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by mr_toad 1mo ago
> But I've always distinctly recalled that he was arguing for a 4th, or possibly 5th type, yet whenever I survey the literature I've only found at most such 2 types. But I've probably been looking in the wrong places. It’s
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
> That wasn't that long ago was it..? Last time I used a crossover cable I was still using dialup, probably about 20 years ago. Once I had DSL I also had a router, so the crossover cable became redundant.
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
“ Each PIM block only has fast access to its locally attached DRAM bank. All other input data has to be brought in through the DRAM chip’s comparatively constrained external interface. PIM blocks can’t directly exchange data with each other
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
If you’re not prepared for the financial and time investment of the table top game there are a quite a few video games set in that universe.
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
> Someone must set the goals, after all and current LLM's have no agency The board might have to take on a more active role in instructing the CEO, just as someone managing an LLM now has to be careful how they prompt it. God forbid
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
As a shareholder I’m optimistic about the possibility of using LLMs for senior management positions, and on down. C level executives are rare, expensive and often unpredictable quantities. LLMs, if proven to work, could be easily cloned,
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
> NVIDIA is one of the most open labs. Sure, the models are open weight, but porting the code needed to run them on non-Nvidia hardware is not trivial.
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
And stop bailing out people who build in known danger areas where they can’t get insurance.
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
Time is change that happens in a continuous manner. It’s still possible to conceive of change happening in an unordered unpredictable way that is not like the smooth ordered time that we experience. In a gravitational singularity spacetime
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
Ten years ago a bought an expensive MBP because I do a lot of stats in R, Python etc that benefited from it. But the next Mac I’ll buy will be a much lower-end model, because it’s just easier these days to do that work in notebooks in the
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
Apple levelled up in the middle of a fight.
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
And less than a day later Apple announced the M6. The timing has to be a coincidence, but it is quite amusing.
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
> Establish a total naval and air blockade of Taiwan using their fleets stationed in Ningbo and Zhanjiang. I would not want to be maintaining a long-term naval blockade while constantly looking over my shoulder worrying about surprise at
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
> Nietzsche died broke and insane If he was alive today he’d probably have a YouTube channel and be making bank shilling dietary supplements.
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
There are more career opportunities building rockets than designing rockets. Lots of welders, machinists, electrical engineers etc build rockets, and those skills transfer. The same is not so different for AI. A few people design novel AI
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by mr_toad 1mo ago
Issues get closed to make the metrics look good, not because they’re actually fixed.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
Yes, by definition, a vassal owes allegiance to their lord, which includes military service. But you can’t really take a feudal term and apply it to modern politics. Taiwan doesn’t resemble a vassal in any meaningful way.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
They could have just bumped up GST for online advertising, but why take the simple approach when you can build Byzantine regulatory frameworks.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
Cultivating a voter base that consistently acts against their own interests seems to be a winning strategy.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
Speaking of myths, one explanation of the mysterious metal adamantine is that it was iron, forged from meteors. To Bronze Age Greeks, lacking the ability to smelt iron, an iron weapon would have been surpassingly strong, sharp and rare. Lat
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
Now explain how quarks have flavour!
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
It will have a different writing style from the average blog post. Maybe they just want to train an AI that sounds less like an AI. Or one that speaks in vapid management style.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
More like ‘named’. There are accounts of trebuchets causing hundreds of deaths, but individual casualties in medieval battles are rarely identified.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
In some cases they’d hurl dead cattle, people’s heads, and flaming projectiles over the walls to damage morale and potentially damage infrastructure.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
> Second, the human body is a complicated thing. You can feed your fancy LLM as many textbooks and academic papers as you like, but the reality on the hospital ward will always be different. And they’ll be using detailed medical records.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
My hot take: the only people willing to pay for LLMs are using it for code generation, and they prefer Claude.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
Go back and compare some of the earlier IPCC reports and see which bits have been left out. The worst case scenarios keep getting removed, and the best case scenarios are based on projections of CO2 emissions which are highly unrealistic.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
Does nobody ever think of trying more than one technology? It’s like people buying a car based on what everyone else is driving rather than actually driving different cars.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
My recollection is that MongoDB was based on CouchDB, except they dispensed with Erlang & JSON and went with more conventional technology.
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by mr_toad 2mo ago
I think music videos, then MTV, then the internet/youtube all gave ways for fans to see a band without actually going to see a band. Live gigs are expensive, require a bit of planning in advance, and sometimes the crowds are just down

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