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by niemandhier 3mo ago
I liked Master and Commander, I still prefer C.S. Forrester’s “Hornblower” books. Forrester is the Andy Weir of naval warfare with sailing ships. Even the tiny technical details are well researched.
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
Not sure about all the other things, but in my experience if you found a startup and get American VC money, they more or less tell you to move the company to the US. Then they start pressuring you to also move to the US. So seeing that star
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
I am confused by this article: If we use the existing tools for interpretability like circuit tracking, sparse auto encoders and the like, should we not be able to determine if the chain-of-thought in its logical consistency actually matter
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
People learn Klingon or Esperanto. You could probably convince me to join a hypothetical “Worshipful society of Gentlemen speaking Sumerian”.
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
I did all that math a while ago when I was offered a well paying job in California . Bottom line was that stuff is so much cheaper here than over there, that not much would have changed. We’d be able to save up a lot of money if we were wil
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
Germany is not a major country. The 1. Something percent it contributes to the global co2 output just do not matter much. If you purely think about the climate and don’t care for things like fair resource distribution, forget about the Germ
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
People might not know that, since it’s mostly in French, but France has somthing similar as open source for their tax system: https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france/
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
I took the liberty of computing my and my wife’s effective income tax burden: 24% We are both German and in the 92nd percentile of the income distribution.
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
Russian cursive is incredibly hard to read. Since handwriting even more than code is meant to be red, I think prioritising readability over ease of writing is actually acceptable. I think the old German writing system “current” also has ver
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by niemandhier 3mo ago
A portion of young men already are more or less addicted to pornographic content. Tolls like this have the potential to make this so much worse.
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
There is the concept of sending doubles to stand in for punishment in china. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_zui
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
Choose the country domain the matches your citizenship. Most countries protect their own much better than foreigners!
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
In our legal system not all way to express your opinion are protected. Death threats, insults and promises of rape can be considered ways to express yourself, but any opinion worth expressing can be stated without. Sure, this can be the fir
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
Does that really matter? Your name can be whatever until you really take off. Point is: You can easily have a company in Germany in 24 h. An UG is affordable at about 4K and has limited liability. GmbH is a bit more fancye and hence more ex
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
You can just buy a ready made GmbH. This costs about 28k€, 25k€ are deposited in the company. That is called Vorratsgmbh and takes very little time.
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
I see that one point of criticism of the EUId is that people think it will lead to bad things because people will need iOS or android. Ok, we are an international collective of wealthy nerds obsessed with privacy: How much money do we need
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
The beauty of the EU is that you only need one county of upstanding people to get a permissible good implementation. It will probably be a small country, one that is known to give no fucks about big tech.
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
Did you read the code dump Anthropic involuntary gifted us?
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
I think the reasoning should be the other way around: If you limit yourself to simple math, than you get this result. Assuming linear growth into a market with competition and an unclear ability to absorb that growth is a gamble.
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
I was thinking about china driving the US to bankruptcy by commoditising LLMs, thus reducing the revenue.
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
Kimi was trained at cost, so were other models. Sure some things are a hurdle, but in the end, being the first just means doing all the work.
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
Being slow is sometimes a problem. But if the needed total revenue for an investment is so absurdly large, that we need to capture 5-10% of the labour market, being slow might mean not burning in the crash. The US drove the CCCP to bankrupt
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by niemandhier 4mo ago
It their right to do that. But can we still trust them? I am not well versed in how their systemwide certificate issuance works: If they have to add this to their terms to comply with their government, could the same government use pressure
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by niemandhier 5mo ago
It’s still pretty normal for public sector positions to have this discussions behind closed doors. Once you have the job, it’s hard to fire you. So it’s a reoccurring pattern that people apply, work for the minimum needed time to get paid p
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by niemandhier 5mo ago
In Germany the government pays your university time. You get about 800€ per month for housing and basic needs. At least if your family is not too well off. 50% of this have to be paid back, free of interest and capped at 10k€. That is not m
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by niemandhier 5mo ago
That makes them illegal in Europe afaik.
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by niemandhier 5mo ago
There is the idea floating around in Europe, to nullify people’s student debts if they have children. So two kids during university would mean even the measly amount you have to pay back for an European subsided degree would be gone. I do h
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by niemandhier 5mo ago
That is a problem for the counties they flock too. Portuguese might not mind tourists that spend money in the country, but I know they do not like rich foreigners living there, driving up prices for housing and everything else. People shoul
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by niemandhier 5mo ago
Could she give a multi day filibuster live on YouTube and only be fined once?
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by niemandhier 5mo ago
It’s always the same: A system run at the boundary of its maximum throughput is brittle. Tiny disturbances cascade and you get large fluctuations. I have the standing hypothesis that there is a second order phase transition between free flo

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