thot_experiment

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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
I'm using Gemma 31b to build tools for myself to optimize my WoW TBC play to an absurdist level. I'm hoping to have world top 10 parses across the board in a few months, loot gods willing.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
There are extreme diminishing returns in real world performance as models get bigger. 10x bigger might mean 5-10% better on benchmarks, a margin that can easily mean it's functionally equivalent in real world use or even a worse perfor
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
I imagine it's cheaper not to support Israeli aggression or to fuck with Iran over oil. Lessons we should have learned in 1973 and 1953.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with hy3, it's either benchmaxxed to hell and back or skill issue on my part but I'd rather use dense gemma. I don't think there's a single model that's wasted more of my time
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
Half way to utopia.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
It's $29, this is a fun gimmick to take pictures of your friends doing bullshit this summer. It's obviously far worse than your phone, the point is that it's fun.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
All the people with zero sum jobs that serve to shuffle money to those with leverage.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
Surely this time we'll learn our lesson and disempower the parasites that create these situations, right? Right guys?
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
Managers believe in the fungibility of engineers and do not understand the concept of institutional knowledge. Always has been.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
Not true, aggressive post training makes models notably dumber.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
Billionaires are providing much less value than we would have if random kids who lost the birth lottery were empowered to reach their potential to help society. We should not allow them to exist.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
They are also noisy, polluting, and first and foremost we should endeavor to respect the will of the people in a democracy. Of course on some level it is a proxy against AI, but more importantly it's a proxy against the stratification
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
This website is hosted on a single server. I was being hyperbolic sure, but we don't need the number of data centers we have by a huge margin, the primary reason they exist is because building software that runs on people's comput
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
No actual human fucking wants data centers. Every day I wake up and it feels we're moving closer to torches, pitchforks and guillotines.
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by thot_experiment 3mo ago
This is also a good thing fwiw.
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
I use Office 97 for this reason, it's like 400mb installed and everything happens instantly. Grab a copy off archive.org!
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
That's so neat that if you type your hacker news password it automatically comes out as stars! ******* More places should have this feature.
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
Today on open source vampires: xaomi forks an open source project, doesn't contribute upstream, attaches usage restrictions that are probably incompatible with the license, and wants good PR. Fuck these people.
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
Yeah, care to elaborate? I'm not seeing the joke.
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
In comparison to some absurdist baseline maybe, actual software NEVER stops working under you, so in comparison something like an works 80% "most of the time" is godawful. Though I would argue that with SaaS the trend is toward 10
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
It's a SaaS, when in the history of SaaS has it ever been a good idea to trust that the company won't ruin the product under you?
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
Ahhh, I see the issue, you must be using a Windows other than Windows 10 LTSB and presumably you don't trust your router. I dual booted for a long time before VMs were good, but the user experience of booting over is just so awful.
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
If you mount the Linux OS volume under windows while it's running it can get all fucked up because the two operating systems are not chill about who's really in control. You can avoid this by keeping the linux OS on it's own
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
Dual booting is hell, it's never good, it's never been good. I don't use my computer in a modal way. Willing to accept booting over as a friction point is crazy. You can just disable windows update and all the nags and then i
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
Dang, given all the cool visual work on your website I absolutely would not have expected that. Always good to be reminded how disparate we all are from one another. Makes me grateful I got my mom to sign that waiver to let me get on Neopet
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
I hope they're aware of this: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00945-7 You can't clone forever.
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
You're so close to getting it!
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
The best option is to run a Windows host with WSL and an extra EXT4 volume mounted to both windows and linux (this is a non issue as long as it's not the boot drive for linux). User WSL for everything linux, optionally you can also jus
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
Do you only play singleplayer games?
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by thot_experiment 4mo ago
Nice, FWIW this is currently pretty easy to solve by just keeping your stuff on a separate EXT4 volume and then mounting that under Windows. Windows accessing a mounted EXT4 volume through WSL is much faster than the other way around.

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