alex_duf

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by alex_duf 5d ago
I'm skeptical too, but there's a parallel market where people re-sell accounts and access tokens. This would make tokens much cheaper. There's also an argument to be made that paying the token full price may be cheaper than g
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by alex_duf 6d ago
A 10x reduction in pre-training means a 10x faster feedback loop. I'm pretty sure any lab would sign up for that. You can start experimenting on different approaches much more aggressively.
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by alex_duf 6d ago
It's useful though, as I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that the gases generally used in HVAC tends to have much worse warming effect than co2 per volume. We do need heat pumps deployed at large scale, but sometimes I worry we do
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by alex_duf 6d ago
If I'm not mistaken, it means 1kWh of electricity moves 4.1kWh of heat into your hot water tank. Heat pumps are amazing.
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by alex_duf 6d ago
Hard disagree there. I still don't know what the article is about if I'm being honest, but it doesn't bear the markings of being generated.
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by alex_duf 7d ago
You can but I don't want to see that energy bill
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by alex_duf 7d ago
So if I read this correctly, Astra is not hiding reasoning, and the only technique we know off that hides reasoning is recursive latent reasoning. Do we know of any major lab or large open source LLM that uses recursive latent resonning? Ca
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by alex_duf 9d ago
To the risk of contradicting myself, the less time I got, the more tempting it's been to jump into Apple's ecosystem. I love the hardware, I appreciate Apple's apparent care for privacy, but I just love my linux too much both
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by alex_duf 9d ago
yeah no open wifi in sight, MAC address is banned at the router level, but I appreciate the concern
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by alex_duf 9d ago
What's VN in this context?
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by alex_duf 9d ago
What would the HN crowd recommend for a good linux streaming box + hardware with decent TV UX and remote? My LG is completely offline and I'm using an nvidia shield to display any content, but I'm thinking maybe I need to go the e
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by alex_duf 9d ago
Similar, I was only using it as a screen for my shield so I factory-reset it and never re-connected it to wifi. It's actually a lot faster now (it's an 8 year old TV, their OS can get a little heavy on older models)
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by alex_duf 10d ago
Maybe there's a middle ground where the code itself is only made visible at the same time as the latest build. This shortens the exploit window
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by alex_duf 23d ago
Not that I love Microsoft, but they would get a lot of heat if they let anybody generate harmful content as well. They can't win on that topic. Now I would not want to appear to defend the mess they've created out of windows, that
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by alex_duf 24d ago
I'd call it dystopianism, this page reads like an episode of Black Mirror
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by alex_duf 29d ago
I'm not so much talking about developing countries, but more like UK, France, Germany etc. Developed countries hiding behind the fact that their contribution is small. Of course it's small... For context in France we regularly hea
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by alex_duf 1mo ago
The argument that small countries don't matter in the equation is silly. There are ~200 countries, of course on average your country will be less than .5% of emissions. Thinking .5% is small enough to do nothing is exactly the kind of
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by alex_duf 1mo ago
One person's consumption doesn't matter, but multiply it by 8 billion and it does. It's like being in a traffic jam and complaining about the other people in the traffic jam... Dude, you're one of them.
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by alex_duf 1mo ago
The threshold isn't measured in windmills, it's measured in co2. If we emit more than 0, then we're in trouble. Needless to say, we're in a lot of trouble.
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by alex_duf 1mo ago
thanks for testing it! I guess that would make sense for such a small model to be missing the subtlety
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by alex_duf 1mo ago
could the long s `ſ` be throwing the model off?
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by alex_duf 2mo ago
I wonder to what degree malice can be engineered to look like incompetence?
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by alex_duf 2mo ago
There's New Zealand as well with RocketLab
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by alex_duf 2mo ago
While I do think it's wise for people to start looking at alternatives, I don't think this specific news should sway one way or another. Windows (like Linux or macos) contains an enormous amount of code, and with large code-bases
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by alex_duf 2mo ago
I think this shouldn't be taken too seriously, from what I understand it's an exploration of what's possible with today's LLMs. You're right to talk about the trend though, because what it shows is how the cost of r
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by alex_duf 3mo ago
Just because you can doesn't mean you should
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by alex_duf 3mo ago
Economic development is great and I'm all for it, but it shouldn't be done at any cost. I quite like our atmosphere, ideally with less than 400ppm of CO2. We're finally seeing signs of economic development decoupling from pri
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by alex_duf 3mo ago
I'm hoping the kind of gas turbines being installed on these datacenters are capable of quickly responding to a load change, meaning the primary source of energy could be solar during the day and complement when there isn't enough
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by alex_duf 3mo ago
definitely, and I'm glad there are company that do! but they only exist because they have an incentive to do so: a crowd ready to pay for it.
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by alex_duf 3mo ago
It's surprising but it's a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite

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