mr_toad

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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> Apple vowed never to use their chips I thought that was mainly due to bad thermals. I always got the impression that (like Intel) Nvidia only cared about performance, and damn the power consumption.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
If Samsung (or any other fab) were to make Apple chips they wouldn’t learn anything that a good microscope couldn’t already tell them. Samsung still makes the displays and the cameras for most iPhones. They continued to do business even wh
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> Adams had a normal range of beliefs. You’re probably thinking of politics. You may not have read some of his more philosophical and metaphysical works, which were downright kooky. For example he thought that the universe was the dust
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Dilbert was at the bottom of the McCloud hierarchy: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:852/0*1sY0ftV55FfIGW_-... But so were Alice and Asok; being aggressive and proactive didn’t get them anywhere. The ones at
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
We’re going to get to AGI more quickly than expected if humanity keeps on lowering the bar.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
‘Based on’ implies an LoRA or some fine tuning.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
And if you wanted to build your own data center right now there’s only so much GPU and RAM to go around, and even all the power generation and cooling manufacturers are booked solid.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Phones will get upgrades, but then so will servers. The local models will always be behind the state of the art running on big iron. You can’t expect to stand still and keep up with the Red Queen.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Can’t you just mirror the data? You could even embed it in the javascript file itself.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
There are two options in the file menu - you can export the originals, and there is an option to export them as .jpg.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Even before it exploded it would have been less dense than water. It just goes from a hot cloud of gas to a cold one.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
I don’t buy this hypothesis, because we’ve had complex life on land for 250 million years. Evolution is not a steady upwards path (especially when you take into account mass extinctions). There’s no reason an intelligent species couldn’t
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> Those monopolies seem so scared to "miss the next smartphone" that they invest heavily in whatever their competitors do. Monopolies so scared of the competition?
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
If it was a graveyard you’d also expect many artifacts of different eras, not just Victorian era shoes.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
I wouldn’t call those near perfect. Parts have clearly rotted away.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> everyone has their own preferred "consensus" For some people choice of diet really does seem core to their identity. It’s literally all the OP ever posts about.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> Flags are... not text. Neither is poop, and yet someone decided that was important enough to include.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Those early software character sets had their own complexities (i.e. there was more than one), compared to the hardwired (you get one character set, and you’ll like it) set that shipped with early display adapters. Having earned thousands o
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
‘You don’t have to be neurodivergent to work here… …but it helps!’
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Jet engines don’t release the methane, they burn it, and they’re very efficient. And jets don’t leak fuel, that would be very hazardous.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Grid energy is lacking for now, which is why the new builds have their own power supplies. It’s a good time to be in the solar/battery/turbine industries.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
RDP clients as well.
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> The homework is just there, being graded, to evaluate your progress at performing the required toil. There’s the problem, some students don’t want an education, they just want a qualification, even if it means cheating on the evaluatio
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
This is why I’m not worried about an imminent AI bubble burst. The data centers will be built, the GPUs have already been ordered, etc. What I am worried about is what happens when in 2-3 years time the AI companies need to find paying cus
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
> But what kind of monitors are you low-DPI people using? They’re still pretty common in enterprise. So cheap. At this point most desks probably cost more than the PCs on top of them. TBF, enterprise probably still has to deal with anc
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
The choice is basically: a. Don’t use nukes, everyone moves one rung up the ladder. b. Use nukes. Ladder is destroyed, everyone dies horribly. Using nukes only makes sense if everyone is going to die horribly anyway. It’s an empty threat
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
The funny thing is, since the advent of streaming I no longer listen to the radio. I listen to new music, but little pop music, and I have never heard a single track from Swift, Bieber, Grande or Sheeran. Coldplay is the only act I like on
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
The Pythagorean distance would assume that some of the distance (difference) is on the x axis, and some on the y axis, and the total distance is orthogonal to the fitted line. OLS assumes that x is given, and the distance is entirely due to
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by mr_toad 9mo ago
Best meaning the ‘least variance’, where variance is calculated based on the sum of squared residuals. There is a circularity in that definition.
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by mr_toad 10mo ago
Maybe we had too many programmers who weren’t capable of actually solving their own problems. Maybe only one in twenty programmers were ever actually any good at their jobs.

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