drillsteps5

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by drillsteps5 6d ago
It wasn't bad weather. Captain was going way too fast to begin with, and started descent later than needed. So he needed to catch up with the glide/descent slope by making the plane descend faster. Thus gaining even more speed. He
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by drillsteps5 6d ago
Yes I was wrong. Looking at the transcript that go-around call out was likely from the PF; that's where the data recorder indicates the brakes were released the throttle set to max for the go-around (and go back to braking only 4 sec l
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by drillsteps5 6d ago
The prevailing opinion on PPRuNe is that the approach was totally botched from many miles out and the touchdown should never have been attempted (many participants there are professional pilots). There might have been a gust of wing as they
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by drillsteps5 6d ago
A few observations to add context (partially stolen from PPRuNe): - Pilot Flying (PF) was the Captain, 55 yo (presumably) more experienced pilot, who only got certified to fly that type (B767) in May - Pilot Monitoring (PM) was a 38 yo firs
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by drillsteps5 22d ago
Very good point, it's about exploiting inference engine itself, and not the agentic stuff. I found it lacking details. All these things do is split the input into tokens, encode them, feed to the input, run the inference, collect the o
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by drillsteps5 1mo ago
Can you help me find a few names? These are inference providers running open weights models, right? Thank you in advance!
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by drillsteps5 1mo ago
>While physics is about finding the laws that govern nature, engineering (say, mechanical or electrical engineering) is about accepting these laws as foundation, and using these laws to build or improve things. This is not less scientifi
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by drillsteps5 1mo ago
>It's just a label on a box to put people in. What we call things is important because that's how we convey meaning/definition of things. Because when we say "computer scientists" people will start comparing them
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by drillsteps5 1mo ago
Most "computer scientists" are not scientists. They are engineers. They engineer (build) something abstract, software, but that doesn't make them scientists. "Computer scientists" do exist, they create theoretical u
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by drillsteps5 1mo ago
To be fair, the applicants for positions on the "AGI Safety and Alignment Team, which seeks to mitigate the risks of advanced AI" will likely have extremely non-traditional background and therefore likely screened out by the LLM.
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
A decent gaming machine perfectly doubles as your friendly local inference server. Just start llama-server with the model of your choosing and start chatting with it through its Web interface or connect any chat completion-compatible client
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
I honestly don't get the hostility against local models in this thread (and in some other threads recently). I haven't seen anyone make an argument they are as good as SotA (OpenAI, Anthropic). It's just they are approaching
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
Interesting. Looks like the judge ruled using legally obtained knowledge (books, articles, etc) to train AI constitutes "fair use". Given that US legal system is precedent-base that... changes things.
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
As another commenter said a "model" is a file (or group of files, there's multiple formats available; GGUF format is all in one file for example). You download it to the hardware of your choice (ie your own desktop with NVIDI
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
Open weights models are cheap in the context of the article (when you run inference in the cloud) because they are free. When I pay for inference for running DeepSeek open weights model I only pay the inference service provider for compute&
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
Aside from googling "how to download and run open weights model" check out localllama (yes 3Ls) subreddit. Huggingface.co is where many of them are published. There's many providers that run open weights models and give you a
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
I'm looking forward to the trial where Anthropic will have to disclose sources of their training data, and then explain why they are entitled to charging customers for using regurgitated training data but Alibaba which trains their mod
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
>Spying on people and charging different prices to different people for the same thing (i.e. surveillance pricing) is not. They are not "spying", they are _legally_ using various data _legally_ collected on their current and pr
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
This does not sound right to me. It would be correct if all companies and their hiring managers had the same requirements/looking for candidates with the same qualifications - but they're not. Obviously as a hiring manager you&#x2
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
I heard that "surge pricing" , or "surveillance pricing", is wrong, but don't understand why. Shouldn't the service provider be free to charge whatever they want for the service they provide? And the consumer s
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by drillsteps5 3mo ago
If you think there's no way for Uber and Lyft to infer anything about your purchasing power/habits when you install an app running on your primary computing device with generous privileges, logged in with your unique phone number&
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by drillsteps5 4mo ago
Not a good take. It wasn't work that was invented recently, but ability to sustain yourself by performing some repetitive (and not always meaningful or productive) actions at pre-defined time periods (like 5 days a week x 8 hours a day
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by drillsteps5 4mo ago
Even if you were a "point" (an endpoint assigned to the node) you still had to set up the software and (in the mid-to-late 90s at least) set up a modem to call your node to upload/download. And sometimes you had to set up rep
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by drillsteps5 4mo ago
Direct quote: >We have covered this math before. The $725 billion that Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta are spending on AI infrastructure in 2026 has to come from somewhere. For many companies, the somewhere is headcount. Not becaus
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by drillsteps5 4mo ago
I've lived through both 2000 and 2008. They do happen. And typically not when everybody says there will be a recession, but when almost everybody finally agrees there won't be one. Not that us plebs can do anything about it anyway
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by drillsteps5 4mo ago
"Enshitification" is not a new concept. A business should always be willing to make their product cheaper, even at the cost of quality, until the customers start turning away. Of course you need to be able to catch that moment ear
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by drillsteps5 4mo ago
Canvas is back up as of Friday US morning for me (HS student's parent). My kid got a few panicked emails yesterday from the teachers but it looks like Instructure got it resolved quickly. Canvas does provide a lot of value (all courses
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by drillsteps5 5mo ago
Another wave today (5/2/2026), launchpadcontent.net is down...
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by drillsteps5 5mo ago
I wasn't saying that this is the optimal solution (it clearly is not). I was saying that it makes perfect sense for both sides - HR has their work automated and candidates have better chance to be noticed - and therefore became a commo
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by drillsteps5 5mo ago
Before the resume ends up in the hiring manager's inbox it needs to be picked by the recruiter from literally hundreds of others. The recruiter uses HR software to determine the match (usually the percentage), and then picks top 5% or

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