jnmandal

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by jnmandal 25d ago
Its hip again on some parts of the fediverse.
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by jnmandal 2mo ago
We really need solutions like this if we are going to reverse atmospheric carbon the necessary amount to mitigate planetary catastrophe. Thanks for working on this. Good luck.
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by jnmandal 2mo ago
I can't imagine a worse use case for AI. Literally thought the title was a clown
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by jnmandal 4mo ago
A David Graeber inspired study!? In case you haven't heard of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything
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by jnmandal 4mo ago
Title is pretty clickbaity. Cool data set though
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by jnmandal 4mo ago
It is extremely early days for these offerings. Synthetic ferts are a relatively mature technique and the related product offerings (which are now effectively commoditized) had state-subsidized R&D for several decades. Mycorrhizal input
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by jnmandal 4mo ago
They just leave it in place mostly. Sometimes in big mounds that become berms over a few years. Discarding wood chips is actually very expensive.
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by jnmandal 4mo ago
Μπράβο ρε. Πόσο όμορφο
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by jnmandal 4mo ago
Placing it at the root of the trees makes a ton of sense as it increases yields and lowers need for inputs. Also helps with the compaction from all the mechanization in the orchards. Selling it as fuel is maybe some added revenue in the sho
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by jnmandal 7mo ago
Incredible work folks. Can't wait to try it out. The Germans look cool!
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by jnmandal 8mo ago
Yep. Not just stack overflow -- pretty much everywhere. If only someone could have foreseen this problem!!! Anyways, no issue. We'll just get claude to start answer stack overflow questions!
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by jnmandal 9mo ago
Compared to itself. Same phenomenon as in Japan. Rising powers almost never have this issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_tsunami
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by jnmandal 9mo ago
Without entering (and winning) some kind of major conflict, this was always going to happen. Two things are important to think about. 1. Power should be measured in relative terms not absolute. (For a good treatise on this, read Paul Kenned
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by jnmandal 10mo ago
Cyanosis is the medical term is but I should clarify its not like their skin was purple all the time. What happens is that if you drink a lot of the polluted well water then when your veins narrow (like from cold) it gets a more purplish hu
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by jnmandal 10mo ago
Data centers should do everything they can to reduce water usage. That said, this is masterful scapegoating. The ag lobby must be gleeful if they're not directly responsible for this narrative. In 2003 my middle school in Central Penns
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by jnmandal 11mo ago
As others have already said, the reason is mainly to cycle yard and food waste, as well as some garden tasks (they can be used to prepare beds as well as cut my lawn). I also plan to raise black soldier fly eventually.
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by jnmandal 11mo ago
As someone who keeps backyard chickens and recently got a new flock, I will say anecdotally this spike was observed even in livestock. In March 2025, I tried to order baby chicks to replace some of my aging flock. Not only was every hatcher
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by jnmandal 11mo ago
I've seen folks doing both. Certainly, once you understand the OTP well enough, it makes sense to build all your systems on it. I've been doing that for seven years now; the only real issue was trying to train juniors to be produc
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Joey has really pushed boundaries on botany. Great to see his thoughts being discussed here. I think everyone could learn something from him
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Telco integration sounds amazing. Wishing yall success
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Nice. Yeah, we are dogfooding some systems I built in my household. We use whisper.cpp and I haven't had any issues. I get told frequently I should be using eleven labs but I just have been too lazy to build a benchmark that would help
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Looks really cool, exciting to see. I have two questions around this: 1. Given that you are concerned with providing access a class of folks that are traditionally ignored by technologists, do you plan to make these models usable for offlin
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Looks like a really cool project. Do you have any opinions on which transcription models are the best, from a quality perspective? I have heard a lot of mixed opinions on this. Curious what you've found in your development process?
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by jnmandal 1y ago
This is true but also your API needs to actually implement all the use cases (often its only for a subset) and it needs to work well (often there are many nuances or inconsistencies). But I agree there are lots of overlap. No need to comple
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Yeah, this is so true. Well designed APIs are also already almost good enough for AI. There really was always a ton of value in good API design before LLMs. Yet a lot of people still said, for varying reasons, let's just ship slop and
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by jnmandal 1y ago
I think its likely that soon the "AI" aspect of the "models" get worse and worse with each iteration. This is because: 1. data pollution/dilution -- with each subsequent generation more and more LLM-produced content
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Sure but if my some of the development team is using ollama locally b/c it was super easy to install, maybe I don't want to worry about maintaining a separate build chain for my prod env. Many startups are just wrapping or enablin
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by jnmandal 1y ago
LLM Inflation is an interesting choice of terminology. Like with many things in our contemporary society there is a temptation to assign absolute, quantitative value to everyday concepts but realistically we should know this to be a fallacy
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by jnmandal 1y ago
Honestly, I think it just depends. A few hours ago I wrote I would never want it for a production setting but actually if I was standing something up myself and I could just download headless ollama and know it would work. Hey, that would a
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by jnmandal 1y ago
I see a lot of hate for ollama doing this kind of thing but also they remain one of the easiest to use solutions for developing and testing against a model locally. Sure, llama.cpp is the real thing, ollama is a wrapper... I would never wan

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