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by snek_case 10mo ago
China has their own fabs. They are behind TSMC in terms of technology, but that doesn't mean they don't have fabs. They're currently ~7nm AFAIK. That's behind TSMC, but also not useless. They are obviously trying hard to
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by snek_case 10mo ago
I had a 386 PC with 4MB of RAM when I was a kid, and it ran Windows 3.1 with a GUI, but that also had a VGA display at 640x480, and only 16-bit color (4 bits per pixel). So 153,600 bytes for the frame buffer.
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by snek_case 10mo ago
The reason NaN exists is for performance AFAIK. i.e. on a GPU you can't really have exceptions. You don't want to be constantly checking "did this individual floating-point op produce an error?" It's easier and fast
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by snek_case 10mo ago
You can buy old rackmount servers on ebay for relatively cheap and used them as desktop PCs AFAIK (though they can be on the noisier side).
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by snek_case 11mo ago
I've had a similar experience with Gemini ignoring things I've explicitly told it (sometimes more than once). It's probably context rot. LLM give you a huge advertised number of tokens in the context, but the more stuff you p
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by snek_case 11mo ago
I think it's because they're all trained on the same data (everything they could possibly scrape from the open web). The models tend to learn some kind of distribution of what is most likely for a given prompt. It tends to produce
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by snek_case 11mo ago
From my experience they quickly fail to understand anything beyond a superficial description of the image you want.
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by snek_case 11mo ago
Also how do you avoid billionaires worldwide ? Not everyone lives under your government. Even if you could, how do you know for a fact that some people don't secretly control hidden assets? Is Xi openly a billionaire? China is a &quot
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by snek_case 11mo ago
It might also be something like: people who experience relatively little psychological distress are optimistic, and also live longer. We don't like to talk about it, but there is a biological component to how happy or anxious someone i
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by snek_case 1y ago
2. New state-funded joint venture: EuroNV, pronounced euro-envy.
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by snek_case 1y ago
Will definitely be entertaining to watch if it happens.
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by snek_case 1y ago
I guess it makes sense. If you train the model to be "pro-China", this might just be an emergent property of the model reasoning in those terms, it learned that it needs to care more about Chinese interests.
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by snek_case 1y ago
Google maps is probably a big moat that's very hard to replicate. You can't as easily just crawl all of that data. It's not easy to generate directions. The average user doesn't want to use your search engine for one thi
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by snek_case 1y ago
Don't hold your breath. Chip fabrication is extremely sophisticated. It's basically nanotechnology. Not something that could practically be done at home anytime soon.
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by snek_case 1y ago
Genetics do factor. It's not just a question of genetics affecting metabolism. People literally don't feel hunger with the same intensity as one another. It's like sex drive. There are both very horny people and asexuals out
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by snek_case 1y ago
They're very expensive drugs so it would be one lobby against another. However given that they're so expensive, I would think that broke, uneducated alcoholics just won't have access to them, so those profits are safe...
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by snek_case 1y ago
The reality might just be that most technology is slow to spread? But it also depends on what you mean by slow. The name ChatGPT became part of popular culture extremely quickly.
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by snek_case 1y ago
I've been reviewing papers for NeurIPS and I can tell you that many of the submissions are using various strategies to string together LLM calls for various purposes. It tends to work better when you give the LLMs some specific narrow
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by snek_case 1y ago
Then the command should probably be "I summon you to open the gate to loserdom!"
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by snek_case 1y ago
They give it a list of tool commands it can use in the context I believe.
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by snek_case 1y ago
There are many futures where humanity stops.
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by snek_case 2y ago
There's also the popularity of HN itself and the popularity of posting jobs on HN that's an important factor. You could both normalize the figures and include a separate graph for job posting density per month or something like th
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by snek_case 2y ago
The problem is that Apple intelligence is currently kinda useless. They rushed it into production in a misguided effort to "stay relevant". It may take a few years but we should eventually get useful personal assistant type AIs. I
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by snek_case 2y ago
That's not wrong. There is a lot of hype-driven development in the programming world. People are always jumping on the latest web frameworks and such. A little bit more stability is not a bad thing. That being said, I think that people
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by snek_case 2y ago
It's not a choice between going to raves or staying at home and using apps. There are other options.
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by snek_case 2y ago
Having been to raves, another issue you run into if you go there to meet people is that the kind of people who will hook up at raves probably don't want anything serious. It's a super hedonistic environment. If you want more than
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by snek_case 2y ago
Our cells also probably just don't divide as fast anymore. The entire metabolism slows down.
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by snek_case 2y ago
I think it's more common now. I don't know that phone sex was ever all that popular, but OnlyFans is huge. Also, there's just a lot more sollicitations. On twitch you have gamer girls in skimpy outfits using the platform as a
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by snek_case 2y ago
IMO it's likely that alien life would mirror the life we have here in a lot of ways. It's likely that aliens would have DNA or RNA, and would be made out of cells (unless they've become machines). So I think they would be pre
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by snek_case 2y ago
So in 2013 Google bought Boston Dynamics, then later sold them in 2017. The rumor is that BD didn't play nice with the rest of Google. They wanted to just keep doing whatever they wanted and not be told what to do. I think that if Tesl

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