baron3dl

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by baron3dl 13d ago
it's easy, just eat cake.
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by baron3dl 13d ago
https://allenai.org/ has the fully open olmo also
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by baron3dl 14d ago
that was an attempt at monocle and top hat irony. edit: how do you feel about paying 5% on every token's cost to stripe? it made me cancel, and sign up directly with a few providers.
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by baron3dl 14d ago
its suggestions are the best way to get me to leave. not that i find myself there often, or stay long anyway. hn on the other hand...
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by baron3dl 14d ago
You must be the only one 'round here without a stack of RTX PRO 6000s, 8 high, that you're not sure how to use.
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by baron3dl 14d ago
The bar for what is worth bringing out of the cave gets higher every day. Unless you have a huge network of fans or a small network of foolhardy VCs, screaming into the market, with two million other voices, may as well be the void. It&#x2
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by baron3dl 15d ago
I think the trillions are built on expectations that your employer won't need to pay you a salary anymore.
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by baron3dl 16d ago
I think about this frequently. IMO, geographic sparsity is the biggest difference. Every malcontent on the planet just can't reach my door, and the physical reality of movement through space means they can't reach my door, AND e
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by baron3dl 16d ago
I've always been shocked by the lengths of time people will commit to proving wrong the folks who tell them "you can't do that."
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by baron3dl 17d ago
Maximilien Robespierre.
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by baron3dl 25d ago
summon Simon with a hand drawn SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
OpenRouter is a two-sided inference market with an established network and spinning flywheel. If Stripe can manage not killing it, it is going to print them money for a long time. edit: Fixed the poor AM English.
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
It's interesting that this quote closed it for you, because that quote is what triggered my take. I read that as a hat tip to the legendary argument, and a partial adoption of Linus's rebuttal, “Linux wins heavily on points of bei
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
This feels like Andy Tennenbaum's LINUX is OBSOLETE post from 30 years ago.
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
even a 3090 will give you the VRAM headroom. i run Q8 on an 3090/A6500 combo. well, Q8 of 3.6-27B. I'm building the Q8 GGUF for 3.8 now, assuming mine will finish before someone else's.
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
I stumbled across a connection between LLMs and compression when researching N-dim polytope emergence in neural networks. Toy Models of Superposition (Anthropic, 2022) suggests that gradient descent can independently discover efficient geom
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
The real sham has yet to materialize. You only get a single $1T IPO. For the AI labs, investors are tapped out, and the only thing left is a huge IPO. Google, Meta, Microsoft's cash reserves are drying up, they're squeezing ope
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
i end up with more stops on automode because of classifier false positives.
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
we're about witness the realization that "here's a tech that can make us a whole bunch of money" is actually "here's tech that will establish the next hegemony." american companies may compete with chines
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
Inevitablism, a fundamentalist belief system that resolves every moral hazard with an appeal to the inevitable. "we can't let someone else do this first"
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by baron3dl 1mo ago
who holds the copyright on the transcriptions of my thoughts read by this hardware? what license to those do you impose through EULA? what privacy controls need to be invented to prevent literal thought police?
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
Upstream hasn't replied to the issue I opened about how they want to take the fork back in. There are 3 open PRs. Seems like maybe he's not paying attention to it. Anyway, the code is all here in my fork: https://git
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Show HN: VAX/VMS 5.5 now runs in browser(vax.3dl.network)
3 points by baron3dl 2mo ago|4 comments
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
When PCjs hit the front page a couple weeks back I noticed VAX was conspicuously missing and couldn't resist seeing VMS run in a web browser. Claude Code running Opus 5 meticulously ported the KA655 from SIMH to PCjs. It boots up to O
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
I won't argue this title isn't the author's experience, but it's misleading to rest a quantitative claim on a qualitative argument, while also refusing to fully exploit the technology. From a firm that has fully embraced
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
maybe i read more into it. i got put off by his refusal to hand it off. he can quit, no qualms there. but not handing it over? that seems petty, imo.
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
not sure law matters, anthropic is draconian about bans/appeals.
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
don't people get banned for doing this kind of thing?
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
this is why nostr beats mastodon. when the operator pitches a fit and shuts down, your community survives.
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by baron3dl 2mo ago
he's taking his ball and going home, the financial aspect isn't load bearing (god damn claude ruined this) in his decision, it's a rationalization. if it were significant, he wouldn't refuse to hand it over to someone w

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