ctolsen

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by ctolsen 14d ago
You gotta keep up. Fable 5.1 came out yesterday and is better so anything else is to be treated as garbage now.
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by ctolsen 2mo ago
I'd go for the less complex version: just make copyright last for like 20 years at most.
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by ctolsen 3mo ago
No, it’s definitely not what a human brain is. That makes very little sense. The ways we interact with language (and thus conceptual memory) is completely and fundamentally different.
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by ctolsen 5mo ago
Yeah, if this is stopped, it'll be because of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights or the ECHR. The Charter and the European Court of Justice is why we don't have blanket data retention in the EU but it took twelve years to
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by ctolsen 5mo ago
It's well established that the companies who own the proprietary frontier models complain loudly that open models are distilled from theirs. There's surely some truth to it (and it's well deserved), but it's happening in
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by ctolsen 5mo ago
I mean, I could say the same about Gemini. 3.1 Pro tops a bunch of benchmarks out there but any practical use I've put it to it's underperforming both other proprietary and open weight models. Benchmarks are suspicious in general.
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by ctolsen 5mo ago
Having worked with both proprietary and open weight SOTA models lately, my view is it's definitely not 6 months, it's less -- and shrinking.
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by ctolsen 6mo ago
It's 100% laziness on the side of procurement, aided by some good marketing and a complete lack of guardrails. Exactly the same mindset that has led to every European government now being tied to US big tech.
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by ctolsen 7mo ago
I'd challenge that assertion. LLMs still produce very bad results with greenfield work, so that seed was generated by people who had both creativity and skill a thousand times before. Having a glimmer of an idea that you've probab
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by ctolsen 7mo ago
To add to that, they'll continue to be great machines running Linux even after Apple has bloated MacOS to death. Tahoe has made my M1 MBP feel significantly less snappy for no good reason.
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Building x86_64 Docker containers on Apple Silicon(ctolsen.medium.com)
12 points by ctolsen 6y ago|1 comments
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by ctolsen 9y ago
What would it give you that, say, Citymapper doesn't?
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by ctolsen 9y ago
It is comparable, and thinking about agriculture as a closed system is not even close to correct. We're mowing down natural carbon sinks to an insane degree to grow crops to feed animals, one of the major reasons of deforestation and l
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by ctolsen 10y ago
Not the same guy, but I feel like Uber is a pretty cutthroat company, and they are probably not an example of a sustainable model in a more freelance/gig based economy. I like that they're paving the way for a new way of doing thi
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by ctolsen 10y ago
It's only a holdup if the government wants it to be a holdup.
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by ctolsen 10y ago
Well, even if it doesn't change much, you're still stuck with the absolute worst part of drug prohibition – unregulated and unclean drugs, turf wars and violence, and hundreds of thousands of murders in less fortunate countries. I
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by ctolsen 10y ago
There are tools to include only the stuff you actually use that you can stuff in your build process though.
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by ctolsen 10y ago
When using a language where isArray(arr) turns into toString.call(arr) == '[object Array]' ...then I guess that's more reasonable than if you use something sane.
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by ctolsen 10y ago
It's interesting to me that people find this convincing. I find it to be complete insanity. People need their libraries, but putting everything in tiny buckets is just not working. Why aren't people working on good utility librari
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by ctolsen 10y ago
I use a mouth guard, it turned out to be sufficient.
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by ctolsen 10y ago
From someone else with apnea: absolutely none at all. I didn't have to use CPAP to treat it though, so other people's experiences might be different.
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by ctolsen 10y ago
This is an interesting one. I have sleep apnea, the result of which is basically chronic sleep deprivation even though you spend lots of time in bed. I struggled with all sorts of depressive symptoms (depression, anxiety, panic attacks) for
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by ctolsen 10y ago
Interesting that you had the similar experience to mine – I had years of depression, panic attacks, and anxiety that vanished virtually overnight with sleep apnea treatment. I don't use a machine though, just a brace.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
You're being downvoted because it's a stupid assertion and it's "technically" not even the same craft at that point.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
This is the an explosion of 5 gallons of petrol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C72bv2YhZ6A Doesn't take that much to make an impressive bang.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Many people tend to think of BI as a solution to a world where scarcity is no longer that much of an issue. In a world where a lot of wealth is created by automation, the picture starts to look different, to the extent that BI becomes not j
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by ctolsen 11y ago
"It’s hard to believe today, but 10 years ago Wikipedia was widely considered a doomed experiment run by utopian radicals." I have absolutely no recollection of this. Wikipedia has had some trouble, just like any other successful
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Perhaps you'd like to get some actual numbers behind your claims? And not stuff like "trains are very rarely entire full". Of course they're not. But cars are almost always entirely empty.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
What's this deal with people having to learn Python 3? For most of the things you do there is literally no practical difference.
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by ctolsen 11y ago
Using Python 3 in production with Flask here, and been doing so for at least a year now. Never had an issue whatsoever. The warning is frankly outdated.

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