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by philipkglass 6mo ago
In short, the ML industry is creating the conditions under which anyone with sufficient funds can train an unaligned model. Rather than raise the bar against malicious AI, ML companies have lowered it. This is true, and I believe that the
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by philipkglass 6mo ago
At present, those tandem cells are still experimental. Nobody is manufacturing them on gigawatt scale like for other solar cell technologies.
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First criticality for Indian fast breeder reactor(world-nuclear-news.org)
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
At least one of the test questions was just a screen shot from a tweet. It was difficult to read. I'd suggest extracting text from screen shots with OCR. Apple has built-in functionality for this on their operating systems with Live Te
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
Unlike the US, Vietnam is a net importer of fuel. It imports over 40 million tons of coal per year: https://statbase.org/data/vnm-coal-imports/ It also started importing liquid natural gas in 2023. But it has abun
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
When you self-host, there's still a client/server relationship between your self-hosted inference server and the client that manages the processing of individual pages. You can get timeouts depending on the configured timeouts, th
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
I also get connection timeouts on larger documents, but it automatically retries and completes. All the pages are processed when I'm done. However, I'm using the Python client SDK for larger documents rather than the basic glmocr
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
If you have a basic ARM MacBook, GLM-OCR is the best single model I have found for OCR with good table extraction/formatting. It's a compact 0.9b parameter model, so it'll run on systems with only 8 GB of RAM. https:/&#
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
It takes time for statistical agencies to compile reports. I haven't yet found reports covering the growth in renewable generation (actual terawatt hours) for all of 2025. But this covers 3 quarters of the year: https://em
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
Do you have plans to do a follow-up model release with quantization aware training as was done for Gemma 3? https://developers.googleblog.com/en/gemma-3-quantized-aware... Having 4 bit QAT versions of the larger models
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
"Lithium mining commences in Finland" https://www.electrive.com/2026/02/12/lithium-mining-commence... This week, the first spodumene vein was blasted from the rock at the open-pit mine in western F
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
The small models that I can run at home are becoming more capable, and I have replaced some API-based tasks with local inference as they improve, but large open weights models are still a lot stronger. The nice thing with larger open weight
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
One more exception: uranium. It actually splits into smaller atoms when it's used as fuel.
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
I don't think that it is karma-gated, but you can only edit the comment for two hours after it's posted. Then it's frozen.
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
I think that the parent means Wall-E: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E#Plot
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
If you found this interesting and are a non-expert, I recommend browsing Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Wayne Moore (1970): https://archive.org/details/Foundations_of_Mechanical_Accura... Manufacturing got dow
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
A local small grocery chain started stocking raw milk (with many warnings) and I decided to risk consuming it to see for myself. I couldn't tell the difference between it and ordinary full fat milk. I wondered if it was a fraud (commer
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
The crazy cheap models may be adequate for a task, and low cost matters with volume. I need to label millions of images to determine if they're sexually suggestive (this includes but is not limited to nudity). The Gemini 2.0 Flash Lite
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
Qwen 3 and 3.5 models are quite capable. Perhaps the greatest benefit of GLM-OCR is speed: it's only a 0.9 billion parameter model, so it's fast enough to run on large volumes of complicated scans even if all you have for inferenc
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
I took a long break from document processing after working on it heavily 20 years ago. The tools I used before were ABBYY FineReader and PrimeOCR. I haven't tried any of the commercial cloud based solutions. I'm currently using GL
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
It really depends on the tasks you have to perform. I am using specialized OCR models running locally to extract page layout information and text from scanned legal documents. The quality isn't perfect, but it is really good compared
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
Both Canada and the US are net exporters of oil, and have median wages higher than in the countries adopting these measures, so neither physical shortages nor rising fuel prices are issues as urgent as they are in (e.g.) the Philippines.
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
My fantasy road-not-taken for IPv4 is one where it originally used 36 bit addressing like the PDP-10. 64 billion addresses would be enough that we probably wouldn't have had the address exhaustion crisis in the first place, though rout
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by philipkglass 7mo ago
In the 1970s electric cars were not generally available and solar panels were 100 times more expensive than they are now. Today the world has the manufacturing capacity to install nearly a terawatt-peak of solar panels per year, at low cost
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by philipkglass 8mo ago
Yes, for the petrol car it's showing primary energy from petrol (gasoline). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent#Gas... Assuming 33.41 kWh/gallon it takes about 0.3 gallons to get 10 kWh,
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by philipkglass 8mo ago
I looked at the electric car example for the United States. It has 3 kilowatt hours priced at $0.51, 17 cents per kilowatt hour, which seems about right. The "petrol car" example at the top of the chart isn't powered by elect
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by philipkglass 8mo ago
Her github is here: https://github.com/HannahRitchie
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by philipkglass 8mo ago
She's employed by Our World In Data. She is also a published author of printed books. Her substack does not have paid subscriptions enabled (or at least it did not as of last summer; see this post [1]). Our World In Data is funded by d
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by philipkglass 8mo ago
The author Hannah Ritchie works on Our World In Data and also publishes the fantastic Sustainability by Numbers substack. It's in the same vein as the late, great David MacKay's Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air . This tool
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by philipkglass 8mo ago
A direct link would be better, but they mentioned it at the beginning: "On Tuesday, the US Energy Information Administration released full-year data on how the country generated electricity in 2025." This is the report: https:&#x

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