bradfa

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by bradfa 6d ago
As long as you are constantly diligent in staying on top of what each provider is doing that may impact you. It reads to me an argument for self hosting, maybe a less capable model to deal with smaller compute resources, but when starting t
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by bradfa 8d ago
Hand written exams are coming back into fashion. You get a pencil and the exam book. Nothing else. Show your work. Catching cheaters is still hard but it will keep honest people more honest.
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by bradfa 9d ago
Which NEC commercial display do you have? How do you like it for normal TV duties? What tradeoffs were you willing to make when you bought it compared to the features which were available in consumer-focused "smart" TVs?
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by bradfa 15d ago
Or it’s so they can continue to operate in the EU where this is required.
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by bradfa 21d ago
I don't know, but unless that contract is public, not many people know. I get the impression Oracle got a little bit of market pushback on the risk, as theirs seems to be one of the largest.
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by bradfa 21d ago
It would be nice if the article cited the actual contracts the labs have signed so that others could also read them and draw their own conclusions (maybe it does and I got tired of the slop-like writing style too early?). Are the contracts
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by bradfa 24d ago
Contrast with Claude Government with all green 100% uptime. So either no one is using it or the people within Anthropic running that one have different priorities.
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by bradfa 25d ago
1996 was also the launch of APS-C which had the same ratio. Curious if Kodak just reused existing hardware for the camera so matched that with the sensor?
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by bradfa 25d ago
In the USA step one would be to somehow build like 30 million houses so that the 10% extra rule could be established. That is an immense undertaking. Totally doable but it will take more than one government administration so has effectively
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by bradfa 1mo ago
Your comment specifically compared it to the normal adult, my point is the normal adult who is a parent is very likely doing even more than your example of your kid. Even for adults who aren't in the elite high earner category, heck p
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by bradfa 1mo ago
Are normal adults not "working" in a similar way to your kid for 15+ hours per weekday? Comparable adult parent things would be up at 6am, prep kids for school day, in the office by 8am, 8 hours of work plus a lunch, departing the
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by bradfa 1mo ago
This morning I've turned auto mode back on, I'm only using it during Claude's exploration phases of my workflow and then I'm reading the full transcript (which includes some thinking info). So far, this seems to be quit
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by bradfa 1mo ago
I run in manual mode not out of rogue agent or token waste concern but because I want to effectively pair program with the agent. I need to understand what is happening along with the how and why. I’m confident I’m slower than YOLO people
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by bradfa 1mo ago
Agent was told to hack a thing. It couldn’t directly do that so it interpreted the instructions to mean it should hack everything to try to achieve the goal of hacking the main thing. Seems like a reasonable assumption, although a moral hum
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by bradfa 1mo ago
And Azure Key Vault mentioned. Not that either one was hacked or exploited but the agents got credentials and used them for something (which doesn’t seem fully disclosed). Given that the agents simply obtained totally allowed credentials,
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by bradfa 1mo ago
A small model would be. I think that’s more the point. It’s definitely not SOTA but it’s fast and energy efficient and local.
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by bradfa 1mo ago
If you got the $20 in free credits from Meta for signing up when muse-spark-1.1 was release, please note that there's now small print stating "While using free credits your content may be used for product improvement" which w
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by bradfa 1mo ago
We've gotten pretty good at digging holes in the ground and there's a lot of existing energy down there under our land (and near-by water). So yes, we've certainly had misadventures in the middle east, but we've also em
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by bradfa 2mo ago
What’s wrong with bank accounts for your kids? Sorry, this one doesn’t seem to fit with your other examples.
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by bradfa 2mo ago
The most interesting trackers to me, for DIY install in my yard, is a 2-axis tracker. Especially in summer, sunrise and sunset are quite a bit north of east and west, meaning a true south facing fixed set of panels wouldn't even see t
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by bradfa 2mo ago
The proposals which say no LLM generated code mean just for Debian, if upstream allows it then they will still accept it. It’s just contributions to Debian itself which would prohibit or discourage LLM contributions.
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by bradfa 2mo ago
Making production software is still hard. You still need to know what you're doing. Making good software still requires significant investment of time and intelligence. Using LLM tools can greatly accelerate development when used eff
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by bradfa 2mo ago
I can understand that the AI labs might care about other labs distilling their models as it can eat into their competitive advantage, but do consumers care at all? Aren't consumers benefiting from this practice by getting better cheap
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by bradfa 2mo ago
There are plenty of 3rd party providers hosting deepseek models, if you don't want to use the 1st party API. 3rd party providers are generally slightly more expensive, but still quite cheap compared to other models of similar vintage
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by bradfa 2mo ago
Finally found it: https://dev.meta.ai/legal/ Paid prompts are not used for training. Data retention is not entirely clear, they will keep it if they think you're breaking the rules, but it's not clear how lo
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by bradfa 2mo ago
Where is the data retention policy information for paid API per-token uses? Every other provider has one and makes it clear how they handle your data. A quick look doesn’t show one for this new offering.
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by bradfa 2mo ago
To get memory mapping across systems you'd want to look into infiniband ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand ) but the adapters generally aren't cheap. Common to find in super computer clusters. If you h
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by bradfa 2mo ago
Each memory controller interface is a not-insignificant number of PCB traces. Increasing the number of memory controllers may dramatically increase the number of PCB layers (or may not, it really depends on the CPU pinout) but it definitel
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by bradfa 3mo ago
Many newer Chinese lab models are releasing with int4 native weights. Latest NVIDIA generation GPUs have a hard time with this and can actually be slower than previous generations. This may make Blackwell depreciate faster than other recent
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by bradfa 3mo ago
I’m also watching Intel Celestial with 160GB of LPDDR. Noticed lower memory throughput than AMD or NVIDIA, but potentially significantly lower cost per card. Two of them would likely run deepseek-v4-flash sized models pretty decently.

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