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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The article assumes a normal distribution, making the distinction moot But it is useful to question whether that is true in all cases. The cases that aren't normal-distributed might be exactly the cases where it pays off to be neither
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Fiduciary duty effectively turns profit maximization into the only valid goal. Companies with sole owners or family businesses tend to have much more diverse goals. Many of Europe's large companies are still private (certainly more so
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Most of the 'coding benchmarks' are deeply flawed too. This one at least makes it explicit And so far, the ability to make SVGs of $animal on $ vehicle seems to correlate surprisingly well with model 'intelligence'
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
When it comes to manufacturing, Eastern Europe is the Mexico of Europe
605.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
Qwen's flamingo is artistically far more interesting. It's a one-eyed flamingo with sunglasses and a bow tie who smokes pot. Meanwhile Opus just made a boring, somewhat dorky flamingo. Even the ground and sky are more interesting
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
It's not like Europe is actually running out of fuel. 20% of the world's oil passes through the strait of Hormuz, but closer to 10% of Europe's oil imports. They get a lot of their oil from Norway, the US, Libya, Kazakhstan,
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
And even if you have enough VRAM to fit the entire thing, inference speed after the first token is proportional to (activated parameters)/(vram bandwidth) If you have the vram to spare, a model with more total params but fewer activate
608.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
397B params, 17B activated at the same time Those 17B might be split among multiple experts that are activated simultaneously
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Cutting off at the exact cent is difficult, but a hard limit that triggers within one dollar of the actual limit should really be possible If for some resources you can't sample measurements fast enough you could weaken it to "tri
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
And the "too dangerous to release" capability was writing somewhat plausible news articles based on a headline or handwritten beginning of an article. In the same style as what you had written Today we call that "advanced aut
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Reasoning on pure machine code or disassembly is still hit and miss. For better results you can run the binary through a disassembler, then ask an llm to turn that into an equivalent c program, then ask it to work on that. But some of the s
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Maybe they have limited the MCP endpoint to reject any query that modifies the db. With sqlite that's probably easily achieved by opening the db in read-only mode (as opposed to the role-based approach you'd take with most other d
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Not just designed not to provide current, in general they simply can't. They follow the phase from the mains (the sine curve of voltage and current), without the mains there isn't a phase to follow and they simply can't outpu
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Since the panels don't plug in directly but have to go through an inverter that turns the panel's DC into the grid's AC, you can "solve" this by limiting the maximum output current of the inverter to some safe level
615.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
It would make the ransomware statistic go down without actually stopping crime. Any company that considers paying the ransom would have a strong incentive to never report the security incident to avoid being punished for ransom payments
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
No issues with the Crystal so far. It's pretty sturdy. But that's the old 2.0 model, looking at the reviews the new 3.0 is a downgrade in terms of quality, in addition to the downgrade of being forced into the proprietary cylinder
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
A burden that's proportional to how much user data you mine, process and/or share with third parties. Hence the irony
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Isn't it the other way around, AI replacing outsourcing? AI can do the implementation work, but you still need the human who needs to specify what has to be done, give architecture guidance and check and accept the resulting work (or r
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Also to generate value they don't need to be 100% right. Judging you on 10 metrics and being wrong about nine of them still allows them to show you highly relevant ads on that one metric they got right. Which is a win for them compared
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
If you believe this study [1], humans can guess party affiliation at least slightly better than random chance from images alone. Or [2] is an (unscientific) exploration from the other direction, prompting image generation models to make ima
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
Many homosexuals are visually identifiable as such (with reasonable certainty), some by accident and some by deliberate signalling. I can easily see how the absence of any such signals could end up as a classification as heterosexual, even
622.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
That's (scarily) pretty standard for most LLMs by now. Paste the same images into ChatGPT and you will get a very accurate guess It's also pretty fun to do this with Gemma 4 with its very pretty and structured reasoning output (wh
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
I use SodaStream Crystal. There is the older Crystal 2.0 that uses the old generic screw-type CO2 cylinders, and the newer Crystal 3.0 which uses the patented quick-connect cylinders. Looking at the Canadian website, neither is sold in Cana
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
The metric where AMD usually comes out on top is perf/$. Or with their instinct cards VRAM/$
625.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
And are a part of the reason people always ask "how is it that this company has >1000 employees and gets nothing done"
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
One advantage of standard tabletop carbonators is that you can get versions with glass bottles. I quite like the 0.7l glass sodastream bottles. You could probably get them to work on a DIY setup with the right pressure regulator settings an
627.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
Pianos have keys. And some telegraphs were outfitted with piano-like keyboards with one key per letter. Wikipedia has some pictures in the printing telegraph article [1]. So there is arguably a clear lineage from pianos to the modern comput
628.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
Around the poles is a bit of a blind spot in satellite coverage. The angle with which the satellite orbit is offset from an equatorial orbit is called the orbital inclination. Because the earth rotates under the satellite, a 0° orbit would
629.
by wongarsu 7mo ago
I broadly agree with a 3-20 year timeline for a majority of office work. But some important qualifying statements I would add: - some jobs will stay with humans even when AI would be better at it. We already see a lot of this with even with
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by wongarsu 7mo ago
I'm not really into either F1 or Nascar, but my impression from the outside is that those sports are still primarily about the drivers F1 is somewhat about which company can build a better car. But any real improvements seem to invaria

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