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by observationist 7mo ago
What's the value of academic publishing over the arxiv model of freely publishing, free access, and a global, vigorous discussion across a wide range of platforms, with experts, researchers, amateurs, institutions, and the peanut galle
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by observationist 7mo ago
Maybe at one point in time; I've had objectively fewer issues with Linux than I had with Windows, and they only happened because I was doing nerd shit; in normal person average user mode, I haven't had any issues whatsoever. I ins
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by observationist 7mo ago
It's pure irrationality. The only winning move is not to play - leave behind all the Windows and Apples garbage, and life gets remarkably better. I'm almost 6 months in switching from Windows to Linux and it's so awesome that
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by observationist 7mo ago
It's not not true, it's just that things are getting lost in the excitement. There are some specific cases where there's a big boost, it's just not exactly what people are hoping. >>>The "1/6th"
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by observationist 7mo ago
I think what they're getting at is that for a given unit of compute, this method achieves 125% performance. If model A reaches performance level 100 using 100 units of compute using old methods, and you train model B using AttnRes, aim
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by observationist 7mo ago
To make people click.
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by observationist 7mo ago
Not in the same way. The degree to which the symptoms manifest can range from mild to extreme, but it's dependent on the person, and each person can have symptoms exacerbated to more or less the same degree. A psychotic break can resul
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by observationist 7mo ago
His proximity to Bruce Lee earned him more or less permanent kung fu cinema fame. Walker,Texas Ranger and other work he did definitely boosted it, but the memes clinched it.
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by observationist 7mo ago
>who are you lol The US. Who else on the planet would have the effective power to possibly even think about who should and shouldn't have them, while plausibly being able to do anything about it?
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by observationist 7mo ago
Not so slowly. They've gone from a more or less respectable smaller country to more or less politically, culturally, and economically irrelevant in less than 10 years. I even question whether it's rational to allow them to have nu
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by observationist 7mo ago
>"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"
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by observationist 7mo ago
ChatGPT 5.4 pro has surprised me several times; when asking a "can such and such be done" type question, intending to have a discussion about whether a thing can be done in principle, and what it might look like, it's actuall
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by observationist 7mo ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540 https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987 These, other papers, and the lottery ticket phenomenon; what it boils down to is that any neural network like system which encodes
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by observationist 7mo ago
They're 100% fun. There's 100% definitely something there that's useful. To strain the dog analogy - If you were a professional dog trainer, or if the dog was exceptionally well trained, then there's a place for it in y
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by observationist 7mo ago
Or displaying your card out in the open, flashing it in front of everyone in the restaurant, grocery store, etc. With remote workers scanning through video feeds of people in public, it won't be long before they figure out the Meta gla
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by observationist 7mo ago
What makes it even better is that these dogs are like Malinois. If they want to get into something, they will; people have had their entire network compromised by bots they left running overnight, and any important information like account
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by observationist 7mo ago
Differential identification means you can be singled out based on profiles. Even if you don't have any accounts, big tech companies still have shadow profiles, and those shadow profiles can be linked to your offline identity, such that
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by observationist 7mo ago
Definitely, and new engineering around axial flux / pancake motors are getting really exciting. 1000 HP motors in a single wheel - https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens... Incredible what ca
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by observationist 7mo ago
Omg, this is like god mode. edit: There's a few funny threads on other social media. Honestly, though, let a guy get excited, when you find new ways of using new tech; he's one of the lucky 10,000 who has discovered prompt scaffol
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by observationist 7mo ago
Technology, culture, legalization of pot, adtech, covid, there are a metric ton of factors that all had significant impact on both decreasing socialization and reduction in drinking. And lowering the birth rates, and the number of healthy r
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by observationist 7mo ago
There are also non rare earth magnets being explored. Niron - Iron nitride - magnets and ultrasonic compaction and other tech that wasn't feasible a while back are now becoming very practical. Japan could probably get to a dominant pla
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by observationist 7mo ago
It's one of those things where having a structure is really helpful - I've used some similar prompt scaffolds, and the difference is very noticeable. Another great technique is to use one of these structures in a repo, then task y
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by observationist 7mo ago
"Code writing speed" is just a superficial dismissal of AI without consideration as to whether AI is being used well or poorly for the task at hand. Saying that AI is the same as making people type faster, or that AI only produces
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by observationist 7mo ago
Sometimes articulating the problem is all you need to see what the solution is. Trying many things quickly can prime you to see what the viable path is going to be. Iterating fast can get you to a higher level of understanding than methodic
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by observationist 7mo ago
It's up to parents to parent. It's not up to the government, and Facebook pushing this shit is evil. It's not about protecting children. It's about increasing adtech intrusion, protecting revenue from liability, pushing
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by observationist 7mo ago
Imagine if we let doctors do medicine instead of letting profiteering beancounters optimize for number go up.
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by observationist 7mo ago
Look at hearing aids. 50,000% markup or higher, even up in the 70k% range in some examples. Old people don't know what to be skeptical of, or at least haven't been nearly skeptical enough, and some industries are getting away with
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by observationist 7mo ago
It's kinda cool to see a whole lot of otherwise intelligent people who are so dogmatically and ideologically opposed to anything AI that they're going to willfully dismiss anything that AI produces regardless of utility. It'
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by observationist 7mo ago
RWKV is definitely worth including - they've done an excellent job with the accompanying research, provide plenty of reference diagrams and visualization.
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by observationist 7mo ago
Because the cost to things that allow the whale to survive is greater than the benefit of being larger, on the whole. If they get bigger, they die and are survived by slightly smaller versions, and over a long period of time, you get a rang

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