Coffeewine

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by Coffeewine 2mo ago
Because we were all sold on the obviously naïve promise of techno utopianism which argued that via technology, we would all live in a more pleasant verdant and equitable world. Obviously, this has not been the case.
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by Coffeewine 2mo ago
While the reasoning behind this is dumb and it is unfortunate that the screening is mandatory for over 30s and not voluntary, I guess I can’t hate that some people will have the choice of receiving a treatment they may want. Seems like just
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by Coffeewine 2mo ago
45k/year is excellent! If you believe business insider, U of Chicago’ll run you 100k / year. https://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-colleges-tuit... Traditionally the story was that almost no one paid the
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by Coffeewine 4mo ago
Every time someone DIYs one of these guys the internet at large lambasts them as fire risk death traps. Fairly curious if these are any different, certainly looks like they’re much the same from the photos.
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by Coffeewine 4mo ago
I mean, god willing, but it'll be just as likely that we'll blissfully consume 100 million token contexts in that case.
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by Coffeewine 8mo ago
As they saying goes, you have to dodge the trap every time, they only have to get you once. Sooner or later we all will slip up if we’re subjected to endless con attempts.
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by Coffeewine 8mo ago
Shame that the guardian describes Powell’s statement as ‘blistering’: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260... It reads to me more as ‘tepid’. He’s obviously trying to be as apolitical as po
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by Coffeewine 8mo ago
If Trump and Rubio are not credible, then there is no way to determine the intent of any military action, so the bet is impossible to evaluate. That’s pretty funny.
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by Coffeewine 9mo ago
Heh, it’s impossible for me to look at these without hearing the launch theme from Apollo 13 in my head. Such a glorious programme.
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by Coffeewine 9mo ago
I think this sums it up pretty well. "When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles,&quot
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by Coffeewine 9mo ago
I guess they can try, but in this era of ubiquitous surveillance it’s hard to imagine they would succeed in secretly entering a home.
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by Coffeewine 10mo ago
Isn’t this more that they’re buying a part of an upstream supplier than a client?
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by Coffeewine 10mo ago
I suppose the hope is that they don’t, and we wind up with commodity frontier models from multiple providers at market rates.
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by Coffeewine 10mo ago
I guess these things aren’t literally exclusive, but it’s pretty amusing that elsewhere the rebuttal argues that we’re deep in a great stagnation which we need space exploration to pull us out of. (In the bit where he is arguing against the
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by Coffeewine 10mo ago
I was very interested to see in that rebuttal that they explicitly called out ‘datacenters in space’ as a means of ‘exporting’ solar power to the earth. > As the Weinersmiths point out, the ease of generating solar electricity in space i
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by Coffeewine 10mo ago
I slightly have trouble believing that Mr “Stop wasting tokens by saying please to LLMs” Altman is not considering how his models can be optimized. I suppose the real question is how accurate are the utilization numbers in the article.
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by Coffeewine 10mo ago
Indeed. The moral of the story is that it’s ideal to do illegal acts which are difficult to undo, as it’ll give the judiciary greater pause.
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by Coffeewine 10mo ago
Pertaining to that observation, I really liked this section: > In 2022, California became the first of a half dozen or so states to offer free school meals to all students, regardless of family income. Dillard supports free meals for all
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by Coffeewine 11mo ago
Of course it doesn’t. But there is a difference between treating the story as an oral tradition and the explicit and unerring word of god.
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by Coffeewine 11mo ago
The only advantage is that if the company is more efficient they'll be less likely to fire you because the business is failing. They'll just be firing you to eliminate a cost.
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
Did you ask it to search the Internet as a part of your request? It is still extremely imperfect, but that typically helps it get basic details correct. At least for me at any rate.
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
Man, it's wild how we have such different experiences. I have a base level M1 air, and I feel like it chugs along anytime I ask it to do anything even vaguely computationally expensive. Obviously that's not rigorous, but that&#x27
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
I’ll defend airbus a little - there are flight laws that more or less provide at any given moment as much automation as is possible given the state of the sensors and computers. So it doesn’t just go ‘oops, a sensor failed, now you have dir
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
A ‘cyber-related disruption’ is a great euphemism. I suppose all them sci-fi novels had cyber attacks happening like the weather, but it still feels very strange to live it.
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
It's a pretty rough headline, clearly the author had fun performing the test and constructing the thing. I would be pretty regretful of just the first sentence in the article, though: > I ordered a set of 10 Compute Blades in April
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
Though I'm sure many will recoil in horror, it makes perfect sense. Modern language models are typically knowledgeable and non-judgemental, especially if you have a question which you fear reprisal from whomever else you might confide
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
Presumably other search companies will be on a more even footing with google with regards to what they know about you to sell to advertisers if google doesn't also have your complete search history and a complete history of everything
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
Hasn’t the US already done that? Huawei’s AI processors are banned in the US, with an effort made to ban them in US allies worldwide.
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
I wonder if this means the US is going to come for Global Foundaires, TI and Micron to extract an equity stake too. Interesting times.
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by Coffeewine 1y ago
Admittedly, just because something hasn’t bourn fruit doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad plan. All they need is a major stumble by TSMC or AMD or some tailwinds themselves and they could start looking much better.

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