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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   The bigger picture is we should have a global agency to deal with such issues, funded proportionally by all countries (within reason). That humanity hasn’t been able to achieve such collaboration (unless and many other topics) is a miserabl
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   You might not like the tone, but I don’t think it is a strawman argument. The discussion is about whether the western media is paying insufficient attention to the Ebola outbreak simply because it’s in DRC, and DRC/Africa doesn’t matte
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   Big picture, I think you're right that there will be continued and increased EU spending on weapons. But... Russia is basically at full capacity just standing still (or losing slowly) in Ukraine. Do they even have the ability (people
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   Turbos for typical car engines aren't huge - roughly the size of a medium melon, give or take.
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   Thanks - I’m in the process. I’ve tried briefly, but so far it appears marginally slower. (Noting that llama-bench doesn’t support MTP yet so you’re reduced to running different prompts and eyeballing the log.) So I’m assuming I’ve done som
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   I tried Unsloth Studio recently and was disappointed - in particular the downloading functionality is half-baked and didn’t cope with resuming downloads. As it seemed to just be a simple wrapper over llama.cpp, I found that huggingface hub,
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   The 27B model is dense, so is relatively slow. The 35B-A3B model is marginally weaker but being MoE is much faster - like ~4-8x faster in basic benchmarks on my M1 Max. For comparison, I just ran a couple of quick benchmarks (default setti
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   What we desperately need is a (vibe-coded or otherwise) modern office suite. I maintain that this is the single biggest factor holding back widespread Linux adoption today, especially for businesses. Huge swathes of the economy basically r
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   by mft_ 5mo ago

   I had an M3LR during 2021/22 as a company car and during that time they “refreshed” the UI completely which made it objectively worse as a means of interacting with your car (i.e. more taps/levels/menus to get the same simple
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Thanks for confirming. > Being able to push prints and use the printer with direct local connection, while simultaneously having remote monitoring and remote printing when cloud/internet works and is available. So isn't an obvi
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    I'm also trying to get my head around this, as an interested-but-not-directly-involved observer. > What users want is to "have their cake and eat it too;" they want the local token authentication _and_ the cloud authentica
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    > The biggest factor is - has my brain settled. Background and noise don’t matter. I'm there too on this. Something I've found helps is listening to certain types of audio. Some audio books can work, but if they're too e
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    I was a bit surprised at the level of those readings. Anecdotally, we have an air monitor gadget and the highest I've ever seen (small home office, fairly well-sealed, winter, me working there all day with no ventilation) was around 11
14. 224.▲
    by mft_ 5mo ago

    1) Again, I suspect you're missing the point of the article. The iPhone's on-device LLM is (apparently) ~3 Bn parameters - and runs well/fast enough to be used in the manner described. Of course, the iPhone has its GPU to l
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    > > you assume that everyone has a rational disciplined approach to their finances, and a reasonably stable income behind that. > I'm not assuming that. If you get a paycheck at all you can impulse buy a $65 thing. Not to buy
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    You're maybe missing the article's point, which is to use local models appropriately: > “But Local Models Aren’t As Smart” > Correct. > But also so what? > Most app features don’t need a model that can write Shakespear
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Further, he specifically mentioned Bordain, who focussed predominantly on food, and I think the concept of doing what the locals do is hugely rooted in choosing a restaurant. As in: locals won't eat in overpriced tourist traps, and
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    100% agree. Sounds like they're either asking the wrong questions, or quoting answers selectively to suit this argument.
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    You’re not mathematically wrong, but you assume that everyone has a rational disciplined approach to their finances, and a reasonably stable income behind that. And for buying in bulk (which is basically what Costco offers) to work, you nee
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    If Anthropic can implement a regular expression to monitor for user frustration, Google have certainty got the chops to have some sort of heuristic to check for strongly negative statements.
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Apple certainty has the financial resources to support other companies in e.g. developing specific innovations or building infrastructure (and has done so in the past) as long as there's an RoI for Apple. It would surely be a smart mov
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Thanks; maybe I didn't explain my point well enough, but I know/understand everything you just wrote. > The only thing that changed fairly recently is that more and more people intentionally try to maintain gender ambiguity whe
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    That's the best explanation I've seen - thanks for sharing!
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Thanks - that's really interesting, in a weird-interesting way. I'm far from an expert in such things, but I'd observed that the approach in English to gendered words (actor vs. actress) seemed to be, over time, to drift towa
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    I suspect it's an imperfect correlation. Other factors like level of income inequality, efficacy/harshness of law enforcement, societal cohesion, would likely influence.
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    I'd like to know too. I struggled to understand the description of the extension - is it an anti-woke thing, or some sort of modern approach to German removing the traditional (i.e. non-political) genderisation of some words, or both,
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    If I install Chrome, I expect it to take a few hundred MBs and then only take up additional space in a controlled and transparent manner - for its cache, for example. For me, secretly adding 4GB after installation is a bit too much. If you
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Does the stealing come from the low-trust society, or does the societal situation drive people to theft, which we then label ‘low-trust’?
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Thank you for sharing this; however, given a significant piece of the author's journey was hiring a cartographer to create custom map designs for his use case, I suspect that this might not be directly suitable for him, any more than A
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    by mft_ 5mo ago

    Good observation. There are so many versions of the future that just become an LLM arms race.