sgt101

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by sgt101 2mo ago
As far as I know humans with the same sort of brains as your brain and my brain have existed for 100,000's of years, perhaps as long as 2 million years. They did not go to the moon. They did not make mechanisms, they did not make potte
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by sgt101 2mo ago
"Onwards!" These guys...
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by sgt101 2mo ago
>It's not wish casting whatever that means. The crux of the argument isn't as much of a capability one as it is an economic one. If China can release open source models like these to displace demand for frontier models so can A
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by sgt101 2mo ago
I guess almost all laptops/desktops are corporate, student, gaming or own business use. I have never, ever, seen a corporate linux desktop outside of devs. I have never, ever, seen a student using a linux desktop apart from CS students
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by sgt101 2mo ago
Agree - although I think the records we have rule out a previous *Human* "civilisation", not to say that Humans with thousands and thousands of years of culture along with ideas we have no inkling of and would find fascinating hav
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by sgt101 3mo ago
My thoughts: Civilisation implies large scale agriculture. Large scale agriculture implies specific pollen signatures. We don't see any of these signatures in the pollen records dredged up from lakes and seas. There was no previous civ
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by sgt101 3mo ago
This is what happens when you swap gatekeepers for drug pushers.
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by sgt101 3mo ago
It's just he's qualified himself as an unreliable witness. This is not someone who deeply understands and thinks about what he does or what he advises. The things that I know about, that he writes about, where I know he's got
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by sgt101 3mo ago
This is interesting and all, but why should we believe any of it? 1) This guy has a track record (confessed) of making shit up, yapping on about it, and pushing it on the innocent. He's done a bunch of damage with his bullshit and now
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by sgt101 3mo ago
I think... we will see!
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by sgt101 3mo ago
converting a model to MLX is trivially easy as well - just a couple of lines of code and a few minutes wait. I do find that it reliably crashes on the first try, but then it picks up from where it finishes and completes the conversion relia
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by sgt101 3mo ago
Some stories recently that China has decided to reign in and manage it's model production landscape much more tightly.
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by sgt101 3mo ago
I think that LeCunns belief was/is that LLM's have limited value and are a dead end, so what they wanted to do was kill any competitor while evolving tech that was/is a winner. Well, he lost his job on that bet... and yet...
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by sgt101 3mo ago
I don't get this - I can do LORA on my mac... ok I can't do LORA on a 1tn param model, but if I was in the tn parameter model game I would get some kit that I could use to do that... What's their moat / secret sauce?
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by sgt101 3mo ago
You will note that with the unlocks coming there is going to be a lot more spaceX stock on the market quite soon.. Currently 4.9% of the company is on the market. Mid Aug... 15%... 40% by December. Elon unlocks next June. Could be quite aca
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by sgt101 3mo ago
I may have been making this claim, I need to think about this for a while and re read what you have written. This is very helpful though, thank you.
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by sgt101 3mo ago
Of course, if our universe is undecidable it must be the case that computable processes can be executed within it, and it might be the case that all of the processes that are ever executed within it are computable... but it might be that so
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by sgt101 3mo ago
Computation has turned out to be a far more general concept than I think was imagined, up to the point that many computer scientists now seem to equate computation with the functioning of the universe. Recently it's been shown that th
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by sgt101 3mo ago
>>Relying on such LLMs without understanding their internal logic creates a significant reliability risk. To build tools that work consistently, developers must understand the core principles that govern how the models process informa
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by sgt101 3mo ago
I know many will draw a line between Hubris and Nemesis here, but I feel really sorry for this guy and just wish some good health for him. I personally find the whole long life influncing and health hacking movement annoying, but I recognis
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by sgt101 3mo ago
I went to a public lecture by Martin Rees at uni. He asked everyone who read it to put up their hand, then put it down if they understood it. He pointed to the professor of astrophysics who had invited the lecture and said "ok, you! Th
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by sgt101 3mo ago
In a minute you'll be tellin' folks that those quantum fangdoodles aren't going to revolutionise their stock pickin'! You do realise that you'll never work in this town again? \s :)
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by sgt101 4mo ago
>>Well, Viking carried an experiment that tried to detect life. Now, the consensus is that it failed, and that the experiment was incapable of creating a useful result given the chemistry of the soil. Some people argue about that, but
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by sgt101 4mo ago
Well, Viking carried an experiment that tried to detect life. Now, the consensus is that it failed, and that the experiment was incapable of creating a useful result given the chemistry of the soil. Some people argue about that, but I am in
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by sgt101 4mo ago
Frustraged by the endless prattle about GDP, europoors and Brexit, me and my agent frien's sat (manifested) together and brewed up some alternatives: https://x.com/AiSimonThompson/status/2070900546119114970&#x
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by sgt101 4mo ago
Because looking for life on mars sells. "Why are we not spending that money on more social housing?" : Because this is the greatest mystery of our time... (nods all round) "Why are we doing science?": I don't know a
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by sgt101 4mo ago
I think the opposite - unless the discovery of life was preceeded or coincidental with the discovery of some other hyper interesting thing (for example, if Martian life has some sort of utility for medicine, maybe) then I think that would b
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by sgt101 4mo ago
It's not about the money, it's about the money.
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by sgt101 4mo ago
If someone comes into the workshop and takes all the tools (hello Donald) then having a cocktail glass to hand might be a bit of a lucky break. (geddit?)
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by sgt101 4mo ago
Human interpretebility and human construction is going to be really important for formal specifications. My fear is that we will get inscrutable maths that will be guarded by tiny coteries of devoties. The different inscrutable notations wi

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