc - I believe they
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by martinald 5mo ago
Not sure if that's true really - its just 6GHz is a lot less congested in general (for now).
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Open weights are quietly closing up – and that's a problem(martinalderson.com)
5 points by martinald 5mo ago|1 comments

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