elgertam

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by elgertam 6d ago
> Some Japanese utilities have introduced tariffs designed to encourage daytime water heating as growing volumes of solar generation enter the grid. [Emphasis added.] I was quite confused at the use of "tariff" here, as it me
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by elgertam 6d ago
On initial install, sure. But user accounts can also be created at arbitrary times. The user may have changed the set of photos in the intervening time and might even be editing the directory during profile creation.
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by elgertam 7d ago
> “I certainly don't expect the industry to continue to spend millions of dollars to solve problems in mathematics, because there is no profit in it,” Columbia University mathematician Michael Harris wrote in an email to Science. Bu
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by elgertam 7d ago
The site should have a disclaimer at the bottom: "A Sam Altman Production."
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by elgertam 9d ago
Holmes seems to have the Harvard Business (MBA) mindset: science, R&D, engineering are just results to squeeze out of recalcitrant practitioners. Any failure in those domains is evidence only of the scientists' or engineers' r
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by elgertam 13d ago
I live in this neighborhood. I was just kvetching to my wife this morning about how our HOA wastes so much money on excess. That had me in the wrong (or right?) mood to read this. I will say, we have a LOT of elderly retired people who live
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by elgertam 13d ago
I live in the neighborhood in question. While my immediate neighbors are all really awesome people, the neighborhood as a whole has a LOT of retired people whose sole activity in life is to report their neighbors to The Authorities. Usually
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by elgertam 13d ago
This happened in my neighborhood, and I've met the "perpetrator." She's a sweet person, and I'm convinced she was absolutely acting in the best interests of her child as she saw it. Kids as young as elementary schoo
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by elgertam 1mo ago
From my reading on the topic, the tokens are subsidized when considering average cost, but are profitable at marginal cost. Basically, they're super expensive when considering the training cost, but aren't super expensive when doi
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by elgertam 1mo ago
The second one has caused hours of entertainment over the past year or so. My kids find the LLM's failed clues and profuse apologies for getting these wrong hilarious, so it's become a family activity with me performing dramatic r
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by elgertam 1mo ago
> Everyone who stays for at least 7 innings is staggering out, drunk as a skunk. Whether I ride the train home or I get on the roads, I'm positively surrounded by drunk zombie people. Woe betide us if the home team didn't win.
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by elgertam 1mo ago
I saw a paper about this in early 2020 (pre-COVID shutdowns) at the ScaledML conference. I looked into it and had the same conclusions. At some point, running your own models in the clear is just more practical.
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by elgertam 1mo ago
> see sibling comment, > > see it actually improve just through accreting context > this actually happens and has been tested. I specifically said a novel task outside of the explicit training. And I already agreed that the so-c
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by elgertam 1mo ago
If I could give it a novel task outside of its explicit training and see it actually improve just through accreting context, I'd be convinced it was thinking. The opposite happens in practice. I test new models with two tasks: iterativ
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by elgertam 2mo ago
There were also certain IMO low-value questions that really excited the SO hive-mind. I asked a question about the peculiarities of Python assignment syntax, and earned several dozen points for the question, even though no one really should
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by elgertam 3mo ago
As a Virginian, this is good information to have. I see a lot of ludicrous objections to data centers here (the most ludicrous being water consumption, when most of our data centers have closed-loop systems and regardless the humidity here
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by elgertam 3mo ago
Let's just say this organization is very, very large and doesn't necessarily have the budget for everyone to have all of the tokens.
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by elgertam 3mo ago
I ran into a problem at work recently: we are given access to a bunch of models up to a full Claude Opus 4.8, but a monthly budget of 100k tokens. We are also given access to Gemini 3.5 Flash & 3.1 Pro with a daily budget of 50M token
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by elgertam 3mo ago
My first thought when looking at it is that I doubt the vehicle could pass US safety regulations. Maybe I'm wrong.
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by elgertam 3mo ago
The design of transformers (including LLMs and multi-modal transformer-based models such as OpenAI's image generators) is to attend to relevant details. OpenAI did this at first without guardrails. In response to public backlash, they
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by elgertam 3mo ago
I don't exactly appreciate words being put in my mouth. When did I say it was working perfectly? And we're comparing you, a human with common sense and real intelligence, to a multi-mode LLM? The transformer was designed to attend
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by elgertam 3mo ago
> The spontaneity isn't that ChapGPT woke up and sent this to the author. The spontaneity is that ChatGPT was asked to restore an image that was attached without filtering it, and when no image was attached, instead of generating an
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by elgertam 3mo ago
"If you aren't paying for a taco, you are the taco." --Future AI, probably
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by elgertam 3mo ago
I've been using the OpenSCAD version of this for a while. This new release is a big upgrade! I wish it worked with my preferred CAD, FreeCAD. But this is neat!
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by elgertam 3mo ago
> Take AI for instance. The US grid is struggling to keep up with demand, while Chinese one has a lot of headway [1]. Usually, this could be solved by an increase in spending lasting a few years which would make the debt tick up, but tha
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by elgertam 3mo ago
Vaporwear*
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by elgertam 3mo ago
Having read the blog post and then the comments here, I'm rather astonished. Do we understand our craft so little that our only realistic option is to ban LLMs (so-called AI)? Has everyone forgotten we've been in a software crisis
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by elgertam 4mo ago
"I only allow robots with stainless steel tools to prepare and serve my food."
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by elgertam 4mo ago
> it's more about America transitioning from a high-trust society to a low-trust one. We're talking about Princeton , here. Trust among elites remains persistently high. In fact, it's likely higher than ever due to assort
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by elgertam 5mo ago
I set up a VM on Hetzner a few weeks ago. I've been quite impressed so far, and was able to orchestrate everything with Terraform without a problem.

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