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by philipkglass 4mo ago
Note also that Anthropic's definition of "unsafe" encompasses "competing with Anthropic." In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit
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by philipkglass 4mo ago
I remember when I had to wait minutes to get a high resolution image over a dialup connection. When computer and communications hardware advanced enough that I could get 30 high resolution images every second, there were brand new uses. In
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
From the description I thought that a degraded capacitor or lack of lubrication made the blower not start on its own, but the blower (and the whole furnace) would work if given a manual startup spin by hand.
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
More good news from Ember, according to their Global Electricity Review 2026 [1]: Solar power increased by a record 636 TWh to reach 2,778 TWh in 2025, a 30% increase from 2024. Wind saw the second-largest increase, growing 205 TWh (+8.2
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
I have vLLM running on a Linux machine in my basement, connected with Tailscale, and I use small models as part of tasks like this: - Transcribing scanned documents into formatted text - Captioning/describing images and classifying the
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
Since ollama has diverged from llama.cpp, it will take a bit of time for ollama to support multi-modality. If you're using plain llama.cpp it looks like a PR has already merged for this model with vision and audio support: https:&#x2F
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
I think that models like Granite are less known because they aren't clear leaders in any particular area. This obscurity is also another sign of how fast models are developing. If current Granite models had been released 4 years ago, t
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
They aren't completely absent. Google keeps releasing Gemma models. Nvidia publishes Nemotron. Microsoft has their Phi series. IBM publishes Granite. Even OpenAI released a new open model (gpt-oss) less than a year ago. https:/&#
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
AWS Bedrock offers a mixture of proprietary and open-weights models (DeepSeek, Nemotron, gpt-oss, etc.): https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-c...
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
Pregnancy and childbirth are physically taxing for women. Most people of reproductive age want sexual relationships. Many people want children. Very few women want to give birth to 12+ kids. Even the wives of billionaires don't have th
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
I don't think that "people need jobs to have any kind of leverage in society" is actually true, though. Retired people without jobs are (in-)famously known to be politically powerful, both regarding elections and regarding lo
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
Most of the world's democracies don't have influential AI companies, so if the voters want X and companies want Y, X will win. There's little reason for Indonesian politicians to prioritize the interests of American or Chines
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
No, I mean just charge based on the odometer reading. Don't offer exemptions. The state where the car is registered collects the tax for every mile driven. It would lead to some mistakes in the small scale (what if I live in northern O
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
Couldn't states take an odometer reading at tag renewal time and charge based on distance traveled? It wouldn't perfectly capture usage of in-state roads, but it should be close enough on average, it reuses existing mechanisms, an
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
Mamdani was elected in New York despite (or perhaps because of) explicitly running against the interests of rich people. Let the frontier AI labs and their investors burn billions in the R&D phase, then vote for governments to use the M
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
This post claims that Opus 4.7 has introduced some detrimental changes to stymie distillation: https://old.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1snorbg/the_bigg... I don't know enough about distillation
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by philipkglass 5mo ago
The PP-DocLayoutV3 [1] bounding boxes are pretty good in my experience, if you want boxes around individual document headings or paragraphs. If you want boxes around individual words, similar to what's shown in the Interfaze screen sho
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
Doesn't China have most of the exotic rare earths and stuff that you need in order to build solar panels and systems? Solar panels do not require rare earth elements. Some types of permanent magnets require rare earth elements, and s
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
I tried Opus 4.7 for two days before I started beginning every session with "claude --model claude-opus-4-6". I assume that 4.6 will become unavailable at some point, but I hope not any time soon. 4.7 hit usage limits faster, didn
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
That makes a lot of sense. I was thinking about testing a particular pepper you have for chemical content, but genetic testing and mapping results to pepper type names does sound more complicated/expensive.
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
How expensive is testing now? It looks like the standard method is HPLC analysis of capsaicinoids. I found old forum posts from about 10 years ago indicating $50-$65 per test from providers including SBL, which doesn't sound bad, but I
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
Generically speaking, yes, this has been done before. But it can take a lot of work to transform software that works with shared memory or other low-latency interprocess communication mechanisms so that it's practical to run across wid
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
Leasing land for solar installations is popular with rural land owners. Or at least popular enough that there's rarely an issue finding enough willing owners to develop a new project. The problem is typically their neighbors agitating
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
I had to trim the title for length. Original was "Chernobyl at 40: The accident, its impact and how it changed the world's nuclear energy industry"
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Chernobyl at 40: The accident, its impact and how it changed nuclear energy(world-nuclear-news.org)
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
I have already forked open source software to fix issues or enhance it via coding agents. I put it on github publicly, so other people can use it if they see it, but I don't announce it anywhere. I don't want to deal with user com
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
The only way you get the capital to train and host models at this scale is if you have a story to sell to investors that ends with "and then we become an economic chokepoint and extract rents from everyone else". I agree that th
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
This was interesting enough to prompt an investigation. It looks like the idea comes from this letter that he wrote late in life: https://philosophics.blog/2021/08/01/the-futility-of-words/ I don't
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
I think that we're getting there. I put together a workstation in early 2023 with a single 4090 GPU. I did it to run things like BERT and YOLO image classifiers. At that point the only "open weights" LLM was the original Llam

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