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by vikramkr 1y ago
These articles always suggest that minimal HTML and jQuery is enough. Like, I guess for a blog, but like, not for web apps? That's the other weird thing - they're always framed like the entirety of the internet is blogs or whateve
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by vikramkr 1y ago
Did he predict they'd always be necessary? He mostly seemed to predict the opposite, that we're at the early stage of a trajectory that has yet to have it's Linux moment
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by vikramkr 1y ago
So there's this thing called sunburn...
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by vikramkr 1y ago
If you close off the market to US tech giants, maybe they'll have some amount of market dominance at home, but I would doubt that would mean they've "caught up" tech wise. There would be no incentive to compete. American
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by vikramkr 1y ago
Always hard to tell what and where specifically the impacts of any research will be. Looking at how they discuss the creating of this lnp formulation in the paper: > We therefore modified the lipid composition of the LNP to enhance pote
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by vikramkr 1y ago
I mean, they're cheaper models and they aren't as much if a pain about rate limiting as Claude was/they have a pretty solid depenresesrch without restrictive usage limits. IDK how it is for long running agentic stuff, would b
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by vikramkr 1y ago
The excessive comments might help the model when it's called again to re edit the code in the future - wouldn't be surprised if it was optimizing for vibe coding and the redundant comments reinforce the function/intent of the
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by vikramkr 1y ago
Care to elaborate? There might be some clever mechanism to slap regen brakes on Jupiter but that's gonna be hard without a road to slow down against
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by vikramkr 1y ago
You're not capturing usable energy, to slow it down, you're accelerating it the other way, consuming usable energy
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by vikramkr 1y ago
That's not remotely correct- how would you be able to ignore tokens? That's literally what defines the context size of an llm, the larger the more memory. Generating each token is literally the compute you're doing. Your hard
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by vikramkr 1y ago
I don't think it's obvious that any of these model providers are even profitable right now. I'm also not sure what there is to "figure out" - it's an expensive technology where the cost scales per token, so the
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by vikramkr 1y ago
looks like it - it's such a minor and brief mention in the paper for the article to focus on it so much lol. They probably should have cited it, looks like they decided it was minor enough (or forgot) that they didn't put it in th
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by vikramkr 1y ago
yeah, pretty smart move. We shoulda done that too - controlling the means of production for energy generation is a pretty useful thing imo.
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by vikramkr 1y ago
The real issue is politics - grids are absolutely going to be required for all the folks who can't generate enough solar on their own roofs, industry, cities, restauraunts, etc. Plus how else are you going to make use of wind, grid sca
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by vikramkr 1y ago
that graph is of one of the components that is used to calculate inflation
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by vikramkr 1y ago
the sun shines and the wind blows in the winter. Plus, batteries. Giant redox flow batteries are coming online now, sodium batteries, it's not like there aren't options for storage people are working on.
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by vikramkr 1y ago
not sure if you meant to link a different chart - that chart is the electricity component of CPI-U (an inflation measure) meaning it's by definition not inflation adjusted - you'd probably want to find a chart of nominal values fo
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by vikramkr 1y ago
It's cheaper and they're all subsidized. Solar is subsidized, oil and gas is subsidized, nuclear is subsidized. Fracking recieved significant subsidies to develop the market initially. Right now, solar/wind is cheaper than fo
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by vikramkr 1y ago
Electrification (converting things that ran on fossil fuels to electricity) is a net decrease in energy demand but massive increase in electricity demand if you're looking at electricity specifically. Past few years have also had a ton
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by vikramkr 1y ago
There's the anthropic paper someone else linked, but also it's pretty interesting to see the question framed as trying to understand what causes the hallucinations lol. It's a (very fancy) next word predictor - it's kind
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by vikramkr 1y ago
I mean, communication is insanely hard. If there's no way around the speed of light, life would still likely (slowly) expand across the stars, but it would be functionally impossible to continue to act as a unified civilization or colo
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by vikramkr 1y ago
Spectroscopy is cool! Basically whenever light shines through a thing, the thing can absorb or emit light, and that happens at specific wavelengths depending on what the thing is made of. You can get small spectroscope pretty cheap and play
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I think the point is that it's funny that the standard library has to use unsafe to implement a data structure that's like the second data structure you learn in an intro to CS class
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that's replying directly to the comment about how c is close to assembly and that if you add that line of code somewhere you know there's a variable getting incremented. Doesn't really matter whether or n
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by vikramkr 2y ago
I'm pretty sure a monthly payment would have been wildly wildly more profitable than ads lol. $3-10 per thousand impressions according to a quick search, versus even a couple dollars a month for 365 impressions over a year? The tone of
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Not sure how it is in all fields but at least in the molecular bio world there's a lot more replication than meets the eye. Especially methods, it's just that there won't be a replication paper, it'll be in the methods&#
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by vikramkr 2y ago
No, to the team. Science is collaborative. If you learn that the results you are working with and building on are fraudulent, what's even the point? Trying to replicate that team members results with it never workong, starting new proj
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by vikramkr 2y ago
My uneducated guess would be shared power infrastructure, easier licensing and permitting for one site, one large safety/fire extinguishment system instead of many, etc. The article mentions only 2 transformers needed to link that enti
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by vikramkr 2y ago
Makes sense but the problem is that you're using words that already have specific meanings in the space, all related to creating one model with multiple functionalities. Merging meaning merging models into one model. Multi modal meanin
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by vikramkr 2y ago
If you care about putting up a fake identity this is still bad. Social media is all about being distinct and grabbing attention. Getting samified into a bland featureless identity isn't the same as as carefully crafting a persona to ma

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