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by smolder 2y ago
Is that necessarily true in the earliest moments of the universe? Probably there are good reasons for it to be so that I don't understand, but then most of what cosmologists understand about the period that JWST looks back to is from e
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by smolder 2y ago
> For that same reason, we won't see open source models by this definition any time soon It's totally fine if we don't have many (or any) models meeting the definition of open source! How hard is it to use a different term
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by smolder 2y ago
To get it to run on different platforms and gain new features like super-resolution and so on, yes. Rom files are the preferred form for modifying old games. No one bothers digging up old source code and assets to reconstruct things when th
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by smolder 2y ago
Is a .rom file open source because you can pipe it into an emulator and generate new machine code for a different platform? I don't think your argument holds any water.
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by smolder 2y ago
I'm perfectly willing to draw a line in the sand instead of letting people define their models however it's most convenient for them. Analogies aside, here is what a set of weights is made of: A lot of data, mostly produced by hum
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by smolder 2y ago
It's a mix of both, I guess. I don't like youtube taking over for text based sources. It's less accessible, way less efficient, and feeds into the google surveillance machine.
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by smolder 2y ago
If you can't bootstrap a set of weights from public material, the weights aren't open source, because it's derivative content based on something non-open. Trying to draw an equivalency between code and weights is [edited for
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by smolder 2y ago
I'm not a fan of the youtube link trend on HN, as cool as the latest robots are. I know they're encroaching on territory previously held by much heavier additive and subtractive machines.
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by smolder 2y ago
It's hard to tell with the throwaway, but I suspect I've seen you posting on HN before, making similar claims relating to the horrors of dog ownership. This is a pretty suspect one. I see one study claiming 1.1% of visits to Emerg
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by smolder 2y ago
Disk speed is definitely a key factor. Solid state is dramatically lower latency than HDDs were, while DRAM latency in absolute terms has been pretty constant for a long time. So even if you're doing something very demanding that works
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by smolder 2y ago
Yes, latency has stayed fairly constant going back at least as far as DDR3. It was nudged downward a little from DDR2 to 3, with higher clocks bringing finer grained timings, but I would say any improvement in later generations is pretty
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by smolder 2y ago
To reiterate the GPs point, in case anyone didn't get it: DDR4-3200 CL16 is equivalent to DDR5-6000 CL30 or DDR5-6400 CL32 in terms of latency. Divide the frequency by the CAS latency and you get the same number for all of those. It wa
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by smolder 2y ago
Intel's latest Arrow Lake stuff, about to go on sale, is said to have much better power efficiency, FWIW. Something like half the wattage for roughly equivalent benchmark results, according to them.
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by smolder 2y ago
I was disappointed to see reader mode wasn't available, and tried to find some other plugin to just show me the text. The couple plugins I tried could not parse it, nor could the text-only browser I downloaded called ViolonCello. (It o
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by smolder 2y ago
It's just the time we live in, a time of relative peace and disinterest in matters of government. People are able to live without investing in politics, so what we have is full of zealots and wanna-be despots who have something to gain
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by smolder 2y ago
Or let's try not to boeing this design. Or let's boeing this whistleblower.
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by smolder 2y ago
> Why do you think that the government is better positioned to allocate resources than the people who made the money? It might not be, mainly because it's corrupt. Secondarily, because popular causes are not always wise. On the flip
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by smolder 2y ago
I don't think he's actually as dumb as that, he is just playing the same counter-intelligence game as other people on the right, because telling the truth isn't as advantageous for them. People buying into that stuff are moro
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by smolder 2y ago
Interestingly in an 80's Toyota I worked on there were some minor revisions part way through a given model year. Most of the vehicle stayed the same, but I recall in some cases you needed to know year and month rather than just year in
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by smolder 2y ago
It's a captured market. Free markets are where no one has extreme market power like with a mono/duopoly or monopsony or whatever. A free market would be one where Deere is broken up by antitrust action. Making right to repair rule
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by smolder 2y ago
I said that because it's very possible for someone to write a more flawed program without an LLMs help. The exact probabilities weren't central to my point.
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by smolder 2y ago
What a bunch of absolute losers. If it's taught me anything though, it's that you can't underestimate the pathologies of people you encounter 'in the real world'.
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by smolder 2y ago
Peter Theil is scum. People who work for him are also scum. Evil has the ropes of society because evil worked harder at getting them and didn't learn the lesson about sharing in kindergarten.
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by smolder 2y ago
Yeah, that's fair and what you said is reasonable. I was changing the context back to multiplayer to make my point about that.
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by smolder 2y ago
Relying on LLMs to code for you in no way solves the safety problem of C/C++ and probably worsens it.
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by smolder 2y ago
My only complaint is the framing of it with that title. Otherwise it is pretty cool, for sure!
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by smolder 2y ago
The comparison to TV watching or playing pretend is apt, though I don't see how cheating at multiplayer games is an improvement over those. If you cheat in something like helldivers 2 (what my comment is meant to address) that can also
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by smolder 2y ago
> But for single-player games We were talking about people cheating at multiplayer co-op in this thread. I don't think people use rule-breaking cheats in multiplayer games (competitive or otherwise) purely for the story in the game,
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by smolder 2y ago
I thought of it, too. It must have been a reference, given that he was a squirrel.
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by smolder 2y ago
Turn your Android phone into a garage door opener (with a USB attachment) Turn your Android phone into a laser pointer (with a USB attachment) Turn your Android phone into a bowling ball (by submerging it in resin that is then shaped into

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