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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
>once you bulldoze all that concrete and steel You're not quite thinking things through there man. Once the elites who built these follies have gone, the mob will go shopping for building materials. I wouldn't be surprised even
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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
Why even bother with the text generation then? You could just make a phone call to an LLM with a TTS frontend. Like with directory enquiries back in the day. Which can be set up as easily as a BBS if you have a home server rack like Jeff Ge
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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
How big does an LLM need to be to support natural language queries with RAG?
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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
The article claims that AI services are currently over-utilised. Well isn't that because customers are being undercharged for services? A car when in neutral will rev up easily if the accelerator pedal is pushed even very slightly, bec
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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
Why don't US car companies just improve their safety standards?
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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
The brain can still use other means of working in addition to brute forcing solutions. For example, how would you go about solving the chess puzzle of eight queens that doesn't involve going through the potential positions and then fil
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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
What makes you think your brain isn't also brute forcing potential solutions subconciously and only surfacing the useful results?
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by nuc1e0n 11mo ago
The memory accesses being nicely arranged is kinda why the focus has moved to AI in recent years. Moores law is that much easier to keep going if parallelization increases, such as with GPUs and SIMD on CPUs. That extra Silicon needs to be
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
Is now the right time for a short position with them? Yes they're overvalued, but the market still seems kinda frothy.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
Keith is an internet legend
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
To use SQL effectively a certain amount of training is needed. But people are trained to read and write and do arithmatic. How to understand and write simple relational database queries is a broadly useful skill that should be widely taught
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
Seriously, do we really need better computers now? They're good enough. We need better medical bio-tech instead.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
The Blackwall tunnel vent badly needs a fresh coat of paint.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
In science fiction robots are commonplace. How where they built? That's never explained, because sci-fi isn't real.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
Centuries ago, the building materials for castles was taken by the locals and reused to build their houses with. Those data centres have a lot of sheet metal in them. Air conditioning units as well. The upgraded power networks around those
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
The Latin alphabet that we use is itself an evolution of Heiroglyphics. The linked site also says we have no knowledge of how the ancient Egyptians reached their mathematical conclusions. That's not true. The Rhind mathematical papyrus
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
The thing is the infrastructure that is being built now is owned by a small number of already large companies. Is it really that likely that Microsoft, Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Alphabet/Google, Oracle, Nvidia and all the companies E
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
That makes them venture capitalist fantasies then.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
For the record, I was referring to utf-ebcdic rather than any double byte encoding. I thought it was unambiguously googleable, but perhaps I was mistaken.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
To add to the complexity, not all Chinese characters in use for names are representable in unicode. Perhaps at some point legal institutions must just define what the list of characters is that people can have as part of their name as liste
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
What the 'reasonable' character set for names should be is more a philosophical question than a technical one. I think the unicode set of characters fully contains it. But would someone declaring their name is a unicode emoji be &
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
Yes, but not because EBCDIC is not ASCII based. All 8 bit character encodings are incompatible with GDPR, because they cannot represent everyone's names. There's an extended EBCDIC the supports the full Unicode range that is GDPR
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
The more America fails financially the more the AI doomer narrative is pushed. Big tech needs there to be value gains to justify themselves. The American stock market is mostly down to them now.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
I wonder what non-BS networking equipment would actually improve an audio experience. Maybe high bandwidth, low latency routers or network attached storage? Analog to digital and digital to analog converters with multi source synchronisatio
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
I think Numpy is representative of the Python ecosystem as a whole. Powerful, but internally complex, bloated, poorly designed and poorly documented.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
At one time organ transplants were considered an ethical grey area (perhaps they still are by some), but I think most people now would consider it better to save lives in such a manner when it only brings help to those who need it and it&#x
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
And a spring together with an electro-magnet can be made into a relay. They're big and slow of course, but they do the same thing as a transistor. If you can make metal into a wire you can make them. In the 1940s computers were electro
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
It would be even better to 3d print biodegradable scaffoldings for stem cells to grow between. For facial reconstructions of bone for example.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
The article says that DNA is designed to keep working despite mutations occuring. What evidence does the author put forward to suppose it was designed rather than evolved? There's plenty of evidence to support it evolved BTW.
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by nuc1e0n 1y ago
That's without mentioning the fact that trees emit chemicals into the air that help make it rain. It was discussed here on Hacker News recently. That will help to lower temperatures across a wide area.

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