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by sottol 2y ago
> Time to think bigger. Ehh, no need - just let the LLM figure out what to build in your garage.
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by sottol 2y ago
Imo, the Terminator movies would have been scarier if they moved like these guys - slow, careful, deliberate and measured but unstoppable. There's something uncanny about this.
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by sottol 2y ago
Aren't the Wagoneer, Escalade, Yukon and Tahoe all body-on-frame based on a truck chassis?
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by sottol 2y ago
A Tesla was genuinely an exciting car that many wanted. Sure, it lacked polish (and fit and finish were meh) but it was by far the best EV you could get for a long time. There was also the "other" factor before they were mainstrea
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by sottol 2y ago
Or maybe it's an oligopoly where the incumbents have carved up the market and stopped competing, milking their customers instead. Broadband is then extra special if you let the ISP also own the infrastructure as everyone has to reconne
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by sottol 2y ago
Might still beget carelessness/lack of empathy or a feeling of being superior.
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by sottol 2y ago
I think we agree - my response was narrowed to respond to "NVDA is going to soar". The whole segment looks overvalued and the implication (at least to me) seems to be that AI will capture 10-20% of GDP in profits (not even reven
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by sottol 2y ago
NVDA's market cap was already 12.5% of the entire yearly US-GDP, at a P/E of 10 or 20 once their growth slows to me that implies that their profits are expected to be 0.5-1% of the US GDP. Just nvda alone, not the LLM foundation
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by sottol 2y ago
This _is_ the rich controlling our government! Except it's more openly visible in this case than usual. Going forward they'll have a good deal of say in the policies they care about, by donating and attending and show of loyalty.
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by sottol 2y ago
Maybe check out https://lobste.rs .
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by sottol 2y ago
But there's also been substantially more investment now than say 2 years ago (AI + AI-adjecent companies have, what, 4-5 trillion USD valuation now?). CEOs tout how they stopped hiring. And then these benchmarks having names like &quot
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by sottol 2y ago
I think it might mean the opposite of what one would expect. Afaict, calibration error means something along the lines of "how often was the model wrong but confident that the answer was correct". That means a low calibration erro
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by sottol 2y ago
This was the play all along - roll up the competition and then shore up all the profit once dominant enough. I bet there are plans for new firmware $-unlocked pay-to-play features, making the AMS "more compatible" with Bambu filam
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by sottol 2y ago
Great idea - I'm currently using a barebones Framework 16 mainboard with the 7940HS as my homeserver and local-AI playground in a 3D-printed case. UMA with the iGPU is nice though not much faster than CPU (20-30%? don't recall). B
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by sottol 2y ago
First I hear of Project Binky but this might be one of those "because they can" projects. This is quite ingenious though, hat off! And btw, this does harken back to the heyday of the 3D-printing hype where they hypists were saying
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by sottol 2y ago
> and it's for financial gains, but not motivated by morals. Which is why nothing is going to happen, can't have people starting with the latter.
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by sottol 2y ago
How soon though? 2 years? 10? 50? He starts by saying this won't happen soon, _maybe_ ever.
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by sottol 2y ago
Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by Youtube ads in <world>. <S>OMFG!!! YOUTUBE IS COSTING THE WORLD *750B EUR* PER YEAR. </S> How many hours of productivity are lost to Youtube ads? 2.49 billion act
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by sottol 2y ago
Looks a lot like YOLO. But seems quite useful in this context. The end seems to overhype it a little bit though.
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by sottol 2y ago
I figure expectations/behaviors will shift once this becomes the new norm. That 5-second birthday present or shallow prospectus summary will become obvious pretty soon after a wide uptake and nullify any advantage.
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by sottol 2y ago
I doubt it's because of realtime constraints, you could probably use the NDK if you need to mostly escape the JVM. ObjectiveC/Swift are also garbage collected, so it's not like iOS is strictly realtime by default. I think the
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by sottol 2y ago
In this context "thinking" was meant as an analogy to the supposed reflective "slow" mode of the cognitive process, vs the more "reflexive"/"fast" mode, not in the sense of "thinking soul&qu
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by sottol 2y ago
That seems a little reductionist. We're just exchanging ideas and trying to interpret imprecise terms in-context (ideally in good faith). We're not really discussing whether LLMs are "thinking" in the sense of the "
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by sottol 2y ago
But the LLM doesn't "think" - it just spits out a sequence of tokens (forever, literally). The chat models have been fine-tuned to eventually emit an "end" token (when the training examples would have been answered)
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by sottol 2y ago
I still think it's not useful to compare fatalities per billion miles, especially cycling and driving (and especially if that includes highway driving, which is clearly not something you could use a bike for instead). Iceland had sever
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by sottol 2y ago
Yes, on the margins cycling is more dangerous in the USA . OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if the physical exercise would reduce mortality enough to still be a net positive on the margins - biking to the bakery vs driving - but haven&#x
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by sottol 2y ago
I don't think you can 1:1 compare those stats. Most people just wouldn't have the time to travel as far by bike as they do by car, even if they wanted to. They'd take some other form of transit for long drives. Car drivers do
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by sottol 2y ago
I think it's probably correct that few people *really* cared until the Reprap project showed a real DIY 3D printer was possible. Early machines were industrial machines with huge price tags, proper linear motion systems, complicated ex
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by sottol 2y ago
It's also devoid of minerals so you might want to supplement, if you mean to consume distilled water.
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by sottol 2y ago
I think the Fusion posts are still available in the free version - afaik certain things like overriding the feed speed no longer work though. And I only briefly looked into it, but most Fusion post-processors are just Javascript! (or at lea

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