IceHegel

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by IceHegel 13d ago
It's very interesting. On the one hand, it seems obviously silly, given that the energy density of a battery is still much higher than hydrocarbons. But the drone explosion, the economies of scale around electric power, are very attrac
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by IceHegel 1mo ago
In my opinion, it was always crazy to build a wind farm in the most scenic part of the Pacific coast. The neo-industrialist in me thinks it would have been cool to see that driving the 1. But you can hardly call dredging and filling all tha
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by IceHegel 2mo ago
It's gonna be E. The birds are nice, but there's no way they do the birds. The other ones with people are too photorealistic or too cartoonish.
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by IceHegel 2mo ago
I think there are probably sinister motives behind some of the push to pass keys, but you'd think that if that were true, they would make it really quite easy to add one and to use. That is not the case. The entire setup/enrollmen
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by IceHegel 2mo ago
I have always wondered about the origins of the anti nuclear opinion of Germans. It has Cold War origins to be sure, but what kind? I suspect American intelligence has been supporting the anti nuclear movement for some time, for non-prolife
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by IceHegel 3mo ago
this is rational because pedophiles are not a threat to the state. if they were, the bill would look very different.
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by IceHegel 3mo ago
Funny, now it's the management saying "Go be a bohemian, experiment, spend freely." and the employee saying, "Hold on, where's my ROI?"
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by IceHegel 4mo ago
This seems like a shot across the bow for all large Claude API customers, which I'm sure they saw coming. But still, a TSMC style pure play model provider would win huge business in the space given how many application companies are be
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by IceHegel 4mo ago
what a joke apple has become. all to make a few people's careers.
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by IceHegel 8mo ago
I'm surprised more people are not talking about the fact that the two best models in the world, Gemini 3 and Claude 4.5 Opus, were both trained on Google TPU clusters. Presumably, inference can be done on TPUs, Nvidia chips, in Anthrop
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by IceHegel 8mo ago
I despise Facebook and all that it stands for, but if the surplus value that it has extracted from humanity over the last two decades is reinvested intelligently into nuclear energy, I'm actually okay with it. Despite the hype that you
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by IceHegel 9mo ago
I would buy a Cybertruck tomorrow if it had a gas engine. I would buy a $10,000 or $15,000 gas generator add-on if it enabled unlimited range (provided I have gasoline). There are just too many places, even in California, where I have to li
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by IceHegel 9mo ago
Given recent high profile redaction events, I think one simple use of AI would be to have it redact documents according to an objective standard. That should in theory prevent overly redacted documents for political purposes. An approach th
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by IceHegel 9mo ago
I’m against internet shutdowns, but I cringe at the phrase “international community.” Who does that even include?
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by IceHegel 9mo ago
I'm dyslexic and I much prefer to read Times New Roman to Calibri. I think it's a good move.
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by IceHegel 10mo ago
Whether or not the patent was actually granted in this case, I have not been able to think of a compelling reason to have patents for software. In fact, I think most intellectual property laws need to be seriously rethought. If the objectiv
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by IceHegel 10mo ago
You gotta give it to Meta. They were making AI slop before AI even existed.
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by IceHegel 11mo ago
Who can do this with good data controls? I don't want to have to dig through the fine print of some Terms of Service page to figure out if a sequencing company is going to save a copy of my genetic code for possible future use.
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by IceHegel 11mo ago
"Democracy" is obviously a scam if a foreign power can buy the platforms and adjust information flows to "shift" public opinion their way. Votes are the output, not the input. Not that officials seems to listen anyway.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
I don’t think Rust syntax and patterns (no classes) are especially elegant for many tasks. I can’t express the behavior of a system as cleanly in Rust as TypeScript, C#, go or Python. I know that’s not what it was designed for, but a guy ca
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by IceHegel 1y ago
The idea that artifacts belong forever to whoever inhabits the land today is going to put under increasing pressure as ancient DNA continues to reveal the number and severity of population replacements over time.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Unless there is a trick that I am missing, I don't think this will work by itself. The fundamental thing is what can the model attend to as it generates the next token. If you give a summary+graph to the model, it can still only attend
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by IceHegel 1y ago
By batch size, do you mean the number of tokens in the context window that were generated by the model vs. external tokens? Because my understandings is that, however you get to 100K, the 100,001st token is generated the same way as far as
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by IceHegel 1y ago
There's a chance this memory problem is not going to be that easy to solve. It's true context lengths have gotten much longer, but all context is not created equal. There's like a significant loss of model sharpness as contex
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Why is it blurry? If there is one thing I'd expect to be fast and sharp it's an ascii editor.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Yeah this is my experience too. For projects I know well, the diagrams are not engineering quality.
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by IceHegel 1y ago
I really want to like deepwiki, but just looking at the diagrams of repos, they are too handwavy to be useful. They are a conceptual overview and don’t seem tied down enough to the actual implementation details of a particular project. Perh
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by IceHegel 1y ago
There's a fascinating tension with anti-aging drugs, which is that your preference would obviously be to take them as early as possible, so you spend more time at a younger age as opposed to just prolonging the last years of your life,
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Microsoft’s software quality is poor. Azure is extremely bloated and difficult to use, and I suspect only gained market traction due to bundling/anti-competitive tactics. Microsoft inserts tabloids news into its operating system. GitHu
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by IceHegel 1y ago
Listed performance of ~5 points less than o3 on benchmarks is pretty impressive. Wonder if they feel the bar will be raised soon (GPT-5) and feel more comfortable releasing something this strong.

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