awuji

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by awuji 1y ago
You can already run a large LLM (like sonnet 3.5) locally on CPU with 128GB of ram which is <300 USD, but can be offset by swap space. Obviously, response speed is going to be slower, but I can't imagine people will pay much more th
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by awuji 2y ago
But most of the time, we as engineers don't pick the winners. Some C-Suite executive or middle manager, who isn't very technically inclined, picks the winners, and we as engineers are forced to make it work. As I don't think
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by awuji 2y ago
Content is being banned because the governments don't think the citizens collectively can handle that content. This is the government thinking for the people. I wouldn't have an issue if it was really argued and debated, but I don
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by awuji 2y ago
There are two things wrong with this argument. One, it implies that there isn't a better way to deal with an such a malicious organization. And two, it doesn't acknowledge how such a ban creates an obvious opening for abuse. Holdi
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by awuji 3y ago
And linux. They provide a linux version and it runs great on linux
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by awuji 3y ago
How? They could declare everything and anything as antidemocratic. There is legitimately no oversight to the Secretary of Commerce, which is an appointed position. If the act is passed, the only thing stopping the government from taking it
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by awuji 3y ago
Banning TikTok wouldn't take your free speech away, but the Restrict Act doesn't even directly ban Tiktok. It gives the government broad rights to censor any content it deems "undermining the democratic process" among ot
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by awuji 3y ago
Websites that are critical to the governments message are blocked in the West too. Either blocking sites isn't only a symptom of a closed country or the West is more closed then you care to admit.
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by awuji 3y ago
San Francisco isn't the embodiment of European individualism, it is the embodiment of American mismanagement.
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by awuji 3y ago
Why would it kill all startups? The amount of AI startups that are being restricted by this are minimal. Hugging Face isn't going to have to shut down because of this. University research into the best ways to stabilize GAN training is
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by awuji 4y ago
The patriot act clearly compromises every 5-eyes nation. China and Russia have their own equivalents of a Patriot act, so hosting there is no good either. Mid tier and neutral countries can be compromised as in your example above. This is a
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by awuji 4y ago
It played Stockfish 8, which was already a year old when they played, and the match was under arguably unbalanced circumstances. The current version of Stockfish is Stockfish 15, and although it hasn't played AlphaZero (because AlphaZe
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by awuji 4y ago
I have been daily driving FreeBSD as a desktop since the last time this article was posted and I love it. It is super consistent and reliable, and after I got it set up, I don't have to worry about anything breaking. I can easily use i
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by awuji 4y ago
Unfortunately, the OP's mindset is that of many Westerners. Currently, the average Indian citizen emits half the greenhouse gas of the global per capita average. To argue that they deserve less than their share is blatent discriminatio
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by awuji 4y ago
I have talked to somebody in the SBB R&D department recently about this and the problem is actually that there has to be at least one person on the train. Imagine a door gets jammed or there are some problematic passengers. If there is
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by awuji 4y ago
Of course fascism is coming to the US. The US has always been fascist when it comes to international politics. First its reach was mostly limited to the Americas, but after World War 2 and the start of the Cold War, its fascist control spre