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by veunes 11mo ago
If Valve nails the price point, this could be a real shift and not just for gaming, but for how people think about "consoles" vs PCs
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by veunes 11mo ago
This announcement isn't just for the construction companies; it's for the power companies.. Anthropic is basically saying we're going to build a factory the size of a nuclear plant here. If you start building it now, you&#x27
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by veunes 11mo ago
Several parties are writing the checks. It's a complex structure of future VC rounds, debt financing, and most importantly, massive cloud credit commitments from their investors like Amazon and Google
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by veunes 11mo ago
"$50 billion investment" is classic "press release capital," not actual cash in a bank account. Anthropic isn't sitting on a mountain of cash. This is most likely a multi-year "commitment," funded by futur
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by veunes 11mo ago
The "in-codebase" approach is the right one, but a YAML file with plain text is a half-measure. The most reliable rule that "lives next to the code" is an architectural test. An ArchUnit test verifying that "all rou
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by veunes 11mo ago
The observation is very accurate, but the conclusion is incomplete. The "unwritten rules" problem is, first and foremost, a symptom of a weak engineering culture and a lack of documentation. If a rule is critical to system stabili
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by veunes 1y ago
It's just an economic argument. Paying for content licenses would be a massive operational expense. It's much cheaper to hire a couple of lawyers to invent a pseudo-philosophical justification for why you shouldn't have to pa
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by veunes 1y ago
So publishers are in a no-win situation: if they lock down their content completely (server-side paywall), they disappear from Google Search and lose traffic. If they keep the "leaky" paywall, their content gets hoovered up for fr
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by veunes 1y ago
So basically Common Crawl is a data laundromat for Big Tech. They outsource their dirty and ethically questionable data collection to a "non-profit," and then act like they're just "researchers" using an "open&
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by veunes 1y ago
At least in some African countries, the centralized grid was never built out to begin with
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by veunes 1y ago
Would've been clearer if the author had separated those models explicitly, but yeah, you're right, those two numbers don't map to the same product
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by veunes 1y ago
Totally agree on the DC limitation point too. A lot of folks outside the space assume these systems are just mini-versions of Western home solar setups, but they're not
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by veunes 1y ago
It highlights the gap between access and resilience
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by veunes 1y ago
The idea that Africa is skipping the grid in the same way it skipped landlines is compelling, but this goes even deeper: it’s infrastructure as a product, not a government service. And it’s being financed by the end user and the global Nort
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by veunes 1y ago
I think fine-tuning could fix that problem If you take a base model and train it on a hundred Seinfeld frames, it would pick up the specific style - the color grading, grain, lighting - and it would add the hair way more naturally
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by veunes 1y ago
That actually proves how important the “number of attempts” metric is. It’s not just a “make everything pretty” button - it’s more like a powerful but slightly dumb intern who needs clear, step-by-step instructions. Your two-step approach r
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by veunes 1y ago
Gemini likely has a more powerful text encoder, which is why it's better at parsing complex, nuanced prompts. Seedream, on the other hand, might have a more advanced diffusion U-Net architecture that's better at preserving texture
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by veunes 1y ago
This is so much more useful than synthetic benchmarks. The most important column here isn't pass/fail, it's attempts. In production a model that gets it right in 2 attempts is 10x more valuable than one that needs 20 iteratio
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by veunes 1y ago
I think sometimes it gives a "wrong" answer not because it wasn't trained well, but because it could give multiple plausible answers and just happened to land on the unhelpful one
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by veunes 1y ago
Apple's whole brand is built around tight control, predictable behavior, and a super polished UX which is basically the opposite of how LLMs behave out of the box
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by veunes 1y ago
The "just find the bug and patch it" mindset is so deeply ingrained in engineering culture that it's easy to forget it doesn't apply here
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by veunes 1y ago
Yeah, seems like a decent skills check since the focus is more on applying and maybe optimizing existing algorithms rather than inventing something totally new, also a few days in Istanbul could be a nice bonus
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Yandex Cup 2025 – international programming competition(yandex.com)
1 points by veunes 1y ago|5 comments
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by veunes 1y ago
Yandex is running an international programming championship with two English-language tracks: Machine Learning and Algorithms. Each track has a $18,000 prize pool, and there will be a final in Istanbul for the top participants. The problems
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by veunes 1y ago
Maybe once in-space manufacturing and refueling become reality, scrap recycling will make more sense beyond Earth
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by veunes 1y ago
It's like the universe is sneakily efficient in some areas, if we're willing to look for the leverage points
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by veunes 1y ago
There's definitely a "tragedy of the commons" vibe to all of this. No one wants to bear the cost, and everyone assumes someone else will eventually clean it up. Meanwhile, space gets more crowded and fragile
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by veunes 1y ago
Social anxiety is not one uniform phenomenon
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by veunes 1y ago
I feel like it's more like a disconnect between intention and action
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by veunes 1y ago
I do think posts like this can still be valuable for people on the edge

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