metasj

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by metasj 1y ago
Sounds like something r/datahoarders would be / may already be into.
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by metasj 1y ago
Every such provider likes to play games with who they give good rates to or who they exclude altogether from their network. People said the same about cellular access and it's still far too expensive for most people in most rural areas
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by metasj 1y ago
At the least you need storage for the content ($10-20), and a physical device to read it off of ($20-40). If your community has lots of computers with no wireless antennas (old servers), USB keys that can be passed around make sense. If you
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by metasj 1y ago
There's also a longer overview here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box And (when supplies return) you can get one in a 3d-printed box with Wikipedia pre-installed here: https://store.wik
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by metasj 1y ago
A year in, seems more like a scam. Surprised to see such credulous coverage in Wired.
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by metasj 2y ago
At 5 cents per neuron with 4o-mini, for pretty satisfying descriptions. "we fine-tune Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to directly predict per-token activations ... [this] allows us to use smaller models, and the task of directly predicting the o
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by metasj 4y ago
The schema migrations are a delight. And I appreciate the shoutout to Dabble! Thanks for working on this + congrats on the release. An optimized hosted version with permalinks to Explorer views would open access to even more users.
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by metasj 4y ago
Chain effects are strong with this one. This seems significantly better than GPT-Instruct.
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by metasj 5y ago
Very nice work indeed.
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by metasj 5y ago
Some journeys never truly (truly never) end -- what a lovely compilation and reflection. The best books and the best adventures share a certain feel.
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Freenode’s forest fire leaves ashes – and fresh growth(theregister.com)
2 points by metasj 5y ago|0 comments
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by metasj 5y ago
This is almost exactly backwards. Half of the staff work on tech. https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/ 2005-2008 was extraordinary from this standpoint, no question. A reminder of what a small g
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by metasj 5y ago
Nice (& same!) How do you use it that you couldn't use dbpedia?
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by metasj 6y ago
Dark times indeed.
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by metasj 6y ago
Ongoing discussion here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Wikimedi...
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by metasj 7y ago
A melody-writing duo published (on the Internet Archive) and released into the public domain 2TB of recorded audio that includes all 8-note melodies. This is something people have mused about for some time, it's nice to see it becomin
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Songwriters: Just Make Music(allthemusic.info)
3 points by metasj 7y ago|1 comments
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by metasj 7y ago
This flexibility in time, specialization, and order of operation is surely one of the joys of modern digital collections. Library scientists might say archiving and structuring and curation are all facets of that science. And you'll a
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by metasj 7y ago
GPT2-bot should autogenerate an essay like this once a month... it would be guaranteed to get attention each time.
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by metasj 7y ago
A nice summary of the subtle mechanics of section 230 by Eric Goldman. Complemented by this overview of what it costs to resolve spurious takedown requests: https://www.engine.is/news/primer/section230costs
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Why Section 230 Is Better Than the First Amendment(scholarship.law.nd.edu)
3 points by metasj 7y ago|1 comments
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by metasj 7y ago
The clearest models should be: what the world looks like when all ice and permafrost are melted, and how we plan now to be able to cope then.
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by metasj 7y ago
I love this use of multicolumn. Now it just needs an 'Inside of a Dog' mode for libgen books on the darkweb...
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by metasj 7y ago
Now train a second bot on parrot.vc advice to make bets via MicroVentures...
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by metasj 7y ago
Many analyses of the world aren't bayesian /or/ frequentist, they use much simpler pattern-matching, with feedback loops that update the approach used as well as the conclusion. Problems start w/ assuming you have to cho
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by metasj 7y ago
I would assume that ICANN itself may give up its non-profit status in time. That doesn't make them untrustworthy in general -- they will only exist so long as the system they administer is reasonably useful -- just trustworthy for few
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by metasj 7y ago
Thank you for this. We are definitely seeing the declining use of centralized domain-resolution. It has advantages only when it is not _itself_ being gamed, and increasingly companies and governmental orgs have found ways to do just that.
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by metasj 7y ago
This throwback made my day, thank you.
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by metasj 7y ago
Always one step ahead of the rest of us...
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by metasj 7y ago
Ah, thanks -- you're right, the second is prohibited; corrected. The first seems fine per 2.10(c) as long as the registrant agrees on first registration that renewals will be expensive.

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