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by rmunn 2mo ago
You just reminded me of a funny story about redundant power supply. A college buddy used to work at Motorola (I'm naming the company because they wouldn't mind this story being shared) back in the late 90's or early 2000&#x27
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by rmunn 2mo ago
Maybe the workflows, etc., are inherent complexity, so that any similarly-flexible product will have the same problems. But the awful client-server architecture, where anything you do takes several seconds of waiting for the client to s
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Back when I was in college, I took some philosophy classes just for fun. I discovered when I took Symbolic Logic that while everyone else was struggling with the class, I was finding it pretty easy, because chaining together a proof in symb
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Even with all the downsides of being colonized by Britain, it was still far better than being colonized by Belgium. Heck, being colonized by pretty much anybody but Belgium was better than being colonized by Belgium. Read up on the Belgia
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by rmunn 3mo ago
In countries with a sensible legal system, yes. Truth is not a defense against defamation in all countries. I can't know what country you (generic you) are in, so best to look up your local laws on defamation.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
The word "the" is doing a lot of work in your last paragraph. I initially missed seeing the word "the", and that changed the meaning entirely for me. Observe: > MySpace seemed like shit until you put Facebook next to
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by rmunn 3mo ago
> Firstly, they didn't spend trillions on training. Then please argue with the guy who said they did, the guy who goes by richardw and whose comment I was responding to in the first place . He's the one who said "If the
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by rmunn 3mo ago
In Codeberg's case, they have chosen not to distinguish between those. Their bright line is "mostly", as in, if your project "mostly" consists of LLM output then it is not allowed. The definition of "mostly&quo
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Which is true, but also completely irrelevant to the point of this discussion. Which was about the U.S. companies spending trillions and the Chinese companies spending billions and matching them in quality. I made the point that the U.S.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
And, as I pointed out elsewhere, the difference I was pointing out was an economic difference. You keep on ignoring that fact and thinking I'm talking about ethics, but I'm not. I'm saying the difference is between spending
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by rmunn 3mo ago
It takes more computing power, and money, to pay for training an LLM, compared to distilling an LLM that someone else has already trained. That's the economic difference.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
The difference I was referring to was economic; I was not making an ethical judgment. So many people seem to be reading my comment as making an ethical judgment (based on their reactions); maybe I should edit it to clarify. Nope, seems I&#x
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by rmunn 3mo ago
It quotes figures from Q1 of 2026, so it was definitely published this year.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
The first time I encountered VTubing, I thought the point was just to hide your face, for various reasons. Being sensitive about your looks, not wanting to attract stalkers, whatever. But there's apparently a lot more to it; I was surp
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Huh? What exactly do you think I'm trying to "cope" with? That American AI companies are overleveraged and some of them are going to go bankrupt? I've been predicting that for months. Why do you think I would need to cop
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Not saying the American AI companies are ethically in the right, just that the work they did is a lot more expensive to do than what the companies distilling their work are doing.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Good UIs look alike, yes. But I'm not sure that comment is a good rebuttal in this particular case, because the model calling itself Claude is pretty strong evidence of distilling: https://x.com/denisewu/status&#
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by rmunn 3mo ago
That's the difference between innovating and copying/distilling someone else's innovation. https://wccftech.com/chinas-kimi-k3-identifies-itself-as-ant...
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by rmunn 3mo ago
And null termination is guaranteed to work, because the only two characters forbidden in Unix filenames (for most varieties of Unix, I won't guarantee there aren't some weird variants out there) are / and null. The only times
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by rmunn 3mo ago
"Torched"? Nah, not at all. But the donut tutorial is famous for a good reason. A donut is basically a torus, which is one of the basic shapes that Blender gives you, so you're starting from a shape that's nearly right —
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I prefer larger screens on laptops, so every laptop I've ever owned has had a numpad. Naturally you can't fit a numpad onto a 12" laptop, but USB (or Bluetooth) numpads are available; a quick Amazon search says $10-20 for mos
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Yes. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/power-supply/ I have always bought the official power supply, yet of the two Pi 3s that I have connected to my TV at home, the one that runs Kodi/OSMC to serve up mov
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I don't mind at all. The main benefit that I see (not being a linguist myself and seeing it second-hand, as it were) is saving time; it's quite a lot of effort for humans to listen to an audio recording and write it down in IPA. I
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by rmunn 3mo ago
The linguists I know are not necessarily a representative sample... but they're mostly interested in just that: maximally faithful IPA representation. They want to know if the speaker switches back and forth between aspirated p and una
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by rmunn 3mo ago
> ... very-rarely-spoken languages probably don't have distinct dialects ... That's true if you mean "very rarely spoken" literally, as in even the native speakers don't get to use it very often. But many languag
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I've seen many analysts say (I'm no expert myself so I'd have a hard time judging) that the official government figures for things like GDP and so on cannot possibly be accurate. (And before you ask "Which figures, which
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by rmunn 3mo ago
There are, broadly, two kinds of audio recordings that linguists want to transcribe. One is native speakers telling traditional stories, where they're speaking naturally and taking the natural shortcuts (such as "wanna" and &
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by rmunn 3mo ago
Looks very cool. One thing I have been looking for, which this doesn't seem to cover (at least I didn't see any mention of IPA in the model documentation), is a way to transcribe unknown languages phonetically, using the Interna
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by rmunn 3mo ago
I'm not going to predict the moment, because I thought the dotcom bubble would pop back in 1999. I could see how overvalued things were, what I couldn't predict was how long the market would remain irrational.
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by rmunn 3mo ago
If you can wait until one of the major companies goes bankrupt (assuming that that happens, of course) before buying a new PC, then it should be a lot cheaper than today. Because when a company goes bankrupt, a lot (or possibly all dependin

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